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"Charles Wesley noted that 'if a person planted his feet firmly, stood· evect,: and sang heartil), though he had been tired and discouraged ere he began, soon his strength was· renewed and his spirit refreshed.' ''There is a qualification to all of this. That may be found in. the modifers vibran:t, lustily, and heartily. The timid or the half-hearted don't stand much of a chance to attain exhilaration~ So ""(l].HETHER the weatherman says "Cloudy" or chuck the tranquilizers and ;:;ing, sing, sing.'' , VV ''Bright,'' a song in your heart will help to make your day more worthwhile and add a lift to your outlook on life. This columnist is ~ndebted to Joan (Mrs. Harry, Jr.) Broening; ~f the Immanuel ·church, ' ' Little Rock, Chancel Choir for the following inter­ IN THIS ISSUE: esting discussion of values of singing. (The article first appeared in James R. Carroll's Cantabile', ARKANSAS' BSU director, Tom Log'ue, has a newsletter of the Immanuel Chuch Choir.) most unusual article in the Febru11ry Baptist Stu­ ''Quite a lot has been written and spoken about dent~ Read it on page 10, then send it to your the spiritual and emotional effects of singing upon favorite young person. Perhaps it will saye hi.in both performer and audience, but not too much or her from counting the ,downward buttons. of the mechanical changes in the person of the • • • singer. · · SPEAKING of young people, it's YWA Focus ''Singing can produce som~ rather interesting Week and our cover story honors the young ladies alterations in the chemistr.y of the body. The deep of the Arkansas Baptist Convention. See Page 5. inhalation and controlled exhalation needed to • • • • produce vibrant tone also increases th·e nitrogen . CHURCH development does not mean onlj the content of the blood, ultimately· resulting in ·a state physical . program, R. A. Hill . pointed out at the known as nitrogen narcosis. 'recent Evangelism Conference. This is only the ''Akin to 'raptures of the deep,' a phenome­ begi~ning, he said. We've printed his speech for non sometimes encountered by skin divers, the evi­ you on pages 8 and 9. , dences of it are a feeling of well being, amounting • • • almost to ecstasy if adequately sustained, a dimin­ BROADMAN Press, New American Stan&ara ishing of small aches and pains, and an increase in Bible-New Testament, Reference Edition brings the confidence. It sounds, in fact, so delightfully in­ Word of God in clea.r and contemporary language. toxicating one wonders that the church approves The Editor shows. how this great blessing can turn it. an ordinary person into a Bible scholar. His edi­ '' The effects, however, are all beneficial. to rial is on the opposite page. You'll have neither a hangover nor the bends, al- ~ _, ., --.. though you may have to cope with an increased 6. .L /1 ,p·• t MEMBER: appetite. The lung •sacs have been toned, circula- /iftlllll. IIIJ 71 southern Bailtist Preaw. A81'n . h b ' ht d t l · tl k Associated Church PreaJ tion imprOV!OJd, and t e ng ene . men a OU. OO ~ o _ Evangelical PUII!l Aaa'n lingers. You may have noticed that professiOnal --- - -t:rf?_____ . , singers generally reach advanced old age or at February 13, 1964 Vol. 63, Number '1 least live long enough to give a fantastic number Editor, ERWIN L. McDONALD, Litt. D. of farewell concerts. Associate Editor, MRS. E. F. STOBS "While only recently have we been offered an Managing Edit6r, MRS. TE& WOODS expll}nation of these things, that they were a Fiel.d Representative, ~. I. CossEY reality has been readily observed through the S~cretary, .to Editor, MRS. HARRY GmERSON centuries. Soldiers marched into battle singing, Mail Clerk, MRS. WELDON TAYLOR when marching was still feasible. Paul and Silas 4o west capitol 1 ' . . • rt rS Sang On the1' r way to die ' Little Rock, Arkansas sang In priSOn, rna Y · ' , Published weelcJy except on July 4 and December 21>,, sailors had their work chanteiYS; painted Indians · Individual ~ubscriptio~.ec$;.~6cl;:~ :e':.":."'t'hu~:~d B~~g~~.UJ.~ !':tc~, P!:k~~:h On 'nted p0n1'es sang their death songs for COUr- or $1.68 per year per church family, Club plan ,{10 or more paid Pal annually In advance) $1.75 per year. Subscriptions to foreign age and emigrant Irishmen laid a rail~oad across Arti~les c~~.~~i~'ii :~~75au~h~r·~e'b;. 1 ~~v'dC: 1 "~: ~!C:s~~ii/:~i::i the American continent singing lustily if some- Abbpeviations used in crediting news ite~~~ ~Vto;!~tl~ol~:.. ~f J~" e"b'.::.:~ what profanely. Bulletin; DP I Dally P~ess; EP, ~vanlf\lllcal Preas. Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST Arlansa~ Baptist ,______-"------.:.------. E.DITORIALS , ~

I •See I Cor. I2: 10 "Comp. 2 Cor. 12:4; Rev. J4:2 'Comp. Ps. I50:5 CHAPTER 13 Sept. , , 2 •See Acts 13:1; I IF I speak with the "tong~es of men and of bangels, but de> Cor.. ll :4; 13:8; I4:1, 39; comp. Matt. 7:22 not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a cclanging cymbal. hi Cor. 14:2; I5:5I 'See 2 And if I have "prophecy, and know all Rom. 15:14 •1 Cor. 12:9 the gift of •Matt. 17:20; ~I:2I bmysteries and all cknowledge; and if I have dall faith, so as 3 tSmne anCient mss. to eremove .mountains, but do not have love, I ani nothing. read, that I ·may boast •Comp. Matt. 6:2 3 And if I "give all my possessions to feed the poor, and bDan. 3:28 if I bdeliver my body 1to be burned, but do not have love, it 294 profits me nothing. 4 •Prov. 10:12; 17 :9; 4 Love "is patient, love is kind, and bis not jealous; love I Thess. 5:H; .1 Pet. 4:8 does not brag "and is not carrogant, · bComp. Acts 7:9 'I Cor. 4:6 5 does not act unbecomingly; it "does not seek its own, is not provokeq, bdoes not take into account a wrong suffered, 5 •See I Cor. 10:24; comp. I;hil. 2 :2'1 b2 Cor. 6 "does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but brejoices with 5:19 the truth; 7 lnbears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, 6 •Comp. 2 Thess. 2:12 bComp. 2 John 4; endures all things. 3 John 3£. 8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of 1"prophecy, they will be done away; if lltongues, they will cease; 1 lQr, covers there are •1 Cor. 9:12 if there is knowledge, it will be d\me away. 9 For we "know in part, and we prophesy in part; 8 'Lit., prophecies •See I Cor. 13:2 bSee 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will ~e done I Cor. 13 :'I away. - . 1 1 When \was a child, used to speak as a child, think 9 •I Cor. 13:12; see I I I Cor. 8:2 as a child, reason as a child; when I became a ma~1, I did away with childish things. 12 1Lit., in a riddle •Comp. 2 Cor. 5:7; Phil. 12 For now we "see 1in a mirror dimly, but then bface to 3 : 12; James 1:23 bGen. 32:30; Num. 12:8; face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I John 3:2 'See I Cor. I also chave been fully known. 8:3 13 But now abide faith, hope, love, these thr: e; . but the 13 1Lit., greater 1greatest of these is "love. •Comp. Gal. 5:6

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FURUARY 13, 1964 The American Standard Version of the Script­ style according to current English usage." ures, lJUb!ished first in 1901, is one of the best of Detailed explanation in the front· of ihe book modern versions. But it has largely been forgotten helps the reader to learn quickly h.ow to under­ as other versions have come along. The Lockman stand and use the special marking. :Fo.r example, F oundation, of LaHabra, Calif., producers of amp­ black-face type is used to indicate the be.ginning lified translations, became ''imbued with the con­ of paragraphs. (All of the selection reproduced vention that interest in the American Standard above is OJ!e paragraph.) V er sian should be renewed and increased. ' ' Not only does the reader of New American Even a casual reading of the new work shows Standard Bible New T estament have in this book that the Foundation has succeeded in the purpose one of the very best collections of the Scriptures of its Editorial Board "to present to the modern from the standpt1int of general and rapid reading, reader a re:vision of the American Standm·d fer­ but also a marvelous reference work for serious· sion in clear and contemporary language.'' and detailed Bible study. The ordinary person with To quote from the Foreword: ''The attempt has no great amount of education can become some­ been made to adhere to the original languages of thing of a Bible scholar through regular an<'!l serious the Holy Scriptures as closely as possible and at study of this book. What a blessing is within our the same time to obtain a fluent and readable reach! - ELM Bible doctrines L ~ -T T E R S TO THE E DITOR Copy of letter to: Dr. · Frank Staggs New Orleans Seminary • New Orleans, Louisiana - Dear Dr. Staggs: YOUR articles "Fundamentals of the the_people SPEAK faith" currently appearing in the Ar­ kansas Baptist Newsmagazine are a 1. _.---~~~~~------~-~~- source of real Biblical information that I appreciate very much. The ease with which . you simplify such doctrines as the Holy Spirit and the Inspiration of THE spe11ing and sentence structure in -this manages to keep busy without disturb­ t~at department are those of the writers. The only the Bible gives me hope soon the editin g of letters to the editor !s the ";riting of ing school too much. great doctrines of the Bible will be bet­ headlines a nd, occasionally, delet•on of parts that Many of you have · asked about Tom­ ter understood and appreciated than are n ot r egar ded as essential. my's diseased leg. It has now been over they are today. So many interpreters a year since he has walked. He is out mystify rather than simplify, such doc­ From Nigeria of the cast but has his leg strapped trines. back and he gets about entirely on So many writers and speakers claim AMANDA Tinkle spent the holidays crutches. His last checkup shows im­ more for the Bible than the Bible claims with us- helped cook our Christmas provement but Per thes' disease usually for itself. Many seem to believe that dinner . We also had with us for Christ­ has to run its course of two years. He God wrote the Bible in heaven and sent mas dinner Mary Jane Wharton, Alice is a marvel to all that see him. He it to earth by angels and delivered it Miller and the Clayton Bond family refuses to let his leg be a hindrance to perfect men, therefore, it is a sin to The Bonds have been missionaries in' to anything. To our amazement he can question any statement found in it, Ghana, but are now on their way to now ride his bicycle by using only his even if it be by the words of satan. France for language .study before re­ good leg-and has fewer wrecks than Your articles clear up such misunder­ turning to West Africa and opening up his ' brothers. One little boy recently standing by presenting easy to under­ Southern Baptist work jn French-speak­ asked his mother to "please get him stand ideas. Your article, "What we ing Togoland. some of those things (crutches) like believe about the Holy Spirit," in my This has been a busy year for us­ Tommy has so I can go fast, too." opinion was superb. However, some will Mary Ann arriving in May added to the Mel continues to stay busy with hos­ continue to cling to the THREE God busyness of our immediate family. We idea, and brand all who think other­ are still elated over having a little pital work and associational work. (He goes out tomorrow to lay a cornerstone wise as modernists. I feel most grateful girl in our family, and our Christmas. for your clear expositions of the }l'unda­ tree had· a new look this year with dolls · for a new church.) We ·still have from 150 to 200 patients every clinic day mentals of the faith.-S. C. Swinney, and f rilly' dresses alongside the usual Sr., J onesboro toy trains, cars, guns, etc. (3 days a week) with Mel filling 3 or 4 · Ken is i'n the sixth grade at our mis­ prescriptions for each patient. Our med­ sionary boarding school 35 miles from ical work continues to be our biggest From Ft Worth here. He loves it but we still find it problem with such an acute shortage of I AM wondering if you would run a. . difficult to have him away from home. doctors. We have had some help through small article in the Newsmagazine an­ We enjoyed every minute of the two fine Christian doctors at home coming nouncing where I now live and may be weeks he was home for Christmas. out a month at a time, at their own contacted. I amf rom Little Rock and I Tommy is in the 3rd grade' and Ronny expense, to relieve our doctors here. ~aduated from Ouachita. in the spring in the 1st. We have converted our ga­ We remember you in our prayers and of 1963. I am now a student at SoutlL~ rage into a one-room school house and as always we covet your prayers for western Seminary. People are still try­ Lil teaches the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades the work here and that our lives might ing to reach me at my home in Littl~ to eight of our missionary children. be more effective in the work He has Rock and at Ouachita. My present ad• Oth~ r missionary mothers help with called us to do for 1964.-Mel and Lil dress is 2004 J. T. Luther Drive, Semi­ the music, science and caring for Mary Wasson, and Ken, Tommy,-Ronny, Doug nary Hill Station, Fort Worth, Texas. Ann. Doug is pow two years old and and Mary Ann ...... Larry M. Taylor

Page Four ARKANSAS BAPTIST The Cover 'tJ~t-6tU}I,t 1/,tJ mt~t-a-de I THE Caldwells did not actually i looked out make enough Mulligan Stew out of Torrid scorching two· squirrels to feed 48 hungry S'nn people, as reported in last week's I saw paper (pftge 5). It was two dozen squirrels, with no 'p.ossums or Leaves drooping coons added! Somehow the -print- · ers' gremlins got rid of 22 squir­ Grass crispy rels between our typewriter and brown. . the printed word.-ELM · I looked out Spain approves courses Shrubs withered LOS ANGELES (EP)-World Gospel Trees silent Crusades, with headquarters, here, ha~ blossoms recently been informed by Ruben Gil, gone. its agent in Spain, that the Spanish government has officially approved I looked UP three· of its Light of Life Bible corre­ I knew the . spondence courseJ! ~or publication and circulation in Spain. SON ' "This action," states Rev. C. Mervin Was there Russell, WGC Executive Vice President, and ---l'llotl k Lools c. wun.... "is most significant to all evangelicals in Spain. It reprel'!ents further substanti-' Hope eternal ation on the part . of the Spanish gov­ re~aineth: ernntent of its good faith in announc~ng -Vivan Wood, Arkanfias Bap­ several months ago its policy of a ·more Ft. Smith THIS week the liberal attitude toward Protestants ir. tist N ewsmligazine JOinS with this Catholic-dominated country." G"aham Atla nta. crusade Southern Baptists over the nation Red propaganda program . ATLANTA (EP)- Evarigelist Billy in saluting the lovely ladies of the MOSCOW (EP>-A Jewish editor who Graham has accepted the invitation of YW A during the annual Focus recently visited the U.S. was interviewed pastors of the Atlanta area to conduct a Week. Young ladies, like the b~au­ ·here in a Soviet propaganda broadcast crusade here in 1966 or 1967. ' aimed at American Jews. Accepting the invitation at a luncheon ty: on· our cover, are in the midst Aaron Vergelis, editor-in-chief of So· meeting of more than 800 of the city's of a busy week pf m~etings and vietish · Kheymland, "Yiddish language ministers, Dr. Graham stipulated that study, taking time out at Wednes­ weekly, spoke in English as he com­ "the meeting must be integrated; we day or Sunday services to receive mented on U.S. "misconceptions of Jew­ would not come otherwise. If we can't ish freedom in the USSR" and the "dis­ ~ee't at the cross of Christ as brothers, the homage of their churche!'l. crimination faced by Jews in America." we can't make it in other a·reas." E. Stanley Jones, SO (Jewish leaders in 'the U.S. have docu- The evangelist speculated that the cru­ mented many instances of Jewish perse- sade in Atlanta might have "a psycho­ ~HICAGO (EP)-As he neared the cution by the Soviet Union. On several logical effect around the world. end of a fortnight-long, cross-country occasions the U.S. Senate has been in­ "How wonderful it would be," he said, celebration of his eightieth .birthday, formed of Soviet oppression of Jews in "if Atlanta and Georgia could set an ~r. E. Stanley Jones t_old al_ Ch1cago a~- _ addresses by Sen. Jacob Javits and Sen. example for the world in real under­ d1ence God was leadmg h1m t? b~gm Kenneth Keating of New York.) standing and love." "the era of the greatest contribution" he has yet made. ' • F £ • The missionary evangelist and writer aCtS Q lflterest is preparing for a six-month evangelist- ic tour that will take him around the .... THE nation's health is impe ~ iled b~ cigarette smQking, a federal world. It will begin when he finishes committee in Washington, D. C., has reported. The com-mittee, formed upon the the last of a series of birthday dinners recommendation of President Kennedy fourteen months ago, has presented the honoring him in nine cities across the following statistics and medical conclusions: The ·death rate from lung cancer nation. I among cigarette· ·smoke_·s is 1,000 per cent higher than among nonsmokers. Smok- Dr. Jones explaned why he now ing is "an important cause" for rise in death. rat~ involving a number of diseases; spends half his time in America and among them chronic• bronchitis, emphysema, and coronary artery· disease, a ire­ Europe rather than concentrating his . quent cause of heart /failure. evangelistic energies on the Far East, ' . . . . Enrolments in extension divisions of colleges and universities around the as he did earlier in his career. country a:e increasing even faster than enrolments of full-time resident students. "l find both (East and W.est) in the For example, correspondence enrolment at the University of Michigan is up 20 same human need," he declared. "The per cent over a year ago .and now totals more than 13,000 students--equivalent to soul of modern man is empty-fn ·East on-campus enrolment of a maio.· univerli!ity. and West--and he cannot stand this .... The accident death toll in the United States rose ill 1963 for the second emptiness, meaninglessness, purpo!!!eless- successive year, accordhi.g to statisticians of Metropolitan Life Insurance Com­ ness. So he is ·unhap.py and frustrated. pany. About 99;000 persons were fatally injured, exceeding by nearly 2,000 the "We doh't have to speak against Hin- 1962 total. Last yea:", the accident death rate reached about 53 per 100,000 persons• duism, .•Buddhism or Mohammedanism," ~,he highest level since 1957. ·The rise in accident fatalities · in 1963 was blamed he continued. \'We have to speak against largely on nwtor vehicle mishaps. A record high of about 42,500 were killecl itt the emptiness .in man." \ such accidents, o: about. 1,7-00 more than in 1962. "As far as I can see," Dr. Jones said, •.• ·,The number of credit unions in the United ·states increased by about "there, is . no .alternative to Jesus Christ 500 in 1963, to a new high of 21,500. Some 14.3 million persons belonged to them, in filling that emptiness. There is no- about 500,000 more than at the end of 1962, Credit unions' assetll grew by nearly body. else ,seriously on the field. It is $1 billion to a .·ecord $8 billion, accotding to the Credit Union National Associa- Christ or nothing." t.ion.-Survey 6ulletin .IEBRUARY 13, 't964 Page Five ~ ' . ' Courtship, Marriage a nd the Home Literally reams of check lists have been set up for testing love to measure its adequacy as a basis for lasting and rewarding marri­ a g~ One of the best arri.ong them Enough love for ma'rriage? comes from the creative pen of Dr. Thodore F . Adams. I am quot­ ing it here from one of his mes­ sages included in Dr. Foy Valen­ tine's compilation called Christian Faith in Action. 1. Are you always patient with sure every fresh-out-of-college one the one you love? Do you put his of us dreamed of what it would or her needs and wants before be like to be his wife. Today as I your own? Do you long to be to­ look back I doubt that such a part­ gether but have other common in­ nership would have worked out for terests in addition to physical at­ any of us-certainly not for me. traction? You see, he was strong on glamour­ 2. Do you look for the good quali­

boy features-and jolly" well knew ties in the one you love and dwell r it; but he was short on those sta­ on them, and try to help him or ble, outgoing, cooperative, work­ her overcome failings and short­ ing qualities that go into the mak­ comings by gentle suggestions and ing of good husband material. loving understanding?_ Then, too, our backgrounds, our 3. Do you refuse to be jealous when ideals, and our ambitions in life "GEE, I'm glad you can go :with -the one you love fails to give you were oceans apart. ·Moral : "It is his undivided attention at all me to the hootenanny! See you at possible to be in love with someone sun-down-fifteen:" times? you cannot happily and success·­ 4. Do you love this person for what * ' * * f ij,llY marry." he really is, rather · than for who "Love me?" Ju ~t home from a college focus­ he is, how. he rates in. the commun­ "Yes." week engagement, I have questions ity, or his material success? "How much? asked by college kids still ringing 5. Do you treat the one y.ou love "A lot." in my ears and absorbing my with the same courtesy and "That's not enough!" thoughts. thoughtfulness you display toward * * * H~ re is the one asked most of­ strangers and business acquaint-· "Am I happy? If I'm dreaming, ten : "How can I know when I ances ? boy, just please don't wake me!" have found the person who is right 6. Are you glad to see the one you * * * for me as a life-mate? love receive the main credit and Clever bits out of somebody's Everytime it was asked my mind spotlight for accomplishments in heart-throb diary. registered a hope that the young which you have had a part? Some guys do know the coolest per son interested had been sin­ 7. Does your love protect you frpm things to say ! cerely praying for divine guidance being easily hurt or pl'O'Voked by But did you know that you can't at that point since the days of his little thoughtless· things the other always estimate a man's score in or her childhood: does? . those ,qualities that make for hap-. Another spontaneous hope regis­ 8. Has your love endured even aft­ py life-partnership by his smooth · tering was that physical attraction er you have discovered unpleasant talk and his sharp looks. :rrlight not be overemphasized. traits or even wrong-doing in the Let me· share with you a page It ·is essential that two people object of your affections? · out of my own memory book. who plan to live together for the 9. Are you really proud of this He was a high school coach­ rest of their lives have physical partner, with nothing to be as handsome hunk o' man as I eve'r attraction, each for the other·. It ashamed of or to apologize for? laid my eyes on ! is also important that they have 10. Do you have complete faith ana Every tea·cher on the faculty healthy bodies capable of the sa­ trust in the one you love, never . was "in love" with 'him- including cred experiences God intends as a holding back anything, nor ever me. Everyone of us was dizzy with part of fulfillment in the self-giv­ resorting to half-truths? Do , excitement when she had a date ing of one woman to one man "so troubles and crises push you apart I with him: and before the session long as they both shall live". or draw you together? I was ov.er he got around to dati:ng But the physical is only one us all. · phase of the union of two lives to We were much more reserved build Qne Christian home. There . ~ 41-~ than the girls today about admit­ must also be the blending of men­ [Mail should be addressed to ting such a thing--even to our­ tal, emotional, and spiritual selves Mrs. Street at No. 3 Fairmont, selves: 1 still, in all honesty, I'm too. Little Rock, A.rk.] Page Six ARKANSAS BAPTIST 8~ ~'9U4 Baptist beliefs D/ 'Baptut ~"'~' By BERNES K. SELPH, Th. D. Pastor, 1st Bapttst Church, Benton Anti mission fruit THE NAME (BROTHER' ANTIMISSION teachings ere- · a ted · discord among Baptists espe­ dally in the South. BY HERSCHEL H. HOBBS The influence of Past President, Southern Baptist Convention Daniel Parker and First Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Alexander Camp­ bell was f e I t TH~ word "brother" ( adelphos) use of ach to refer to any kinsman ~· fll!illlllkT • strongest in KEm­ is found 346 times in the New (Gen. 14 :16). But neither of these tucky, Tennessee, Testament. It means "out of fits the New Testament pi-cture. southern Illinois, the same womb" Matthew 1:25 clearly implies that and Indiana but (from a copolative after Jesus' virgin birth Joseph spread to other and delphus) . It is and Mary entered 'nto normal mar­ sections of the na- used of those hav­ riage relations. Luke 2:7 calls Je.. DR. SELPH tion. ·Work in the ing the same fa­ sus Mary's "firstborn son" (proto­ Carolinas, Alabama, and Georgia ther and-dr mother tokon). This means that she gave suffered. Pennsylvania, Maryland, (Matt. 1:2; 4 :18). birth to other sons after Him. Had and New York felt this debilitat­ Sometimes it re­ Luke meant that Jesus was her ing impact, but the damage was fers to those with only son he would have used huion not as severe in the North as in a common ances- monogene, "only begotten son" (cf. the West and South. u~ . HOBBS tor (Acts 13 :26). Jn. 3 :16). ·.so it is clear that Mary The deadening hand of the But there are three uses which had other children by Joseph after antis throttled every cause of Bap­ are of particular interest to the Jesus. Acts 1 :14 sets "his breth­ tists. A split came within their Christian. One such use is the ren" apart from the other disciples. ranks as Campbell developed his "brethren of Jesus" (Matt. 12: 46- The second usage relates Jesus theology and perfected his scheme 47; 13 :55-5'6 use "brethren", adel­ to all Christians. When Jesus was of reformation. Kentucky Bap­ phoi and "sisters," adelphai) . What told that His "mother and. . .. tists saw a great movement out of relationship did they bear to Je­ brethren" wanted to see Him, He their midst to the Disciples as sus? The Roman and 'Greek Cath­ replied, pointing to His disciples, Campbell's followers called them­ olics, holding to the perpetual "Behold my mother and my breth­ selves. Many with. antimission virginity of Mary, see them as ren. For whosoever shall do the views could not accept the Dis­ children of Joseph by a former will of my Father which is in ciples' doctrinal position and marriage or as cousins of Jesus. heaven, the same is my brother, stayed in Baptist churches to cre'" ­ This latter is based on the Hebrew and sister, and. mother" · (Matt. ate division later on. 12 :49-50; cf. 25 :40). ;I'his is be-. cause we have the same Father. Opposition developed rapidly in their own. They were known by Jesus is the Son of God. We may Kentucky. Here the first Anti­ become "sons of God" (Jn. 1 :12). various names: "Old/' "Old missionary Association (Frank­ Thus we are "heirs of God, and fort) was orga:aized, Dec. 11, School," "'Primitive," "Predesti­ narian," "Original," "Regular." joint-heirs with Christ" (cf. Rom. 1831. It helped destroy the Ken- 8:15-17). One group went so far as to call . tucky Baptist State Convention The third usage speaks of the themselves "Anti-Missionary." All organized at Bardstown, Mar. 29, relation between all believers (cf. 1832. Their forces hel~ such power were careful to affix the word "Baptist" to· their name. I. Cor. 1:1; II Cor. 1:1; see also that churches and associations Acts 28:15; Ii·om. 10:1; 12 :1). thought themselves fortunate if Preachers who had received a This means that all believers have they could effect a compromise on mere pittance for their services one Father (Matt. 23 :8-9), and the· ground that giving or not giv­ were reduced to less. 'Friends of ed­ are therefore of the family of God ing would be no bar to fellowship. ucation were discouraged as funds (Eph: 3 :15) .Thus the word "breth­ The Baptist General Association for schools dwindled. Baptist Mis­ ren" became a term of family af­ of Kentucky was organh.. ed iil. sionary Societies were dwarfed fection among all Christians. · A 1837. Mission opposition forced a and some ultimately perished. fellow believer can call you by no vote in churches and associations Ministers were brought into disre­ greater title than "brother." on the subject. If they had a ma­ pute as suspicion was cast upon I Joh:a exhorts us to love our jority the antimissionary forces them. And practical benevolences fellow-Christians as brothers (2 :- excluded the missionary group within the churches were de­ 9ff.). Indeed, love for the "breth­ from . the church; if not, they stroyed, at least, so far as spread ren" is one test that one is a withdrew and started a church of of the gospel was concerned. Christian (3: 10f.; 4:11-12, 20-21).

FEBRUARY 13, 1964 'age Seven CHURCH .DEVELO PMENJ

THE Church Development Ministry is designed to play a vital part in ·every phase of church life, especially in the field of evangelistn. To think of Church Development in the light of buildings,. re­ pairs and the beautification of landscape, identify­ ing signs, adequate approaches to the church grounds and ample parking space, etc., is only to touch the surfaee of the ministry. However, if the Church Development Ministry consisted of just the things mentioned it .would be well worth while. 1. Survey There is a job to do after a person is won to Christ! He must be taught and developed-this is a part of the Great Commission, too. An attraetive and THE second step in the DeYelopment _Ministry an adequate church house plays a mighty important provides an open-door to Scrip evangelism. This part in the Baptist influence in a city, town or vill­ is a survey of the church fi d. This is a sensible age. Show me a run-down, ill-kept, neglected ·church and logical placing of the emp -·- in soul-winning building and I will show you a congregation which where it should be kept. We Ye resorted to gim­ is comparable to the building. Make a note of this micks and gadgets instead oz - e scriptural plan and observe some churches (congregations), Baptists and we have seen a decline · ptisms each year and others, and see if this isn't true. as a result. The Development Ministry type of survey is We were taught in merchandising that the show permanent and it is up-to-da e each day, week or window of the store was the most important part of month. By a simple method e annual census, the building. The first displays you see in a prosper­ which becomes obsolete wi · a few weeks after ous business are the very best and most attractive. it is taken, is replaced by a type of survey which Somehow, or it is so with me, I feel .a deepe~ sense of will reveal to a pastor and co gregation the spiritual worship and adoration in the proper surroundings. condition, and even the pby-· and material con­ These surroundings don't have to be costly-in fact, dition of each individual and each family on a day­ many of the most impressive are modest-but, in by-day basis, thereby enab · g a local' church to . every instance, they are well-kept ftnd a dignified function as it was meant from he time Jesus began order of service is followed. Dignity is a part of to build it, here on earth. Christian worship! We strive to promote this through the Church Development Ministry. II. Preaching and Prayi g The Church Development Ministry is dedicated AT our Evangelistic Conference we heard ~nough to a three-fold objective: A better church, a better great preaching to inspire and to bring to repent­ community, and a !Jetter world. By six simple steps, ance those of us who stand so desperately in need aU explain,e,d in the Church Development ·and Survey . of this. This was food for our ouls! But the need Guide Book, these three objectives may become a of this day is not to feed the ell-fed ! ThePe a,re reality in any community. ('!'his book may be ob- many thousands of God's created beings in the tained by: writing to your State Mission Depart- state of Arkansas who are approaching a spiritual ment-it i~ free to those who will use the Ministry.) death and the disease is: a lack of spiritual food!

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!fheir only source for this food is from thos-e of us who know how to give it. We are letting a lot of people starve to death because of our ind!~fere~ce and negligence. I have heard much about praymg to God for a revival." It is my opinion that God is By R. A. Hill always ready for us to have a revival-yes, actually Arkansas State Evangelism Conference anxious that we have revival! I believe in prayer as 1964 much as any m~n alive. But instead of praying t?at God will send a revival it would be more practical to pray· that God\would use us to bring revival. Our prayers will amount to naked nothi~g when we ~re unwilling to be used by our Lord m the grantmg of our requests, or "answering our prayer~,'' if you. wish to use a term that has become meanmgless. It was forcefully stated on the first day of this. Con­ ference that people were converted when they w~re confronted with the gospel and not because the gospel is preached. People must hear the preach~d gospel if they are to be convicted by the_ tr.uth o~ 1t -and they w(>n't hear it unless we Chnsbans fmd them and persuade them (one-by-one) to become Ill. Evangelism-Missions hearers of the truth! PERSONAL Evangelism through the Develop­ We may · reach a segment of our prospects ment Ministry system is work-but it works! We Christians, . especially preachers, can't place our re­ through S'unday School and Training Union a~d the Youth Organizations of our churches, but thmk of sponsibility on the shoulders of others. No man can the millions who never come in contact with any of hire another, or otherwise engage another, to do these organizations! They accomplish things the De­ what God has called him to do. velopment Ministry isn't designed to accomplish. We probably could increase our offerings if we On the other hand, the Church Development lV!ini~try gave trading stamps for the money received-this accomplishes things no other church orgamzatwns is as legitimate and ethical as some of the gim­ can touch. micks we use in getting peoplE> to attend our Sun­ God saved me when two preachers came into a day Schools, Training Unions, etc.-but if we are ever to accomplish our God-given mission we must sign shop where I had painted and was seated ~n a liquor sign. In all probability I would have hved go where the people are, confront them with and died without becoming a Christian if my sal­ Christ's daims, and by our witnessing win them to vation had depended upon my attendance at Sunday Christ. This is a part of the Church Development . School, Training Union, or even the worship serv­ Ministry, and a vital approach to scriptural ~vange­ ices. It was personal evangelism that won me! The lism. The Church Development and Community Sur­ Church Development Survey reveals the whereabouts vey Ministry is unique in its approach to our press­ of every unsaved person and furnishes some ' infor­ ing mission needs as well as our evangelistic needs and our church property needs, in fact, every .phase mation which enables the soul-winner to successful­ ly deal with him. Every newcomer is welcomed by of Baptist religious life may be enriched and be your church and becomes a vital statistic through made more potent for the work of the Lord if our churches and pastors will make use of the Church the Development Ministry. Development Ministry. fEBRUARY 13, 1964 Page Nine Man, mv schedule is all fouled up. each other from opposite shores of the · I've never. slept less, eaten less, and universe. I will- have to admit it-I've not kept And then orie day, in just a twenty­ my devotional periods in a week. Of four hour period, I grew up. The key course, if I have missed meals and · to the whole problem was communi­ sleep, surely missing my quiet time cations. I learned that buttons can be is excusable. Funny thing, .the only counted backward, first can be last; thing I remember really praying for, and so I started at the bottom: even momentarily, was the bid. Chi e f .-S epte~b e r 15 ( 8: 15 A.M.) . Thief.-October 15. I took the car I guess I should say "almost chief. " home yesterday. All through rush The campus daily ann ounced my de­ no one asked me if ~t were really feat as President of the Sophomore mine. I feel like a thief keeping it Class bv ten votes. so long, but you know how impmtant first impressions are, and Mom and Merchant.-Same day (9:00 A.M.) . Dad didn't seem to mind using the Dad's letter came as a· complete sur­ pickup while I had the car. Kathy prise- he never writes. In a nice way thought I was taking advantage of he told me to go easier on the money, them. ' that friendships were won and not Doctoi'.-February 10. ·I went to bought, and that there were Mary and my own church today. I've "slept in" Bill also to go to college. I hadn't or visited other churches a lot lately. stopped to realize that I was getting Visiting around has been an educa­ not only the educational policy the tional experien(;e and certainly helps folks had for me, but Jim's also. to make more friends. The preacher Lawyer.-Same day ( 9:30 A.M.). did hit close home. but I don't think I ser;ved as my 0\'1'11 defense attorney I've really attempt~d to be "Physician and lost. The prosecution held up a to My Own Soul," as his sermon said letter from Dad and the campus morn­ many do. ing paper. I pleaded guilty. Lawye i'. ~F e bruary 11. I've pleaded Doctor.-Same day ( 10:00-11 :00 my own case for twenty-four hours A.M. in humanities class) . I have been and still feel my change in religious my 0\'1'11 spiritual doctor. Ylr. Smith's habits is O.K. Here at State it's nigh (a Ia John Dewey's) faults may be to impossible even to read your Bible "cultural lag" but mine have been sin. readings or a page from Open Win­ I have been doctor of my 0\'1'11 soul and dows without someone's interrupting. more than that a braze~- Thief.-Right-in-the-daylight type. Mel'chant.-April 11. I went home Beggar.-Same day (9:00 P.M.). last weekend and borrowed the car Kathy called, and I knew something for a while. Kathy said I was "buying was wrong. She suggested we guit friendships" and that I had really going steady. She said we really ! changed, as if college wasn't supposed hadn't understood each other for Rich man.-September -1. Man, I to change a person. I wanted to tell months. And now I am Vlriting two feel like a rich man. Dad cashed in her that I had stood my own ground letters: one to the folks to beg for his insurance policy for my education in a dormitory against an agnostic and forgiveness and one to Kathy to ask and handed me the bank book. Am I a B:.hai. I wanted to tell her, too, that loaded! her: to let me try again. when my humanities teacher spoke Poor man.-AII night and early I think Dad felt like a rich man as if moral progress was automatic morning. I don't how if i really ever too-vou know, the old man has kept and Utopia imminent, I even asked his nose to the grindstone so long and went to sleep. I tossed and tumbled him right in class 'if the last two wars · all night. Finally I slipped out of I'm the first Boswell to go to collegt . didn't challenge his optimism. (My Funny, I didn't really know how to bed and had an early morning walk older brother Jim was killed on Iwo and the first quiet time in over a year. thank the folks. I guess I really should Jima.) have come iri earlier last night, bul Suddenly I became a- Chief.-May 15. Several fellow~ Rich man again.- (1\.bout 6 :00 I had to get in a last date ·with Kathy. have told me I was officer material A.M., I guess ?. The prayer came so Did I say "rich man"? I should and that without a doubt I'd be mn easilv: - have said- \ for class officer next year. "President Oh God, Poor marr.- September 5. How of the Sophomore Class" sounded 1 Helv me to listen to the folks, so naive can you be? I've just paid-room great to me. · I'll be a better son. · and board, tuition, fees, etc. From Helv me to listen to Kathy, so the suburbs to the slums in five short I'll be a better friend. days! *** Help me to listen to thee, so I'll Beggal' man.- September 15. Rush be a better disciple. is nver, and I have the bid I wanted. Then there was summer. Com­ The pilgrimage had begun. I was ' ' No ·doubting it, these were the sharper munication on all fronts was poor. I really rich this time. • •• boys. I think I would have crawled talked with thfl, folks , Kathy, and on my hands and knees · and begged (please don't think I'm sacrilegious) for the bid to Lamba. Lamba Lamba once or twice with God. But in each DR. TOM J. LOGUE is sta te d irector of Bap­ tist student work in Ar k a n sa s, wit h hea d · if it had been necessary. case it seemed we were shouting to quarters In Little Rock.

From The Baptist- Student, February, 1'964 Page Ten ARKANSAS BAPTIST Arkansas All Over------~----- J I Join OBC faculty Law honored at Smackover ARKADlriLPHIA-The appointments of a former c.ombat infantryman and a recent University of Arkansas gradu- ate to the faculty of Ouachita College were announced by President Ralph A. Phelps Jr. They are Lt. Col. Royce L. Eaves, named professor of military science, and Dr. Paul Root, assistant professor of history and education. The appoint­ ments were effective for the spring se­ mester which started Jan. 27. Colonel Eaves was transferred from San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he served as personnel officer for the Antilles Command. H,e is a graduate of New Mexico State College,· the Advanced In­ fantry School and the Army Command _and General Staff College. Winner of the Bronze and Silver Stars for · di~tinguished service with the 104th Division in Europe in Worid War II, Colonel Eaves was assistant PMS at Louisiana State University in 1950- 52. He and Mrs. Eaves are the parents of three daughters and a son. He will replace Lt. Col. William J. I (Jack) King, an ordained Baptist min­ ister, who expects soon to receive or­ l / ders transferring him to Korea, after four years as PMS at Ouachita. Dr. Root received his E. D. degree last month at the university. While stud:t­ ing at Fayetteville he served as choir LEFT to right: J. R. James()'11,, Mike Larw and Joe Liberto. -director at Caudle Av!!nue Church, Springdale, and sang in the upiiVersity's MIKE Law, Arkansas' onfy member lied Youth Glub, the Projection Club famed Schola Cantorum. He attended Arkansas College for two of the 16th annual prep All-American and · president of the Future Teachers Club; in the finals of the Mr. SHS in years- after graduating in 1950 from football squad, was honored in a special\ Bald Knob High School where he service at Maple Avenue Church, Smack- the school Who's Who, the results to over, recentiy. be announced later; voted best athlete played varsity football. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C: R. Root of Bald Mike, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Law, in Who's Who. Knob. . is a senior guard of the Smackover Bucks. His accomplishments were listed at He received his B. S. E. degree at - the service by Joe Liberto. Jim Jameson, State Teachers College at Conway, grad- Among the young athlete's' accomplish- ' . ments are: Six years .of football; All- superintendent of the Young People':> ua\mg in 1958 in the same class with Dishict two years; track team member Department presented the honoree an his wife, the former Mary Wanda ·Wind- six years, placing in district and state inscribed New Testament. · ham of Little Rock, whom he met and meets; basketball player for four years, Following the service, a fellowship married while in school. They are the lettering three and making All-State in hour was held in the banquet room of parents of two sons. While in college his sophomore year; president of the· the educational building. The young peo­ he sang in the choir and organized and p.le served as hosts. sang with the Four' Jacks quartet. Junior Science Club; member of the Al- Before serving three year.s l.vith the Army in Texas and Europe, Root at­ tended Arkansas College at Batesville, Mission calfs Ray Student of the Week where he sang in the choir and quartet LYNNE Bennett, a senior at Central and was sports editor of the student HUBERT 0. RAY has accepted the High School, Little Rock, was recently newsp.aper. pastorate-of Lakeshore Heights Mission, the Atkansas Democrat's "Student 'of He taught history at Greenbrier and Hot Springs, and has movell on the the Week." Hot Springs High Schools while wor~­ field. Lynne, daughter of ing on his master of education degree Mr. Ray formerly was pastor of First Mr. and Mrs. Clayton at State Teachers College. Church, Beirne. Other pastorates include C. Bennett, is a 'mem­ Cate Street and Lake Bridgeport, ber of Tyler Avenue Bridgeport, Tex. He has served as mis­ Church. She has Back to Oklahoma sion chairman of an association in Tex­ made all ·A's four 'Don Edmondson has resigned as minis, as and. Red River Association -in Arkan­ times during her rer of music of Central Church, Mag­ sas. high school career nolia, to return to his home state of A student at Ouachita College, he and estimates her Oklahoma as the first fulltime minis­ has atte~ded Decatur College in Texas. over-all grade aver­ ter of music of First Church, Enid. 'The Lakeshore Heights mission was age at A. She has a Mr. .Edmondson, who completed his begun in September, 1963, and is spon­ scholarship to Bar- LYNNE IINNin nard College, New ' sixth year at Magnolia this month, sub­ sored by Lake Hamilton Church. Ihitted his resignation effective Feb. 16. Mr. Ray and his wife Dorothy have York City, and plans to study phi­ (CB> four children. r' losophy.

FEBRUARY 13, 1964 Page Eleven n new building E. E. May ordained New Jersey speaker THE Waldenburg Church used its new DR. John McClanahan, First Church, :illding for the first time Sunday, Feb. Blytheville, will be the guest minister 2. of Madison Church, Madison, N. J., dur­ Gr.oundbreaking ceremonies were held ing the Wednesday night of the South­ in • ovember, 1963. Mrs. S. W. Wright, ern Baptist Convention in Atlantic 94-year-old charter member of the City. church, moved the first shovel of dirt. Other charter members who also par- · First Church, Blytheville, is assisting ticipated in the groundbreaking cere­ the Madison Church by helping to un­ monies were Mrs. · J. E. Sowell, Hazel derwrite the $100,000 loan on their Wright and Mrs. Ritha Cooper. Several church building. pastors and Missionary L. D. Eppinette of Trinity Association were also pres­ The Madison Church was the first ent. Southern Baptist Church organized in The 30 X 56 ft. frame structure is the state of New Jersey, and was the the first unit in an overall plan which first chapel of Manhattan Church. Mad­ will eventually include an auditorium ison is located 30 miles west of New on the present site of the old ·building. York City and is the home of Drew Uni­ The new building has central heat and versity and Seminary, and . Fairleigh provisions have been made for air con­ Dickinson University. ditioning to be .added later. It has six Sunday School rooms. Those attending the convention are James Costner, Jr. is the pastor~ invited to visit Madison Church and other churches and chapels of the Southern Baptist Convention in the Webb to Georgia greater New. York area. There are more E. E. MAY than 30. Information about them can REV. PERRY F. Webb Jr., son of Dr. be obtained from the Area Missionary, and Mrs. Webb of Little Rock, has rt· Elton Eugene May was ordained to Dr. Paul S. James, 309 West 57th Street, signed after 12 years as pastor of First the ministry at Hickory Grove Church New York 19, N. Y. Baptist Church, Natchitoches, La., to ac­ near Star City recently. He is pastor cept a call to the pastorate of · First of the church. Church, Albany, Ga. Pastms and deacons in Harmony As­ ' The Albany' church, one of the out­ sociation composed the council. Modera­ Duffer at workshop standing ·churches in Georgia, has a tor was Amos Greer, superintendent of LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Rev. J. Russell Sunday School attendance of more than misSions; clerk, Rev. Don Cooper, First Duffer, superintendent of missions for 1,000. Church, ·Star City; interrogator, Rev. the Current River and Gainesville As­ Mrs. Webb is the former Miss Vir­ David Crouch, Linwood· Church; prayer, sociations, was one of 79 missionary ginia Powell, of· San Antonio. Both she Rev. Ledell Bailey, Yorktown Church; . workers from 17 states recently attend­ ing the Workshop on Associational Mis­ and her husband are gradu.~tes of Bay­ Bible presentation Rev. Phil Beach, lor University, where she was a major Rison; message, Rev. George Pirtle, Sec­ sions held at Southern Seminary. in music. · ond Church, Pine Bluff. The workshop, jointly sponsored by Pastor Webb is also a . graduate of Mr. May is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Southern Seminary and the Department Southern Seminary, Louisville, Ky., and E. C. May of Chicago, formerly of Pine of Associational Administration Serv­ has served for some time as a member Bluff. He is a native of Pine Bluff and ices and Church Extension of the South­ 8£. the seminary Board of Trustees. a two-year student of Ouachita College . . ern Baptist Convention's Home · Mission Board, was designed both as a refresher course and to provide in-service training to experienced and inexperienced· person­ Editor to speak nel serving on the field with associa­ "The Spiritual Impact of the Churches tional mission techniques, accor.:l.ing to of Greater Little Rock on Their Com­ Dr. Allen W. Graves, dean of the tremi­ munity" will be the topic of Editor Er­ nary's School of Religious Education and win L. McDonald of the Arkansas Bap­ director of the workshop. tist Newsmagazine in a talk before the Planned and conducted by Dr. Graves Little Rock Kiwanis Club, at the La­ and Wendell Belew, secretary of the As­ fayette Hotel, Tuesday noon, Feb. 18. soci!itional Administration Services and Church Extension Department, the work­ shop consisted of lecture and discussion sessions, as well as reading and written Crigler ava.ilable assignments for which seminary credit REV. Claude Crigler, retired pastor was offered. and missionary of White River Associa­ Dr. Graves explained that many su­ tion, visited in the Bap.tist Building Feb. perintendents feel some lack of prepara­ 3. tion for their positions and a need for Mr. Crigler is doing supply preaching further training. The objective of the and may be contacted at his home in workshop., said the dean, was to deline­ Cotter. ate more clearly the purposes of associa­ tional missions work and to demonstrate how to plan for more effective work. Davis to Fayetteville Housing will be available, a charge JAMES Davis of Broadway Church, NOTE BURNING SERVICE-Mem­ of $15 being made for the nine-day work­ Sand Springs, Okla., has accepted a call bers · of Brown's Chapel Church, Greene shop. Reservations may be sent to the. to serve as minister of music and County Association, held a note burning seminary, accompanied by a $10 deposit youth at First Church, Fayetteville. ceremony recently for the indebtedness refundable by Jan. 1, 1965. Mr. Davis and his wife, Polly, have on the church parsonage. The home wlb.~ A registration fee of $10 also will be three children. built in 1957. Pastor William White charged to cover the expenses of mimeo­ Don Wright has been chosen by the lo·oks on as Emet Coza1·t, Elmo North graphed materials and instructional church to serve as junior high director. and Clyde Hopkins burn'the note. costs. Page Twelve ARKANSAS BAPTIST ttendance Report

February 2, · 1964 / Sunday Tralnlnc Addi- rclt School Union tiona Berryville, Freeman Heights 165 70 heville Gosnell 89 Trinity ~~~\ 95 Camden Cullendale First 447 200 First 642 180 r<>!'sett, Mt. Olive 189 79 Dumas, First 330 84 Dorado, East Main 315 122 4 Forrest City, First 614 181 6 Midway Mission 62 47 Fort Smith Grand Ave. 791 859 14 Mission 26 Temple 259 134 2 Gentry, First 197 70 2 Hot Springs, Lake Hamilton 124 48 1 Lake Shore Heights 53 34 2 Huntsville, Calvary 46 28 J ackson ville Berea . 131 72 1 First 579 185 2 Marshall Road 116 52 " 5 Second 209 98 3 Jonesboro Central 479 175 Nettleton 279 111 3 Lavaca 247 138 Little Rock First 1,051 401 White Rock 32 20 Forest Highlands 192 104 2 Immanuel 1,289 475 3 Rosedale 275 74 South Highland 443 185 McGehee, First 420 167 Chapel 58 40 Marked Tree, First 215 46 1 . FORT WORTH-D1·. Rheubin L. South (left), pastoT, Park H ill Chm·ch, No1·th Monticello, Second 267 130 4 North Little Rock Little Rock, attended executive committee meetings of the 11ation·wide Alumni Baring Cross 762 234 3 Association of SouthwesteTn Semi·na1·y he1·e Tecently. Re·viewin.q some of the 1·eco ·rds Southside Mission 58 20 Camp Robinson 63 37 in the alumni TecoTds office aTe (l eft to Tight) South, ·uicr president of thr Calvary 488 140 GJSsociation; Homm· G. Lindsay, pastor, Fi·rst Chu1·ch, Jackso·nvilll', Fla., p·1·eside·11t ; Gravel Ridge 185 108 Runyan Chapel 32 25 and J-ohn Seelig, assistant to the· pn;sidrnt at the· seminary, a/11mni srcrrtal'y­ Park Hill 848 224 6 t?·easuTer. Sherwood First 195 ' 90 Sylvan Hills First 254 86 Plans fo?· the an;,ua.l ·rneet-ing to be hl'ld May 20 in Atlantic City Wi'rl' adopted Ward, Cocklebur 37 24 1 and plans laic.( fa?' the annual 1·ecognition of fiw disth1g11ished a/mnui. Rogers, First 466 208 2 Siloam Springs, First 371 192 5 South 1·eceived the B.D. degrl'e h1 1950. Springdale Elmda'le 206 117 3 First 495 160 3 FIRST Church, Newport, Mar. 8-15; Easter Bible reading Van Buren Rev. Wad·e Carver, pastor of Temple First 505 1-70 2 Second 58 36 Church, Fort Smith, evangelist; Dr. W. THE American Bible Society has is­ Vandervoort First 54 32 3 W. Dishongh, pastor. (CB) sued its annual invitation to all Chris­ Warren, Immanuel 257 103 · Westside Chapel 95 53 tians to read together, at dawn on .FREEMAN Heights Church, Berry­ Easter Sunday, the ·Scriptural account ville, J-an. 12-19; Rev. Billy Walker, Wal­ of Jesus' resurrection. nut Ridge, evangelist; Haskell Lindsey, Revivals South Highland Church, Little Rock, mu­ The Bible Society offers its Easter sic director; Miss Judy Laman, organist; Scripture Selectiol)_ in a choice of three CALVARY Church, Ft. Smith, Apr. Miss Carol Baker, pianist; 5 for 'baptism; English versions: the King James, the 7 by Jetter; 10 profe'ssions of faith. 5-12; Harry Trover, Augusta, Ga., evan­ Revised Standard or the New -English gelist; Dr. H. R. Horne, pastor. Bible. The Selections are colorful, vest­ Don Sears resigns pocket size booklets containing the sug­ DON Sears has resigned as minister FIRST Church, Stuttgart, Mar. 8-15; gested Scripture reading in large, easy­ of music of Grand A venue Chutch, Fort Dr. David Garland, professor of Old Tes­ to read type. The price is $3.00 per Smith, to accept the same position with hundred. tament, Southwestern Seminary, evange­ the Putnam City Church, Oklahoma City. list; Carbon Sims, music diwctor; D. B. Mr, Sears has served at Fort Smith Bledsoe, pastor. for more than three years. The resigna­ New Spanish magazine LEE Memorial Church, Pine Bluff; tion becomes effective Feb. 16. (CB> CORDOBA, Argentina (EP) - The youth-led revival; team from Ouachita DR. A. B. PIERCE Child Evangelism Fellowships of Latin College: Shelby · Stewman, .evangelist; DR. A. B. PIERCE, a fqrmer pastor of America have begun publication of Ni­ Neil Guthrie, song leader; Carolyn Sue First Church, Pine Bluff, died at Green­ nez, new Spanish counterpart of Child Hart, pianist; Nancy Brooks, organist; ville, Miss., Jan . .22. · Death came as the Evangelism Magazine. It is designed for Mary Jane Speer and Sandi Sylvest, in result of a heart attack. all tl}ose working with children. charge of fellowships; 3 professions of faith; 4 by letter; 1 surrehdered for full time Christian service; Gerald M. New Arkansas Baptist subscribers Taylor: pastor. Church Pastor Association FIRST Church, Stuttgart, Mar. · 8-15; Dr. David Garland, head of the Old New budget: Testament Department, Southwesteru Seminary, evangelist; Carbon Sims, Sec- Weiner, First Roger Criner Trinity ond Church, Hot Springs, song director; D. B. Bledsoe, pastor. (CB) Portland A. Hilton Lane Delta

I Page Thirteen FEIIUARY 13, 1964 SBC News and Notes--- BY the BAPTIST PRESS 1------Code of ethics for Haptist PR group

, FORT WORTH-A code of ethics outlining professional standards for Baptist public relations practitjoners was adopted here by members of the Baptist Public Relations Association. The 12-point code, first proposed in 1962 by W. C. Fields of the Southern Baptist Executive Committee, called for each member of the association to be "first and foremost a spiritual leader." The code also stated that members should not compete with other mem­ bers for a particular job, and that members should not intentionally injure the professional · reputation of other members. Complete text of the code of ethics stated: 1. A member shall be first and foremost a spiritual leader, with the ultimate objective of all his work being to lead men to God through Jesus Christ. · 2. A member shall seek to minister rather than to be ministered unto, placing service above salary and personal recognition, seeking the leader­ ship of the Holy Spirit in ·discovering and doing his Christian duty;. 3. A member shall work constantly to try to reach the highest possible levels of professional competence. 4. A member shall adhere to the highest standards of truth, accuracy, and good taste. p. A member shall not engage in an~ practice which tends to corrupt the integrity of any of the channels of public communication. 6. A member shall seek to keep before the agency employing him the need of respect for the freedom and dignity of the individual, the opinions of its constituency, and welfare of the public at large. CONVENTION HOTEL - The 7. A member shall not intentionally injure the professional reputation· Ambassador Hotel at Atlantic City, N. of practice of another member, and where differences develop he shall go J., is the heooquarters hotel for the "the second mile" in objectivity and Christian forbearance in order to resolve Southern Baptist Convention next\ May. such differences. · (BP) Photo 8. A member shall not Ifnowingly or through personal initiative compete in an aggressive manner with another member for a particular job. Convention weather 9. A member shall do his work using methods that are not derogatory ATLANTIC CITY, ·N. J.-Don't ex­ or detrimental to the work of other members. pect to find "the good old summer 10. A member shall strive for efficiency and effectiveness without ex­ time" here in May. tr-vagance, bearing in mind the need to achieve the greatest possible benefits That's the official' word from the U. S. fl'om the resources of his agency and the denomination. Weather Bureau to Baptists planning to 11. A member shall not work for an agency if he does not sincerely attend conventions' here in May. Sched­ believe in the purposes and objectives of the agency. uled the week of May 18-24 in Atlantic 12. A member shall not use his influence to alienate his agency or City are the Southern Baptist Conven­ any part of its life from its loyalty ·to and suppollt·of the denomination. tion, the American Baptist Convention and the Baptist Jubilee Celebration. From the past experience the fore­ Hospitals branch out One sad statistic cast for the period of these two meet- . NEW ORLEANS - Directors of DALLAS - Southern Ba,Ptist Con­ ings is: maximum temperature-66 to Seuthern Baptist Hospitals have given vention Annuity Board trustees heard · .71 degrees, minimum temperature 54 the agency's hospitals in New Orleans only one statistic they considered dis­ to 58 degrees. and Jacksonville, Fla., authority to• es­ tressing in a report that otherwise Again from the past, the weather can tablish and operate satellite, or branch showed record-breaking increases in al­ ''!:le expected to be clear nine days in hospftals. ' most every area during 1963. That one statistic, according to R. Al~ May, partly cloudy 10 days, cloudy 10 These satellite hospitals would be lo­ days, sunny 62 p.ercent of the time. ton Reed, executive seeretary, centers cated in fast-growing areas of the two around the number of ministers who quit cities which are remote from a hospital. as pastors. To honor Redford They would be establis-hed when and if Of the 183 ministers who withdrew considered necessary by the agency. from active participation in the Annuity ATLANTA (BP)-A Home Mission Southern Baptist Hospitals IS an agen­ Board's retirement program, 108 said Board reception in Atlantic City, fo'l­ cy of the Southern Baptist Convention. they were turning to secular work. An­ lowing the evening session of the South­ The directors granted the New Or­ other six said they were leaving the ern Baptist Convention May 20, will leans hospital, known as Southern Bap­ ministry altogether, Reed said. honor Courts Redford of Atlanta and tist Hospital, authority to award a The remainder of Reed's report to the Home Mission Board missionaries. contract for an eight-story addition to 58 state and local members attending Redford, executive secretary, has an­ its plant on Napoleon l Ave. here. The the 46th annual meeting here revealed nounced his retirement effective in .De­ awarding of contract is subject to fi­ what they consider a highly successful cember of this year. This will be his nancing being available. year of operation. last Convention as head of the home The, board also accepted a plan by In his report, Reed said more than mission force of more than 2,000. Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jackson­ $3-1,4 million was paid in benefits dur­ L. 0. Griffith, Atlanta, director o:r ville to expan\1, its hospital by 192 beds. ing the past 12 months to almost 6,000 the division of education and promotion, It also has permission to build a 17- Baptist ministers, and church and de­ said, "The reception will be held in the story tower and to establish 'the hos­ nominational ~mployees. This sum Atlantic City auditorium, and the Home pital as a major medical center in the brought the total benefits paid since Mission Board extends an invitation to Jacksonville area, according to directors' the beginning of the board in 1918 to everyone to attend." action. more than $48,650,000, Reed said. c . Page Fourteen ARKANSAS BAPtiST SBC News and Notes Hawaii calls Todd Bans cigarettes HONOLULU-Byron F. Todd, super­ DELAND, Fla.-Stetson University intendent of city missions, Fresno, Calif., has discontinued the sale of cigarettes · has accepted the position of superintend~ and all other forms of tobacco on its ent of the Hawaii Baptist Academy DeLand campus, President J. Ollie Ed­ Institute enrollment up here. munds announced·. GRA,CEVILLE, Fl.a.-Baptist Bible In­ "The recent report of the surgeon­ stitu.te has enrolled 183 for the second general has made it .abundantly clear semester of the 1963-64 school year, Dr. Theology doctorate that the use of cigarettes, particularly Walter D. Draughon, Jr., dean, an­ LOUISVILLE-Trustees of Southern when begun at an early age, · may have nounces. Seminary here have approved a docto-r­ harmful effects upon the user," Edmunds This makes 228 as the total, non-dupli­ of-sacred-theology degree (S.. T. D.> de­ said. . cated 'enrollment for the Y!lar, the dean signed specifically for students planning "Stetson has, therefore, discontinued said, or three more than the Institute pastoral and denominational ministries. the sale of cigarettes and all other enrolled the previous year. forms of tobacco on this campus," he added. Stetson is affiliated with the Florida State Baptist Convention. Miss Hunt honored Gadsden survey GADSDEN, Ala.-A religio\ls survey Social work credit BIRMINGHAM - Miss Alma Hunt, FORT WORTH, Tex.-A new arrange­ who has completed 15 years as its execu­ of Etowah County, of which Gadsden is the principal city, shows only 62.8 per ment for social work students ha,s been tive secretary, was honored here by the approved. by the Board of Trustees at cent of its nearly 100,000 people are executive board of Women's Missionary Southwestern Baptist Theological Semi­ members of a church. The national av­ Union, auxiliary to tQe Southern Bap­ nary and will become effective w~th the erage is 64.3 per cent. tist Convention. The dinner in her honor summer session, 1964.' came during the board's annual promo­ The School of Religious Education will tion meeting. now accept 25 hours of a master of Missionary reports social work degree from any accredited HOME and foreign missionaries serv­ school of social work toward the semi- ·'Baptist ideals' ing the Southern Baptist Convention - nary's master of religious education de­ "BAPTIST Ideals" is the theme picked again will have featured places on the gree. This would require a student to for the 1964 Southern Baptist Pastors' program of the annual meeting of W o­ take an additional 41 hours of pre­ Conference program in Atlantic City, man's Missionary Union, auxiliary to the scribed study at the seminary. N. J. It convenes May 18-19 on the Steel SBC. Pier there. Woman's Missionary Union will hold THE Board of Trustees at Southwest The opening period is scheduled for its annual session May 18-19 in Conven­ Baptist Co!lege,-Bolivar, Mo., has voted 9:30 a.m. Monday. There will be morn­ tion Hall, A~lantic City, N. J., just prior to advance that college from its present ing, afternoon and evening meetings to the 1964 sessions of the Convention junior college status to a senior college on May 18, and morning and afternoon itself. program by the year 1965-66. meetings on Tuesday, May 19, winding up with an address at 4:30 p.m.

Dallas workshops Dallas, Texas-Business officers of South~rn B~ptist educational institu­ tions and state conventions will hold separate but simultaneous workshops in Dallas, February 20-21. The educational group, meeting for the second time, will discuss such topics as separation of church and state, financing church-related colleges, and Informing charitable giving, said H. L. Mitchusson, business officer of the University of Cor­ Enlisting pus Christi, Texas, who is president. Indoctrinating The state convention officers will. study the bookkeeping procedures of the Encouraging protection program administered by the ln~piring Annuity Board. Distinctive features of the plans, plus the future outlook of the ·program in the state conventions wiJ.l be discussed by Floyd B. Chaffin, associ­ ate secretary of the Annuity Board, who will direct the workshop.

· Virginia over budget RICHMOND-For the first time in several years, the Baptist General Asso­ ARKANSAS BAPTIST ciation of Virginia not only reached its Cooperative Program budget goal in g o a l · 6 2 ·, 0 0 0 1963, but exceeded it. Association officials said $3,479,803 was received on the goal of $3.4 million. The excess of $79,803 was shared by the Goal for 28 Baptist State Papers: Up 20% to 1,750,000 capital needs program ,of Virginia Bap.­ tistll and the Cooperative Program bud­ get of the Southern Baptist Convention.

FE8RUARY 13, 1964 ~ge Fifteen \·------~------Departments------~------~

Missions-Evangelism Church Music Where the money went THE OPERATING budget of the De­ partment of Missions-Evangelism • for 1963 was $104,000.00. We actually spent ' Change in Festival Date! $108,438.82. The department's budget had .anticip11-ted $25,000.00 from the Dixie Jackson State Mission offering, but we received $29,708.88. Are you interested in how the money YOUTH FESTIVAL to be held on MAY 9 was spent? instead of April 25 because of conflict with the State Band Festival. Salaries for six employees $ 21,803.79 See you then! House allowance for employees 4,808.32 Traveling for department workers 2,394.{)7 Revised Primary Festival List -Date, March 7 Associational mission aid 20,560.00 Pastoral aid 17,620.00 "All These Things Belong to Me", Margaret Baker, Church Musician, February, 1962 Building aid 18,257.10 "God Bless the Little Things", Owen Hatch. This can be found in \ the Chelsea Retirement, Social Security, Unison Choir Book compiled by Frances Williams (~lammer) or,· in octavo form Employees ins. 3,917.67 "Psalm 100", Jane Marshall, Church Musician, ·Fuly 1960 or octavo number MF Literature (sanatorium) 458.84 562, Broadman. This is not to be .confused with an anthem on Psalm 100 entitled Promotional 203.65 number 86086, Flammer Rural Church Conf., "Psalm: 100", J.ane Marshall, Church Musician, July 1960 or octavo number MF Missionaries Retreat 880.19 562, Broadman. This is not to be confused with an anthem on Psalm 100 entitled Summer (student missionaries) 640.30 "Make a Joyful Noise" by Marshall. Rent, supplies, "Alleluia, Chrisf Is Risen", Margaret Baker, Church Musician, December 1963 p.ostage, phone, etc. 1,449.58 · "Let All the World in Every Comta Sing", arr. by William Reynolds, Church Evangelism 13,019.07 · Musician, May 1957 ' Designations "When I Close My Eyes", Burnham. This is found in "Songs With Happy Thought3 and Miscellaneous 2,426.24 for Children", Willis Music ·Company · "Loving Care", Schubert ' Total $108,438.8'2 "What Can I · Giv·e Him", Holtz It has always been my" feeling that "Dear God 'Twas Thou Didst· Light the Stars", Piper those who support any cause ought to know how their funds are disbursed. We should keep in mind that mission work includes workers (salaries), their traveling, their phone calls; it includes materials used and conferences held to O Send more informa~ion about the Foundation strengthen the mission work. Do you see anything which you disapprove? Thanks for your interest and your pray­ FREE 0 I would like for the Foundation ers. Our workers do much traveling to night meetings, but not one has been Secretary to call on me. involved in a wreck of any kind.. God has been good.-C. W. Caldwell, Superin. Literature upon tendent of Missions I am interested in knowing more about: request Making a Will A Living Trust . The Optimist measures the cir­ Annuity Contract cumference of the roll, The pessimist measures the diam­ One person, age eter of the hole. Two persons, ages ______and They'll never agree on the worth of the thing FOR MORE A Memorial Trust Till both see the hole and both Giving with Insurance Policies bless the ring.-\Y. B. O'Neal DETAILS WRITE

Name ------WANTED Ed. F. McDonald, Jr. Education-music director. Ark. Baptist Foundation Address Seminary training not required. 401 West Capitol Ave. Home and salary. Call or write 1 City ------State ------Pastor Lawrence E. Ray, First Little Rock, Arkansas Church ______.. Baptist Church, Pocahontas, 1 Ark.

Page Slxtett., ARKANSAS .8 Check these 14 reasons why Th·e Southern Baptist Protection Plan ts your best P!otection

RUCKER

It provides the most pPotection per dollar invested. (1) .Being a convention program, we can adapt it to The church and convention will PI\Y 2/3 of the cost the needs and circumstances of the member for you. Two hundred seventy-three of the 517 church and partiCipant. churches in Arkansas who are participating are pay­ (2) One can pay on all or any part of one's salary ing the minister's .- part so this protection is provided that he chooses. without cost to him. (3) One can miss a payment or two and your pro­ No physical examination required. tection or investment is not lost. Before the Being a convention owned and operated plan all the calendar year closes one can make up all the money paid in is . invested 1UUi -all the growth of the back payments retroactive to Jan. 1 of that year investment accrues to the account ·of the participant. witho'ut any penalty or loss. · When you retire you will receive an annuity check (4) As long as you make ·just one payment within each month as long as you live. a calendar year your protection will not lapse; In the event of your death, your widow will receive • 13. Two supplemental plans are available to those who an annuity check eacl) month as long as she lives wish to strengthen their retirement program. and remains your widow. · <1) The Age Security Plan-which is a purchased an­ If you become disabled, you will draw an annuity nuity on savings plan, which is currently paying check as long as you are disabled. 414 percent interest. The Program has been strengthened and broadened (2) The Variable Annuity (or Mutual Fund)-for across the years. There are strong possibilities of those who are interested in strengthening their other 'benefits being added across the coming years retirement income as a hedge against inflation: as we enlist more men and churches in the program. the Annuity Board will do more for you than The early retirement privilege at any time from age any one else.· This investment will perform as 60-64. . well as any other and will mean a saving to '!'he lump sum payment to the widow if the partici­ you from 6 to 8 percent. The Annuity Board pant dies before age 40. If he dies a natural death, does not charge you more than 1 percent to the widow :rill be paid up to $4,000. If he dies an invest and supervise your investment where com­ accidental death, then she will be paid up to $8,000. mercial companies charge from 6 to 8 percent. In addition .to· the above, if the participant dies be­ • 14. This program is operative in every state in the nation, fore retire~ent, leaving no widow, then' the estate just as long as one maintains a salaried relationship will be paid in a lump sum twice the amount of the with our convention, churches, associations or insti­ Inoembers annual retirement annuity. tutions cooperating with our , convention.-T. K. Our ·Program is fle:idbl!!: Rucker, Field Representative

gelism the childl.'en get away frOR;l home and evangelism, Christian. Education, care . he begins to think of ,how the years are· of children and the aged . passing he realizes that he will face An educated and' trained leadership , death some day. A desire to live on is is one of the most urgent needs of natural. God's people. To meet this need, Baptists llE PEOPLE who ·profess to be­ January was "Make Your ·Will" have established Christian schools, col­ - in Christ and life eternal live as month, but if you haven't made your leges, seminaries, and Bible institutes. not fully convinced of life will, now is the time to do it. Regard­ Arkansas Baptists have Ouachita Col­ beyond the grave. less of age or circumstances, everyone lege at Arkadelphia and Southern Col­ Why? Because they should have a will. ,I.t is a wise and lege at Walnut Ridge. These schools spend just about all sensible matter and ' will save many have s~ong Bible and religious depart­ their time, talents, heartaches. ments for the training of our church love and money on A will is a legal document stating leaders. They also teach and develop lay things that .perish how you wish your earthly goods dis­ leadership for Christian service in all with the using - tributed after you depart this life. It phases of life. If we are to stay in the things that will not should be drawn up. by the aid of legal business of Christian education we must mean anything to council. Every Christian should be undergird our schools with some finan­ the.m 100 years from Chrif\tian in his 'Vill by including the cial support. The best and most effec­ now. A person works Lord's Will in his will. Insert· a clause tive means of securing this money is hard and provides giving to the Arkansas Baptist Founda­ through wills ·and bequeaths. This is a for his family. He tion a set sum, a percen'tage , of your long range program and we do no ex­ sends his children to estate or certain properties. . These items pect' individuals to be able to give large • REED school and h .e 1 p s are held in trust by the foundation and sums· of money immediately. It i ea y get a start in life." He accumu­ the income from them goes to under­ however, when we consider our wills..­ roperty as he grows older. When gird all of our Baptist work, missions,, Jesse S. Reed, Director of Evanger -m Religious Education Division BROTHER ASSOCIA TIONAL WORKER

(S.S. ~ T.U. - Brotherhood - Musid What Kind of Leader Are You? ·

• Where are you headed in your leadership'! ·

• Are the people with you? • · Could you use some help.?

• Would you sh:are your ideas with others?

If So, Attend the ASSOCIATIONAL LEADERSHIP CLINIC Feb. 18th - 9:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. Immanuel .Baptist Church, L_iHie Rock PROGRAM

9:20 ·a.m. Quiet Worship 9:30 a.m. Period of Worship-Hoyt Mulkey 9:45 a.m. Purpose of Meeting-.:..J. T. Elliff 9:50 a.m. Recognitions, lntroductions l!Dd Announcements-J. T. Elliff 10:00 a.m. Motivation- for the Association's Task-Crawford Howell, Nashville 10:30 ~tm. Organizational Conferences arid Missionary's Meeting 12 :30 p.m. Lunch (Immanuel's Dining Room) 1 :00 p.m. Help From the Library-Glynn T. Hill, SS Board 1:20 p.m. Communicating with Church Leaders-Manes Rawls, Nashville 1:40 p.m. Leadership Techniques-Vers'il Crenshaw, Nashville 2 :00 p.m. Recess 2:15 p.m. Organizational Conferences and Missionary's Meeting 4 :45 p.m. Dismiss

See Religious Education News for mileage schedule

Page Eig ~teen ARKANSA~ BA,TIST Middle of the Road people have fun and you will have fun. Having fun is a sign of The Bookshelf strength, not weakness. My church is the basis of my Bible in Pocket, Gun in Hand, by Ross Phares, Doubleday, 1964, $3.95 HAVE FUN fun-life. My sermon preparation TO the missionary of zeal ·out on the time, my .Bible-reading and prayer lone prairie, moderation was not a vir­ BY J. I. COSSEY times are my fun periods. Going tue, "ignorance no handicap. Killing came to church services are periods of in handy. In this new book, Mr. Phares accedes What is fun? Fx:om my view­ fun and spiritual up-lift. Don't be that no American stage furnished more point, it is freedom, privilege, op­ a grouch and a joy killer. authentic local color or immoderate ex­ portunity to serve, preach, teach, The whole program of Hollywood citement than the American frontier pul­ is based on fun, television pro­ pit. Such real-life men of God as "Fight­ help, p u s h, b~ in' Parson Potter," ex-gambler turned pushed, live in grams are scheduled for fun-mak­ ill1g. Church services are planned gospelrshark, and "Sin-Killer Griffin," peace and some Negro chaplain of a penitentiary and for serious worship and sober degree of spiritu­ graduate of that institution, spoke the thinking and to the Christian that people's language and shot it out when al radiance. is fun. Religion is not long-faced. necessary , Fun is merri­ It calls for merriment, joy and The International Lesson Annual, 1964, ment, joy, pleas­ gaity. Experimental religion is edited by Horace R. ·Weaver, Lesson ure, amusement, the most joyful experience in the Analysis by Roy L. Smith, Abingdon, or a combination 1963, $2.95 world. In Bible times when reli­ One of the many features of this of all these. I feel gious people were filled with the treatment of the Sunday School lessons MR. cossEY that I have lost Holy Spirit_, they were often ac­ for the year is the carrying of the valuable time when I pass a day cused of beirrg drunk. Be filled complete text of the lesson in both King James and Revised Standard Versions without having fun. Esar said, with the Holy Spirit and you will in printed, parallel columns for easy "Fun is like insurance : the older be filled with heaven-sent fun. comparison. you get, the more it costs." This marks the ninth year of the In­ ternatio~al Annual_. Fun is the expression of an in­ side joy. The look on a woman's Horizon, Winter 1964, $4.50 per copy, face is more important than the $21 per year Featured in this issue of Horizon is clothes on her back. Charles an article by a Princeton ·sociologist, Schwab once said that his smile Morroe Berger, on the Black Muslim had been worth a million dollars. Movement. It deals with the history and significance of this unusual and His personality, charm, and his rapidly growing element of the Negro unusual success was d,ue to his community. , captivating smile. His outstanding Other features include, "The Year One," described as being the oddest of good fortune was his fun. When all the great years in history: "The you fill your heart with fun, ~ur King and . Us," by Archie Robertson, face will radiate with happy ex­ dealing with the philosophy of America'.s pressions. You may llave an out­ Peac11 Corps; and "Francis Bacon," ·by Loren Eiseley; "Henry Fielding: The standing career in life if you know Journey Through Gip. Lane," by J. H. how to have a rip-roaring good Plumb, and many others. time. Christian Belief and Christian Practice, All the fun in life should start . by William J. March, Eerdmans, 1964, right in our homes. Our home life $3.50 should be nur fun-life. What can The classical reasons given by Edward Gibbon in his The Rise and' Fall of the be more refreshing· than to see a Roman Empire, for the fall of the family sit around the table and Roman Empire, can be seen today in talk and laugh together with each our .own modernations says Mr. March. child having his turn to tell his The main purpose of this book is to "Take .another look at the words of joke? The most wholesome thing Jesus Christ as recorded in the Gospels, a family can have together is fun. and try to see these words as challenging A family may have riches and the Christian to practice his belief against the insanities of intellectualism fame, but unless they have' love and ritual. and fellowship, there will be no . . fun. Do all you can to make other Mastering Life with the Master, by Wesley H. Hager, Eerdmans, 1964, · leads his readers to face realistically $2.50 the recognition of the problems that The studies in this book deal with exist. He shows how Christians ca,n over­ the problems that face all men. The come their problems and be judged by book is an effort to learn from Christ both God and man, not by the circum­ some of the secrets by which we may stances that are unchangable, but by s'olve the problems of life. The author what they do about the circumstances.

FEBRUARY 13, 1964 Page Nineteen Children's Nook--- favorite valentine

By• Grayce Kroghr Boller, BILLY and Trudy rwere sorry to see the snow. At first, they had thought it fun. Now after many, many snow­ storms, so much lay on the ground that it was no longer fun. "Except that· it makes the whole ·BEFORE the farmer begins to world like a lacy white ·valentine for plow the · cold, wet earth in early Polly's party," T.rudy smiled. , "Suppose we get snowed in and can't spring, th~ bluebird appears. In go to her party," Billy p.ointed out. the midwestern and eastern parts "Oh, no!" cried Trudy. "Besides, sup­ of our country, the bluebird is pose Daddy asks us 'to go for a ride in known as the_harbinger of spring. . that battered old sleigh!" Someone has described it as the "Ugh!'' Billy shuddered as he thought of the big old sleigh which had been in bird with the sky on his back and the barn when Daddy bought this farm. good red soU on his breast. The Billy and Trudy had wondered all win­ bluebird, about seven inches in ter whether Daddy would want to hitch length, has a bright-blue coat and up Samkins and take the sleigh out on the road. It was old-fashioned, dull a reddish-brown and white vest. black, scratched, and dirty. Why this beautiful bird leaves "I'd be ashamed of it," said Trudy. "I wish the snow would stop." a warm southern home to come ,But it didn't stop.. Snow fell all ,day where snow is still on the ground long. Daddy was out in the barn, tend­ is difficult to understand. ing stock. He wouldn't allow the boy and girl to go out at all. Mother made Naturalists tell us that the birds cookies and that was fun. The which come earliest in the spring "Tomorrow -is Polly's valentine party," Trudy told Mother as she. and Billy season are the ones that feed on watched Mother 'take cookies from the the first insects in fiel'ds, orchards, oven. "We can go out then, can't we and gardens. If it were not for Mother?" . · these early birds, countless mil­ "It depends on the weather," said lions of insects would destroy al­ Mother. "It's a long way to Po1ly's. You bluebir,d most all vegetation. can't walk. S.UPJ?9Se Daddy can't take \ \ • " I you -in the car, what then?" Billy and Trudy looked glum. 'Why, Bluebirds -are likely to come they had been looking forward to the back to tl:te same nesting place party for weeks. Every day at school year after year. Upon their arriv­ Polly had told something new about it: the special candies her Aunt Mae was al in February and March, they sending from· the city, a v.atentine for stake out their rights to a nesting every boy and girl, fancy cookies and homesite with a burst of song. cakes. Their favorite homes are deep cav­ The snow kept on coming ,down. Trudy no longer thought it looked like-a pretty ities in holJow tree trunks, often lacy valentine. It lookAd like a heavy woodpeckers' deserted homes. white blanket :which nobody needed or wanted. People who welcome these birds By morning the snow had stopped. and want to protect them have Everything was quiet. The sun was shin­ provided homes for them. l'hey ing. Snow was sparkling on trees and .cut short sections of hollow tree fences and bushes. Everything really was beautiful and just like a pretty val­ limbs, cover the top and bottom, entine. and make a doorway one and one Billy and Trudy could hardly wait till half inches across. They fasten time to go to the party. Trudy had a .these homes securely in tall cedars new dress. It was white trimmed in red. She had a red band of ribbon around and other pro.tected tree areas. her ponytail. "You look like a valentine," Daddy The birds pay their rent many told her. times by destroying injurious in­ Billy had a red bow tie and a white ·' sects and worms. They are seem­ shirt. He looked like a valentine, too. ingly tireless · work-ers, laboring "Is it time to go now?" Trudy a~ked from dawn till dusk. when they were ready. "I'll get the car," Daddy nodded, and Watch closely this spring for Mother went to the closet to help with wraps. the first bluebirds. You may see Daddy seemed to take a ' long time in them early while the snow is still getting the car. At last he came back. By Thelma C. Carter on the ground. "I can't get the car started," he shook . • I age Twenty ARKANSAS B~PnST Fundamentals of the {aith (Editor's Note: This is the sev­ enth of 13 articles on "Funda­ mentals of Our Faith," to be used as supplemental material with the first quarter of the year.) What we believe about s1n

. By Dr. Frank Stagg NEW ORLEANS SEMINARY

WHAT is sin's origin? How can sin enter· God's world? their plight, and the~ Cain killed Abel. That. is man's story. Who is responsible for sin? What is its nature? The breakdown of the individual and the breakup of the God is responsible for the possibility of sin but not for human family are both due to man's cutting himself off sin itself. He made man capable of good and thus capable from God. of evil. To have one possibility is to have the other. There Romans 1:18-32 offers a clear explanation of the origin, can ·be good without evil, but there camwt be good without nature, and consequences of. sin. God made himself knowable the possibility of evil. Things and lower animals can do to man (1:19; cf. John 17:3), but man chose not to know neither good nor evil.· Man is able to trust, and this means God (1:28). God gave· man over to man's own choosing that he can distrust. He can be true, so he can be untrue. (~:24, 26, 28) .. Trying to go it alone, man plunged deeper Good and evil are moral possibilities wherever ther e is free­ and deeper into evil, suffering a complete moral breakdown dom for moral choice. ( 1 :25-27) plus the breakup of the human family ( 1 :28-32). The sins of sexual perversion, drunkenness, greed, envy, Man's inclination toward sin strife, deceit, slander, hate, murder, and the like all issue Man's obvious inclination toward sin is often said to be f rom t he fateful choice to worship the creature (self, sex, due to "the fall of Adam." This calls for a closer reading money, or what not ) rather than the creator <1:25), refusing· of the Bible. Adam's f a ll was the result of his inclination to have God in one's knowledge (1 :28). toward sin; the inclination did not result from the "fall." The whole man It was man as created who distrusted and disobeyed God. From the first, Adam had fr~edom · of choice; and his in­ Sin belongs to the whole man, not to some "lower na­ clination toward self appeared from the beginning. Genesis ture." Sin cannot be isolated into one part of man's self­ does not describe Adam as ever walking with God in trusting hood; body, mind, will, or emotions. obedience. Adam did. not "fall from grace" or otherwise lose Sin does not belong to flesh as such. "Flesh" in the his salvation. He never entered the offered life with God. New Testament usually designates the whole man .in his In the New Testament, only Paul and Jude mention Adam. weakness or estx:angement from God. The "works of the In two passages (Rom. 5 :12-21; I Cor. 15:22) Paul compares flesh" include sins of the spirit, like envy, as well as sins Adam and Christ, indicating our relationship to Adam in of sensuality, like fornication (cf. Gal. 5:19-21). Sin is not sin and to -Christ in salvation: "As in Adam all die, so in simply a lack of knowledge. Man often knows better than Christ shall all be made alive"

FEIItUARY 13, 1964 Page Twenty-One Sunday Sc~ool lesson------re-'p-o-rt_e_d_w_h-at_h_a_d_h-ap_p_e_n-ed_ i_n- bo- th city and country. The people of the re­ gion immediately asked Jesus to depart ' from their borders. This may have been demoniac· due to reverential fear of the divine The Gadare·ne power they sensed in Jesus, but more likely it was resentment due to having By CLIFTON J. ALLEN lost the swine. They put greater value in "Points for Emphasis" upon tl'leir animals than upon a person. ·A man possessed of demons did not (Used by permission) disturb them, but to lose their ·swine Luke 8 :26-39 was a calamity. · Consider the man who had been pos­ The background and condition of the country of the Gadarenes round about sessed of the demons. There he was, Gadarene demoniac 'are full of mystery. besought him to depart from them; for liberated from their power, sitting His healing and new life in Christ ' arc they were taken with great fear: and quietly at the feet of Jesus, having full of inspiration. Whether his diffi­ he went up into the ship., and returned found clothing with which to cover his culty was chiefly mental or chiefly mor­ back again. body, and giving evidence of soundness al and spiritual, it is impossible to 38 Now the man out of whem the of mind. The man had been made whole know with certainty. In his condition devils were departed besought him that by the power of Jesus Christ. In Jesus' we see the ways in which evil qeg,rades · he might be with him: but Jesus seYJt mighty miracle of healing we have the and destroys personality. In the en­ him away, saying, p.erfect illustration of his salvation. One counter with Jesus, we see the perfect 39 Return to thine own house and is set free from the power of evil, one's illustration of the liberating and trans­ shew how great things God hath done mind is set right toward God, one ex­ forming power of J·esus in human per­ unto thee. And he went his way, and periences the peace of divine forgive­ sonality. published throughout the whole city ness, one is clothed with the beauty of how great things J esus had done unto grace and righteousness, and one is The Bible lesson him. bound to Jesus Christ in a commitment Luke 8: Mental illness is marked by alarming of faith and love. 26 And they arrived at the country , increase. How much of it stems from a A Man Become A Witness (vv. 38-39) · of the Gadarenes, which is over against spiritual rootage and from moral pro­ The thrilling sequel to this story is Galilee. blems? Not all by any means. But the that the healed man became a witness 27 And when he went forth to land, help needed for a mentally confused and for Christ.' His first desire, expressive there met him out of the city a certain morally sick generation is the Great of trust and love and gratitude, was to man, which had devils long time, and Physician. We _need a Saviour! be allowed to continue with Jesus. That ware no clothes, neither abode in any · The lesson explained desire could be fulfilled in a spiritual house, but in the tombs. relationship rather than in physical com­ 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, A Man Among The Tombs (vv. 26-29) panionship; and Jesus therefore charged and fell down before him, and with a Jesus l;lnd the disciples crossed the him to return to his own family and loud voice said, What have"! to do with Sea of Galilee to the east. Immediately tell the story of his transformation. thee, Jesus, thou Son of' God most on landing, Jesus was met by a man Note •the claim of Jesus in saying what high? I beseech thee, torment me not. possessed of demons. · They had made great things ''God hath done unto thee/' 29 (For he had commanded the un­ him a wild man: he wore no clothes, The man made whole went forth as a · clean spirit to come out of the man. no longer lived in a house, roamed witness to tell what great things Jesus For oftentimes it had caught him:. and around among the tombs, and repeated­ had done unto him and for him. He he was kept bound with chains and in ly broke the chains and fetters with first met Jesus in the power of demons; fetters; and he brake the bands, and which men tried to bind him. According but he left Jesus in the power of the was driven of the devil into the wilder­ to Mark, he was untamable. But some­ living God. ness.) thing in the deranged man came alive Truths to live by 30 And Jesus asked him saying , when he met Jesus the evil spirits in What is tny name? And he said, LP.­ him were stricken with fear for they No c·ase ;s too hard for Christ.-Christ gion: because many devils WP· · ~ entered felt them·selves in the presence of their ·is always equal to every person's need. master and .knew him to lie the Son of He can deliver a person from the vilest into him. 1 31 And they besought him that he God. Perhaps something in the man and most enslaving habits-the alcohol- would not command them to go out into cried out to Jesus for help, while at the ic from strong drink, a profane person the deep. same time the detnons posse'ssing him from profanity, a spiteful gossiper 32 And there was there an herd of pleaded with Jesus that he not torment . from the practice of sp.reading lies and swine feeding on the mountain: a nd them. To whatever degree his condition slandering character, a lover of money they besought -him ·that he would suffer was mental or moral, or both menta!' from the power of greed, or a chronic them .to enter into them. And he suf­ and moral, it ilLustrated the plight of cynic from pessimism and despair. The fered them. all persons in Satan's power-uncomely, only condition is one's willingness to 33 Then went the .devils out of the depraved in mind, lonely aRd help.!ess, turn to Christ in humble trust. The man, and entered into the swine: and beyond the point of human control, and criminal can find forgiveness. The sex the herd ran violently down a 'steep choosing association with death rather pervert can find s'trength to begin life place into the lake, anq were choked. than life. , over again. The slave to uncontrolled 34 When they that fed them saw A Man Made While (vv. 30-37) anger can experience the power of disc what was done, they fled, and went and Jesus' response to the demoniac was ciplined Jove. The man or woman of told it in the city and in the country. first, an effort to awaken an awareness pride can find the secret of humility. 35 Then they went out to see what of his true self. Hence Jesus asked, No person is hopeless because Christ 's was done; and, came to Jesus, and found "What is thy name?" The man's an­ love is limitless and his power almighty. the -man, out of whom the devils were swer, "Legion," was a further testimony A sound mind is found only in Christ. departed, sitting !lt the feet of Jesus, to a divided and confused self. Jesus -The healing of the Gadarene demoniac clothed,. and in his right mind: and commanded the demons to come out of meant a healing of the mind. His mind they were afraid. 1 the man but allowed them to enter into was unsound because ' he was in the '36 They also which saw it told them a herd of s win~, so that they rushed power ·of evil1 It is only through Chris t by what means he that was possessed headlong into the sea and perished. that one can experience deliverance of the devils was healed. There was consternation among those from the false and commitment to the 37 Then the whole multitude of the who cared for the swine; they fled and true. A sound mind calls for truth- Page Twenty-two ARKANSAS BAPTIST Christ is the essence of all truth. A sound mind calls for love for God and A Smile or Two I .N DE X man-Christ is the perfect expression A- Attendance report pl3 of ·such love. A sound mind calls for B- Baptist beliefs: The name 'brother' (BB) and trust and courage­ p7; Sin (FF) p21; Bennett, Lynne; student of revere~ce What else? week pll ; Bible: Our great blessing (E) pp3- Christ through his Spirit makes God A YOUNG teacher we know, trying 4; Bookshelf pl9; Brown's Chapel Church note real and his grace sufficient. A sound burning pl2 to get her classroom to think, asked C- Caldwell, Dr. C . . W ., No miracle; Children's mind must be integrated around the a rather tricky question. Nook pp20-21; Courtship: Enough love for mar­ will of God and the lordship of Christ. riage (CMH) p6; Cover story p5 ; Crigler, Glaude "Tom," she asked, "Can you tell me available pl2 All else is 'false and leads ultimately what nothing is ? " D- Davis, James to Faeytteville pl2 ; Duffer, into darkness, perversity, and misery. 1 J, R. at workshop pl2 "Yes," l'eplied Tommy, "it's a: balloon E--Edmundson, Don to Oklahoma pll; Evan­ We are sound in our thinking .only to without its skin." gelism and church development ministry pp8-IO the degree that we have the mind of F- Fun (MR) pl9; Fundamentals of the faith (letter) p4 Christ. ·L - Law, Mike honored pll As you were 1 M- McClanahan, John New Jersey speaker p12; A ¥A.N called for ' information at the McDonald, Erwin L. Kiwanis speaker pl2; May, E. E. ol·dained p12; Missions: Anti-mission fruit A verse to remember telephone office. "I want to speak to (BL) p7 Mr. Dill,," he said. 0 ··· OBC faculty additions pll They that are whole need not a physi­ R- Ray, H. 0. to Hot Springs pU ; Revivals Th!'l operator asked, "Is it 'B' as in pl3 cian; but they that are sick. I came not Bill?" S- Sing; s ing, sing (PS) p2; South, R. L. at to call the righteous, but sinners to re­ Seminary pl3; Sunday School lesson pp22-23 The man answered, "No-'d' as in T- Taylor, Larry M. (letter) p4; Teenagers, pentance. -Luke 5:31-32 Pickle." Counting the buttongs plO The sickness of our age, more than U- Uncle Deak pl9 W - Wasson, Mel (letter) p4; Waldenburg ·anything else, is a sickness of mind and So? Church in new building pl2; Webb, Perry F. heart-the sickness of pride, of fear, of .Jr. tp Ga. pl2 hate, of selfishness, and of unbelief. HUSB:AND: "Why under the sun does a. woman say she's been shopping when Key to listings: IBL) Beacon Lights of. Bap­ Only the ones willing to acknowledge tist History; (CMH) Courtship, Marriage and their need can ·receive the healing of the she hasn't bought a thing?" the Home; (E) Editorial; (FF) Fundamentaill Great Physician. Wife: "For the same reason that of the faith; .(PS) Personally Speaking; (SS) man says he's been fishing when he Sunday School lesson; (MR) Middle of the Road; (KYM) Know Your Missionaries. Daily Bible rea:_dings hasn't caught a .thing." Chew on this Feb. 10-How Much Jesus Had. Done. By the numbers THE science class was having its Luke 8 :26 ~ 39 "YOU'LL like this house," the realtor final test and one of the questions was Fe.b 11- 0ur Inner Conflicts. Rom. 7:- told his social-climbing client. "It is · 14-25a ' spacious, with three fireplaces and sep­ "Which are the last teeth to appear in Feb. 12-The Gospel Gives Release. Acts arate servant quarters." the mouth?" One youngster answered 16:16-20 "It seems adequate," murmured the simply, "False." The teacher had to ad­ Feb. 13-'f.he Lord Give You Peace. prospect haughtily, "but wh·at about the mit he was not wrong. Num. 6~22-27 neighborhood? Is it exclusive?" Feb. 14-0ne Source of Confusion. "It is so. exclusive," whispered the When you travel. take along Prov. 23:29-35 salesman "that it has an unlisted postal F,eb. 15-Live in Harmony. Rom. 12:- zone number." ON JHE WING WITH THE WORD 14-21 Feb. 16-Love Binds Everything To­ Ala carte ... the handy vest-pocket commentary gether. Col. 3:1-17 DINER (suspiciously): "Why do you on the International Uniform Sunday call this, 'Ent})usiastic' stew?" School Lessons! Waiter: "Because the cook put every­ What'd he say? ' thing he· had into it!" on1~l~IDG YOU have to hand it to the editors of New fangled the newspaper in Kaingaroa, New Zea­ A MAN came out to install the hill­ land, which announces on its masthead: billy's new TV set. "Now this," he said, "Op.inions expressed in this periodical pointing to the antenna, "will have to are not necessarily condoned or even go on the roof." understood by the editorial staff." "It's like I always said, Zeke," said the lady of the house to her husband. 2lfia x 41.4 inches, 68 pages Help! "One thing leads to another. Now we have to J;>Ut a roof on the house." Thi s atfractive littl e quarterly is THERE is a yarn going around in reprinted from Clifton J. Allen's _Washington !)-bout the Congressman A good question Points for Emphasis. It includes who was appr6ached by a chap who said ' the Bible passage, a concise ex- he had voted for him at the •last elec­ JOHNNY had asked so many ques­ position of the passage, application tion and now he wanted help. tions that his father was out of pat­ of the lesson truths to everyday "What can I do?'' asked the law­ ience. "Look here," he said, "didn't you life, a l:lrief comment on the maker. ' ever hear about the boy who asked so Golden Text, and daily Bible read- "Help me to get my citizenship pa­ many questions that he turned into a ings. · pers." question mark?" On the Wing 11·ith the Word is 'f.he boy pondered a moment. only $ 1 for an annual subscrip­ "Daddy," . he asked, "how did he keep tion . (Write for information .on the Under difficulty the little dot under himself?" quarterly rate · for your church.) THE farmer had driven his team of Enter your subcription order mules to town, and was late returning · NOW! Please enclose payment. home. SOM·E people have as their motto: Mail to: "What took you so long?" his wife "If you can't say anything good about · A The Sunday School. Board asked. a person, let's hear it." 0 Southern .Baptist Convention "On the way back," he explaine-d, LITERATURE INFORMATION "I picked up the minister, and from MOST teen-agers· are kPenly aware 127 Ninth Avenue, r ~orth then on, them mules didn't understand of the value of the dollar. It buys Nashville, Tennessee 37203 a thing I .said!" about three gallons of gasoline.

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