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6-29-1967
June 29, 1967
Arkansas Baptist State Convention
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IN THIS ISSUE: Pe r.so nally 'WHAT can I do .to prevent a heart attack?' Thi question was put to Pastor Bruce H. Price, Newport . News; Va., shortly after his return to the pulpit follow speaking ing hospital and home rest required by his heart attack. Dr. Price answers the question in an open letter ori pages 14 and 15. ·• • • r,I . BILL Phagan-a good example of a Christian wa:r;i Independence. . month ·~·· ,rim:-is the subject of an article by James F. Humphrie~ SINCE we do not publish the week of July 4, this missionary associate in Vietnam. The story of a 20-ye ~r old armed forces veteran engaged in two wars may b' issue, though dated in June, ·is our July 4 iss11e.- · . ~ hJ. July has been described as "the' most · important found on page 10. '}l month in American history." Three · historic events of • • • great signi{icance, which occurred in 'July; included: -the · WE'D like- to . introduce you· to our new Sund ~ adoption of the Declaration of Independence (on July School writer for Life and Work lessons for the next 4, 1776) by the Continental Congress; the Battle of quarter. He· is C. W. Brockwell of North Little Rock? Mr. Brockwell is pastor of Graves Memorial Church. Gettysburg; and ratification of th~ 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United . States, grantir.g · ~o. _all His first ·two ·lessons (the Newsmagazine does not pub- persons born or naturalized in the ' United States equal lish nex't' week) are on pages· 20 and 21. i! protection under the law and forbi(lding the -states· to • . .!! • '1 deprive any person of "life, liber.ty or property witho.ut · A .~ROMINE~T Arkansas businessman and Baptist due process of law." lay leader has accepted the post of execmtive secretary Of course, the first of these. stands.. as the high w,ater treasurer ~of the Southern :Baptist Foundation. Kendafl mark of American history. 13erry, according to the Baptist Pre'ss story, page 6, will begin his work Aug. I. · In a campaign speech in 1858, Abraham Lincoln said • • • of the Declaration of Independence and those who pro- . . .TODAY . we are !=Oncll!ding an excel-lent series on duced it: · - parliamentary procedure by Missionary Carl M. Overton, "They grasped not only the whole race of meti then .page 4. _Mr. Overton. tells us that he .may return to our living, but they reached forward · and seized upon the .pages if .any questions of general interest are sent to him. . ~ farthest posterity; they erected a beacon to guide their . . children and their children's children, and the countless LIKE . father-like son. And so it is in the Rya~ myriads who should inhab'it the earth in other ages, family. Father H. W. Ryan is a Baptist preacher. So is "Wise statesmsn as they were, they knew the tendency Son E,ugene A. Ryan. Father, was married on June 3. of posterity to breed tyrants;_and so-·they established these Twenty:th'ree yea-rs later so was son. The story of their great self-eYidenr truths, that wheri in the distant future, double anniversary celebration and picture is on page 8...... some men, some faction, some interest, 'should set up the doctrine that none but -rich men, or no~e but white· men, · COVER. story page 4. ' . . or none but Anglo Saxons, ·were entitied to life, liber,ty, and the pursuit of happines~. their . r~s.terity mig-ht' look up again to the Declaration of Independence an'cl ·take comage to renew the battle which. their fathers·. lieg'atl-: Arl1111~ l1plill so that ·truth, -and justice, and mercy, and all the' httmarie· ~ JUNE 29, 1967 and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from VOLUME 66, NUMBER 26 the land; so that no i'naB hereafter would d·are to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the tem Editor, ERWIN L. McDONALD, Litt. D. ple of 'liberty was being built. Associate Editor, MRS. E. F. STOKES . "Now, my countrymen, if you' have been taught doc Managing Editor, MRS. TED WOODS trines which conflict with the .great landmarks of the Secretary to Editor, MRS. HARRY GIBERSON Declaration of Independence·, if you have listened to sug Mail Clerk, MRS. WELDON TAYLOR gestions which would take- 'from its·grandeur, and muti 401 West Capitol Avena, Little Bock, Arkanau 71101. Publlahecl weekly aeept on July 4 and Deeember Z& . Second-elaaa poe~e late the symmetry of its proportions;- if you have been paid at Little Roek, Arkauu. inclined to believe that all men are not created equal Individual au~eriptlon, $2.2& per year. Church budaet, 14 eenta per in · those inalienable rights enumerated by our cHarter of month or $1.88 per year per ehureh famlty. C,lub plan (10 or more paid aonualb' la ~ 11.16 per 7~r . Svbllerlptlona to forel•n liberty, let me entreat you to come bflck- ... to th,e truths addrno, $4.25 per Y:Oar. Ad'tertlaintr rates on request, that are in the peclaration, of Indepen'dence." . Opinions exp._..., In edltorlala and altrned artielea are thole of tiM writer. Member of Southern Baptiat Preu Allllelatlon, ~lated And such reasoning is just as appropriate for.' )967 Church Pl'fta, J:van•ellcal Preu Auoelatlon. as it was for 18581 , : AbbN"tlatlona uaed> In eredltln• newa ltmla: BP Baptiat Preu : CB Church Bplletln ; DP Dally Preu ; &P Bvan,elleal Preu ; LO- Loeal Corre.pon"-'t; AB ~latW.al • Bulletfn ; BBPS JDIIro-n Baptllll Preu SenJee. Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST ------Editorials . I Beat nick or patrtot. week VISTA Associates summer program. One in four J l indicat!O!d a desire to work on part-time basis during ·VI• AS we apr-roach the observance of ' another Inde the college year. Eighte€n per cent said thatl they would ·penclence Day, we continue to . see some strange mani be interested in · enrolling .for the normal, year-long f£estations. of Americanism. In sharp contrast to the ' noble VISTA v~lunteer r.rogram. sentiments set forth by the founding fathers in the Dec Under· the VISTA Associates program, 2,400 college laration of Independence are such widely publicized car juniors will work in poverty areas this, summer, at no ryings-on as the burning of military draft cards, the dese pay. This. compares with 500 who worked in . the pro t ration of the American flag, the cursing of the federal gram last year, the first year of the Associates program. government, and the open promotion of disobedience to :l ~w a·nd order. The sporadic breaking out of widely scat One thing that the War on Poverty pr?gram has tered riots-both cause and C
Good n _ eigh~o_ rs ·· ,MORE than half of the 6.5. million c~llege students currently enrolled in colleges and universities acrnss the United States 'are interested ·in serving as volunteers, to go. a.nd liv.e with an?- . wor_k ~~ong . the ,P.~or. ·, · · Th,is news broke recently .;;1th ~nnouncem~nt of find ings by the Galiup. Organization: According to a ·'Gallup poll, 53 per· cent of college st1,1den~s : inte(viewed · said that they would like . to work .in the pro~am o~ Volun II"' THl~ NATION UND~JC GOO, II teers In Service To . A~erica ·. (Vii~"f~) \ Sevel}-ty;one per cent of these were women and 41 per cenf ·were inen. • 1 ., ' • 1 ' l I ' •' ~ t I Mst of those' expr-essing .a:n inter.est ..i'n . ser\-:fqg, -'with VISTA indica Led a preference for working' during a' 10- JUNE 29, 1967. Page Three The people speak- Beacon lights of Baptist history Juniors read pape.r A striking illustration The Junior II Dept. of Vacation Bible School, in the First Baptist of Spring of the power· of the Word da-le has been studying about missions in our · state, nation, and around the I world. We had one day's st,udy of '0 ur BY BERNES K. SELPH, TH.D. Baptist , state paper. PASTOR, FIRST CHURCH, BENTON
We read articles fr om the magazine The Telugu Mission in the Ong-ole District of India is a striking illustratiorn aloud and discussed them. of the power of patience, prayer, and the s-poken Word. We want to thank you and your staff The work was first established by Rev. Samuel .S. Day when he located for publishing such a good paper. We !}is permanent headquarters at Nellore in February, 1•840. Here he was joined will all read it more in the future after by Lvman Jewett in 1848. But the Telugu peOtPle failed to respond Faithful, studying it this week.-Sincerely, Com diligent, earrnest efforts produced little results. By 1•848 •the question of aban mittee for the Dept., First Baptist doning the, work was raised. Nothing was done about it. The question was Church, Springdale, Ark. raised again in 1853 by the Baptist General Convention, and still again in 1862. But Dr. Jewett pled for its continuance and support. This was granted. ·The Cover John E. Clough went to this field in 1864 hut little 'li:appened of cons-equence until. 1874'. In July of that year the usual southwest monsoon which sprouts and wa~ers the rice crop ~ailed, as did the northWiest monsoon of October. Famine resulted. Word was sent to the United States a.nd Great Britain that unless aid c·ame thousands would starve. Generous Wla.S the response and the starving Tel~gus were supported until June.
Seeds were furnished to plant the new crop. J.ust liiS it came up, a long wet !:'eason rotted the plants. Again, seed .was furrnished for the October monsoc.n. With the promise of a bountiful harvest the people watched help lessly as hoard-s of locusts devoured the c-rop .. But 'hel•p still came from .A-merica. One relief measure was , the governme-nt's construction of the. Buckingham Canal. Dr. Clough, possessing engineering skill, was ~ven a contraet to construct four miles of this canal. Couriers went throughout the district informing the people that there was plenty of work and that 'the people would be well cared ' for. The missionary appointed native Christian preachers to oversee the work. When they were not at work the preachers read th ~ Bible and taught the gospel. Thousands heard the mess-age because the Telugus would return_ home when · ther were fed and strengthened and othe-rs would take their place. • Interest in the gospel began to be evident. Many appNed for bapttsm but were not taken into the church. qn Christmas d-ay, 1877, Dr. Clough awoke to find the mission c-ompound filled with 2,300 people seeking admis-sion into the church. · He declined, fearing they were moved hy desire for further help rather than by a sincere. love for God. . I · When the 'f-ourth distribution Of seed grain was planted in June, 1878, the NASHVILLE t · B 'ble S h l people w.ere told they coulq expect p.o more help. W~th no promise of aid; v 0 · .- aca wn h !uz . ~ ~ , Dr. Clough now thought he could begin baptizing those who applied. He asked and summerttme fun. go a ;n ' an · . the native ·p-reachers to · give him the names of important men in the village's, Bef~r~ school beg~ns ~r: Sept~m er, over hea:is of families whom they believed to be true Christians. About 300 people 3 m~llwn boys and g~rls w~ll have at- . ' . , . . B'bl S h l · S t• assmbled .. They were exammed and baptized. ten d ed V aca twn ~ e c oo. s tn ou '"" ern Baptist churches and miss i_o n·s A few days later about 300 more, having heard of the· former action, throughout America. Those who· attend presented themselves, were examined, ·and baptized. By now, Dr. Clough realized a two-week Bible school will receive the working of God . ·and sent out his native preachers again. He instructed almost double the hours of Qible study 'them to careful·l·y examine t'he. people and to call a limited number to mee\ they normally would throughout the him on a certairn day at Vilumpilly on the banks of the Gundalacuma river year Since 1936, when a reco1·d of cow near Ongole. He instvucted . them not to let a large number C'()me. Imagine his versions in Vacation 'Bible Schools was surprise when 11-risitng upon the morning after ,his arrival to see the fields su first kept, there have been 1,142,854 rounding his bungalo~ filled with people. They h:ad d~sregarded the preachers' p?·ofessions of faith reported. (BSSB instructions and ·had come to follow Christ in hap.tism. photo.) At six o'clock on the morruing of July 3, 187·8', two preachers walked down the skping bed of· the river into the water. Two clerks · called the · names o!f Completes Ph. D. work the candidates in -ord·er, -thus ·first one preacher baptired a candidate, then the other. This sen;.ice co·ntinued until 10 ·a.m: The' preachers were 'relieved by two S. M. May-o, pastor, Gosnell Church, others every hour, so· they might not •become' chilled a.nd' weary. Thus all six Mississippi County Ass-ociation, is com ordained • native •preachers had a part. in this service. At 2 p.m. baptizing was pleting work on his Ph. D. at Southwest · resumed, and between 5 and ·6 o'clock the work was done. Two thoUJsand, ern Seminary. two hundred· and twenty-t.wo persons had been baptized in, a single day by six people. New association-a! pastors include: Wayne Maness, Midwesterl} Seminary, But this was 'not ~ll. Dr. Clough and his associates journeyed throughout at Whitton- and Allen Van Horn, a for the Ongole· field· of . :10:000 • square miles, preaching and baptizing. Before the mer Woodlarnd Corner pastor, at E>yess year was over 9,00{) candidates had beern ha.ptired in a mission which less than Central. (AB) · 20 years• before• American · Baptists. had ta:lik.ed of ab~:j,ndonirn'g.
Page Four ARKANSAS BAPTIST .,> America America is to me a land For· which. our fathers died, .A, land of untold beauty r ·That fills o~ hearts with pride. Amet).ca to me is Washington Franklin,. Lincoln, Grant and Lee · ·Who. fought and· died that there FATHER OF TH..E,YEAR-Ray Owen proudly displays the original of the Arkan might be· · sas Baptist Newsmagazine cover· of ;June 15 bearing his por·trait. by George Fisher. , .. Homes. here-for you and me. Mr, Owen was -Presented with the framed painting June 18 by Editor Erwin L • McDonald. who conferred on him the title of . "Arkansas Baptist Father· qf the A l·a.nd ·.of ~ghty rivers Year.". during services at . Mr. Owen's. church, East Main, El Dorado. With ,Mr. And ·roaring waterfalls, Owen are his wife, his daughter, Mrs. James Hanna, Lafayette, La.,. and his 'A land of majestic mountains ·son, Phil Owen, El Dorado. · And red-woods straight and tall...... ,;,.___.,_...... , _ _...... _yh e book sh ·elf I . ' A land of fields and meadows The Living God, by Richard W. DeHaan, and gi.rls and mixed groups will find Where lazy cattle roam, Zondervari, 19.67; $2.50 · this book invaluable. A land where the very poorest Can have a place called ''home" 'l;'hat the trenscendent God' loved ·.men Living Words, compiled by F. Elmo is one of the major emphases of this Rabin'son from the writings of Frank A land of springs and fountains book of messages. · C. Laubach, Zonderva·n, 1967, $2.95 Where healing waters flow, The author is the son of the noted The dynamism and commi.tment to And the vast expanse of oceans Dr. M. R. DeHaan, who .died in 1965, Jesus Christ of Dr. Frank Laubach, Where ships come in and go. following many years as a radio Bible world· citizen and Christian leader, are teacher. He assumed the respon.SJibility felt in each of the devotional selections Americt is a land with open of teaching his father's famous ~adio ma·king up this 100-page book. The ma Bible Class. avms terial is carried .under subject headings, . To the homeless and distressed, This book is divided into five divi making it easy to locate and use. sions: The Living God, The Infinite . . . A land of. hope and charity Goa, 'J'he Triune God, The Son of Goa, . Recent new paperbacks include: ·. By the heavenly father blessed. and The Spirit of God. Billy Graham, tlie Authorized Biogra phy, by John Pollock, Zonderv:an, A land of gold and diamonds rare, 1967, 95 cents Instant Picnic Fun, Virginia Mussel Of cotton ·fields and corn, by Pen Pictures in the Upper Room, four man, Association Press, 1967, $3.50 A land of many wondrous things, teen Communion sermons, by Bernard . ls this lan(l where I was born. Miss Musselman served as director of C. Clausen, Baker, 1967, $1.50 _Program department, National Recrea Brief ' Talks, for various occasions, This then to me is America tion and Park Association, from 1941 95 by C. B. IDavey, Baker, 1967, $1.50 Let us all to her be true, to 1966.. She has here· an "all-encom There is to me just one flag passing . guide .to quick-and-easy picnic Poems for Special Days, for preachers, fun fare for young and old." evangelists, speakers, wri'ters, . by The ,red and .white and blue. '> Billy Apostolon Baker; 1967, $1.50 . Pa11ents, teachers, · group leaders and 1 . .' Mrs. E. J. Keeie, others interested •in a wide •variety of 1,800 Speech Sparklers; by E. C. Mc Little Rock plays and g~mes for men~ women, boys, Kenzie, Baker, 1967, $1:50 JUNE 29, 19(;7 · ··Page .five Arkansas all over·------Berry elected OBU honor students Twenty Ouachita Uruiversity students Foundation exe·cutive have been named to the President's List ' NASHVILLE-Kendall Berry, prom and another 85 have made the Dean's inent Baptist businessman and bwnker List for the spring semester. from Blytheville, has· been named exec ThOSe na.med to the President's Lis·t for main• utive sec
~UNE 29, 1967 Page Seven --About people-· ------• McClanahan TU speaker ·· Double anniversary 1n John H. ¥cClanahan, pastor, First Church, .Pine Bluff, is the guest pas tor-p'Nllacher at the first Trai,n,ing Union Week 'at V'irginia Baptist Assembly, Eagle Ey;rie, n'elalr Lynchburg. The week began June 216 and concludes July 1. Walton Connelly· :Us the state Training Union director. Mr. Mc·Clamahan has been notified that one of his sermons . h~ been ac cepted by Paul Butler of New Jersey f'Or inclusi,on in his volume, Best Ser. mons X, a series' on c·ontemporary preach ing. The sermon on the nature of Chris tian disci-pleship is entitled, "The Ec stasy and the Agony."
Serves Gravel Ridge Eddie Simpson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simpson, North Lit ~le Rock, will serve as summer youth director of First Church, G.ravel ,Ridge. On June 26, 1966, Eddie· was licensed to preach. He will be a sophomore· this fall at Ouachita College, whe1·e he is majoring in religion and sociology.
Usery to Clarksvil_le Billy R. Usery has resigned as pas to·r of First Church Benyville, to ac cept the pastorate of First Church, Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Ryan (right) and Ryan,•who was Miss Ruby Holwell, was Clarksville. Mr. Usery's resignation, their son and his wife, Rev. and Mrs. a member of the choir of Immanuel which became effective June 26, comes Eugene A. Ryan (left) observed a double Churc·h and Mr. Ryan was a brakeman after three years and ten months of anniversary June 3 with a reception at for Miss'ouri-Pac L Rev. and Mrs. James M. Wilson, South Squires at institute ern Baptist missionaries to Equatorial Br,azil, arrived in the States recently for Harry H. -Squires, associate professor furlough (their ad:dress: 704 W. 24th o.f business at Ouachita University, is St., Pine Bluff). He is a native of Pine participating in the UCLA Institute. in Bluff; she, the former Betty Miller, is Contemporary Economics June 19 a native of Hannah, N. D. At the time through July 14. Mr. S'<}uires is chair of their ~issionary appointment in 1,963 man of the division of business and he was pastor 'of Beech Street Church, economics at OBU. JOHN McCLANAHAN EDDIE SIMPSON Gurdon. Page Eight ARKANSAS BAPTJST On active duty ------...... ------Deaths .Chaplain (Major) Doyle L. Lumpkin, has returned from a two weeks active MISS RUTH MADDEN DEWOODY Invitational Golf Tournament at Cher duty tour in Alpena, MJch., with the 84, Little Rock, ~une 17. okee Village. 188th .Tactical Reconnai Page Ten ARKANSAS BAPTLST Bonding group formed Salvation Army Approve flag law NA,SHV'ILLE- The boa·rd of gover hits N. Y. lottery WASHINGTON- The Judiciar y Com nors fo-r the newly-created National A.s mittee of the U. S. House of Repre Hodation af Ohurch a•n!d · Institutional As a "positive dissent" t o New sentatives has appr oved a bill that Finanoi.ng Or-g!!l'l:izations ad<>,pted here York State's lottery, The S-alva would make it a f eder al criil).e to pUib ·a ·r esolution osf 'a·pprec-iatio n f or a Sou ~h tion Army has inaugurated a licly burn o1· otherwise defile or muti ern Ba ptist J.eader for heJ.pin g church "I'll Give-Won't Gamble" cam~ l at~ the American flag. paign. ·bonding foirm s to o-rganize a n:ationa:l Action came after a judiciary sub pr What determines the Revivals-__;..~ _ ___,;,;;., ______ Strength of A School? Douglasville First, M.ay 22-28.; 0. K. for baptism; 5 by lette·r; Allen Mc Curry, pastor. . ITS FACULTY? (Jack) Hazlewood, evangelist; Louis· Tyncy, singer; 11 _professions of faith; Hope First, June 4-11; Angel M·ar 1\ ITS LIBRARY? 1 by statement; 23 for family wor tinez,' evangelist; Pete Nunez, El Paso, ship; 32 rededications; Don Grendell, Tex., singer; ·312 for bapti.sm; 16 by ~ · # ITS SPIRIT? ~~m• pastor. letter; 2 other p(('ofes•sions of fa 'it h; THE ROBERT G. LEE CHAPEL ITS STUDENTS? Jessieville High School, area wide Gerald ·W. Trussell, pastor: crusade; June 7-18; sponsored by Buck Baptist Bible, Institute ville Association; 0. K. (Jack) Hazle Pleasant Grove Church, Ferndale; wood, evangelist; 22 professions , of Jack Parchman, evangelist; 16 profes . Graceville, Florida faith; 40 rededications; 24 youth re siolliS of faith; 11 for bap•tism; 3 by committments on youth night." letter; 54 rededications; E. W. Goodson, Invites you to consider our learned faculty, pastor. · our fine library, our evangelistic spirit, and Arkadelphia Third Street, July 3-9; Burnsville Church, Greenwood; June our mature student body (from 18 states and 0. K. (Jack) Hazlewood, evangelist; Cuba this year). 5-10; Rick Ingle, pastor, Oak Cliff Clayborn Bratton, pastor. church, Ft. .Smith, evangelist; George If you are a mature person, Southern 'Baptist, Kingsland First, July 10-16; 0. K. Crawford, Ft. . Smith, singer; Hl public ~ailed to a church-related vocation after you (Jack) Hazlewood evangelist; Darrell decisions; 4 professi Page Twelve ARKANSAS BAPTIST I ' MANY ITEMS REDUCED 50 PERCENT OR MOR'Er . . It\ BAPTIST BOOK STORE· !Q Service with a·Christian Distinction Coast to Coast Open Daily- Monday through Saturday Wkt!e mCllhi( Qood TfuAu;A au i+t- Stow b- JUf\'E 29, 1967 PG:fJ3 Thirteen capped very much. ·Before advising you about preven tion, it may be of interest to review my .past activities. I did no.t smoke, driruk -bevera-ge •alcohol, drank only a BY BRUCE ·H. PRICE, PASTOR little co!ffee, was not under too much FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH strain wnd- did not work too hard. Three NEWPORT NEWS, VA. years -previously I had been 16- pounds This article takes -the form o.f an The number one h e a I t h problem overweight, but had ta:ken it o!f'f a<: open letter. ' among us is diseases of the heart and cording to my doctor's instructions. · I circulatory· system. At least two-thirds did not inherit a tendency -to heart Soon afte-r my return to my pulpit of the men who read these words will trouble. The cholesterol in my blood fr 1. Do you presently have the satisfaction of being employed in full-time Christian work? 2. Are your earnings enough to meet your family's needs in these days of growing inflation and rising costs? 3 . Do you find your present job challenging and interesting .. . one you look forward to eagerly each morning? 4. Are you in a situation where advancement comes slowly and really good positions are get ting harder to find? If your answers show a check in any one of the gray areas, you owe it to yourself to get the facts o"n the John Ruain plan. JOHN RUDIN &CO., INC, Dept. 0000 22 W. Madison, Chicago, Ill. 60602 YES , send me the facts on the Rudin. plan without cost or obligation. Name Address City State or Province ARKANSAS BAP~ST may be felt in the back, sides, jaws, Complete :test each day for at least neck, hamds or that in some cases heart 30 minutes either before or after lunch dama-ge may occur without any pain. is recommended. Some days you may CHURCH PEWS On four or five occasions o·ver a peri not be able to find time for such rest, od of a moruth. I had a slight pain but if your life may depend on it, you For sale 24 pews 15-.feet long. across the top o.f my back lasting not will be able to find time more often Excellent condition. Complete with more than four •o .r five minutes each than you think. song book 1·acks. Material oak. time. There was no hurting in my medium walnut. Costs $3.25 per chest, shortness of -breath, pers-piring, During the past few years treatment foot. Available July 17. Contract: vomiting nor other symptoms usullilly of heart patients has changed great Central Manufuturing Company .associated with a heart condition. With ly. Within the next several years I am P. 0. Box 695 little thought of my hear.t being in convinced greater improvements will North Little Rock, Arkansas volved I d·rove to my doctor's office, take place. There is hope that a drug FR 4-6008 walked . in unannounced and asked for will be found for injection into the an examination. The result was my first blood stream which will result in pre hospital experience. vention of most heart attacks and will make others less severe., On arrival at the hospital, your doc Though my attack was unexpected tor will be cal·led and you will be placed Earlier in this letter I promised to under another phys.ici.alll unti.l your doc and sudden, I have learned it may have teU you in a word or two what you· been the result of a disease process tor gets to you. He will call for a gradually developing over many years. can do to avoid an experience such as heart specialist. If he should hesitate, came to me. My reply is, "perhaps you or y<>ur family should make the Every time a big snow comes, there nothing." If you insist on a one-word request. are those who grab a shovel arid vio answer, it is, "nothin.l!'." lently dig out the sidewalk, falling in May I close with a ·word of encourage death. Intense and ·vigorous activity Since there may be little or nothing ment. Heart trouble is a man's disease. may .)Je dangerous, especia!Iy to those you can do for prevention, you can ·Most women prefer cancer. When your not accustomed to strenuous work. watch for the first symptoms a11d when attack comes, fear not. Remember all Howe'(er, physical exercise, such as they appear, as they will to over 80 around you are many ·hard working walking, running and gymnastics which per cent of the men who read this, men who have traveled the road and begin moderately and gradually increase don't call your doctor. No, it is not had a complete recovery.' is believed by some authorities to ' be · a misprint. I repeat, Don't caU your The truthfulness of this statement good ~o.r the heart. doctor. Call an am-bulance. If you call your doctor, he may not reach you for . can be verified by President Johnson Furious rage, violent wrath, outburst -an hour or two. Wher. hP camPs, he and General Eisenhower. And I know of anger, upset emotions and worry will call an ambulance. So you ;;hould it is true because I am 18 member of must be g:uarded against. beat him to it. the group. GLORIETA. N. M. July 27- August 2, 1967 TRAVEL VIA CHARTERED· BUS Leave Little Rock July 25 Return August 4 $1 05.00 covers expenses from Little Rock to Little Rock Via Taos, New Me~ico and· Carlsbad Caverns except meals en ro"te. Make reservations by sending $15 to: Woman's Missionary Union 310 BaDtlst 8uildlng Little Rock, 7220.1 TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD VIA YW A <:;ONFER.ENCE Let WINDY (YWA Mascot) Lasso YOU! E 29, 1967 ~V CJ• Fifteen Institutions Arkansas Baptist Medical Center New Heart Diagnosis Equipment Installed New equipmel].t which Dr. Harold Langston compared with the old "like a Cadillac compared with a Model'-T Ford" has ·been installed for diagnosis of heart disease in the cardio-pulmon ary laboratory. The new equipment, which makes it easier to get minute detail in x-ray pictures, includes a 35 rriilimeter mo tion picture camera, a 35 milimeter film viewer, a Rotocor which rotates the patient on a mobile table for bet ter viewing and· specialized coronary catheters. Much heart disease originates when arterial sclerosis in the coronary arter ies cuts off the blood supply to the muscles of the heart.· (Arterial sclero sis, or hardening o'f the arteries, arter ies, involves the formation of sclerotic plaques which thicken the sides of the arteries until they may close alto gether). An ordinary electrocardia gram of the heart, according to Dr. Langston, may show that everything is normal when the patient is in real danger because it will not show the narrowing of the arteries. To study the ccmdition of these blood . vessels, a catheter is inserted into the arm or leg and moved into the heart. A new type catheter has a -- Or. George· Brenner, radiologist, shows the three heart monitors in the ca~dio-pulmonary controllable tip which can be hooked 'laboratory which are used to keep a constant check on a patient's condition. The two smaller onto the coronary artery so that dye ones are new and are portable, for use outside the lab. solution can be put directly into this artery. If there are any defects, the radiograph, which picks up the out in diagnosis," Dr. Langston said. tory with the smaller, transistorized line of the dye in the arteries, will The lahorato'ry has also acquired two recorders being used elsewhere. These depict it. new portable recorders which monitor pieces of equipment record cardio The movable table makes it possible the patient's condition while he is be grams, arterial blood pressure a h d to view the movement of the dye in ing diagnosed or treated. The larger electroencephalographs, among other the heart from all angles. · semi-portable monitor was often taken things. The larger recorder cost' $7500 "The new equipment means\ we can to intensive care or sutgery for use and the smaller ones, $5,000 each. achieve a higher degree of accuracy and it will now remain in the labora- Junior Class Candystripers Begin Training For Summer Arrives At ABMC Freshmen students who have been at Ouachita and who will transfer to State College were at ABMC on May 19 for a tour and a swimming pavty given by the students. Members of the junior class now at ABMC are: Marilyn Bufns, Frances Carr, Faye Galleghey, Sharon Gilmore, Mike Humphries, Dottie Ivey, Diane Jacobs, Janie Kendricks, Kathy Mc Bride, Ronnie McCone, Diane Mainer, Marvella Mattrriiller, Carolyn Moore, Mary O'Riley, Lynn Orvis, Carolyn Parker, M a r y Partridge, Jennifer Rowden, Ann Shamberger, S h e r r y Smirl, Patricia Spears, Mary Blake Walton, Mary Lou Welch, Mary Ann Woodward, Ellen Yung, Mary Yung, Sandra Grizzle, Sue Hale, W a n d a Hamilton, Suzanne Rodgers, Paul a Strurp. and Mary Whitehead. Mrs. Carr is secretary in the De partment of Nursing and has been taking night classes. She will con tinue part-time in the office. MRS. McCAFFREY DIES Mrs. Margaret McCaffpey, R.N., whv formerly worked for several years in This group of teen-agers were shown how to make a bed by ln-Servi~ e Training Director the Central · Sl.!pply Room, died on Betty Marsh in preparation for their summer volunteer work as Candystripers. They will serve May 2. She lived with her sister, Mrs. in a number of ·capacities, running er~ands, helping nuf ses, and filling in at various departments. Katherine M. Julienne, at Little Rock. "\ .. Page Sixte .n ARKANSAS BAP'I'ft.ST Three Carlisle Volunteers Always On Job Degree Sludenls Regisler AI Conway The junior nursing students w h o took their first two years at Ouachita Baptist University and who are now affiliated with State College of Ar kansas at <'::onway arrived for classes at ABMG June 5. Some of them 'came initially on June 1 to move into the Nurses' Residence, then went on to Conway June 2 to register at State College where they are officially enrolled. A welcome party was given by other students at ABMC on June 6. Freshmen stuaents who have been at Ouachita and who will transfer to the State College campus were at ABMC on May 19 for a tour and a swimming party. The students in the degree program spend the first two years at the college and the second two at the hospital. State College stu dents at ABMC will be in sororities and fraternities at Conway and· par ticipate in other campus life. ing with her. Mrs. Chambers received a 100-hour pin for working in the These three ladies drive down from Carlisle each Tuesday t() put in a full day of volunteer hostess office and in the pediatrics work. Fr()m left are: Mrs. C. C. Lambert, Mrs. J. H. Brandt and Mrs. Joe Chambers. playroom in the afternoon. The wo me·n put in a full eight-hour day each . Neithe·r rain nor snow nor sleet nor --were doing and I decided I wanted Tuesday. . ice keeps three Auxiliary voll1nteers to begin right then." Then they brought along Mrs. J. H. from Carlisle from their appointed She drove up from Carlisle at first Brandt, the new~st of the group, who rounds with patients on Tuesdays here alone to work in escort and the emer has worked in several volunteer spots. at ABMC., gency room but later talked her good . All of the women are excellent volun The three showed up on one icy, friend, Mrs. Joe Chambers, into com- ·teers, according to Miss Archer. SI).OWY day as the only volunteers ,when Little Rock women stayed home because of the weather. "We were really glad to see them Auxiliary Installs New Officers that day because we needed the help," said · Hostess Sarah Jane Archer. No matter how bad the weather, Miss Archer said the Carlisle group could be counted on to appear. Mrs. C. C. Lambert, who received her 500-hour pin at the ·. volunteer luncheon in· April was visiting a pa tient at ABMG when she got the urge to sign up volunteer work. "I've always wanted to do something like this," she said. ·"I listened to my ·friend ·tell about what the volunteers '66 Report Shows Service To SQ,OOO The 1006 Annual Report for Arkan sas Baptist Medical Center called last year "a record year" for the number of patient days provided, with 136,242 patient days for 19.717 patients. An additional 37,790 patients were treated as outpatients in the emergency . room and the other outpatient depart ments. In all, ABMC served more than 50,000 people. · The payroll for the 856 employees ran $3.5 million last year. Charity and free service amounted to $406,378. There were 1,307 babies born in 1966 and 8,876 operations done. Laboratory procesures totaled 302,335 and radio New officers ()f the ABMC Auxiliary are, seated, from left: Mrs. James Sawyer, president, logic procedures 58,679. Ph y s -i c a 1 and Mrs. J. F. Halliburton, president-elect. Standing: Mrs. E. B. Hester, f1rst vice-president; tl;lerapy gave 1'0,354 treatments. The Mrs. Doyle Hornaday, treasurer; Mrs. Bill Floyd, recording secretary; Mrs. Geol'ge Spencer, total' cost of operati'ng the hospital C()rresponding secretary; and Mrs. 0. B. Lovell. historian. Not present was Mrs. Gordon each day during 1966: $17,254. Oates, Sllcond vice president. JUNE 29, .1967 Pag ~ . Seventeen .have far more specialized training than he or the other maintenance men had 30 years ago. He now has 29 full time men and sometimes hires as many Job Was One AI Hospilal as 20 to 30 extra people for the re modeling work which is almost con -stantly in progress. Has Several Hobbies In his spare time, Sid builds boats, work;; on his automobile and operates a citizens' band radio. He constructed an entire cabin cruiser in his back If you ask Sid Cor yard, sold it and bought another older yell w h e n a new one which he is now remodeling. He piece of construction is also rebuilding a car for his son. wi ll be r e a d y, he Can his wife get him to fix things knows better than to around the house? "Not if I can get out of it," he answer you directly. said, grinning. "Appro,ximately five Coryell was born in Fletcher, Okla., months, plus -or min but left when he was a baby. His us a few weeks," he family moved to Gillham and his fath Is likely to say, al er, Wilbert Coryell, died when he was three. He has two sisters and lowing for all the un two half brothers, born after his moth foreseen hazards of er, Mrs. Myrtle Brown, r.emarried. building. His mother is still living at Wichita, Ka'n., where his oldest sister, Mrs. Stella Peden, lives. His other sister, Mrs. Flora Jane Hopkins, lives at Long Beach, Calif. Play Hospital Attracts 700 Approximately 700 children from 15 When Sid Coryell came to work for tric refrigerators. One of the duties of schools and kindergartens participated the hospital 30 years ago, he had never the maintenance men was to operate in the ABMG "Play Hospital" program held a steady, regular job. When he the hospital ice plant and to take the to familiarize youngsters with the was offered $6 a week plus room and ice to the floors twice a day, crush it procedures and activities of a real board, he took it. By comparison with and put it in the ice chests at the nurs hospital situation. some of his previous wages it looked ing stations. good. Coryell left the hospital to serve in A tour situation is set up in the Coryell left high school at Gillham World War II from 1942 to 1946 with Student Union Building and hospital (eight miles from DeQueen) at the the 128th Station Hospital in New employees play the roles of doctors height of the Depression when both Guinea, the Philippines and Japan. and' nurses as the children are shown jobs and food were scarce. He worked He was a technical sergeant when· he through. One child is always chosen one summer as a · vegetable packer for left the service. The same year that to be the "play patie·nt" and the 10 cents an hour. he came out of the service he was others watch while he goes through "Back in those days 15 cents was a married to the former Frances Cash the routine of being admitted and lot of money," Sid recalled recently. and they have one son, Sidney, Jr., treated. .Then he drove a team of mules for now a student at Metropolitan High. The schools which sent more than a gravel wagon 10 hours a day for 50 School. one group were: L'il People Kinder cents a day plus board and room. Coryell took over as chief engineer garten, four groups; The Anthony Later, he got his best job of those of the maintenance department in 1950 School, four groups; Dansarts, two years, a 12-hour-a-day job as an oiler when Coy Dougan went to the Korean groups; Lakewood Kindergarten, two for a steam shovel on the Highway 71 War. His first large job involved build groups and Westover Hills· Kinder project. He made 15 and 20 cents an ing the space ·inside the Medical Arts garten, two groups. Also sending one hour for 'keeping the shovel oiled con Building for the Mathieson Chemical group ·of children were: Her it a g e tinually while the fireman stocked in Company. ·In 1955 he undertook his House Kindergarten of England; For the coal and he rescribed this as "real biggest job up until that time, which est Highlands Kindergarten; St. Mark's ly hard work." was installing air conditioning in the Episcopal Kindergarten; Ba·ring Cross . Came here in 1937 hospital. This was the largest air con Baptist Church Kindergarten; Trinity He later went to Oklahoma where ditioning job Westinghouse had ever Lutheran Kindergarten; Kiddie Kamp he worked for an uncle and then to had in the state at that time and it us; Amboy Elementary School First Little Rock and Baptist Hospital in involved laying thousands of feet of Grade; Mark h am Street Baptist 1937. He worked for a short period as ducts through the old part of the hos Church; North Hills School Excep an orderly before being assigned to pital. tional Children; and the Cathedral the maintenance department. Remodeled East Wing . School. "At that time just about everybody Since then, Coryell has tackled sev who worked . for the hospital lived eral king-sized jobs, including the RADIOLOGIC S.CHOOL here," said Coryell. AWe lived on the hulling out and remodeling of the en TO GRADUATE 10 second floor where th'l:! laboratory now tire five stories of the .east . wing of is located." There were five or six the hospital. He holds licenses in re Mrs. Patricia. Meuller, of Dallas, people in the maintenance depart frigeration, steam and as an electric Tex., chairman 'of the board of the ment then and a Mr. McNutt was ian. · American Society of Radiologic Tech head of the department. "What I know, I have learned by nologists, will be· the -speaker at the "Our biggest problems then con studying books at home," he said. "I graduation for 10 stud en: t s in the sisted of unstopping lavatories and did not take formal courses in any of ABMG School of Radiologic Techno putting in light bulbs," he recalled. these." logy at 8 p.m. June 30 irt the Student None of the present sophisticated sys He says that an increasing amount Union Building. • tem of heating and air conditioning of the hospital's equipment ·involves Administrator J. A. Gilbreath will was in use. In fact, neither were elec- electronic .controls and that his men preside at the meeting. Page Eighhilen ARKANSAS BAPT ST ------Children's nook If you were ·ji boy or girl living in The wonder the ancient Holy Land, you would know a great deal a;bout the sweet sounds of _of· ba~kets a harp . . Y oru might even play the ha1.1p yQurself. BY ELIZABETH PHILIPS You have he·ard of the old woman The harp was among the favorite mu who lived in a shoe. But did you know sical irnstruments of ancient times. that there are thousands o.f real people Kings and rich noblemen gave banquets who live in big, fat baskets? in their spacious homes. They and their guests reclined on~ couches, listening to Of course, the baskets are really minstrels ·p·lay their harps. called huts. They are made by weaving branc.hes back and forth a,round stakes, Our Biible tells us that King Saul sent just the way we make a basket. for David. Young David played on the harp to quiet the evil spirit within Early !nan must have used basketry Saul. "Let David, I pray thee, stand be in a hundred dtiffereont ways. When he fore me; for he hath found favour in was a baby, his mother put him to my sighf. And it came to pass ...... that sleep in a basketwork cmdle. As he David took · an harp, and played with grew older, he wore basketry sandals his hand" (I Samuel 16:212-23). and hats. When he married, he lived in a hut with basketry matR and furni We do not know who made the first ture. ha1.1p. The idea of this stringed instru ment probably came about when arncioent No one ever made baskets finer than warriors or hunters twanged their bow· the Indians of North America. The strings. Someone may have stretched squaws used whatoevel' materials they strings across a hollow turtle shell and had on hand: roots, twigs, gras~es picked at the strings, making a series even bark. of musical sounds. Ancient harps were not . too different As time went on, the mothers taught from the harps of today in that all their daughters. Each squaw tried to harps are set in triangle-l~ke, open make a basket more beautiful than her frames and are plucked with the fingers neighbor's. Her very pos·ittion in the or ·keys. Ancient harps had ten or tribe depended on how well she could twelve strings, while today's harps have weave baskets. forty-six strings. - Some of the baskets were used for Pictures of harps have been found on canying water. ':'hey were actually The ancien·t the walls of amdent tombs. They sh,ow woven so tightly, that not a single that the anc•ient instruments were usu drop c·ould l'eak through! The squaw ally as t11-ll as the players. The base or went to the woods and gathered her bottom of these tall harps rested on berries and fruits and nuts in a ba·sket, • the floor at the side of the player's and then went home to cook. harp In foot. They were held upright with the She actually boiled her foo Page Twenty ARKANSAS BAPTIST ·Life and Work Speaking the wisdom o.f God July 9 I Corinthians 1 :18-2:16 Earlr in the· ministry of Jesus, He for all their s·o-called wisdom, they at'e This lesson treatment is .based on the Life and Work Curriculum for Southern Baptist Church was faced with a ,very subtle tempta really in a state of immaturity. They es, copyright by The Sunday School Board of tion. It was to try and do God's will think they are wise men, but in fact the Southern Baptist Convention~ All rights re· the devil's way. Sata.n never belittled they are no better than babes" (William served. Used by permission. the work Jesus came to do; he only Barclay). The two sides of life wanted him to change his method of What happens wh-en the spirit of God doing it. Read now 1:18-2:5 and fi.nd the an meets the mind of man? Verses 10-12 The church, being in the world, must swel'S to these questions. give the answer. God's Holy Spirit is somehow distinguish between the voic•e 1. Wha.t is foolishness to the lost always probing the minds of men. When p•e.rson? of God and the voice of the world. This He find•s a point of conba,ct, sruch as would be very simple except for one 2. How did God express his judg a searching heart, He reveals divine reason: many church members are not ·me·nt on man's wisdom? truth. Of course, man muc;t always be Christians! Just as Israel had difficulty 3. Why does God ' use weak vess•el s receptive to this truth by preparing because o.f a "mixed. multitude" which to . demonstrate his wisdom? himself through study and meditation, left Egypt, so God's people are inter 4. Who i·s God's wisdom? the reading of God's word. But here is mingled with ' lost people who have 5. What was the chioef characteristic the catch: only the regenerated man Christian labels. of Paul's pre·achin1g? can receive or understand this truth. , , This les·son 'is two things: ( 1) a caJ.l 6. Why did Paul so speak? That J.s why the content of our faith to reject the wisdom of the world, and We are now ready to study our text, is so foolish to the unbeliever. He jus-t (2) a oall to apply the ,wisdom of God. which is 2:6-16. I cannot ~ee that knowing Jesus Christ Fresh air in a stale city Man has said much but little · personally· makes any d When a Christian can stand in a · cipal leaders were Peter and Barna-bas, most of these folks were pagans, it Jewish synagogue, preach Jes•us as the and the emphasis was mainly on Jewish might have been argued by someone in Son of God and man's Saviour, arid then Christiwnity. After this, Saul (who in the strug-glirng young church, "We be begged to come back the nekt week 13:9 is mentio.ned by his Roman name ought to take care o.f our own city· first to tell members more of the same, he of Pa,ul for the first time) assumed the before getting involved in mission 'work must be a powerful Mlid persuasive main leadership role, and Christianity elsewhere." But there was too much of s.peaker. This is the situation described was i-ncreasingly Gentile in constituency the S'l>-irit of Ghrist in the congregation in Acts 1'3, although the sermon its-elf a,nd outreach. The events in the chapter to engage in such' se·lf-centered ration (13:Hi-41) which Paul delivered is not are therefore pivotal. alization for not sharing the good news a part of this week's' J.esson text. I. · Solemn dedication, vv. 1-3. which they had heard. It has. been suggested that Acts 13 .The story begins with the church at . is the Great DiVlide in the history of Antioch, crupital of Syria and a city · In this church ''wer-e prophets and the early church. Before this, the prin- with nearly a million people in it. Since teachers," five of whom are mentioned .JUNE 29, 1967 Pagti T~~nty-One by name. These were Saul, Barnabas, cording to custom1 guests were invited they were now tur.ning to the Gentiles Symeon who was called Niger (indicat to speak if they cared to; and Paul with their message, this on the com ing that he was black an.d' pro:ba•bly took · advantage of the opportunity to mand of God, who said, "I have set you from Africa), Lucius from Cyrene, and preach the powerful sermon already to be a light for the Gentiles, that you Manaen, who had had some close con mentioned. may bring salvation to the uttermost nection with the 'family of Herod An As the meeting broke up, J ews and pa.rts of the earth." From here on they, tipas. devout converts to Judaism followed were going to gi~ their major atten:; As the congregation worshipped and Paul and Barnabas and begged them to tion to the conversion of the pagan fasted . (not feasted), the Holy Spirit come back to continue their testimonies. world. instructed, "Set. apart for me BarnabaJS It was a remarkable res.pO'llse. V. Joyful acceptance, vv. 48, 49. and S-a.ul for the work to which I have III. Jealous· opposition, vv. 44, 45. When the Gentiles heard thi·s an called them." ·The group then '-'laid There must have been consid•erable nouncement, they were delighted and the-ir hands on them a.nd sent them off." comment during the ensuing week, for thanked God for his message. Those Bruce aptly says, "Not that they could .on the following Sabbath "almost the who were ordained (destined, marked by this act qualify Barna;bas and Saul whole c\ty gathered together to hear out) for eternal life believed, and the for the work to which God had called . the word of God." word of the Lord spread throughout a11 them; but by this means they (the When the Jews saw the multitudes of the region. . whole, churc}\) expres-sed their fellow Gentile§! . who were by-passing Judaism While the Jews sullenly .rejecteu ,;har ship with the two and their ·recognition for this J esus, it was too mhch for ing the story of Jesus Chrjst with the of the divine call/' Dr.. Frank Stagg them, imd "they were filled with jea l Gentiles whom they considered dogl:l, 'the adds, "To s·ay that Barnabas and Saul ou s y . ~' They hadn't objected to what love of God which embraces all oi man- · were made apostles is to contradict had been said the week before, but they kind provid!!d for ev~ryone an oppor Paul's claim to the contrary (Gal. 1 :1) ." rea.cted violently to the evident popu tunity to believe, even ·as many of these With this benedicti·on, Paul and Bar ·lanty· of the preacher a;nd his message!' pagans did at Antioch in Pisidia. · nabas, accompanied on the first leg of They heckled Paul, contl1adictin.g what Cont11ary to the idea held by many the trip by· young John Mark. set out he said., and poured abuse on him. · Christians and some churches, mi•ssion on what has become kinown as the first IV. Bold declaration, v:v. 44, 45. ·outrea·ch is not a nice extra-curricular miss~onary journey. From Antioch they Instead of tucking their tails like activity in which God's people may in went overland to Seleucia on the coast whipped' dogs .amd running· for cover, dulge if they have any time, money, sailed to the island of Cyprus, ·then t~ Pa.ul a·nd' Barn!iJbas replied· boldly, say ·or energy left after taking care· of all the. Galatian region of the mainland of ing that 'God had first given the mes their other wants. It has been well said Asia Minor. Then they went overland sage to the Jews but that they had that a'l1y church which -is not fi'l1St, fore- from Perga to Antioch in Pisidia, wh·ere thrust it from them. Their r ejection wa ~ • most, and forever missionary is, nothing the following events occurroed. an act of self-exdusion, not an arbi- more than a pathetic, pietistic 'back II. Enthusiastic response, vv. 42, 43. - trary deci-sion by God or the '!arly water. New Testament churches ought As a Jew, Paul attended synagogue church. -to follow New Testament ·standards in services on the Jewish Sabbath. Ac- The missiona1'ies· further said that regard to mission outreach. International .Good ·news at Lystra . July 16 The Outlines of the International Bible Les his servant, Paul. And when the people Acts 15 sons for Chrl.otian Teaching, Uniform Series• are copyrighted by the International Co.,ncll saw what had happened, they shouted of Religious Education. Used by permission. in surprise. and awe. But the apostles were not r.eligious II. Mistake, vv. 11-13. frauds; they were God-led men out to Preachers are occasionally involved promote Jesus . Christ, not to skim off in a case of mistaken · identity, but S·ince the people had never witnessed such a wonder -befoi:e, they 'immediate· the financial or popular cream for a theirs is never a . situation like that couple of itinerant preachers. - which Paul and Barnabas encountered ly jumped to the conclusion that the gods must be among them. "The gods 'When they 'heard the' intentions of at Lystra, for they are never mistaken the people_, Paul ·and Barna-bas tore for gods. · · have come· down to. us in human form!" they shouted. '1\hey began to c;J.ll Ba; their clothes iri anguis'h Page Twenty-Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST message to the Lystrans reflects the s.imple and pagan background of A Give the g-ift that keeps on his · hearers. As is true of all the Smile or Two giving thro.ughout the year! s·}'>·eeches in Acts,' it is- thoroughly suit Give a subscription to the Ar ed to tJhe -situation. The peo·ple were Family fine~nces kansas Baptist N ewsmaga pointed to the li:vi~g . Go·d who created While the young suitor was zine. all things and ·. ~way from the worship of gods which ·they have created (14:- waiting for his girl, the latter'.s 15) .... In the benefactions of nature little sister sidled into· .the. room. - 'they were' asked to· ~ee the hand of God and the witness t'o himself which he ~'Did you know my siste:r;s got had given them (14:17)." three other boy friends?" she In spite of their strong denials, Paul asked coyly. ~nd 'Barnabas had difficulty convincing the .Pedple th-at they were not Roman "Really," he said in .surprise. . d·eities. "They barely managed to pre "I haven't seen any 9f the:rri.'~ ' vynt the crowd from offering sacrifice I to the~." What a 'love offering they "Neither have I;" said the mop · Attenda~. c~ Report could , have. had if they ·had been only pet• . "but she gave me. a quarter sljghtly di~honest! . · June LS, 1967 to te~l you." S.unday Training Ch. Con~lusion, vv .. 19, 20. Church School Union Addn• ' Although today's te-xt does · not in Alex-ander 'First 58' &1 Clude ve.rses. 1'9 and 20, these should be Altheimer First 1Z1 34. 1 Ashdown Hkks First 3•6 ~7 ~ead to note bow fickle people can be. Safety when? Atkins FirSit 116 48 8 'Benyville Freema-n Heights 133· 66 2 Short~y after .the crowd wanfed to of On this first day of school the Blytheville New Liberty 114 36 fer sacrifices . to Paul and Barnabas, Camdeli Second-Grade. teacher was ·· tryipg Ctillendale First 88Q 128 2 they permitted a group of Jews who Mt. Olive 197 89 had come from Antioch and !conium to to teach her charges the safe way Fimt 892 104 2 Crossett drag Paul outside the city, stone. him, to cross a street. "Now all of you -.First 49Q 138 and leave ·him for dead. From a pedes Dumas Firs·t 219 1>1 know what a traffic light is, don't El Dorado tal : r~served . for their gods to a crim you?" . Caledlonia 41 23 ina-l's executipn was , quit~ a st.ep down, Ebenezer 148 69 1 'First 694 .. 378 but Pa.ul m.ade it at Lystra. HQh, yes ma'am," ·said .a little Immanuel 878 249 2 Gentry Fimt . 1~ 75 1 ' . -girl in the front row. "It's the Harrison Elag le Hgts. 193 49. "! Hop\> First 476 128 9 trick they use to get you half-way J .acksonvHle Bayou MetO 1()6 '716 across the street safely.'' First 4M) 187 8 Marshal-l Road 2o8 1&1 10 IN D E·X Jpnesboro . ,Centt;""l · 19-8 1 Calling Spy ·:l(..;9· Nettleton 89 1 A- Arkansas &ptist Me JUNE 29, 1967 Page 1W4!~ty-Three In tne world of religion------~-- Irish giving inc.reases Increased gid'ts by churches to the home mis·si0111 program of I~ish Baptists Protestant theology's 'dis_array' will pmbablY' permit considerable raises in S>ail~ry ·for home missi()l!1lal'lies, it was DEERFIELD, IlL-Speaking in an tive knowledge of the supernatural reported dur.ing· the anrnual assem:bly of annual series of lectures on contempor world. thle Baptist U.nliioo od' Ireland. Meeting ·ary religi·ous developments, Dr. Carl F . . Only three formidable positions in thq S·ite was Belfast, Northern Ireland. H. Henry· of Christianity Today maga Western world today insist that man zine told students of Trinity Evangeli can know the nature of the ultimate The increas·e will be put im.to effect cal Divinity School here tha.t the death wor-ld, hoe added. The·se he identified as over a three-year .period. T·he home mis of-God theology is ready fQr burial and ''Communism which holds that ultimate sion pro•gram is sufd'ering at the present its demise marks the end of an era in reality is n:atura.Jistic, and dismisses time from a &homu\Jge of personnel, since nee-Protestant thought. Christian supernaturalism as a myth; replacements have not been found f.or amd Roman· Catholicism and illvangerical worke·rs wlro ~gned · . Dr. He11Jry asserted that Protestant ·Probestantism, which aoffirm the Living One of the maj-or areas of home mis theology is currently in "complete dis God and dismi·ss dialectical materialism as an arbitrary speculative bias." As ,sdon work is in the Irish Republic. The array" and that "the case for theism is now 'up f'\)r grabs.' " between Oatholicism and Evangelical union represents Baptists both in Christiani-ty Henry ·added, all the issues N()rthern Ireland, where the overwhelm of the Protestant Ref·ormation remain ing majority live, and in the Irish 'Re- He added that the recent new-Protes to be debated. One significant difference, plllblic. · tant altei"!llatives to historic Chris-tianity he added, is the Catholic reJi.ance on In the report for Iris.h Baptist foreign have had "a successively shorter sur natural theology, with its effort to .miosSii0111 work, an ·ruppeal was ma.de for vival v;alue," and that the noti-on that demonstrate the ex-istence of God by new miss•ionaire·s to serve in southe-rn God is dead was an unavoidable conse the empirical observation of nature, Peru. Mr. and M11s. H. Mitcihell from the quence of the falloacy-shared by Ritsch whereas Evangelical Protestantism lays Pemvian fi.e1d, home on furlough, L~dded lian li'beraH&m; neo-orthodoxy and exist greater stress upon Divine revelation. their voice to the llJl