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Executive Board ARKANSAS BAPTIST Now in Russian LOS ANGELES, Calif. (BP)-Two Southern Baptist publications, and THIRTY -SIX percent of every Co Southeastern Baptist Thfol. perhaps even more, are being trans operative Program dollar received in Semmary ------ 20,771.59 lated into Russian language by Bap- our office for the year 1959 was for Midwestern Baptist Theol. tists in that country. · warded on to the Executive Committee Seminary ------ 13,220.12 The two known to b'e undergoing in Nashville, Tenn., for world mission Radio & Television Com- translation aftet· reaching Moscow and benevolent causes. The total was • missi-on . ------18,019.75 are the Arkansas Baptist and the $576,000. It was distributed on the fol American Baptist Theol. Baptist Record, weekly publications lowing basis: Seminary ------ 2,357.74 of Arkansas and Mississippi · Bap- Cooperative Carver School of Missions & tists respectively. \ Program Social Work ------'------4,715.42 . This was reported here bv Larry Ward, executive secretary of Evan SBC Budget Fund ----·------·------· $ 6,062.82 Southern Baptist HospitaL ___ 2,526.10 Foreign Mission Board.______251,465.47 gelical Press Association, Los Ange Home Mission Board ______:_ 89,435.46 Brotherhood Commission __ :____ _ 5,725.90 les, foUowing a· world .tour which Relief and Annuity Board ______10,946.59 Public Affairs Committee ___ _ 943.08 included a visit to the often-re- · Southern Baptist Theol. Southern Baptist Founda- ported Moscow Baptist Church. Seminary ------23,129.28 tion ------.------1,010.47 Ward said that Baptists in Russia Southwestern Baptist Theol. Education· Commissi·on ______1,380.96 must read these and other· publica Seminary ------25,689.13 Historical Commission ______tions thoroughly, for they are very New Orleans Baptist Theol. 1,111.50 familiar with the doings of Baptists Seminary ------19,626.39 Christian Life Commission __ 774.66 in America as reported by these Golden Gate Baptist Theol. Total ------·------·$57 6, 00 0. 0 3 periodicals. Seminary ------77,087.57 -S. A. Whitlow, Executive Secretary
tithe can look at those who do not 'L~ tOfAI.a'ld tithe and say they are the bl!Ihle, but JESUS HAD sent two of His disci maybe the tithers have been too. silent 'Ha«ta~' Se't.te4 ples ahead to make ready for the .supper about the doctrine of stewardship. So, before anyone tries to place the blame, JUST how important is the l'eligion in an upper room. "And his disciples of the contracting parties, in marriage? went forth, and came into the city, and this is a good time to stop and really found as he had said unto them: and ask the Lord, "Is it. I?" · Is being in love the only thing that Some church members could say, "All really matters? they made ready th.e passover. And in I ' the evening he cometh with the twelve. the smoking John Does ought to quit What doe·s a non-Catholic have to And as they sat and did eat, Jesus spending more money on tobacco than give up t·o marry a Catholic? said, Verily I say unto you, One of you they give to missions." On the other What about a Christian marrying one which eateth with me shall betray ~ hand, the non-smoker may be of the who is. not a Christian?. ' opinion that "down at the church, let And they began to be sorrowful, and These· and many other questions of to say, Is it I?" (Mark 14:16-19) not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth" and this attitude has 'Vital interest to persons looking toward The disciples could have looked at marriage are answered in "When Faith Peter and said, "He must be the one, helped some weak soul t·o become care less and indifferent toward world mis Is Not Shared-;-'' fifth in the Al'kansas because he usually is the first one to Bapt,ist series · of nine on "Lo0king to act or speak out in any situation," but sions. So, before we start blaming and start criticizing, and plunging into a ward Marriage." Turn to page 8 for they did not. Each one asked, "Is it I?" this feature. The group could have looked at tangent, let us stop and ask God, our James and John and said, "It must be great benefactor, "Is it . !?"-Ralph Next week, read "M a r r i a g e and one of them, because they could be dis Douglas, Associate Executive Secre- M·oney," by Jack Watson. gruntled about that first place in the tary. • kingdom business which they asked Book Store Names about," but they did not. Instead, "ARKANSAS' "They began to be sorrowful and to ARKANSAS Arkansan as Manager say unto him one by one, 'Is it I?' LARGEST NASHVILLE, 'Tenn. -CBSSB)- Miss These three words, "Is it I?" are RELI GIOUS Blanche Mays has been named man focusing, thought provoking, soul WEEKLY" ager of the Louisville, Ky., Baptist searching, as well as hard, cold, and ' 401 WEST CAPITOL , Book Sto-re effective Fe.bruary 16. Pres real words. .. ~ ...:: .:: LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS ently iri the Book Store D_epartment, When one thinks of 296,945 Arkan Baptist . Sunday School Board, Nash sas Baptists glVmg only $1,560,032 Official. Publication of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention ville, Miss Mays has s"erved as sales through the Cooperative Program dur co-ordinator for stores in the eastern ing the last associational year, there ERWIN L. McDONALD, Litt.D ...... Editor-Mgr. MISS SHIRLEY JOHNSON ...... As s'! to Editor area of the Southern Baptist Con may be room for finger pointing and MRS. E. F. STOKES Circulation Mgr. vention. · blame fixing, but it behooves each of MRS. GARY LaRUE Mail Clerk us to solemnly ask "Is it I?" Think A native of Jonesboro, Ark., she was Published weekly except on July 4 and December 25 . associate in the religious education of it, each Arkansas Baptist gave, dur Second-c!ass postage paid at Littl e Rock, Arkansas. ing the associational year 1958-59, $5.25 Individual subscriptions, $2.25 per yea r. Church department of the Arkansas Baptist for world missions through the Coop Budget, 14 cents per month or $1.68 per year per State Convention for five years, and church family. Club plan (10 or more paid annually then became manager of the Little erative Program. This means that each in advance) $1.75 per year. Subscriptions to foreign Baptist gave 1.4 cents per day, about address, $3.75 per year. Advertising rates on request. Rock Baptist Book Store, before com the price of one cigarette. Think of it The cost of cuts cannot be borne by the paper ex· ing to Nashville. next Sunday morning. Our church cept those it has made for its indi vidua l use. Miss Mays succeeds Davis C. Hill as Articles carrying the author's by- line do not neces· auditoriums will be filled with Bap sarily reflect the editoria l policy of After I was able to talk, I tri.ed to tell my husband of this experience. He contended that I had heard something By· Mrs. Frances Lawhorn music came very faintly ~t first as if over the radio and was too ill to dis from a very great distance. As I tinguish the difference. But I know! T HE LAST thing I ever heard was neared death and heaven, it came No one can take from me my won dle most beautiful sound of my entire loud and clear, then decreased in vol derful, vivid memory! No human ::ife. It was a pleasure not granted to ume as I came back to this world and choir howe:ve'r well trained, could have one person in a million who are still ·ultimate recovery. sung as that one did. It seemed there :n this world. Why it was given me, The angels were singing the well were multiplied thousands of voices, do not know. The curtains of death known funeral song, yet they all blended as perfectly as parted for me and I heard the magnifi On the other side of Jo1·clan one. cent incomparable choir of angels sing- In the sweet f'ielcls of Eden, Aside from the extreme wonder and :.ng in heaven. · Whe1·e the Tree of Life is blooming, beauty of this, it gave me a personal, At the time I was unconscious, pass The.1·e is ?'est for you. indisputable proof of the existence of :.ng through the crisis of a very severe The1·e is ?'est fo?' the wea1·y, Heaven and the angelic choir. :llness - cerebro spinal mE;ningitis. The1·e is ?'est fo?' the ~vea? ' Y, When I regained 'consciousness, ft There had been an epidemic of it ifi The1·e is .?·est fo?' the w ea1·y was realized that, in my agony and ur city and all had died who had con- There is ?'est fo? ' fo?' you. writhing, I had broken my audi :.!"aCted it except me. · Oh!· how I needed that rest! My suf tory nerve. So, until I return to heav As I passed into the "Valley of fering had been so intense that I was en to stay, I'll never hear another 'Jeath," it seemed I was nearing a place not expected to live from one half-hour sound. There is no hope for nerve ::-om which floated strains of the most to the next. They sang just one verse deafness. Till that time comes, I'll re :eautiful singing ever known. I was and the cho1;us before I . returned to main grateful for that vision - that mpletely free of the horrible suffer- life - but not consciousness for quite sound of unsurpassed beauty, of melody •. g - just floating, it seemed. The a while . unequalled. • e bruary I 8 , 1960 Page Three Editorials------Personally Speaking ... . , BAPTISTS OF Russia are now receiVmg the A1 ·kansas Baptist Newsmagazine in a Russian translation prepared by Russian Baptist leaders, according to a Baptist Press release just received. The news item, carried elsewhere in this issue, quotes Larry Ward, executive secre- • B · K • tary of Evangelical Press Associ- R USSian apt1sts eepmg ation, Los Angeles, as saying that Posted on Baptist Work he learned on a recent visit to the · · Moscow Baptist Church that the Through ARKANSAS BAPTIST A1"lcansas Baptist and The Bap- t'is.t Reco'rd, Mississippi Baptist weekly, and perhaps other Southern Bap tist publications, are being translated by the Russian Baptists. Reported Mr. ·ward: "Baptists in Russia must read these and other publications thoroughly, for they are very familiar with the doings of Baptists in America as reported by these periodicals." This is one of the finest tributes our paper has received. Knowledge of the fact that our brethren in a distant land are looking to us for en lightenment on Baptist affairs in our land and around the world makes us conscious as never before of the great stewardship responsibility which is ours. ONCE IN a while one comes in con We are grateful that our paper is meeting this need in Russia arid tact' witli someone who has left all to for the fact that approximately half our Baptists of Arkansas are now follow Christ. When one has this expe rience, it is a little like meeting Ch1:ist among our regul~r readers. But our heart is heavy when we face the fact himself. that half the Baptists of Arkansas never see our paper or see it only . That is the way many an Arkansas occasionally. · Christian has felt during the past year We cannot conclude without saying again that one of the finest in who has come to know a quiet little lady from the Orient--Mrs. Louise Tsui vestments a Baptist church can possibly make is to see that the Baptist of Tainan, Taiwan (Fqrmosa)-fea state paper is going every week to every family of the church member tured this week on our cover with Miss .ship. We believe each church has a responsibility to -all its members, Nancy Cooper, executive secretary of whether they are active or inactive, to provide them with a source of the WMU in Arkansas. . information regularly, as found only in the Baptist state paper, on what When Mrs: Tsui felt the Lord calling Baptists believe, what they stand for, and what they are doing and at her to give her life to a ministry among tempting to do to win the world to Christ. Baptists not only have a right the deaf and the blind children of her to know these things, but they have a responsibility to keep themselves own country, there was no oi·ganization to back her officially to secm:e the posted, and we believe that includes reading the Baptist state paper regu special training she and her husband larly. Our Russian brethren are setting us a good' example! • decided she should have. So the Tsuis began putting asidlj a little of their personal income against the day they would have enough to THE PAPERS last week carried two racially related stories, both unfavorable finance a round trip to the United -to Little Rock and one of which has been flashed by the press to the fal'thermost. States for Mrs. Tsui. It took six years, corners of the earth. Since Little Rock has been and wm continue. for a long time but these dedicated Christians, the wife to be a symbol for race turmoil, the blasting of the home a devout Baptist and the husband an A Sickness In of one of the Negro students enrolled in Little Rock Cen equally devout Presbyterian, never fal tral High School, on the night of Feb. 9, is spot news to tered in their faith and purpose. Our Society people of all nations. Let us not blame the press for telling · A little more than a year ago,. Mrs. the world what has happened here. The fact that. the same ~;>ort of thing can occur Tsui said goodbye to her husband and in any one of a thousand other places in Ame1'ica without the wide coverage our two small children and boarded a plane story receives is scarcely ground for accusing the press of distorting the .news. What for Little Rock, Arkansas, for a year's is done on a stage attracts far more attention than the same thing done off stage. work and study at the Arkansas School We who live in Little Rock are not only on stage, but the world's spotlight is focused for the Deaf. For a year now she has upon us. lived on a board-and-room scholarship Having a city that is one of the best in the whole nation, as we have in Little while her hungry heart has reached Rock, with the most of our people being citizens of sterling character, does not save out for the greatest knowledge and skill us from a minority of crackpots who will stop short of nothing ii). an effort to give she could possibly acquire to equip her vent to the hate that poisons them. As much as we deplore the latest evidence that for her life's work. crackpots are still among us, we must not be too c.ast down but must deal the best Last week Mrs. Tsui headed back to we can with the new situation. Our law-enforcement officers are entitled to our the arms of her little family in Tainan prayerful and fullest moral support. Anyone having knowledge of anything that and to a place in the Tainan School might be a clue to the identity of the perpetrators of the latest crime should let this for the Blind and the Deaf. There she be known to the police. Prompt apprehension of outlaws and swift dealing of justice will be serving a student body which by the courts is a necessary and great deterrent to the enemies of society, We are has about 80 blind students and 400 deaf. seeing all over again that none of us is safe until all of us ar~ safe. In addition to the knowledge gained, The other story is a sordid one of a Negro man and a white woman charged with Mrs. Tsui takes back much teaching renting a motel room for immoral purposes. The fact two different races are involved equipment acquired here, including the makes this a far more heinous crime in the eyes of our society than a simple case slide projector pictured on the cover, of adultery. But what of God's appraisal? When Jesus deals with the scarlet sin and a number of filmstrips and books. of adultery he gives no indication there is a graduation of guilt according to the Blessings on you, Mrs. Tsui, and your races of the sinners. Let us deal with the problem of adultery regardless of race. • wonderful ministry.- ELM Page Four ARKANSAS BAPTIST the husband's job." Only a hope that Letters to the Editor he'd hold it. Next day toward lunch time I asked THE PEOPLE SPEAK the mother, "Do you have anything to eat?" Her he.ad dropped, tears came, her voice fadr;Jd to a whisper, but I caught the words: "Almost nothing for break Grateful Pastor fast"-and no money. I made a little IT WAS our _fortunate privilege to have gift-food and money-and phoned the 3rother Ralph Davis and his associates community chest, which sent food to ::n the Training Union Department, Mr. last several days. :!. V. Haygood and Mrs. Ruth Tolleson, More tragic maybe than all this was .:n our church for an enlistment and ·?aining campaign. We were so well the frigid suspicion. and aloofness of neighbors in the block. For whispered leased with their work that we wish to Three Generations pass on our appreciation and respect for rumors were afloat: rents unpaid before; THE ACCOMPANYING picture shows ejections; a family of undesirables; were :heir·services . what h appens when a church member the teen-age girls good? Neighbors in So often we are guilty of taking om; takes his Church Covenant seriously and the block cool and aloof; some "didn't State workers for granted. We seldom invites his-pastor to go with him to the want to get mixed up with it!" Husband rome to know them personally for the home of a relative. The visit resulted in and father 30 miles away and unreach ~ery fine people they are. What with so three generations being baptized into the able. fellowship of the Mora Church. :nany churches and so many associations 'I asked a fine woman-wife of a pro demanding their time, it is seldom possi They have become "Four-Star" mem bers, attending Sunday School, Training fessor-to go in with her human heart. ble for one church to have them for a She did-taking both that anct the cake 'Yhble week. We got them at the close of Union and both worship services every Sunday. Pictured (right to left) is the she baked, easing the cruel hurts in the our Evangelistic Conference on Wednes family. day, and they agreed to go the second Pastor, John Collier; S. J. Hill, the grand mile with us by having Saturday·night father; Charles D. (Jack) Hill, son; and Saturday the husband and father, only ·tudy courses and even staying over on Charles D. Hill, Jr., the grandson. fearing the worst, came with a truck and Sunday. Others baptized included Mrs. s·. J : Hill moved them to a house he had rented. and Mrs. Charles D. Hill-John Collier, They expected him to bring only the $20 I am sure that this same spirit of co Pastor, Mora Church he expected for his 2-3 days work. operation, practical know how, and per "He drank-sornetimes"-an intelli _onal likeableness prevails on the part of gent, pleasing man. Maybe you'd drink all our State workers and accounts for, Posies too- under his imppssible load. Maybe :n large measure, the continuing progress . . . the Arkansas Baptist is one of the heaven rates him a hero for the loyalty It being made in all our work. is amazing easiest read papers in our Southe~·n Bap that stands by-while many others dump now much is accomplished with such few tist Zion. Heartiest congratulations on · the load and escape! -orkers and limited funds. - Sam C. making it so.-Sterling L. Price, Minister, ' They thanked me pitifully-"for my Reeves, Pastor, 1st -Church, Arkadelphia 3rd Church, St. Louis, Mo. moral support!" No wonder, for they felt alone and friendless, almost ostra YOUR EDITORIAL on "When Do Keeping th~ Faith cis~d . Such treatment often makes athe Preachers Preach?" was tops. You con ists and. - criminals. Maybe I helped BAPTISTS HAVE a great deal to re tinue to do a superb job as editor.- J. D. save them from bitterness against the ;oice about with reference to their Semi Grey, Pastor, 1st Church, New Orleans, church and the heartless religion that -~ ries. Recently I wrote Dr. H. Leo Ed La. froze them out-maybe even to "the third . eman, New Orleans Baptist Seminary, and fourth generation." and asked if the faculty members ac . WE FEEL that our Pastoral Care Con , MORAL: Be careful, know your neigh cepted some articles of belief or creed ference this year was a real success. In bors, be a Good Samaritan.-S. L. Mor hen they were elected. He answerd by la-rge measure, that success is due to the gan, Sr., Wake Forest, N.c. • ~ying every faculty member signs the support we received through the articles .-\.!·ticles of Faith when he begins work. in The Arkansas Baptist. Therefore, we -:Jlese Articles of Faith are simple and wish to thank you both for the publicity N. C. Quakers Push Desegreg·ation sound as to all the fundamentals of our you gave to the meeting and your support CHAPEL HILL, N. C. (EP)-A North :aith. They deal with the Authority of through active participation.~John V. Carolina Quaker Group wants to divide - e Scripture; the Trinity of God; Satan Albright and James M. Conard, Chap the Chapel Hill public school system :1d Sin; the Atonement; Christ the Sav lains, Arkansas State Hospital into districts for first grade pupils next - ur from Sin; the Way of Conversion; fall in order to expedite racial deseg - e Final Resurrection; a New Testament- regation. Church and its Ordinances; the Lord's Know Your Neighbor A proposed resolution was presented :>ay and Civil Government; and Baptist WHAT IF I hadn't gone to see the new to the schoo-l board by the Society of :.oyalty·to Distinctive Doctrines. family next to the railroad in my block! Friends' Chapel Hill Meeting, and was Tragedy would have followed. Already a promised by the Board that it would ~ow this is refreshing and encouraging "look with favor" on school reassign - me when I know that our theological warrant had been issued to eject the fam ily, penniless, with four children, one a ment applications for prospective first : achers stand by T.he Old Faith· and The gradel's ia cases that W'JUld result in .d Book. I thought a word in your paper helpless, hopeless imbecile girl of' 12. I had persuaded the family to ask the.Wel racial mixing. oout this would encourage everybody. But the Quaker group wanted more. -E. Butler Abingtol)., Pastor, 1st Church, fare to help get her in an institution, and They said the Board's policy. requires 'JeQueen they agreed-reluctantly. I joined· them in asking God's blessing on the effort. more of Negro parents than of white REPLY: Your letter is appreciated. I phoned 'the landlord, a fine Christian , parents. The Quakers recommended t the practice at New Orleans Semi ·man, asking him to hold up the warrant geographical attendance areas for all -· of requiring faculty members to pending the disposal of the child. He schools, and advocated that dissatisfied cribe to the basic articles of faith is gladly did so, astonished to learn of the pa1~ ents be allowed to request reassign thing new. This was inaugurated by imbecile child. I phoned the Welfare in ment to another echool, within class mother seminary, Southern, when it Raleigh and arranged a meeting next day room _space limits. ned its doors in 1859 for it.s first ses in our local office, and met the mother These proposals had the backing of n and a similar _praJctice has been in there to reinforce her appeal for help: the League of Women Voters which ·tuted by each new Southern Baptist reply, "None possible till it is settled urged the school bo-ard .to initiate some minary since that time.-1\LM whether the family move to the city near desegregation next fall. • • b r u a r y· • I 8 , I 9 6 0 Page Five Attendance Report Arkansas All Over February 7, 1960 Sunday Training Addi· Church School Union tions Benton, 1st 649 158 Norman Roberts Named Head Camden, Cullendale, 1st 444 221 El Dorado, 1st 901 280 8 Of North Little Rock Hospital El Dorado, Immanuel 677 305 Faith Mission 20 He Joined Baptist Hospital at Little Rock Ft. Smith, Calvary 325 145 1 in June 1956. Ft. Smith, Grand Ave. 740 328 8 Roberts' present duties include person Fountain Hill, 1st 44 23 nel management and handling many Hot Springs, Park Pl. 485 214 2 other details of operating the Hospital. Jacksonville, 1st 585 247 3 Not a New Field Magnolia, Central 694 288 Hospital administration, Roberts said, McGehee, 1st 445 201 is not a new field, but it has been only Mission 61 34 in recent years that the profession has North Little Rock, been taught in colleges and universities. Baring ·cross 871 294 5 The :first program was begun in 1932 at Pine Bluff, South Side 633 228 1 the University of Chicago but it was 1946 Springdale, 1st 447 143 7 before other schools began teaching hos West Memphis, Calvary 201 134 3 pital administration. Roberts said he was enthusiastic about Enrollment Up the new North Little Rock hospitaL "I think the community has decided it At Ouachita wants to have & big hospital some day," ARKADELPHIA - Enrollment at he said. Ouachita College has soared to 1,001 for He is confident the new facility will be the spring semester, a 14 per cent in able to serve the city's needs. He added crease over the spring semester of last that the plans for the building contem year, ·according to Miss Frances Craw plate ready expansion. ford, registrar. Will Move Soon With registration still open until Feb Roberts, a member of 1st Baptist ruary 12, Miss Crawford announced that , MR. ROBERTS Church, Little Rock, said he would move incomplete enrollment figures inchide 954 to North Little Rock soon and become regular, 33' special, and 14 graduate still NORMAN ROBERTS JR., administra active in community affairs. He and his dents, raising the total to :1!23 more than tive assistant at Arkansas Baptist Hospi wife Kay have an 18 -month-old son, last spring's total of 878. tal, has been named administrator for John David. Of this number, 46 students were not North Little Rock's proposed Memorial Roberts said it was "usual" for an ad enrolled during the first semester. They Hospital. ministrator to be selected early in the include 24 transfer students, 10 freshmen, Dr. Joe F. Rushton of Magnolia, presi stages of a hospital's development. He and 12 former Ouachita students. dent of the Arkansas Baptist Hospital said he had been working closely with Despite decreases by eight out of 17 Board of Trustees, has announced that John Parks Almand of Little Rock, the Arkansas colleges for the 1959 fall term Memorial Hospital will be under the sup hospital architect, on drawings for the enrollment compared to the 1958 fall ervision of a special committee headed new facility. • term, Ouachita Baptist College showed by Kenneth G. Price, a North Little Rock Working with Roberts will be the Bap an increase of 123 students, or 35 per pharmacist. The committee, which in tist Hospital's special Board committee cent of the 356 students gained by all cludes five other members of the Baptist which Price heads. Other members of it Arkansas colleges. Hospital Board of Trustees, will serve as are Rev. Wayne Smith, pastor of the Indications that Ouachita will haVe an a "recommending group" to the full Baring Cross Baptist Church at North other substantial rise in enrollment'n~Jxt Board of the Baptist Hospital. Little Rock; Dr. John. Redman of Fort fall is evidenced by the fact that the The North Little Rock Hospital Com Smith; Dr. J. Wirt Burnett of Texar of.fice of Dr. J. W. Cady, dean of students, mission chose Arkansas Baptist Hospital kana; B. T. Harris, a Little Rock busi has received 122 applications for admis to operate the $2,250,000 facility when it nessman, and Vernon Massey, an Augusta sion next year compared to only 24 by is finished. Robert.s predicts that the pharmacist. • this time last year. new hopsital will not be open until Jan uary 1962. Construction is scheduled to BUIE CHURCH, Prattsville, Central GUERNSEY CHURCH, Hope Associ begin this summer. Association, held a youth revival Feb. ation, .had the services of Jesse Reed 5-7 with Don H. Tallison, a Ouachita recently in a revival. There were three Roberts, 30, will be executive head of for baptism and one by letter. -the hospital, in charge of all its business student, as evangelist. The pastor, affairs. The responsibility for the medi W. G. Barnette, conducted the singing. 1ST CHURCH, Fordyce, has called cal care of the patients will rest with Charles Hughes as Music and Youth ·doctors. DR. ANDREW M. HALL, pastor of Director. He is a native of Arkansas Native of Mississippi 1st Church, Fayetteville, was guest and a graduate of East Texas Stat speaker for the Georgetown Baptist College and Ouachita College. He re Roberts, a native of Hernando, Miss., College Religious Emphasis Week; Feb. has been preparing himself for a hospital cently graduated from Southwester 8-12. Georgetown is the senior Baptist Seminary with a degree in sacred musi administrator's post for several years. college of Kentucky. Dr. Hall spoke After his graduation from Baylor Univer and f01: the past year has been servin each nig~t and at the morning chapel . as Music and Youth d!rector in Burle sity in 1950 and his discharge from the services. Air Force in 1954, he went to the Baylor son, Tex. University Medical Center at Dallas for KELSEY GARMAN, a native of Ar G. C. ROWE is returning to Arkan an "internship" in hospital administra kansas, was among 16 new students sas from Grand Isle, Ii[ebr., to becom tion. admitted to Golden Gate Baptist Theo pastor of the Freeman Heights Church He received his master's degree in hos logical Seminary, Mill Valley, Calif., for Berryville. He began his new work Feb pital administration from the University the spring semester, 1960. A graduate 14. · Pastor Rowe is the son of Rev of California at Berkeley in 1955 and of Oklahoma Baptist University, Gar and Mrs. W. C. Rowe and is a graduat spent another yeaa.· as an administrative man is a· ministerial student ~orking of Union University and Souther resident at the Baylor Medical Center. . for a bachelor of divinity degree. Seminary. Page Silll A'RKA·NS·AS· BAPTIS Big Creek Notes ON JAN. 23 the Mammoth Springs Church ordained John Meeks, Jim Rus ;ell, David Roberson and Lloyd Estes :o the office of deacon. Moderator of :he council was Rev. P. 0. Freeman, pastor of the Enterprise Church; Henry Weaver, deacon of the Hardy Church, served as clerk. Rev. E. 0. Flowers, pastor of the Mammoth Springs Church, asked the questions. Mission ary Pyles prayed the ordination prayer, and Dr. Johnson, interim pastor of 1st Church, Thayer, Mo., brought the mes sage. SUNDAY afternoon, Jan. 24, the Hardy Church ordained Floyd Baker to :he office of deacon. Rev. P. 0. Free man served as moderator, Rev. P. 0. Harrington asked the questions. Rev. Dewey Green, pastor of Salem Church, prayed the ordination prayer. Dr. John on brought the message. ENTERPRISE Church has put down a new hardwood floor, and· is building wo new classrooms. Rev. P. 0. Free man· is pastor of the church.· Pastor Freeman worked as an •engineer on the Frisco Railroad for 54 years and has retired to devote all his time to the work of the Lm:d. He has served as pastor of the Thayer, Mo., Church, Hardy C h u r c h, Mammoth Springs Church, Lepanto C h u r c h, Hoxie Church, and Enterprise and Flora Churches. We are glad to have him in our fellowship. All four sons attended Southern ON MARCH 22, we will have our Baptist College, Walnut Ridge. Bob, a .Evangelistic Conference in Big Creek graduate of Arkansas State College; Association. It will be at tl).e Salem FOLLOWING in their father's foot Church, 7 p.m. Dr. C. W. Caldwel1 will steps are the four Lewis brothers pic Jonesboro, attended Golden Gate Semi be our speaker.--John C. Pyles, Mis tured here with their father, Rev. H. L. nary, Mill Valley, Calif. Rusty is a sionary, Big Creek Association. Lewis, front row, right, pastor of Gar graduate of College of the Oza1~ks, den Homes Church, Little Rock. Clarksville, and Southwestern Semi nary, Ft. Worth, Tex. Paul is a gradu Morality Week Back row, left to right, are: Bob, ate of Ouachita College and is now pastor of 1st Church, Fairfield, Calif.; studying at Golden Gate Seminary. Bill Held· at Ouachita Norman John and Jane-and Trouble Ahead! Take the case of John and Jane, two fine young people of high moral caliber but of different faiths. Jarie is a Baptist and John a Roman Catholic. They met in a big city where John had been sent by his firm. At first they enjoyed one another's company with scarcely a thought RD about their - religious differences. John even stole away from his church one Sunday and went to Baptist services with Jane. He had a very guilty feeling because he knew he was doing something strictly forbidden by his priest. Ji:me "returned the favor" and went to mass on Sunday at the Roman Catholic church just a few blocks from her own church. But it was miles away in form of worship.! When Faith Is Not Shared She understood very little because the service was mostly ih Latin. Nevertheless, ft was all most impressive, quite By Vernon B. Richardson mysterious, and all in all, it had been, as she phrased it, a "broadening experience." They felt a little closer to each other. This matter of religious difference was not so big BuT, pastor, John is the most wonderful boy in after all, they decided. the world! I am sure we can be happy together, even A few months later Jane appeared in her pastor's if we do not share the same faith. He will go to his . study, proudly announcing her coming engagement. Sh\l place of'worship and I to mine." was ready to be married and to lay plans for the big day. Alas, it is not that simple; and when a pastm· looks Then came the series of hard facts that spelled out the across his desk into a bright, hopeful young face, he almost · differences between her and her beloved. wishes it were. But if it were that simple - just a .matte!: No, she could not be married in her own church as of churches. on different corners of the street - then she had dreamed of since childhood days, seeirig herself in the Christian faith would not mean all tqat it does in' bridal gown at the front with her friends around her. John's power for everyday living. church would not regard such a marriage as valid. She Marriage in its highest realization is a spiritual fellow must be married by his priest, and if in a church at all, ship. It is a divine institution ordained of God. His act in John's church, but without full privileges even there of creating male and female makes marriage possible. To because she .was not a member. enter marriage is . to fulfil a divine intention foe the happi- ' She could not be mal'ried without promising in writ ness and welfare of mankind. Its joys and bonds stem ing that she would forego the privilege of training her from capacities that God has bestowed upon us. How can children in the Christian faith as she had experienced it. marriage succeed if the two have no opportunity to worship Only J·ohn could have that privilege. His church would together, to train their children in a common faith, to insist upon it, and accordingly so would John. share life's deepest experiences in an atmosphere of accord on the centra~ issues of relationship to Qod? She could not enter with John into one of the most sacred. areas of life, · that of planning parenthood. His Concern over the unhappiness in mixed marriages is church had rigid rules upon this subject, and its authority not just a matter of prejudice but is held by Jews and reached into the intimacy of their home. Moreover, if in R·oman Catholics as well as by all other Christian bodies. childbirth a crisis arose and medical advice conflicted with All join in warning against the hazards of entering a con the laws of the church, John would be honor bound to re dition requiring oneness with divisions that cannot be rec- fl,lse the word of the surgeon and follow that of his priest. onciled. ' · Ja.ne's pastor saw her emotional turmoil when these If we are hearing about this problem now more than facts ~ere .explained, and qu}etly handed her a book and ever before, it is for good reasons. The high rate of shat tered marriages compels us to st·op and consider the fac tors that make or break our homes. · People move about more in our da·y and associate with persons of different culture and background. In earlier times in our country, Roman Catholics were relatively few, and, by national ori gin, schooling, and other means, almost a separated com munity from their neighbors. The same was true of Jews Page E'ght ARKANSAS BAPTIST two small pamphlets that set forth the views of the Ro man Catholic Church on marriage. She was told to take them home, read them carefully, draw her own conclu sions, then return. What Jane 1~ ead in those factual docUments regard ing 'the official position of the Roman Catholic Church on marriage with non-Catholics indicated that her pastor had not overstated the case. John's church certainly made it plain; you would have to give them that ! But they seemed so unfair, insisting always that John's convictions must be honored but not her own. as a B'aptist to allow her children's spiritual destiny to be The Demands Are Plain taken out of the realm of their own conscience, and for her to agree that only in the Roman Catholic Church For instance, one pamphlet contained a reference to could her children have assurance of salvation. an encyclical letter by Pope Pius XI in which the Pope said; "Everywhere and with the greatest strictness the The pastor went on to explain the emotional hazards church forbids marriages between baptized persons, one of to Jane, the serious effects of the lack of the family's whom is a Catholic and the other a member of a schis oneness in worship, the gulf between hUsband and wife in matical or heretical sect." Later in the same encyclical their different attitudes toward the authority of the church there were words that sounded like her own pastor when - an autho:uity that extended even to death and decreed he had told her of the dangers of division in marriage: that the Roman Catholic must be buried in consecrated "For where there ex1sts diversity of mind, truth and feel soil reserved only for Roman Catholics. John's face re ing, the bond of union of mind and heart is wont to be vealed his inner conflicts because he understood only too broken, or at least weakened. From this comes the danger well that no matter how he personally regarded the un lest the love of man and wife grow cold, and the peace and fairness of the demands upon Jane, his church .would· insist happiness of family life, resting as it does on union of upon them all on pain of his excommunication. if he did hearts, be destroyed." not comply. "This thing is getting more serious by the moment," Jane said to herself as she read. She was indignant over Possibilities-but not Solutions that phrase about the "heretical sect," knowing that it in cluded her own beloved denomination, but decided to read We may draw the veil here upqn these two, because on. When she came to the section entitled "Ante-Nuptial from this point on the decision must be theirs. Agreement" with the parenthesis FaithToucHes the Fundamentals Finally, never discount the conflicts that can and do arise because of differences of belief between denomina- Page T~n ARKANSAS BAPTIST 'l~~o.mplete ieeti9io.~ I Corinthians 13 .leanings from the by Hugh Wamble Professor of Ch~rch History Greek New Testament Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Kansas City, Missouri FACED BY factionalism and hostile feelings between Christians, Paul de Reverent Agnosticism lineated five types of incomplete re PAUL WAS an agnostic. Not, of course, in the usual sense of ~he ligion (! Corinthians 13:1-3) within word. For Paul consistently maintained that he both knew God (II Tu!l· the Corinthian Church. These types 1:12) ~s have remained within the Christian and was known by Him (Gal. 4:9). However, there :;t sense m tradition. One or the other is occa which Paul was agnostic. He knew God, but he devoutly ms1sted that sionally revived as the absolute form there is much about God that he did not know and that can not be known. of · Christianity, as in modern sectar In Eph. 3:8 Paul alluded to''the unsearchable riches of Christ." The ianism. Now, as in Paul's day, how term "unsearchable" l·iterally means "un-track_-out-able." The word was ever, they are incomplete. common to the huntsman. The point is that we may "strike trail" on God, First, there was the "religi·on of feel but we can never track Him down. ing or enthusiasm." There were some who thought that religion consists in The 'little girl was an excellent artist. "How do you draw so well?" speaking in tongues. They held that she was asked. "First of all, I think," she said, "then I draw a line around ordinary speech is inadequate for con my "think." This· may be true generally for the artist. But no man can veying the deepest truths of the spirit, draw a line around God. For God, being infinite, is unfathomable. so they re~m'ted to ecstatic speech. The purpose of their religious activi . But so to say is not to maintain that we know nothing about God. As ty, it seems, was to make others feel, a matter of fact, we believe that God may be known "personally" in Jesus to stir their emotions. Christ, for "he hath declared him" (John 1 :18). Paul was agnostic, but reverPJ).tly so. In this sense we may well be Secondly, there was the "religion of kr:owledge." There were some who agnostic too. claimed to understand prophecy, mys (Dr. Barton is a member of the faculty of New Orleans Seminary. This feature terieJ>, and knowledge, They contin is copyrightea by him, 1959.) ued in the· tradition of the Old Testa ment prophet who knew what God had done in the past, who knew God's char stock in· their · own heroism. This form ity - love. It is supreme because it acter and, His way of dealing with of religi·on was later altered as Chris i·emains after tongues have, ceased, men, who knew present_conditions. The tianity won its place in the world; it after pa1·tial knowledge has been cor prophet was, and is, not a speculative became the ···religion of asceticism," rected, after heroism is no longer stim ster who circulates fanciful dreams. and its devotees were monks who prac ulated, and after hope has become fact. He waJ>, and is, a realist who knows ticed severe self-discipline'. It is supreme because it is P81tterned that God's future dealings will be con Paul did not reject either of "these afte1' the character of God. Complete sistent with His past dealings, that expressions of religion. Each has its religion is that religion which endures He will uphold His standards of right place. One errs, hoWever, when he beyond the earthly experience known eousness and will abide ·by the condi magnifies one out of all proportion, -to as "life" and Which conveys, in the tions which He has imposed on man. the neglect of others. To settle exclu fullest sense, that benefit known . as sively on one type is to accept incom "Life." Where there is the ~·religion There was, in the third place, the plete religion, and ultimately it is to of love," God is also .to be found. • "religion of faith or trust." There crown impiety by erecting man-made '1\'ere sgme who seemingly based their religion . . All of these types properly :-eligion on Jesus' favorite figure of beiong to Christianity and should be 'Commission' Joins -peech for faith - a faith for which .exemplified by each Ch~;istian._ Evangelical Press mountains can be removed. It . refers Paul. certainly possessed all of them. ·o one's capacity to believe, against The Commission, monthly journal :;:nowledge, that the impossible can hap He claimed to speak in tongues as of the Southern Baptist Convention well as the next man.· He was well pen. As Jesus used the figure, it means Foreign Mission Board, has become a grounded in Jewish lore and his Mars that God is able to work the. impossi member publication of · Evangelical Hill address reflects the wisdom of the Press Association. ·Other ·southern ble for those who ·have the "grain-of Greeks. Acco1•di.ng to Paul,. ·the key to mustard-seed" kind of faith (Matt. Baptist publications and services · be .7:20; 21:21), ' salvation is faith in the Gospel which longing are: Baptist Press; Baptist is a stumbling-block to the Jews and Record, edited by Joe T. Odie, Jackson, FourthlY, there· was the "religion of absurdity to the Greeks. Good works Miss.; the Ar:kansas Baptist, edited by benevolence." There were some who are a proof of salvation, even though Erwin L. McDonald, Little Rock; the - ought that religion consists in doing they are not means to this end. Paul Baptist Beacon, edited by J. Kelly orks of fraternal or ·social welfare. encountered imprisonments, beatings, Simmons, Phoenix, Ariz.; and the Bap appears, however, that these were stonings, fightings with beasts in the tist. D,igest, edited by F. Paul Allison, ::ew in number, for Paul was frustrat arena, and shipwrecks, and finally he Wichita; Kan. !'<1 in his efforts to raise funds for submitted his body to the Roman Evangelical Press Association has as erusalem Christians. (It should be· sword, -rather · than deny his Master members publications of many evange :JOinted eut that the "religion of benev ·and forsake his calling. · lical denominations as well as some ence" bids fair to become the civil ' ±t takes all qualities - feeling, non-denominationa! religious journals. 'gion of the United States.) knowledge, faith, benevolence, and her Its purpose is "to promote the cause And, in the last place, there was the oism - to have a religion acceptable of evangelical Christianity and to en ~ li gion of .heroism." There were some to God. · Put together, however, they hance the influence of Christian jour · o were willing to give their bodies amount t-o nothing unless a sixth qual nalism" by providing contracts among be burned. They - seefnihgly put ·ity is added. It is the ·supreme qual- tl:).e editors. • e b r ua r y I ·s , I 9 6 0 Page · E I e v e·n THE BOOKSHELF Baptist Crosscurrents . ' God at Your Door, by C. Gordon Bayless, pastor of ·Central Baptist Church, North Little Rock, published '7~ !Zuut ~, Saed4' by Revell, 1955, $2. Author Bayless, himself one of the The quest of the golden fleece and of the holy grail sink into outstanding evangelists of the nation, states a three-fold objective for this insignificance before the quest of souls. collection of 15 revival sermons: reach The quest of souls brought the Son of God from heaven long ing the unsaved, leading Christians to a greater devotion, and helping all to arro, •·our souls at His price to gain." The apostle ha;d this in mind have "a better way to tell the old, old when he wrote to the Philippians, "Who, being in the form of God, .story." Typical of the messages are: thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of "The Man Who Couldn't Take It," "If no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was I Should Wake Before I Die," "Walk made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, ing Away From Sin," "Traveling With He humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death out Lights," "How to Confess Christ," 01 Lne cross" (Phil. 2 :6-8). and "Saving the Home." A Charge to Keep, by Robert G. Lee, The quest of souls keeps ·the Holy Spii'it brooding over the chaos Zondervan, 1959, $2. of human life today. This is the highest vocation of the sons of God Dr. Lee here presents an impassioned in the life of our times. When Lyman Beecher was asked, "What plea to all Christian leaders to fulfill do· you count the greatest thing one .soul can do for another?" his their responsibilities to God in taking the Gospel to people at home and answer was, "The greatest thing a human can do for another is abroad. to bring another being to Jesus Christ as Saviour." Dr. Lee is widely known · and loved among Southern Baptists. He is retir But all of this means we shall have to go' in quest for souls. ing soon from a long pastorate at No longer can we depend upon planned revivals, series of meetings, Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis. evangelistic campaigns, professional evangelists and revivalists, and The God-filled Life, by Merrill F. upon all the techniques of orowd-getting such as "pack the pews," ' Unger, Zondervan, 1959, $2.50. making chains, etc. Our quest will of necessity have to return to the · The God-filled life, declares Dr. apostolic method of winning souls, one by one. If every church Unger, includes fom: main areas member-let's lower iir-:-if half of our church members would win thinking, living, worship and service. a soul for Christ in two weeks, what a marvelous outcome it would In this book he presents five chapters De! ·rp in, each of these divisions. Simple Sermons on the Seven But this requires the highest dedication and effort. It is re Churches of Revelation, by W. Herschel ported of a great preacher who mourns over the lack of conversions Ford, Zondervan, 1959, $2. The author is pastor of 1st Baptist tnat he will preach like angels to save souls but will not cross the Church, El .Paso, Tex. This is another street to do it. How different the woman with the lost coin! How in a series of volumes of "simple ser contrary to the shepherd with one lost sheep. mon" books by Dr. Ford. His sincerity and clear-cut thinking peculiarly fit 1) T'o be successful in this quest, we must first find our own him for the writing of such books. soul. There will be little questing until our souls are safe in the fold. We Made Peace With Polio, by .Lu 2) T'he quest requires that we be convinced souls are truly ther Robinson, Broadman Press, 1960, $2.75. lost. A great artist has painted what seems to be a waterfall, but Here is a diary of strength made on closer inspection~ the seething-and turbulent water resolves itself stronger by sorrow, of faith deepened by suffering. ' into numberless men and women swirling over the precipice:-rt -is God's Remedy, Romans 3:21 - 4:1-25, an awful conception of horror, but is valid truth. We are to save by Donald Grey Barnhouse, Eerdmans, all we can from going over to their doom. 1954, $3.50. This is the third volume in Dr. Barn 3) The quest is so worthwhile. Let the Bible speak. "The fruit hou~e·s comprehensive exposition of of righteousness is the tree of life, and he· that winneth souls is Bible doctrines which takes its point -of departure from Paul's Epistle to the \yise." · "Let _him know that lie which converteth a sinner from the Romans. He examines each passage, error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multi phrase by phrase, in the light of the tude of sins." immediate context ,but also in the larger context of the entire Bible. This will be of special value to ministers 4) Moreover, this quest for souls shall require a great passion. and Bible students. We often fail because we do not feel. One of the greatest soul win The Must of the Second Bh·th, by ners the world has ever known said, "I wish that my soul were ac Robert G. Lee, Fleming H. Revell, 19.5-9, $2.50. cursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the Every thought and phrase for these flesh." sermons on the basic Christian themes grows out. of scripture as the source of Added to these, there must be a great love. In this divine quest, every great Christian doctrine. In John if I have not love, I am nothing. Texas Baptists are engaged in the 3, Dr. Lee finds the nature and neces quest for 100,000 souls. No quest, no conquest! -Forrest Feezor, sity of being born -again, the manner of the new birth, what the new birth Executive Secretary, Bc~ptist General Convention of Texas • is and what it is not. One of the ·mosi I remarkable chapters in the book i "Wanted: More Funerals." • Page Twelve ARKANSAS BAPTIST Christian T e a c h e r s Association of eral times a day and are produced by Korea and 12 educational institutions Protestant, Catholic a.nd Jewish l'ninis with an eru-ollment of mor.e than 25,- ters whose identity is not divulged. 000 participants. (EP) More than thirty such sermonettes are aired each week. Communists May Try 'Confessional' _Station manager William Walker said WARSAW, Poland (EP) - Commu the unique series is aimed at "catching Youth to Help Greeks nists are consideripg adapting the the attention of teen~agers, radio lis BERLIN, Germany (EP) Thirty Roman Catholic confessional for their teners in cars on their way to and from German young people plan to spend a own pUl'poses. Polityka, newspaper of work, and the listening audience not year in Greece helping to reconstruct the Central Committee of the Polish normally inclined to tune in formal the · war-scarred town of Servia. The Communist Party, has recommended church-sponsored programs." youth are members of the "Suhnezei that the Committee set up "a kind of chen" Notes fr~m the Field J. M. JAMES, 1st Church, Waldron, has accepted the call as Missionary . in Caroline Association. JOHN C. PYLES, former pastor of Shirley Church is now on the field as Missionary in. Big Creek Association. MISSIONARY FRED Ryser in Buck ner Association has resigned. CHURCHES IN Arkansas Valley As sociation participated in Schools . of Missions 'last week. Harmony Associa tion is currently engaged in Schools of Missions. A _splendid cotpS of foreign, home, and state missionaries were re cruited for these schools. c. W. CALDWELL will be director of the Simultaneous Crusade in Current River Association, March 6-20. He will be in the Success Church with pastor J. B. Huffmaster. BAPTISTS OF Fort Smith are inter ested ,in securing sites for two new churches. Your Superintendent of Mis s1ons has conferred and surveyed with those interested. BOOK EXHffiiT at a prea cher meeting always draws crowds of browsers. 'Here FEB. 15 marked the 13th ·anni (left to righ t) Rev. Roy Dunn, ~ew Hope ChurJb., White River Association, Rev. versary ·of C. W. Caldwell as Superin Terrell Gordon, of Immanuel Church, Fayetteville, Manager T. Bradley Bolin of the tendent of Missions. Baptist Book Store and Rev. Lawrence Ray, of 1st Church, Pocahontas, have a MRS. M. E. WILES is still critically m oment of purposeful fellowship at the recent Evangelistic Conference. ill. Your prayer will be appreciated·. -C. W. Caldwell. - called leaders. Many leaders in om· About 'Post's' and churches are meticulously careful to see Relief and Annuity that adequate insurance is carried on 'Pre's' and Rio the physical plant in case of fire, hail, Education Program windstorm, etc. Yet they provide .no By C. E. Bryant IT IS most gratifying as we begin protection for themselves as far as MOST PASTORS we know have a our new work to receive such a warm their pastor and chm·ch staff is con dislike for those people in their audi reception on the part of the pastors, cerned. ence who are . "Post-Invoca.tionalists" ministers of music May it not be said of any church and "Pre-Benedictionalists." and education, and that they think more of theh· church We thought sm·ely nobody .would be the churches. plant than their God-called spiritual guilty of that at the 1960 Baptist We are majoring - leaders. If we do neglect providing this World Congress in Rio. The opening in the beginning' of protection then we may be classed with service, Sunday, June 26, will feature our work on the ed those who thought more of their swine than they did of the presence of Jesus a roll call of nations. The closing ucation of our peo service, Sunday, July 3, will lbe a mass ple as to what our and his spii·itual ministry among them. Every church employee should be cov evangelistic rally with Billy Graham Convention's Ret~re as preacher. ment Program is. ered. We are working pri We would welcome an invitation to But, unfortunately, attention has marily now through talk with any of y·our church groups: come to one tour - organized by a pas our associational and Brotherhood, deacons, finance commit tor who doubtless dislikes the Post DR. RUCKER d i s t r i c t organi tee, budget committee, prayer meetings. Invocationalists and Pre-Benediction zations. Whenever large or small If there are questions that you have alists . in his own congregation - which groups of our leaders and workers meet we welcome them. Whenever, and how will miss the first two days and the we welcome an invitation to appear on ever we can help we are at your service, last two days of the Congress. the program and present ·our work. call on us.- 1'. K. Rucker, Field Rep- resentative. • This note of warning therefore to Ouvs is an educational ministry first. all Baptists who are planning their Of all the phases of our total denomi . trips to Rio. Check the itinerary of national work, I expect as little is TV Series in Canada your tour carefully. Be sttre you'll bf known of our Retirement Program as TO~ONTO, Canada (BP)-Soutl;lern in Rio for the full Congress. any area of work. When om· pastors, Baptists' television series for 1960, ministers of music and education, and "The Answer," is currently appearing Incidentally, if you have not already all church employees understand this on 27 stations of the Canadian Broad done so, it is time to make definite vital work they will be most anxious to casting C o r p o r at i o n throughout plans for you~· travel and hotel ar have this protection. The same can be Canada. rangements. The best space is already said for the leaders of our churches. A total of 27 television stations on ·at a premium. See your travel agent The churches owe ' it to themselves the, network are carrying the 13 dra now. • and to the church staff to enter this matic episodes in "The Answer." The JIMMY KARAM, member of Imman protection program. It is not right for program ' is appearing in the Canadian . uel Church, Little Rock, was the guest a congregation to think more of their Broadcasting Corporation's "Good · Life speaker at a Brotherhood meeting ·of building than they do of their God- Series." • 1st Church, El Dorado, Feb. 15. F e b r u a r y 1 8 • · 1 9 6 ·0 1 , Page Fifteen SoUTHERN BAPTISTS showed advances all along the line during the past E. S. James Given year a summary prepared by the Department of Research and Statistics of the POAU Award Sunday School Board, Nashville, reveals. The greatest gain, 10.1 %, was in the total By John J. H-Qrt value of church property, this item in \ . Southern Baptist Statistics creasing $183,779,846 during the year to BOSTON, Mass. THE MAIL boxes of America are our share to keep them from becoming Brotherhood filled with requests /for aid for every overwhelmed with the task, almost in imaginable cause. Wouldn't it be a surmountable in many cases? They marvelous thing if in the m!J,il boxes of are good stewards of what Southern Four Hundred Men Southern Baptists there could go a Baptists make available for them, but WE ARE praying for, working for, personal letter of invitatton from Wo they see much more that needs to be and looking for, at least 400 men at man's Missionary. Union asking for done than they can possibly do with the ·annual meeting of the Arkansas help in the coming Week of Prayer for the few workers and the limited funds Baptist Brotherhood Home Missions and the Annie Arm we supply. Convention which strong Offering? Obviously thi.s can In this swift changing land of ours, · will meet in Little not be done and so this "open letter" people are in need - the kind of need Rock · at the 2nd comes from the President of Woman's our home missionaries can often meet. Church on March 4 Missionary Union, SBC. In the year ahead we must somehow and 5. The Week of Prayer for Home Mis• find ways to minister more ·effective 400 preachers and sions is just ahead, March 7-11. Mem ly to the people who are soul-weary laymen! bers of Woman's Missionary Union will in the cities. We must find ways to We are working be meeting daily to study, pray and teach and help neglected youth. We not only towards give for our ever-enlarging Home Mis must find ways to set church spires in the goal of 400 men, sions program. Pastors and others. will mushrooming suburbs. We must do but our aim is for a · be encouraging and assisting in this more to fulfill our mission under God, balanced represen- time of prayer and giving so the gos here in America. MR. TULL tation of men - pel may be given to lost people in our We have never given what we should' men from every section of the state, own land. through the Annie Armstrong Offering men from all places of church, -associ For many years, Woman's Mission for Home Missions. Have you ever ational, and regional leadership, rank ary Union bore the major part of this tried to visualize how much an extra and-file men from every area of Ar prayer effort. The offerings were given dollar, or even an extra few cents, add kansas. with little assistance, but this picture ed to what each gave last year would Who should attend the State Bro has changed as Southern Baptists have accomplish in taking the gospel into therhood Convention? The answer is: become niore missionary nearted. And every spot of our America? Have you pastors, associational missionaries, as too there has come a compelling urge ever thought of what it would mean sociational moderators; state, regional, to add to regular Cooperative Program to enlist others who have never given associational, and church, Brotherhood gifts through the two mission offer to bring an offering, their first? Could officers; Royal Ambassador counselors ings promoted by Woman's Missionary we try it this beginning year of a new and leaders; Brotherhood men, wheth Union as approved by the Southern era? Could we let 1Q60 be the year er officers or not; men from churches Baptist Convention. we greatly increase our effort to at without Brotherhoods; - all Baptist It was never intended that these mis tain the high goals of our Jubilee Ad men ought to be there! sion offerings be given only by the vance Program? An . upsurge in the The program for the Brotherhood members of the W.M.U., but it has tak amount of the 1960 Annie Armstrong Convention is approaching its final en years of teaching and training to Offering would place us on the road to form. Some of the speakers will be: encourage other church members to achieving the tremendous ideal of add John Farmer, Brotherhood secretary give at Christmas time for the· Lottie ing 30,000 churches and missions by of South Carolina; Lucien Coleman, as Moon Offering for Foreign Missions 1964. We have set ourselves 'to an sociate Brotherhood secretary of the and in March for the Annie Armstrol'lg imperative reality. We must help the Bl'otherhood Commission; Dave Mash Offering for Ho.me Missions. But God members of our churches to be vividly vurn, associate Brotherhood secretary has led and blessed in it! It has tru aware of all that is involved now. This of the Brotherhood Commission; Dr. ly become a living testimony that t:he .praying, studying, giving effort will T. K. Rucker, Arkansas representative churches that pour out these extra help us all. of the Relief and Annuity Board; and gifts for missions, increase their giv-· Why not try it in your church a many other fine men and good speak ing to the Cooperative Program and few days hence? Why not encourage ers. realiz.e great spiritual growtl:1 in -every your pastor to preach on home mis There will be good singing, special way. sions? He will want to do it! Why not music, and many other features which Let us take a brief look at the heart urge the W. .M.U. members to attend will add up to a convention that is of home missions. The men and wo this Week of Prayer every day? They \y'Ol'thwhile from every viewpoint. men who are the heart-beat o'! home should do it! Why not ask every boy The convention will be held in three missions labor in difficult places. They and girl, man and woman to give a sessions as follows: Friday afternoon, toil in the congested, decaying sections ' love offering and help the many who 3:00 to 5:00; Friday night, 7:00 to of the city. 'l'hey work in mushroom need to know the love of our blessed 9:20; Saturday morning, 9:00 to 11:00. ing new housing developments, build Lord and Saviour? It will bless each ing churches from scratch. They la one who does it! Why not try to make Plan to attend the whole convention bor among new Americans, teaching this a time of prayer, real prayer for if possible. If you cannot ):emain over them to understand their new homes, our beloved country? It will re-make night for the closing session on Sat guiding them into a fuller grasp of the spirit of your church! Why not urday morning, come to both of the Christian faith. They serve in iso make it worthy; worthy of all the bless FridaY sessions. lated rural areas and in Indian res ings that God has given! Well, why Come to the , Friday night lneeting ervations; they witness in· migrant not? Let us do it! The Lord will sure only if it is not possible for you to at camps and trailer houses. They work ly bless in and through it, beginning tend either of the other sessions. among language groups; they seek to in our own homes, churches and com Come, and bring a go·od represen represent us in town and in country. munities. Then on the foundation tation from your church!-Nelson Tull, They represent us well. Do we do stones of a new Christian way of life Secretary February 18, 19~0 Page Twenty-One Children's Nook------___:,__ _ A Smile or Two A MAN was moving along a dimly ' lighted street when a stranger slipped from the shadows and stopped him. "What do you want?" asked the man nervouslY .. "Would you be so kind," said the stranger plaintively, · "as to help a poor unfortunate fellow who is hungry and out of work? All I have in the world is this gun!" "I'VE BEEN racking my brains, but I can't place you," one man said to another at a social gathering. "And you look very much like somebody I have seen a lot - somebody I don't like but I can't tell you why. Isn't that strange ?" "Nothing strange about it," the other •· man said. "You have seen me a lot and I know why you resent me. For two years I passed the collection plate in your church." MADAME WAS driving for the first time. Monsieur was next to her. After · a quarter of an hour of daring driving God's Wondrous World in the downtown area he could stand it no' longer. "Good heavens! Don't cient people, such as cave men, liked you even see those red lights?" , the sounds of arrows humming through "Of course I see them! But what the air and bowstrings twanging their is so special about them? When By Thelma C. Carter different tones. Perhaps these cave you've ·seen one, you've seen them all!" Have you noticed how many musical men tried to act out a thrilling hunt compositions are written to represent ing scene by making sounds like the the sounds animals make? Many fa animals they hunted. mous composers have written music to We know that for hundreds of years show their appreciation of our won men have clapped their hands, stamped drous natural world. their feet, beaten on dry gourds and If you are learning to PlaY the piano, hollow tree trunks to express joy and Church Chuckles violin, fife, flute, drums, harp, obCDe, sorrow. tuba, trumpet, m one of the many oth In Bible times shepherds played mu er musical ·instruments, you have found sic while they watched over their sounds which remind you of some par- flocks of sheep. The flute or pipe made ticular animal, bird, or inse<;t. · from a reed were the shepherds' fa The sounds or movements of many vorite instruments. creatures - cuckoo, jumping kanga We can imagine David as a young roo, swan, donkey, alligator, raccoon, shepherd boy playing perhaps the bumblebee, duck, lark, thrush, mock sounds of nature - running streams, ingbird, and even the lion .- are imi singing birds, and animal sounds. We tated in many compositions. know that David was a musician. "Da We do not know for sure when peo vid took an harp, and played with his Ple began imitating animals with mu~? hand" u samuel 16 :23) . ical instruments. We are 'told that an- (Sund1iY School Bo af, a Syndicate, al l rights res erved) 1 One Spring JOHNNY WAS stuck with his arith "Goodness, I'd hate to be metic lesson. "Grandpa·," he pleaded, his poor wife, !lnd be remind· By Clarice Foster Booth "can you help me with 'this. lesson?" ed 1>f my sins day after day One spring when young, George Wash- "I could, my boy," replied his grand after day!" ington father, "but it wouldn't be right, This lady's perspective is a Was not inclined to share would it?" "I don't suppose it would," was John bit askew on two counts. The big red apple given h1m. First, no ministei' sets him· COne bite seemed hard to spare.) ny's reply, "but take a shot at it, any- self above his congregation His father pointed out to him way, Grandpa." · neither as its cr.iUc nor its That in the coming fall judge. His calling does NOT Their orchard, now a sea of bloom, WHEN THE first-grade teacher began exempt him from the samt! Would bear much fruit for all. to check birth records she found that trials, tribulation s and temp· t ations his members endure. Since God is always generous, little Alice was several months under . school age, so the child was sent home. Secondly, wh en a sermon hap Young George ashamed said then, "What is the matter?" asked the lit pens to trample our to es, we "I'm sorry I was selfish, r;ir; should feel no r esentment tle girl's mother when the child l'e except ,toward ourselV es Ior ·r will not be again." turned. "What has happened?;' :failil1g our Lord. (Sunda.y Sc hool Board Syndicate, all rights reserved) "I- I got ·laid off," sobbed the child. Page Twenty-Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST ~------A Progra·m ·of. c ·hris. .tian Service February 21, 1960 Acts 20:13 to "21:16 By Clifton J. Allen in Points For Emphasis, 1960 7~e 4e44tJ~t &:¢latHed Selfless Purpose (vv. 33-35) HE FINAL words of Paul's charge were a testimony Personal Example (vv. 18~-19) to selfless · purpose. He had given himself to the gospel with no covetous concern for matei·ial gain or reward. PAUL C-ALLED upon the leaders of the church at Rather, he had labored with his own hands to provide food Ephesus to recall the life he had lived in their midst. From and . clothing for himself and his companions. Through his the day of his' arrival, he lived a consistent life. With self-denial he had experienced the reality · of a saying of humility .of spirit and tears wl1ich sprang from a burden Jesus, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Serving for s·ouls, he served .the Lord. All the while his life was in Christ will always demand self-denial. It will .always demand constant jeopardy because of the' plots of the J ews. Further, making material rewa1~ds and enjoyments secondary. It will he was -faced with the necessity. of self-support. Paul was always · call for pouring ·out one's strength to the utmost not a braggart. He had. no thought of exalting himself. He limit in doing "the work pf God. was simply declar-ing what every Christian ought to be able There are many ways to serve Christ.-Service to Christ to say: "My life has been my witness; my deeds have been\. is not chiefly a matter of special vocation but a matter of the proof of my words." If l['aul had not been able to dedication in al'ly and every vocation. A housewife, a point to h.is personal example, his other efforts would have student, a policeman, an industrialist, a stenographer,· a amounted to little. ' conk, a salesman, a ' mechanic-any Christian can serve Ch1:ist by doing tl:w best work he .is competent to perform for Christ's sake and by capturing every opportunity on the Fait. hf~l Witnessing ( vv.· 20-21 ) job and off the job to witness for Christ. There are countless · ways to serve-a word· of encouragement, help in ·overcoming THE SECOND aspect of Paul's service was his f~ithful a sinful habit, food for a· hungry family, attention. toward declaration of the truth of the gospel. He held back no a lonely person, friendliness toward strangei·s, · any one of a truth that" was . profitable f-or his hearers. This meant that hundred activities in the church, tithes and offerings, even he had to declare fearlessly the reality of God's judgment a cup of cold water, provided always the desire is to honor upon sinners. The heart of his message was "repentance Christ by Se1'Ving. toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Chri!)t." Personal soul-winning is a Christian duty.-The fact Repentance and faith are really inseparable. One must have that we have the saving gospel should impress on us the ·genuine penitence for sin in order to renotmce it. He must obligation to share it with others. Even more, the fact that also have faith in Christ, who was God's propitiation for unbelievers are without God and without hope, facing sin and who is the one and onlY Saviour from sin. Paul's eternal sepal'ation fr-om God if they are not led to Christ method was one of . public witnessing and house-to-house should compel us to go to them with loving entreaties to visitation. He really labored to win the lost. Night anq day accept the gospel. Christ came into the world to seek and he ceased not to warn and to persuade. The apostle put to save the lost. · We, his followers, must go out into the· first things first. world, from house to house .and person to person, to find and -to warn and to persuade and to help those who are lost. ·u we 'do less, .we are in part responsible for the doom Strong Churches (vv. 28-32) of eur fellow .. men .. lf we do )ess, we make a sham of calling Christ our Lord. THE APOSTf..E had a pastor's heart, and he charged the elde,rs of the church in Ephesus to be true to their responsibility as shepherds of the flock. First of all, they needed to take stock of themselves lest they be unfaithful in example and ineffective in work. They needed to remem The gract;l .of God that bringeth s·alvation hath appeared ber that ·they were under appointment of the Holy Spirit . to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly and therefore answerable to him. It wa~> their worl{ to feed lusts, we should.. live soberl:)i, righteously, and godly, in this the church. This puts the strongest kind of emphasis upon present world.-Titus 2:11-12 the function of preachers and teachers to nurture the The fruits of salvation are meant to be the moral members of a church by sound instruction in Christi"an transformation of life. Our redemption ought to make us doctrine. really di'fferent. • February 18, 1960 P a g c T we n i' y - •• h r e e ' ------~------~---- Twelve years later, Charles II granted a charter securing the civil and re ~~.L~ ligious freedom of the Rhode Island ~ ~aptt4t{ ~'UUOJ'EU colony. The state was governed un- By BERNES K. SELPH, Th.D . der this until 1843. · . Pastor, 1st Baptist Church, Benton Back home he was received by his people who sought to honor him · for ,_.E\N his achievements. They paid his ex Civic Responsibility penses, expressed their . thanks, and gave him one hundred pound sterling. A DEVOTIONAL~ BAPTISTS HAVE found no conflict Ardously, he pursued the work dear between Christian and civic responsi- · to him. When or under what circum COMMENTARY bilities. Their leaders have practiced stances he adopted Baptist views is both. ' not known. Some would have him a EPHESIANS: John Clarke, pas Baptist before leaving England. As tor of the second others of that day, he may have come PATTERN FOR Baptist church or 'to accept this idea through Biblical , CHRISTIAN LIVING ganized in . America, study. No doubt, his surroundings in by Ray Summers is . an illustrious ex the New World helped. However, he Professor of New Testa pie. had embraced these views before he ment Interpretation Born in England, met Mr. Williams. he was· highly edu Though he did not write as volum Southern Baptist Theo cated in arts and inously as Roger Williams, he was as logical Seminary medicine. His ar thoroughly mastered by the principle Contemporary Christian rival in Boston, No of liberty of conscience. His was a Jiving is the theme of this vember, 1637, was in more stable, conservative nature. new devotional study of DR. SELPH time to get involved Described as one of the most public Paul's letter to the church in the religious controversy led by Rog spirited men and eminent Baptists of at Ephesus. er Williams. As a result, he left with his day, he left an example for Bap More than a verse-by a group seeking liberty of conscience tists of any day. • verse commentary, this is and freedom of worship. a devotional interpretation Early in 1638, this party made its which seeks to apply the way to Providence and was received basic principles of Chris by Mr. Williams. Title to this island was sec].l.red from the Indians and be RECEIVE cyO tianity to the church, com· came known as Rhode Island. The col munity, and individual. ony was organized March 1638, and ·Especially helpful to pr. Clarke's name is second on the or INTEREST anyone desiring to under· ganizational list. 6 stand the New Testament Dr. Clarke led in establishing the message for today. new community of Newport, April, ON YOUR sA v I' NG s (26b) $3.00 1639. He became pastor of the church organized the same year. Just when it HELP· BUILD SOUTHERN ORDER FROM YOUR FRIENDlY became a Baptist church is not known, BAPTIST CHURCHES IN THE BAP"'"ISTI=:;;;;;:;;;!!J surely by 1644. GROWING WESTERN U. S. A. BOOKSTORE Dr. Clarke affiliated with this church -SECURED- until his death. Much of this time was taken with civic and public af Over $13,000,000 in Assets 30.3 W. Capitol FR 5-6494 fairs. -WRITE- LITTLE ROCK Laoked upon as the most likely to succeed in the effort, he was sent to SOUTHERN BAPTIST of ARIZONA England in the autumn of 1651 to se BOND SERVICE DEPT. cure a better charter for his people. 316 W. 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