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Executive Board .Says 'witch-hunt' is on 'All time high' A DEEP concern with the dis "When we read the objective sta CONTRIBUTIONS for worfd missions trust and -suspicion and lack of the tisti~s and discover that last year t h r o u g h the Cooperative Program true Christian spirit exhibited among the larger religious groups reached an all time high in Arkansas in 1961. We received within the framework of "what we in America we were about second more than $1,732,000, glibly call Christianity" was voiced from the bottom in per capita giv which was approxi at the mid-term commencement ex ing it ought to· take some of the mately $57,000 above ercises of New Orleans Seminary. wind out of our sails," he declared. our budget require ments ' of $1,675,000. Speaking to the 45 candidates He concluded by saying "we live This was approxi for degrees and awards, their fam . below our me~ns in our conception mately $125,000 more ilies, and the facqlty and friends of the size and the need of this than we received the of the seminary, Dr. R. Houston world for which Christ died. year before. Smith cited what he called ''a The E x e c u t i v e growing lack of the evidence of "We live confined with horizons ;Board voted in its too limited. We get wrapped up in last meeting that any love and forbearance and forgive- . DR. WHITLOW overage be divided 50 ness." our little world of business or percent for the Cooperative Program and pleasure or even in our own church the other half for our Retirement Plans. Dr. Smith, pastor of the First or institution and ignore the fact We were delighted to send Porter Routh, Baptist Church, Pineville, and that we are a part of a great wide treasurer, our check for more than $28,- president of the New Orleans Sem world." 000 as an added investment by Arkansas inary Alumni Association, said, Baptists in missions and benevolences Degrees and awards were pre beyond the border of our state. The "There are too many self-appointed retirement funds were needed inasmuch guardians of orthodoxy among us. sented to the candidates by the as the Convention had failed to appro There are too many people looking president of the seminary, Dr . . H. priate sufficient funds to cover the under too many chips for bugs that Leo Eddleman.-Seminary release measm·e of increase we experienced in this program in 1961. aren't there. A number of our churches have ad "The witch hunt i~ on," he de Dallas readies for '63 · vised us of their increase in Cooper clared. "It wouldn't surprise me if ative Program_giving for 1962 by at least evangelism conferenc~ 15 percent in keeping with the Endow before it is over we revive the an ment Campaign authorized for Ouachita cient custom of burning witches." FIVE thousand air-conditione College this year. We hope and pray hotel rooms have been reserved f o_ their tribe shall increase.-S. A. Whit Pressing the poin~, Dr. Bmith said, "If this country is ultimately the first Convention,wide Evange low, Executive Secretary. listie Conference of Southern B:ap. ' overthrown by a foreign foe either tists, set for July 2-4, 196.3, i1 Now is the time from the military or ideological point of view it will probably not Dallas. THIS IS a good time to sta1't ex be primarily b e c a u s e of the The conference, which will hear amining the Stewardship Program of the church. strength of the enemy but because two messages by Evangelist Billy The average church God's people have been living so Graham, is expected to attFact a is receiving about a far below their means in grace and many as 10,000 laymen and pas third of the tithe goodness that. they have lost confi from its members. A tors from outside Texas and a ·few churches are re .. dence _in one another." many from wjthin that state. (BP) ceiving 40 percent of "The Danger of Living Below t h e tithe from the Our Means" was the subject of Dr. members but many, many churches re Smith's address. "ARKANSAS' ceive less than a / Citing the economic dangers of ARKANS~t LARGEST fourth of the tithe RELIGIOUS from the members. living beyond our means, he In order to get warned that living below one's WEEKLY" .: NEWSMAGAZINE <101 WEST CAPITOL DR. DOUGLAS church members to mean's is a major tragedy. The tithe, wno now give tragedy is "simply the deliberate LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS less than a fourth of the tithe, the Ottlclal Publication of the failure to attain to our potential Arkansas Baptist State Conventlo• leaders must first• tithe and then start and thus the inability to bring to ERWIN l. McDONALD, Liti.D. ______Editor praying and planning to help the others. MRS. E. F. STOKES ______As sociate Editor It is not enough for the church leaders bear upon the world of our day all MRS. HARRY GIBERSON ____Secretary to Editor to · get together and plan a budget, then we are capable of doing." MRS. WELD.ON TAYLOR...... Mail Clerk Published weekly except on July 4 and December 25. ask the prayer meeting· group to adopt it. Second-class postage paid at Little Rock, Arkansas. The church must lead in an educational Dr. Smith also told the audience Individual subscriptions, $2.25 per Year. Church Budget, 14' cents per month or $1.68 per year per program-a program that will give the that "we live below our means in church family. Club plan (10 or more paid annually individual church member a reason to In advan·ce) $1.75 per year. Subscriptions to foreign the material support we give to address, $3.75 per year. Advertising rates on request. give his money. God's kingdom." The cost of .cuts cannot be borne by the paper ex Believe it or not, there are many cept those it has made for its individual use. Articles carrying the author's bY'Iine do not nec es church members who do not know the He chided Southern Baptists for sarily reflect the editorial policy of the paper. · financial needs of the church.. This is Abbreviations used In crediting news Items: partly due to the fact that they know being inclined to boast "of the BP Baptist Press; CB church bulletin; DP Daily pre111 very little about the church program. great work we are doing and the EP Evangelical Pr:::es:::s•c___ ----- ' February 1, 1962 VohJ":'e 61, Number_ 5 (Continued on page 22) rapid growth we are ~:iljoyin·g. Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTIS t Church, Russellvi~le, to dedicate new sanctuary Feb. 4
' . services for the tist State Convention, will speak at Jacobs, Robert Simpson, W. E. , nctuary of First Church, the evening service. Christenbury and John T. Little. '10----• -·me, will be held At 2:30p.m. The new sanctuary is of contemp ...._,__~"'. · Feb. 4. orary Romanesque design with a seating capacity of 920, including · edicatory address will be de MISSIONARY serviee is not a lr-rr.::orc.n by former Congressman the choir. The balcony, which will be used for the Adult .Sunday sacrifice. It is the greatest privi ~JCS~ Hays, Special Assistant to lege God ever allowed to a man and ...... ,= ..-1 "'n Kennedy, who was at one School Department, cal) be opened to provide seating ultimately for his family.-Richard L. Lusk, mis ember of First Church. Mr. sionary/ appointee for Macao • , ·, a former president of the 1,200 . ffD Baptist Convention. The Including the furnishings, the AS WE sat in our church on ="'-l:,~.._, ..·.:; Polytechnic College choir, rose window and an Allen organ, -he direction' of Dr. John total cost is $230,000. The architect Christmas night, 1960, and lis- ' tened to a Latin-looking angel an -.:x---=---~- · ht, will present "The Chris- was Norris J. Sparks, Little Rock, d Commemorative Year in and the general contractor, Cone & nounce in Spanish to a Latin - another feature of the Stower, Searcy. · looking shepherd the news of Christ's birth, we had a new per Members of the Building Com ception of the truth the angel ...,irt services in the new mittee are Dr. D. M. Williams, H. T . spoke, " ... which shall be to all L. ""'"'--'C"'u.a. will be conducted Sunday Casner, J. A. Niven, Mrs. D. Mack people."-Gladys (Mrs. Wilbur C.) . Feb. 4, by Pastor Emil and Mrs. Maurice Brown . Lewis, Missionary to Paraguay, ...... ,iCUJJL:>- .• Dr. S. A. Whitlow, execu Building Finance Committee then studying Spanish in San Jose, re ary of the Arkansas Bap- members are A. D. Robins, Henry Costa Rica .uy 1 , 196 2 Pa g e Three Editorials 'Breaking the barrier' /
Family life parley THE front-page headline on the -story about Ouachita College admitting two native African students for the spring semester read: ''Negro THE greatest threat to our civilization is the Missionaries Break Race Barrier at Ouachita." It shallow approach to marriage characteristic of our is rather strange in the shrinking world of 1962, in time and the prevailing loose relationship between which the sound banier has long since been broken men and women. So declared Dr. Joe Bm·ton, head by every-day transports, that this would be news. of the Family Life Department of the Sunday School Board of the Southem Baptist Convention, It is significant that the enrollment of Michael in an Arkansas Family-Life Conference held here and Mary 1Iakosholo, of Gatooma, Southern Rho recently. And one of the great weaknesses of desia, had been known on the campus, at Ouachita Southem Baptists in solving this and other prob for many weeks before the couple actually arrived, lems is the ''monologue approach'' by whi«lh a few and ,for a 'i\'eek or two after their arrival and before people do all the talking, Bmton, continued. the story broke in the papers. Yet there had been no incidents of unfriendliness from either faculty In" ~n ~ffort t~ lead S?uthem Bapt~sts to grap or students, but, rather, the wannest Christian ple erfechvely w1th fam1ly problems, Dr. Bmton hospitality. ' i::; planning a Sot1thern Baptist Conference on Family Life, to be held Feb. 25-March 1, 1963, in Youthful President Ralph A. Phelps, Jr.,-J1oint Nashville, Tenn. A thousand selected participants ed out in the official press release to Baptist P·ress, will be invited to attend the conference, which will canied in our paper last week, that the acceptance be patterned after recent ·white House confer·ences of the African students was "in keeping with a on education, the aging, childre1'l, etc. policy adopted by Ouachita trustees'' nearly two years ago. Quite frankly, Burton let it be known in the Arkansas meeting of A few representative leaders ''Our _missionaries in Africa and other parts of that he is more interested in having people from the world have told us the Communists are 'beat the every-day walks of life involve themselves with ing them to death' 'iYith the fact that mission con the problem of strengthening home life than ·with verts are not permitted to come to the school that enlisting experts to give the· answers. Those at sent out the missionaries. vVe are hoping to take tending the Nashville conference will be divided the handcuffs off our missiona·ries in some of these into work groups, 25 to a group, to deal with areas where the struggle between Christianity and specially assigned phases of the problem~?. Arkan communism is so acute.'' ' sas is being asked to send 39, to be designated by It is our humble judgment . that this couple of Dr. Tom J. Logue, chairman for the state, assisted dark-skinned Christians ·who have sacrificed tliei1; 1by Dr. S. A. '\Vhitlow, executive secretary of the all-even to leaving their children in their fwr Arkansas Baptist State Convention. away . homeland for several years-to prepare Basic objectives as set up for the conference themselves for a Christian teaching ministry to include: their own people, are truly gi·eat heroes by God's measurements. And alumni and friends of Ouach 1. To assist chtwches in formulating objectives of. and in planning, conducting and evaluating the ita College, along with President Phelps and the marriage and family ministry. · faculty and student body, have real grounds for giving thanks for the enlarged part our oTeat 2. To discover the requirements of chmches in Christian coll~ge is to have· now in gettin; the performing the marriage and family ministry. . I gospel of Chntst out to the world.-ELM An important feature of the planning is that the envisioned family ministry program is to be carried out through church organizational chan nels already in existence-Sunday School, Train ing. Union, Brotherhood, ·woman's Missionary Umon. Surely . ·we have enough organizations in om local churches already. In fact, the great num ber of different meetings to which families are called by their churches is a part of the problem to be considered. The Conference is worthy of our fullest sup port.
Page Four ARKANSAS BAPTIST But her major interest is Ouachita College, her beloved Alma Mater, which Letters to the Editor she has served as a trustee fo1; many years. She is back on the Ouachita THE PEOPLE SPE AK board now after a year's leave forced by an Arkansas Baptist State Conven tion provision that no one, may serve more than two consecutive three-year terms without being off the boa1;d for Sees doctrine needs at least a year. YOU are ~ Baptist dedicated to your A consistent supporter of Ouachita· work for the Lord . . . I think you are with her purse, Miss Emma's gifts have doing a great part in winning our be made possible two strategic buildings Flenniken Memol'ial Student <0enter, loved Arkansas to the Lord J~sus Christ. named for a sister and husband, Aylmer So keep on doing the good work for our and Mary Riley Flenniken; and Ri.Jey Lord. Memorial Library, naml:)d for her par ents, W. H. and Caroline Sumner Ri Bro. Mac; I would like to say I appre ley; her brothers, A. F. and J. W. Riley; ciated so much the article on "Baptism," and her sisters, Mary Riley Flenniken by Herschel Hobbs in the issue of Nov. 9, and Susie Riley Thomas. and the article on "Hell," by Dr. Hobbs Ouachita has honored Miss Riley with the Distinguished Alumnus Award and, in the 1ssue of ~an. 4. They are real last year, with the honorary Doctor of truths and should be preached more in Laws degree. So, it's Dr. Riley now. our pulpits in these days and times For sometime Dr. Riley and a dis William A. Lewis, Apt. 4, 112 Hold tinguished fellow Ouachita trustee, Dr. Drive, Killeen, Tex. Marvin G1·een of Stephens, have been wanting· to "do something nice" for the DR. EMMA RILEY Ouachita faculty, staff and tnlstees. But Out of the stacks when the board would be meeting, the faculty and staff would have their hands I RECEIVE staeks of religious peri full with their day-to-day duties. odicals and naturally cannot read them happiest person in the world is The chance the doctors had been wait~ all carefully, though I do scan them. ing for came on Friday, Jan. 19, just id who has stopped struggling Nevertheless, I find that I am a regu arried], says M-iss Emma Riley, as the final semester exams were con e: herself "an old maid who is cluded at noon. So trustees Riley and lar reader of your editorials and "Per '<"gling." A former school Green teamed up to "throw" a steak sonally Speaking" column_. The personal, .,...,,..,....=-_ and later, assistant Secretary of dinnpr for the Ouachita faculty, staf down-to-earth, unpretentious and warm 16 years, Miss Riley main fers and trustees, in the new college touch which you bave given to so many dining hall, with Dr. Ralph A. Phelps, ome in El Dorado, where she of your articles is most enjoyable. -o First Baptist Church, but Jr., president of the college, presiding. e most of her time at the As an outsider who was an invited I particularly enjoyed reading about Ho el, Little Rock. guest for the occasion, I can testify "Christmas Down on Bunker." It was a eeps an active interest in the that "a good time was had by all" classic.-W. C. Fields, Publb Relations even by us Metrecal-ers. life, not excluding politics and Secretary, Executive Committee, South Incidentally, many of the zislators a1·e her personal ern Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tenn.
'Do-nothing~rs'? SINCE some people call some other "How nice it would be for Daddy people "do-gooders," I wonder where that when he got to heaven. In that/ perfect place, he could sing on key and have leaves the "callers.'' Are they rather to _ - Says You Are, by Wallace real hair growing on his head." be "do-badders"? If not, what's left but to be' "do-nothingers"? -Frank Wal ..._,_-~~·I. Abingdon Press, 1962, $2 " 'Why can't I have dates?' I ask. lingsford, Hampton -i)pell takes twelve of the Daddy says, 'Too young'-which means, Jesus used to apply to of course, 'You haven't got enough sense.' nd addresses them to Chris I wish Mother would quit going a1·ound His writing is dis the house singing 'I must tell Jesus all good illustrations, of my trials!'" simple style. The "I tried to imagine a school where of twelve sermons. Sct·ipture verses were a part of printing - a Deacon, by Connie Moore the news, where people talked of the man Press, 1961, $2.95 Lord's blessings as naturally as they spoke of lovely sunsets, where ability best books I have read in 1 and character meant more than beauty, and where everyone lived by the same rules!" -ually had something to A thorough!~ enjoyable book with a 'I:ess meetings, and it was great deal of good advice for teens. "Drat! I KEEP forgetting on the winning side." juanez Stokes ' this is 1962!" I, I 9 6 2 Page Fi e The Christian Sabbath
Ever on Sunday . • •
By ANDREW M. HALL, P~stor First Baptist Church, Fayetteville Scripture: Luke 4:13-20
INTRODUCTION: One of the most complex social problem here is that groceries now are in the business and spiritual issues of our time is the Sunday problem. of hardware, ·flowers, hit records, novelties, clrygoops, Only the most arrogant would lay claim to kn'owing etc, and this raises the issue of unfair competition. exactly how to unravel it. For instance: A prescrip- ,The basic reason why any business stays open on tion wonder drug exists which if rightly and promptly Sunday is money making or profit. Some do it out of used, could save a life. Is it wrong a feeling of meeting competition. What are the moral for a drug store to remain open on issues involved? What does a business do to its em Sunday? And if open, would it en- ployees by demanding that they work while churches gage in selling every conceivable type observe worship? Does it cool spiritual ardor? As a . of merchandise? pastor recalling examples in my own heart, I say it When a certain grocery chain does irreparable clama~e to these people, and their came to our city a few years ago its children's spiritual life stands in jeopardy. local manager was instructed: "If But that fs not all, not even the beginning of the the church people want the store problem. Sunday television must be dealt with. Early ·closed on 'sunday, then by all means, television was extremely careful to place only those DR. HALL keep it closed.. But if they want it programs on Sunday which went along with the tra- open, then keep it open. We believe by past experience ditional observances. Culture programs such as Omni they will want it open." bus by the Ford company headlined TV fare. But what A Mr. Anthony, with his scores of department now? Television has become a giant Sunday sports stores, ran a paid ad in the Oklahoma City newspaper arena, a spectator's panacea. Armchair quarterbacks recently telling why he hoped department stores would are leaving after Sunday School in order to get the not open on the Lord's daiY. Why did he do.this? Had 12 o'clock kick-offs of their teams as they clamor for he heard that a certain chain of department stores in the scalps of the enemy team. Philadelphia opened one Sunday recently as an experi- On a given Sunday one may now see football, ment and reported the largest volume of trade for the basketball, hockey, golf, and bowling. Most of these entire year? People by the droves took the chance to are sponsorerl by an alcoholic beverage, itself forever shop on Sunday. seeking to be recognized as a reputable business. Even And why not? Are not three-fourths of the peo~· the news, of a Tulsa station, news which mentions Billy ple in the nation by-passing Sunday as a day of going Graham and others, is now being paid for by Lone Star ~o church and a day to worship? The Supreme Court beer. upheld a blue law of Sunday closing recently in one of But that is not all. Saturday night has traditionally our states as being legal and constitutional, but not on been the night of the week when everyone went some the grounds of a day of worship. Rather, the decision where. It is· not so anymore. In fact, it is one of the was on the grounds that some laws are made to fit the nights when more people stay at home. TV fare for needs of a majority of the people and thul? it seemed the people with SS quarterlies in their laps is now a to our Supreme Court that it is best for the nation to lengthened Gunsmoke. From one-half hour to one full have one day of rest, using Sunday since it is the tra- · hour, we now double the number of hombres and ditional day. The Court was careful to steer clear of double the numbN~ of killings coming directly from the theology involved. This was based on the same Matt Dillon's gun-brutal, grimacing, bloodcurdling premise that dope peddling, :murder and nudism are killings. not best for the majority of the people. But that is not all. On the night in the week which Admittedly, we have a complex society very differ- people shoul'd use as preparation for Sunday, we get ent from the Pilgrim days. It violated no law to travel our weekly lesson from Perry Mason on how to get a clown a couple of farms in a horse and buggy. Does it beautiful girl out of a murder rap. And on top of this: violate the clay to use a mechanical vehicle and "fill'er The University of Arkansas Rules committee has up" with gasoline? Is it wrong for a preacher to tank elected to give longer elate time extension to Saturday up at Clarksville em·oute from Fayetteville to Crossett nights than any other night in the week Young Peo to begin a revival at Crossett on Sunday night? Since ple who might have had plans to attend worship are we are a nation of travelers (some of which seems exercising full rights and long elates and just can't essential) is it wrong to keep eating places open on manage to "crawl out" on the "day of rest." Since Sunday? Is there one good, legitimate reason why everyone who dates on Saturday night is hopelessly in grocery stores should open on Sunday? The knot.tier love, naturally they tak~ ultimate time privileges.
~-..;...;;Pa1e...:::...; Six ARKANSAS BAPTIST u a ·: not all. If tlie movies decide to have a a~ter-churcli fellowsliip. They just don't realize tha pre :iew an.- night of the week it will be on Saturday after Sunday I am pooped!!" -uh- _rom 12 midnight to 2:00a.m. · Editor Dailey of the Western Recorder wrote re _ ~e -e not all victims of Satan and ~ave failed to cen,tly an editorial asldng, "What has happened to the e and,niting on the wall? I plead no full ground old-fashioned Sunday?" . o ·nnocence here and I do not declare to you .that I am Our denomination .is running ·us too .fast. The old free o_ £"Uilt. Indeed, I doubt if anyone in this audience Israelites had to observe 1200 laws and precepts and ·_ completely free of S~nday violation. Po you read had no choice. Jesus gave us a free Lord's day but we a e -paper on 'Sunday delivered by a paper boy? Do have misused the freedom. Very well: Dr. Herschel . -ou use electric lights seen after by the man at the Hobps suggests some .Princi_ples as s~t forth with re ·er plant ? Do you watch television or hear radio gard to Jesus. And remember He is Lord of the Sab monitoTed by the man at the station? What does 'the bath. He taught in the synagogue on the Sabbath; he _· e Testament have to say here? What did Jesus have healed people on. th.is day without hesitation; He ap ·o : .-. or, better still, what were His. a~tions? proved deeds of necessity (each m,ust decide here) ; and In answer to the first question, very, very little does finalJy, He worshipped on this day. And He told us it -be _· ew Testament say about observing or how to was made for us. ob:erYe the Lord's day. Jesus did set forth a principle Now, in conclusion, let me say this: Sunday more b.- Hi- actions. When the men got hungry, he led them than any other single tradition has, in my opinion, been o -he field to secure food. It is right to eat on Sunday. the means of discipline to keep us in correct direction, I- -he ox falls in the ditch, by all means get him out. as a Christian nation. I feel that it is the last great Bur don't do the pushing in! bulwark against a godless and careless society. Let They did some traveling on Sunday and no doubt Sunday go, become wide-open business-wise, and peo fed he animals. We are called upon to observe the ple by the millions will be compelled to give up worship _·r:t day of the week as a time of worship at which and will be unable to provide it for their children. Thus, ·me we are to bring our tithes and offerings . .Jesus the churches one by one will disint~grate and gradu ealed a man at the springs on the Sabbath. ally close tneir doors as hundreds have in large cities The best approach is not to haggle over a law on already. Thus, we will become like Russia ... a nation -..ethe r a drug store can or cannot sell a loaf of bread without a center and coherence of Spiritual force. "'unday. The best approach is to have every Chris The loss of Sunday would in my thinking be more -•.:.n a k himself: How may I employ my time and devastating than an enemy attack. The very soul of . ents to worship God on Sundays? What positive this nation lies in regular pause and the time spent in :ngs might I do this day to honor Him who has saved wo_rshipping our Lord. Take this away, and we are c? in great jeopardy. Every Christian merchant must _·ow let's get real personal. Is Sunday as we use it face th.e matter with sincerest purpose. ly a day of rest? The typkal Sunday in a Baptist We know how to observe the day. The question is: . rch must have been planned for people with over Will we use it positively or sit around criticizing those . -e thyroid glands, the ones wit~ jet-propelled nerv who misuse it? Which is worse? This we must decide - energy. as persons saved by grace. May God bring us to our .-\ young mother said, "I get up earlier on Sunday senses and if this does not occur, we may all be brought rning than on any other day in the week because it to our knees. · m.· busiest. I attend early service, teach a class of , Most of us Jook back to a Sunday . .. dead of winter agers, which demands haste in feeding and dress- . .. . hot August meeting under ,a brush arbor ... to a my family and preparing my lesson. Sunday after regular Sunday School class period ... a preaching n we go visiting for the ~church and at five, my service ... to the moment of our conversion. Suppose band and I help with our youth choir. After that, it our parents had not been permitted to come and bring aining Union and evening worship. Some of our us. You see, we are indebted to God's day as hallmark · d- feel hard toward us because we pass by the of our experience. In this moment what will you do?
the Review and Expositor· is plan H.ugh F. Latimer dies PECIAL feature of the Jan ning a similar bibliography on the New Testament. It will appear in HUGH F. Latimer, a leader of =~·ue of The Review and E x a future issue of the publication. men's work among Southern Bap . theological journal pub tists for 13 years, died Jan. 10 at by the faculty of Southern Also included in the current is sue is a study of Christ's act of his hom·e in Memphis, Tenn., after '::::e:::J!tary, is a comprehensive bib an illness of six months. He was 82. -.,.,..-...,hy of the Old Testament. atonement. One of the manuscripts prepared for this issue, entitled e Old Testament bibliogra "The Atonemen~," is by an Arkan , been prepared by the mem sas graduate of Southern. E. 0. Mills dies he Old Testament depart- Dr. George L. Balentine, a 1961 REV. E. 0. Mills, 88, Southern ~ this seminary," said Dr. Th.D. graduate, now pastor of Baptist emeritus missionary to Ja J :eph Owens, managing edi First Church, Hope, Ark., has pan, died Monday, Jan. 1, at Bap a guide for our readers in · written on the subject, "The Death tist Memorial Geriatric Hospital, ...... _._~6 their libr ary." of. Jesus as. a New Exodus in the Sa:n Angelo, Tex., after a long ill ens said that, ~s a sequel, Gospels." ness. (BP)
ary 1 , 19 .62 A .Pmyer· Lord, Thou knowest better than I know myself that I am growing older, and will some day be old. Keep me from getting talkative, and particularly from the fatal habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and on e\ ery occasion. Release me from craving to try to straighten out everybody's •af• fairs. Keep my mind free from the J:e cital of endless details-give me prayer wings to get to the point. I ask for grace enough to listen to the tales· of others' pains. Help A NUMBER of you have written, "More for gtandmother:::;, please." me to endure them with patience. But you have not specified the particular area in the multi-facet subject But seal my lips on my own of grandmothers you have in mind. Would you please check the title yo u aches and pains-they are increas prefer? ing and my love of rehearsing them Grandmothers, a Benediction ______is becoming sweeter as the years Grandmothers Who Interfere with Discipline ______:------go by. "Spoiling"-a Grandmother's Privilege ______Teach me the glorious les~on that occasionally it is . possible that I Grandmother Lives with Us - --~------may be mistaken. Grandmother· Is Our Sitter______Keep me reasonably sweet; ·I do Good Taste in Dress for Grandmothers ______not want to he a saint-some of them are so hard to live with-but Irritable' Grandmothers ______a -sour old person is one of the My Pet Peeve as a Grandmother______crowning works of the devil. It's Fun Being a Grandmother______Make me thoughtful, but not moody ; helpful, but ·not bossy. With my vast store of wisdom, it I If it is the in-law angle, that in the -current issue. I consider seems a pity not to use it all-but touchy subject is on the "agenda" this woman a brilliant columnist, Thou knowest, Lord, that I want for our page in the coming weeks. but, frankly, I think the original a few friends at the end. A daring, almost presumpttrtous' Pmyer· is much stronger without -Anonyniou question for any mere mortal to her interpolation. Amen. undertake! While you are deciding on the title you will check for discussion, [Mail should be addressed to Mr8. or writing out the different one 1 you will submit concerning grand Street at 2309 Soutb. Fillmore, Lit. mothers, I'd like to record on our tle Rock, Ark.] page the worthy Pmyer·, so widely used in many publications at thjs time. GROWING OLD My first copy was given me by Let me grow lovely, growing old a beloved friend now in her charm ing eighties. I have kept that copy So many fine things do ; attached to my mirror for more Laces and ivory and gold than a year. Then, I have in my file of clippings a copy from Ch?'is And silks need. not be new. tian Woman, a publication shared with me by our associate editor of There is a healing in old t~ees, Ar·kcmsas Bapt;ist. Old streets a glamor hold. You will find 'it printed on the inside cover of this quarter's Adult Why may not I, as well as these, Sunday School (.Juar·ter·ly. Grow lovely, growing-old. Also, a noted writer for a pop ular secular magazine has used it, - Kp.rle Wilson Bake ·with elaboration, for her columns Christian Worrur P a g'e Eight ARKANSAS BAPTI S B ptist beliefs
' . ' HE KINGDOM By HERSCHEL H. HOBBS Pre'sident, Southern Baptist Convention First Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, Ok~ahoma
"KINGDOM" is not to be equated with the Father (Phil. 2:10-ll). ' This does not mean universal urch." Actually in the larger sense the "Kingdom salvation. The saved will have submitted to God by • God" is the rule of God in His universe and over faith prior to Jesus' second coming. The lost will be created beings, of which the church is a spiritual submitted to an acknowled,gement of God's rule by ent. Some would distinguish between the king- force, the force of God's will, at the final' judgment. . of God and the "kingdom of heaven." But an The nature of the final state of the kingdom is y.::is reveals that the various gospels record these seen in I Corinthians 15:24-28. Jesus is reigning now nn, a interchangeable within the same teaching in His mediatorial kingdom (15 :25-26). The concli Je , u~ (cf. Mark 4:30-32 and Matt. 13:31-32) . tion will come when Jie shaH have subdued the entire ~ . ic [kingdom] final state God will reign over universe, material and spiritual, unto Himself. It will edeemed creation (Rom. 8:19-22; II Pet. 3:13, be completed at the judgment. Then the kingdom '· 21 :1); over Satan, his angels, and the unre will be delivered up to the Father, that God may erate in hell (I Cor. 15 :24-28 ; Phil. 2:10-11; Rev. be all in all (15 :28). -15) ; and in heaven over the holy angels and redeemed of all ages (Rev. 21-22) . . Note in this passage the presence of the Trinity : God the Father and Go.ci the Son by name, and God ~-h en Jesus came He did so to establish God's the . Holy Spirit by the implication of revelation in ·- . not only in men's hearts, but ovet all things the scriptures. · " .... that God may be all in all" I - e universe. Each time a soul submits to Christ does not mean that the Son ahd Holy Spirit will · ·ilJ ingly submits to God's rule. As such he be cease to be. It means that Father, Son, amd Holy e.:: a part of the church general. But in the ·end Spirit are God in His triune· revelation. It means ei her. willingly or unwillingly, will acknowledge further that the ultimate reign of God in' His triune - .:: as Lord and Christ to the glory of God the nature will be absolute.
of the English ego, meaning self, or selfhood. H e n c e egocentric means self-centered. K1·atiea means power. It is re lated to the verb lcmteo, to take hold of, hence control. The idea· of ego-lcmte·ia, then, is to take · control, to exercise power of onesel :ff. Self-control is ego-power-not in the sense of self assertion or ego-mania- but the Ego-power exercise of power by one's self ITTLE Cy Bolton returned they ought to know. Peter com upon one's self.' kindergarten brandishing his manded self-control as one of the So, Little Cy, self-control is ego . card. With obvious hesita . Christian virtues (II Pet. 1 :6) . power. Perhaps this doesn't help be presented the report to his Peter simply assumed . that his a five-year-old very much. But YOJ.l t,. He had received all checks ·readers knew what self-control will learn. More power to you. Copyright 1961 1 'by V. Wayne Barton, icating acceptable work-ex- means. Quite likely most of us do, New Orleans Seminary ·n one area. "Mama,". he said, even though we do not exercise the all checks except one. Mama, · degree of self-control which we HOW shockingly in~iscl'iminate does control yourself mean ?1' ought. is the love of God.-William M. ·e.l. of course, many adults do The Greek word is a compound: Dyal, Jr., Southern Baptist repre the answer to that question, . ego-lcrateia. Ego is the personal sentative for the south field of ·t goes without saying that pronoun I. It is likewise the source Latin America
r a r y 1 , 1 9'6 2 Pa g e Nine Arkansas All Over------,.----- Marvin Green named OBC Board chairman MARVIN GREEN, of Stephens, was elected chairman of the board of trustees of Ouachita College at the board's organizational meeting Friday, Jan. 19. Other officers in cluded W. S. Fox, Pine Bluff, vice chairman and W. I. (Bill) Walton secretary. br. Green had served as board chairman before his 'second. three year term expired in 1960. Board members may not serve more than two three-year terms consecutively without a year's layoff. Dr. Green will replace Rev. Rheubin South, North Little Rock, whose term has expired. ; After the board meeting, Dr. - Green and board member Miss Emma Riley, Little · Rock, served as hosts at a luncheon for approxi mately 150 board and faculty mem bers and their wives or husbands Crawfordsville note-burning _ in Birkett Williams Dining Hall. FIRST Church, Crawfordsville, Pictured burning the note that Afterwards the group toure~ the made the church debt-free are $200,000 Bible Building nearing observed a dedication ai\d note completion. burning service Sunday, Jan. 14. (from I. to r.): Frank Angeletti, church treasurer; Rev. Ben Row A $15,000 note, final payment ori ell, pastor; and W. L. Cunning Brewer to Hatfield the church, was burned to mark ham, church trustee. completion of a $40,000 building The church is now making plans REV. Harold Brewer has been program on the church. for a new parsonage. called as pastor of Hatfield Church in Ouachita Association. A native of Gill John C. Pyles resigns First, DeQueen ham, Mr. Brewer was g r a d u a t - JOHN C. Pyles, associational exce·eds budget ed from Gillham missionary for Big Creek Associ FIRST Church, DeQueen, ex High School and ation for the past two years, has ceeded its budget in 1961 by $5,500. East Texas Bap resigned to become the missionary With a $1,500 unexpended balance, tist College, Mar for two Missouri assoGiations, the church had $7,000 from wqich shall, Tex., and at Eleven Points River Association it contributed $550 to the Coopera tended, Midwest and Shannon County Association. tive Program, $100 for Foreign ern Seminary. He He moved to Alton, Mo., Dec. 21. Missions, $100 for Home Missions, MR. BREWER formerly pastored Mr. Pyles entered the ministry $100 to the Children's Home, and East Heights Baptist Church, Law in J948 and served his first pas- . $245 for local· missions, which is . rence, Kansas, · and churches at torate at Naylor in Faulkner As 20 percent of its surph1s. Blossom and Troupe, Texas. sociation. Other pastorates in- · The church debt was reduced $3,- Mr. and Mrs. Brewer have a son eluded Oak Wood Church, North 000, leaving a $4,739.91 balahce Dwight, 14, and a daughter, Bev Little Rock; Emmanuel Church, due. The remainder of the surplus erly, 7. Conway; Holland Church and Shirley Church. is to be used for local improye ments. For 1962 the church has Mr. and Mrs. Pyles have two REV. and Mrs. Bill H. Lewis of children, a daughter, Julia, who is voted that 20 percent of all sur Paragould have announced the a student nurse at -Arkansas Bap plus money go to the Cooperative birth of a daughter Jan. 8. The tist Hospital, and a son, John, Jr., Program. The pastor is E. Butler new baby is named Sara Elisa a junior in high scho0I. Abington. beth. Page Ten ARKANSAS BAPTIST Church secretary Rev. James Kelly J. H. Griffin dies dies of injuries dies at Sheridan J. H. GRIFFIN, 91, a retired farmer, died Jan. 18 at his ·home :\IRS. Maxine Blythe Kaufman, REV. James William Kelly, 93, in Greenwood after a long illness. 63, of Monticello died Jan. 22 at a of Sheridan, a retired minister and Little Rock hospital of injuries suf pastor emeritus of First Baptist Born in Troy, Ala., he moved to ·ered Jan. 21 when she fell at First Church, Sheridan, Sebastian county at the age of 12. He was a member of First Baptist Baptist Church, Monticello. died Jan. 21 at his home. Church and was Sunday School Co roner Raymond Stephenson of Superintendent and a deacon at Drew County said Mrs. Kaufman, A native of Ma con, Ga., Mr. Kel Excelsior Baptist ·Church for 14 the church secretary, was walking years. down some stairs when her heel ly moved to Ar caught in a rubber mat and her kansas with his Survivors include his wife, Liz .ead struck a concrete post. parents at an ear zie, with whom he celebra-ted their ly age. He taught 68th wedding anniversary Jan. 10; The accident happened about three daughters, Mrs. E m m a 9 :30 a.m. She was taken- t9 her school at Pratts- MR . KELLY ville and Sheridan Dunn, ·Greenwood; Mrs. Bessie ome nearby and l:rter to the Little ock hospital. a"hd was ordained to the Baptist Roose, Huntington, and Mrs. Zel)a ministry in 1900. Neal, Locli, Calif.; a foster son, ~he had been church secretary Carl A. Crow, Hot Springs; a fos :::: ~ r 1-J years. Mr. K e 11 y pastored several churches in Central Arkansas. He ter daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Skin ~u rviv or s include a daughter, ner, Miami Springs, Fla.; two sis - .ro:;. Brady Wilson, Tiptonville, was pastor in the Prattsville Har mony Baptist Church 40 years and ters, Mrs. Lucy Lockridge and enn. ; f ive brothers, Dean Blythe Mrs. Lizzie Lamb, both of Green ~-dney Blythe and Elijah Blythe: served · Sheridan First Baptist Chu~·ch several years . wood, 10 grandchildren, 19 great . of illonticello; James H. Blythe grandchildren and 3 great-great ~, reYeport, and W. ;B. Blythe, Sta1: D~Iring his more than 50 yea r ~ grandchildren. C' · · and three sisters, Mrs. W. C. in the ministry, Mr. Kelly baptized : •. dall, Monticello, Mrs. Clarence about 2,500 persons and performed "-, E l Dorado, and Mrs. Ed more thaN 3,00,0 weddingS. He bap ·e:-h, Houston, Tex. tized and married members of Mrs. Arthur fox dies three generations in seve r a 1 MRS. Arthur Fox, Morristown, Prattsville families. He pei·for med Tenn. widow of the late Dr. Ar arl McClendon' dies his last wedding ceremony four thur Fox, died Jan. 13 after a long EY . Karl McClendon, retired weeks ago. illness. Dr. Fox pastored churches "n' ter who pastorecl numerous Mr. Kelly and his wife, who died in Newport, _ Marianna and Hope :ern Arkansas churches, died three years ago, movecl·to Sheridan during his ministr y. . 1-t at Mena. from Prattsville in 1942. Funeral services were concluded - r. :\IcClendon was born Feb. by Dr. Hudson Hicks, pastor of the " 9, at Greenwood. He was a Survivors include four claugh- First Church, Morristown, Tenn. ; ate of Southwestern Semi . ters, Mrs. W. Sterling Crutchfield, Dr. Leo . Eddleman, president of -· Ft. Worth, Tex., in 1920. His Sheridan ;, Mrs. J. Howard Wil New Orleans Seminary, and a son; o ·ares included churches at La liams and M~·s. E . W. Jackson, Rev. Paul Fox, pastor of Calvary - lena, Springdale, Waldron, both of Ft. Worth, Tex.; and Mrs. Chorch, Little Rock. "\""t:ner, Okla. ; Neosho, Mo.; W. H. Thurmond of Los Angeles. Other survivors include Mrs. C. ,--eld and several churches in Frank Davis, Morristown, Tenn.; Fqneral was at First Church, :-a Association he served as Mrs. H. Leo Eddleman New Or -··me and interim pastor fol- ~heridan, by Rev. Wendell Welch leans, La., Arthur Fo~, . Jr:, Ft. - retirement in 1953. He and Rev. J.P. Johnson. Burial was Worth, Tex. ; six grandchildren on the executive boards of at Philadelphia Cemetery. and one great grandchild.' -<> ~ and Oklahoma. · e- his wife, survivors in -on, Rev. Lewis McClendon, New Arkansas Baptist subscribers --- usic a t Southern BEN M. Elrod (third from left) received the doctor of theology degree at the mid-winter commencemenfJ at Southwestern S eminary, Ft. ~OUTHERN Baptist College Worth. L. to r.: Jesse J. Northcutt, dean of the School of Theology; : present The Wallfisch-Duo in Robert A. Baker, chairman, committee on graduate studies; Dr. Elrod; concert of music for the piano and Robe'rt E. Naylor, president of the seminary. _d the viola in the college chapel, _ ednesday evening, Feb. 21, at p.m. Ben M. Elrod receives degree is program will be a rare op nunity for music lovers in this BEN M. ELROD, son pf Mr. and he was pastor of First Church, of the state since the viola is Mrs. Searcy Elrod of Rison, re Marl0w, Okla. He also was the Y heard as a concert instru- ceived the doctor of theology de- - pastor of First Church, Atkins, and - -. Built almost like the violin gree at the Jan. 18 mid-winter First Church, Tioga, Texas. - nola has a de·eper tone tha~ commencement at Southwestern He is a 1952 graduate of Ouach Seminary, Ft. Worth, Texas. riolin and possesses a rich ita College with a B.A. degree and 1ike tone in its upper register: Dr. Elrod is the pastor of South Side Church, Pine Bluff. Before a 1956 B.D. degree graduate of e Duo is ·under the auspices of going to Pine Bluff in July 1960, Southwester.n. I Rockefeller ·Brothers Fund of York City and the Arkansas dation 6f Associated Colleges. A family affair Editor's date book admission will be charged. AN entire family received SPEAKING engagements of Ed public is cordially invited to pins for two years perfect at itor E rwin L. McDon ~ld of the this concert. - News Bu tendance at Sunday School at Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine outhern Baptist College. Bayou Mason Church, Lake for February inclu,de: teaching the Village. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Sunday School lessons over Radio Durham and their daughters, Station KTHS (1090 KC), Little e eton bare facts Janice, 6, and Carolyn Sue, 2, Rock, each Sunday, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 'ii1IE "Arkansas Traveler" (skel received the awards forth~ pe 25, from 9:05 to 9:30 a.m.; ·illus -ed in the school of nursing riod ending with December trated lecture, "Crusade to the e Baptist Hospital in Asun 196,1. Mrs. Annie Durham Holy Land," Washington Church Paraguay, and pictured in and· Mrs. J. E. Anderson re (Hempstead County), Feb. 4, 7:30 n. 25 issue of the. A.rkansas ceived 9-month pins. Their pas- · - ·~,..) was bought with special p.:n:i.; preaching, ~orning and eve tor is Rev. Morris C. Jones. ning services, Central Baptist f!"Fi•.:r_:'"' gs giv.en during WMU Dis I - eetings where Miss Wanda Church, Tucson, Ariz., William r, missionary nurse and di- Represents Arkansas Stone, pastor, Feb. 11. r of the school of nursing, was DALLAS, Texas-Rev. Robert Recent engagements include: - ~pea ke r. Although the mon Parker, pastor of Culle'ndale First supplying the pulpits of First the skeleton was handled by Church, Camden, represented Ar =-·-----' Missionary Union of Ar kansas Baptists at the 44th annual · Cpurch, Douglasville, Rev. Floyd "-'---"""""' it was not a gift from the meeting of the Annuity Board here D~vi s , pastor, Jan. 21', and East Jan. 30-31. Side Church\ Ft•. Smith, Jan. 28. uy1 ,1962 Page Thirteen Arkansas All Over------Two chu-rches merge Shelby Stewman Heskett to Texas MARKHAi.\f Street Ch urch and ordained to ministry REV. ANDREW Heskett, for Southwest Church, both in Little SHELBY Stewman, son of Mr. past four years pastor of F i._ Rock, have Yoted to merge their and Mrs. J. G. Stewman, Mena, Church, DeWitt, has resigned .:. congregations and to call Rev. Ray was ordained to the gospel ministry fective Feb. 1 to accept the p ;. ~ Branscum as minister. by First Church, torate of the 1,800-member Ce. tral Baptist Church, in Bryan-C - The two· groups met as a single Mena, S u n d a y congregation fo r the first time Jan. Dec. 17. He has lege Station, Texas. 21 at Markham Street Church. Mr. been c a ll e d as Under Pastor Heskett's lead - ship, the DeWitt church has r · Branscum has been minister of the full-time pastor of Sotithwest Church. Salem Church in ceived 173 additions, 83 by ba - the Nunley Com tism and 90 by letter. The minister of the Markham munity five miles The church was the first in t Street Church, Rev. Ed Dance, re east pf Mena. Association to' use the Forwa. signed about two weeks ago to be Rev. Dillard S. Program of Church Finance, come pastor of Calvary Baptist MR . sTEWMAN Miller, pastor of suiting in an 18 3-4 percent ir · Church in Charlotte, N. C. the First Church, Mena, was mod mediate increase in offerings. OY eratoi· of the ordaining council and the four years, annual offerings i - The Markham Street members creased from less than $40,000 · invited the Southwest congrega preached the ordination sermon. Rev. J. M. Holman, pastor of Gill over $53,000, or ~ 33 1-3 perce · tion to join them and to bring their increase. minister. The new congregation ham Church,- led the questioning; While pastor of the De" ·~ .. will total 375 persons. Mr. Brans Rev. Harold Brewer, pastor of Hat field Church, gave the charge· to church, Mr. Heskett has sen· cum formerly was minister of Centennial Association as Yi · South Highland Church until he the church. Rev. Al Escott, as sociational missionary of Ouachita moderator, as clerk, and is . pr · resigned about six months ago. He ently moderator. He has served t. organized the Southwest Church. Association, gave the charge to the preacher; Rev. Pete Petty, Van De Witt Ministerial Alliance as Yi · The Southwest Church will be dervoort, presented the Bible, and president and is now president. H · dissolved. J. G. Stewman, a deacon of First is also a member of the De\Yi .. Church and father of the candi Rotary Club, and a member of t , date, led the ordaining prayer. DeWitt YMCA Board of Direct01 Arkansan in He served on the State Com·e - music recital Shelby is a senior in the Mena tion's N0minating Committee . High School, president of the stu 1959 and was the Convention's re - AN Arkansas student at New dent body, half-back on the foot Orleans Seminary will present a re resentative for Arkansas County ball team and a three-year letter the Chdstian Civic Foundati cital of contemporary and classi man. He is president of the RA's cal music Feb. 8 in partial fulfill of Arkansas. He was elected pre of 'the Baptist State Convention dent of the Arkansas chapter ment of requirements for the de and has for many years been an gree Master of Church Music. the Southern Seminary Alum. active member of First Church. Association at their annual mee· Frank Haygood, son of Mr. and He is past president of the local ing in Little Rock last Novemb Mrs. John R. Haygood, Hazen, wiH Future Farmers .of America and Mr. Heskett is a native of A - ~ ing selections from Mendelssohn, president of the FFA District Fed eration. kansas. He and his wife, the fc · Brahms, Haydn, Dvorak, Rogers mer Jean Appling, are both fro and Kirkpatrick, among others. All Following the ordination service, West Helena. They have a fou - areas of sacred music will be repre Mr. Stewman officiated in a bap · year-0ld son, Ricky, and a tw - sented including spirituals, hymns tismal service. Three candidates year-old daughter, Monica. and oratorios. were baptized into the church he is called to pastor. First, Lepanto J I Church on TV He plans to attend Ouachita Col plans building lege next year. FIRST Church, Pine Bluff, will FIRST Church, Lepanto, h resume its television series, "The voted for a "Planning, Impro\· · Art bf Living," on Saturday,. Feb. MISS Nancy Cooper, executive ments and ]?uilding Committee" · 3, the church bulletin reports. The secretary-treasurer of the Woman's make plans to build a . new auc · program will be broadcast on TV Missionary- Union for the past 13 torium and remodel the old audi· · CbannBl 7 at 11 :45 a.m. weekly. years, who suffered a coronary oc rium for additional teaching a. The program is written and' pro training space, the church bulle duced by the pastor, Rev. Robert clusion last Nov. 19, is recuperat reports. The members will · L. Smith, and is supported from ing at her home, 2200 Summit, Lit elected Feb. 7 at the monthly bu, the church budget. tle Rock ' \ ness conference. Page Fourteen.. ARKANSAS BAPTIS The author speaks The message .of Genesis By RALPH H. ELLIOTT, Midwestern Seminary A SOUTHERN B'aptist seminary professor must work. in and age of negativism. a cradle of "creative tension." He must give loyalty to the The second is that we begin with faith, not with reason. denomination which he loves and· serves and, at the same Reason has a place as "faith seeks to understand," but faith -·me, loyalty to the free and best in his search for truth . has priority, and Eot the reverse. •\5 such, he must live in two worlds-that of the grassroots With these general comments as a pattern, I wi-ll now l!.!ld t hat of the academic pursuit-and he must not lose look at the major areas of criticism which have come to tmderstanding and grasp of either. my attention. The Southern Baptist seminary ,professor is not likely -o lose contact with the grassroots. He proraches in the· ( _ uches almost every Sunday, teaches in Bible studies and Answers and elaboration nferences there, and stays in the homes of the people 1 · in the communities. He has opportunity to hear the hunger • CREATION-that God c~·eated the world is history. There -nd heartbeat of lay people who yearn for a deeper knowl- is no debate here. But with John R. Sampey, Syllabus for edge of the Bible. As such, he is perhaps closer than many Old Testament Study, one will! have to say that "the method hose parish is one locale. · of creation is not explained in Genesis. Science may pursue At times, he must bring to bear the application of varying its re~earch on the subject without hindrance from the Bible" methods and thoughts in an effort to meet the needs. This (p. 63). ' eans a certain amount of change, not in the Bible, but in Reference is at times made to the other creation accounts. r.e 's quest to be addressed by its thundering revelation. This With Sa~pey, one would agree again that the biblical writer ust be true, else there will be staleness and retrogression. may lrave used a literary framework from an earlier period But the prophet works within the church and denomi- (pp. 63, 64). However, the religious content is entirely dif ·on of which he is a part. As seen in the experience ferent. · Any use of a foreign framework by the Hebrew Isaiah (ch. 6), the prophet brings approval and _denun- · writer was to disagree with the concept of creation which he 'on, holding action and change, but within the existing found prevalent in the pagan world. -~ctu re of which h'e is a member. In his effort, [the Thus, he denounced the theology of the pagan stories a thor] remembers the words of Dr. W. T. Conner, written and championed allegiance to the one and only God _above - me years ago, "The Bible must be interpreted in relation to the hideous and polytheistic concepts of a non-Hebraic - .e environment from which it came." 1A like parallel is that , society. How long the creative process took, nobody knows. - e Bible must also be interpreted in relation to the environ- The term for cLay (yom) can indicate a 24-hour period but ent for which its message is eternally relevant. often in the Old Testament, it definitely indicates an in- The above ministry is possible because of the fact of definite period of time and in all translations is so translated. elation-inspiration. That the Bible is the Word of God Dr. Sampey in The Heart of the Old Testament, p. 17, 'took he professor's undergirding assumption. My life and · the non-literal view when he taught at Southern Seminary. · istry is predicated upon this tremendous foundati0n. , This is nothing new. ·-bout it, there would be nothing. The Bible is not only 2. Historicity . of the Personages-Much effort is made . but it is my guide for faith and practice. On this, to champion the historicity of the personages on pages 75f. Baptists agree. of The Message of Genesis. Though the m.aterial in Genesis In The Message of Genesis, the writer has sought to under- 1-11 is of a different literary style than that of Genesis 12-50, d t he implications of the book. for .the environment from I have always maintained the personages there as historical · h it came and for that to which it must now be preached. also. Enoch and Noah and the others were real. Also, me have sought, by the isolation of passages from their there was an Adam. ext and by stringing them haphazardly together, to con- However, Genesis uses the term Adam in a two-fold way. - - this writer's effort with theological liberalism as repre- In the first two chapters of the Bible there is a general ~ ed in the German scholar Julius Wellhausen. While creation with the portrayal of multiple specimens. The term made some important contributions as to method, I would used for the creation is the Hebrew word 'adam which means among the first to point out that his theology was atro- "mankind" collectively, and generally not one individual , and did so on page 7 of The Message of Genesis. man, for such is indicated through the use of the Heb;rew As did the professors of our schools a generation ago, I term 'ish. By analogy with collective creation in the '·e part of every semester to show the falsity of his re- earlier part of Genesis 1, it would seem that the collective _·ou s viewpoints. Those who will take the trouble to read idea is also involved with man. ·,;; work, .Prologornena to the History of Israel, will discover Thus, the biblical writer's emphasis is that God created - there is as much difference between his theology and mankind, i.e., all of us are the work of God. However, · e as between darkness and daylight. Wbile I have adopted on approaching the third chapter of Genesis, you have a :a .:imilar methodology, it has been used to confirm basic different setting altogether. Nearly all Hebrew names mean logy and n 7 . .Jesus and Old Testament Authority-The Pentateuch (first five books of the Old Testament) specifically states t hat Moses wrote some of the material (Exodus 17:14; 24:4; 3.J :7; Numbers 33:2; Deuteronomy 31 :9-24). It also specifi cally states that Moses SJ>oke certain passages. The effort to indicate that Moses wrote these indicates that someone else al:;o had a part. It is at no pgint stated that Moses wrote Genesis. The effort to indicate that Moses wrote these pas · ag-es indicates that someone else under the inspiration of God- also had a part. Such is seen when a place name such as "Dan" is used in Genesis 14:14, for in Judges 18:30 we a:~:e plainly told that the city was ' not so named until the period of the J udges, that prioi· to this time the city was called "Laish." Someone after the time of Moses, an inspired writer or editor, inserted the new name even as someone else wrote a bout the death of Moses in peuteronomy 34. Such passag-es as John 5:46, 47, which refer to Moses, may refer to material which Moses wrote or spoke. This, however, does not indicate that Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament, certainly not in their entirety. The present writer, for instance, ·has championed Moses as the essential contributor of the major material in the book of Deute1·onomy. Jesus so often used the book of Deuteronomy (cf. His three replies to His temptation experi ence in Matthew 4), that · at times He may have had the Deuteronomic material in mind when He spoke of Moses. To say that Moses did not wr'ite ·everything- does not in any wise cast aspersion against Jesus. With the Holy Spi.rit, God's revelation becomes a living reality in the individual's life. Without the Holy Spirit, the He may have been referring to some sections which the pages are dead pages. When one is willing and desirous, Old Testament itself mentioned that Moses actually wrote . with this book-the Bible- in his hand, God speaks. .Jes us often omitted any refe1:ence to author, suggesting that He was giving no special significance to authorship. Our Lord spok.e on great ·issues; ' the question of authorship in Conclusion His context was not relevant. It was not deceptive that Jesus should use the normal literary 1·eference of His day, or that He should withhold information which would either REGARDLESS of method, I affirm afresh the Bible as be misunderstood by the crowd or which might incite them revealed and inspired and authoritative for life and pntctice. to wrong action (cf. John 16:12; Mark 4:33; Mark 8:30; Though writing is as old as 3000 B. C., the age at which )lark 9:9; 1 Corinthians 3:1, 2; etc.). something was written down says absolutely nothing about the age of the material itself. It is impossible to pinpoint dates· for all Wl'itten sources, but even when you can, the Further, to refer to a person does not ind·icate authorship. writing down of oral material simply captures that which "Samuel" . is used in Acts 3:24 in the same sense of the was already old. T-hbugh human beings be the instruments, ook of Samuel. However, the reference is to 2 Samuel such did not happen in the Scriptme without the guiding - :11-16 which is not a statement of Samuel but of Nathan Providence of God _,who is t~ltimate author. -he p1·ophet. Authorship i.s not implied in the refe1·ence, for ::ome of the ev·ents mentioned in 1 Samuel and those of 2 The life of our denomination is dependent upon a preser .::amuel refer to events after Samuel's death. vation of the genuine message of the Bible. This writer has dedicated his life to the preservation of, and the proclamation 8. The Breath of God-Objection has been taken to a of, the integrity of the Scripture. An honest attempt has ~ atement on page 203 of the book: "But through them as been made in The Message of Genesis to contribute to tne -hey presently are, there often bre..athes the spirit of God discovery and _p1:otection of the true message of this biblical -o make them, not just words, but the living Word." Some book. . m·e taken this to mean that some words are inspired, some ::.re not; and the questioner desires to lo1ow who is going The effol't, aeconling to testimony and correspondence, decide what is, and is not, inspil:ed. is in keeping with, the same basic pattern as is ·true of professors in our sister seminaries. This is not suggest that T he questioner has missed the pe1·spective. The above all of the conclusions are universally shared. Such is never true of any book written by man. It is not difficult to ~-ate ment is a pol'ti01't of the conclusion of the book and I define a basic premi~e of revelation-inspiration, but differ 1 not commenting upon any differentiation or decision on e inspiration of words or parts. What I am emphasizing ences will always arise when , sevCI·al efforts a1·e made to place the agreed-upon premise into operation in the inter .~ that this (the Bible) is God's Word. To many people it pretation of individual passages. - ·" only a record. But if an individual sits clown in tl\e Spirit .- God, in devotion, and prayer, and faith, then God breathes Such soul competency, freedom of interpretation, and . ross these pages so that they become living words and recognition of the pri~s thood of the believer are among the ~-at r evelation which was alive, and vital,' and dynamic for reasons for being a Baptist. Eve1·y Baptist has a 1·ight to - ':.lra ham, becomes just as living and vibran~ and dynamic hear and to decide. Such is the freedom yye enjoy. r him. This is God's hook and his media of a continuing ·elation. [See ·relc&~ ed wrt·icles on follo,w·ing pages-ELJJIL] brua r y I , 196 2 P a~ c Se v enteen Attendance Revort Jan uary 21. 1962 Pro S u nday T raining Addi Church School U nion t ions Alpena, Firs 79 39 Berryville, Freeman Heights 144 86 Camden CuUendale, First 447 223 Help for pew and 'pulpit First • 572 222 Conway. F irst 557 113 5 Crossett, F irst 584. 183 1 El Dorado ROBERT CRAFT E ast Main 266 146 1 By H. First 866 254 Northside Chapel 45 40 Pastor, Leawood Church, Jl,eawood, Kansas Immanuel 54 8 261 1 Cook St. Mission 17 20 Eng lan d, Caney Creek 68 17 T HAS been well said that in his book, tion from the malignancy of sin. Genesis F ayetteville, Providence 74 38 J F ord yce. First .42 9 184 The Message of Genesis, Dr. Ralph H._ 1-11 presents a prolegomena not only to Ft. Smith the subsequent chapters but .to the entire Firs t 906 286 8 Elliott, professor of Old Testament, Missions 326 107 Midwestern Seminary (Kansas City, Bible. Chapters 1 and 2 present God in Grand Avenue 563 223 5 all of His virile productive force creating Mission 20 Mo.) has probably made the most sig Kelley Height 139 80 nificant and creative contribution to the the world and man in His own image. Temple 253 122 4 Chapters 3-11 show man's sin in his will Towson Avenue 152 57 1 field of Biblical scholarship for South Trinity 248 74 ern Bapti:;;ts since the writing-s of Dr. ful disobedience to God's revelation and Gravel Ridge, First ]4f) 93 1 the resultant enmity between m'ln and Gurdon, Beech Str eet 173 92 H. E. Dana and Dr. A. T. Robertson. Hackett, First 51 37 · God, man against man, with the inevit H arrison, EaO"l e Hei O'hts 165 76 The first clear and unmistakable help able remedial judgments. The author H ot Springs. Park Place 388' 161 7 the book offers to the minister or lay Huntsvi11 e, Fi1·st 104 5:-J emphasizes the· imperative identifica K ingston Mi s ~ ion 31 24 man is to clarify and face squarely and tion of every man in the picture detailed Combs Mission 6 honestly the ;major problems of author Jacksonville in these chapters. First 702 243 7 ship, date,. anachronisms, and oral tra Marshall Roa d 89 38 dition in Genesi:;;. Dr. Elliott's answer The tr.eatment of the first eleven chap Jones Mills:- Shorewood Hills 99 73 2 J onesboro, Central 355 , 146 2 to. these problems demonstrates his aca ters of Genesis demonstrates man's ba Little Rock demic integrity and pertinent knowledge. sic problem-he is a helpless sinner in First 1104 557 Gaines Street 404 223 9 0f the best in Old Testament scholar need of a Redeemer:· The book in sub Dennison St. Miss. 60 42 1 ship . . He reasons abou.t Genesis: sequent chapters demonstrates evangel Immanue1 1236 494 5 Forest Tower 36 17 istic grace in answering man's need Kerr 24 13 " some of the material has through a transformed life. The life, of Rosedale 270 121 1 roots going back to tlie early Su Abraham is a demonstration of this South Hi«hland 406 177 Magnolia, Central 654 245 merian-Babylonian period (3000-1500 aforementioned thesis. The author uses McGehee, First 365 157 2 B.C.) The form of its application to approximately one-third of his book to Chapel zq 13 Mountain Home . .E ast Side 76 34 divine ·history perhaps is exilic and post describe God's relationship with Abra North Little Rock exilic (500 B.C.) Many human authors, ham. This section beginning on Page Baring Ct:oss 751 260 6 Central 310 95 worship circles, and 'redactors appear to 75 and ending on Page 154 is the most Levy 563 249 have had a part in shaping Genesis over inspirational, scholastically honest, and Park Hill 727 251 5 Russejlville, Prairie Grove 29 30 a long period of time. In a special sense, emotionally gripping passage in the Smackover, First 338 151 2 this underscores the fact that God js / book. His explanation of the life of Springdale the ultimate author" (Page 11). Caudle Avenue 170 74 Abraham has to be classified as equal Elmdale 89 40 to the best writing in the field of re Fi1'S t 481 163 2 Van Buren ligion today. Calvai·y 45 43 Draw from history First ' 323 124 Churches are requested. to send attendance report information separate from other communications Pilgrimage of faith to the Newsmagazine to avoid confusion. Postcards IN V ARlO US places in the Bible the are pre~e1·able and they must be in our office by the authors mention drawing upon current. noon mail delivery on W ednesday. They should be addressed to : Arkansas Baptist N ewsmagazine, history, personal testimony, editorial ABRAHAM'S pilgrimage of faith 401 W . Capitol, Little Rock, Ark. conclusion, and differing patterns of re from polytheism to monotheism and search to write their particular book or God's persistent love and loyalty to segment of book. The Gospel according Abraham as he faltered, failed, and ul flet4t /M t Secret of growth MISSIONARY interest formed the basis for Baptists working to gether in the 19th century and is still the uniting force. The modern Baptist movement in England was divided into two camps from the beginning : Gen eral and Particu lar Baptists. \!.'his was a doctrinal di.. DR. SELPH vision. Two things helped bring the bodies closer together. William Carey became concerned a.bout taking the gospel to the East. This stimulated the Particular Baptists. An evangelical atmos phere permeated the General Bap tists through the "New Connec tion" movement, led by Dan Taylor. ·Interested in the same thing, the two bodies drew closer. Gradually, they found more and more in common. Both groups gave financial aid to churches and ministers, schools were established, and missionary organizations came to life. Conferences and associa Child Care· Association Officers tional meetings provided opportu nity for fraternal .relations and ex OFFICERS chosen at last week's meeting of the Southern Baptist change of ideas. Both groups were Convention Child Care Executives Association in Little Rock:· (Seated) interested in the home base as well Edgar E. Blake, Miss·ouri, president; (standing, from left) Rev. H. C. as the foreign. These combined in Seefeldt, Arkansas, and Rev. John Murdoch, South Carolina, vice P1'esi terests led to the union of the Par dents; James V. Browning, Oklahoma, secretary-treasurer, re-elected. ticular and New Connection Gen eral Baptists in 1891. LITTLE Rock was host to the Officers for the coming year are: Child Care Executives Association Edgar E. Bl:;tke, Missouri Chil On this side of the ocean mis sionary interests accomplish of the Southern Baptist Convention dren's Home, Bridgeton, president; wer~ ing the same thing. Baptists found last week. Out of the sessions came Rev .. Harold C. Seefeldt, Arkansas a recommendation that Southern Children's Home, Monticello, and a kindred interest among their churches. Sometimes sharp doc Baptist colleg~s and universities Rev. John Murdoch, Greenwood, S. offer accredited training in the C., vice. presidents; James V. trinal differences arose between social work field. Brown, Oklahoma City, re-elected bodies, but missions provided a secretary-treasurer. common interest. Dr. T. M. Johns, superintendent Ironically, the point over which of the Florida Baptist Children's The convention, held at the Al Baptists united- missions -be Home at Lakeland, cited the in bert Pike Hotel, accepted the invi came a divisive factor, especially creases in salaries for college train tation from the University of North in the Southern states. They di Carolina, Chapel Hill, for the 1963 vided into missionary and anti ed personnel. These range from meeting, · scheduled for January $4,250 to $7,000, he said. The child missionary groups. Though mis 29-31. sionary interest is the secret of care homes have been maintaining The Unitah Basin Children's Baptist denominational life, this in-training programs for present Horne, Whiterocks, Ut., became the subject has brought violent up staffs. 34th member institution. · heavals in their ranks. Page twenty AR~ANSAS BAPTIST foreign Mission Soard reports to the people Cauthen lau·ds miSSionaries• • • By lONE GRAY S ouTHER::-.l' Baptists gave $17,935,615 and 103 new mission arie: for overseas · work in 1961, Dr. . Baker J. Cauthen, eeu ·~e secretary, told the Foreign Mission Board in its anuary meeting. "We thank God for his gracious pro ri;;ion and co mmit ourselves afresh to the great stewardship hich is involved in this task," be said. Examining world mission need ("the 1,548 foreign mission L-ie now under appointment to 47 countries are only a • ·en" ) and reviewing progress in 1961, Dr. Cauthen hastened ~a y that the real standards of missjonary service are unmeasurable: "the heroic qualities-steadfastness, faith, and courage-which kept bereaved missionaries (many lost parents and other loved ones by death in 1961) at their osts of service with heavy but dedicated hearts." Calling attention to preparation being made for World Mis _ion Year in 1963, Dr. Cauthen said the chief factor in mi-sionary work is not the numerical gains r eco.rded in a . -ingle year but the development of profound convictions and missionary imperatives that w~ll carry the task forward on a sustained basis throughout the years to come. He listed among immediate undertakings larger efforts in evangelism and church development. Africa conference CHILDREN at the Paul D. Rowden Primary School in Nazareth, Ismel. A new building for the THE REPORT of Dr. H. Cornell Goerner, secretary for school's primary division was dedicated by Southern Africa, Europe, and the Near East, was air-mailed from 0 hogbo, Nigeria, during the first All-Africa Baptist Mission Baptists last year. (Photo by H. Cornell Goerner) Conference Dec. 29-Jan. 6. The meeting, -designed for fellow established fields--:Niigata in Japan, Dalat/. in Vietnam, and _hip, consuitation, sharing of ideas, and discussion of common Thonburi and Sriracha in Thailand. problems, was attended by 64 persons, among them 40 mis Evangelistic work was begun in Vietnam with encouraging sionaries and 19 national Baptist leaders from nine countries. response; a notable increase in· professions of faith and Also attending the conference was Dr. Franklin T. Fowler, baptisms in Thailand; a second foreign missionary couple sent • e Board's medical consultant, who had just visited nine out and a new home mission project opened by the Baptist Baptist hospitals, a maternity and child welfare center, a convention of Taiwan (Formosa); continued planning by ealth and leprosy center, and a number of clinics in Africa·. Japanese Baptists for a nation-wide eva,ngelistic crusade "It is really remarkable to see how much our missionary in 1963 and their decision to send missionaries to Brazil, octors, nurses, technicians, and administrators are doing, con- a second foreign mission field . . ering the small number that we have." he said. "Our Four new English-language Baptist churches were or edical mission institutions in Africa are offering some ganized and buildings dedicated for four others; a beginning ~ t he best and highest type of medical service available." made in radio and television in Thailand and preparations carried forward for a television ministry in Japan and n latin .America Taiwan; student work ministry expanded. Progress in training Christian leadership, included -dedi DR. FRANK K. Means, secretary for Latin America, cation of a new theological seminary campus in Thailand, reported on a number of special projects to take place in 1 opening of a seminary hight school in Hong Kong, and ·- area in 1962. Among them are a tour by a Royal beginning of special institutes for training lay leadership in ~ bassador promotional team from the ~tates, made up of the Philippines, Malaya, and Thailand. ward Hurt, Jr., associate secretary of the Brotherhood Advances in general educational work included completion Commission, Pastor Robert S. Scales, of · Trinity Church, of an agriculture building at Southern Baptist College in Oklahoma City, ·and William Jackson, RA secretary for the the Philippines and assuming of responsibility by Southern ptist State Convention of North Carolina; visits by Mrs. Baptist missionaries for an industrial school in Faridpur, . L. Mathis, president of Woman's Missionary Union, Pakistan. r. Paul M. Stevens, director of the Radio and Television In medical work, major forward steps were the opening C mmission, and Dr. Herschel H. Hobbs, president of the of a nursing school in Indonesia, beginning of dental clinics u hern Baptist Convention; an evangelism workshop to in Korea and Indonesia, signing of a contract for construction conducted in B:~;azil by Dr. Eual F. Lawson, an associate of the hospital building in Hong Kong, and beginning of the Home Mission Board's division of evangelism; and medical evangelistic trips to outlying areas by the staff of angelistic crusades by the Billy Graham team. the Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospi_tal in Korea. Dr. Crawley closed his report by suggesting three matters rawley surveys Orient for the cont~nuing prayer of Southern Baptists: (1) a re surgence of missionary commitments and appointments to DR. WINSTON Crawley, secretary for the Orient, de meet remaining emergency needs; (2) the continuing investi· ribed the background of current Asian crises against gation of possibilities for entering India as discovered in "ch significant progress was made in Southern Baptist surveys made in 1961; and (3) "the guidance of God's Holy ·- ion work. Spirit in showing us ways to step up the outreach and umatra, a major Indonesian island of 14,200,000 people, effectiveness of our witness so as to r each with the gospel e ered; first Southern Baptist missionaries reached Guam; of salvation the multiplying masses of Asia now in this ew stations of missionary residence opened in already- tremendous day of crisis and missionary opportunity." Fe bruary 1, 1962 ' Pa g e T wenty - On e ------~----~------~------DEPARTMENTS------:iunaay :ictwoL Religious Education M issions~EvangeLisrn Oops- a change! Important event Schools of missions THE proposed two day Vacation Bible Sd10ol Clinic for associational workers A NUMBER of us at the Baptist FOUR associations will participate in has been changed to a one day meeting. Building ar e prayerful1y awaiting the schools of missions during February. Scheduled for Feb. 5 F eh. 19 Associational Leaclel>ship Clinic. They are: Hope, Centennial, Caroline and 6, the Clinic has The meeting will be and Pulaski. F o r - been r e-scheduled for for one clay only from eign, home and state Feb. 6 only. :rhe place ,A 10 a.m. to 7 · p.m., at missiona1·ies will be of meeting is Imman ,; Immanuel B apt is t s p e akin g in 108 uel Baptist Church, Chmch, Little Rock. churches. What a Little Rock. All associational mis p1·ivilege for these Because of the one s ionaries, moderators, churches to hear mis day a s s o c i a t i o n and officers of Sun sionaries from all al Leadership Confer School, Training Un parts of the world, ence on Feb. 19 in ion, C h u l' c h Music, nation and state tell Little Rock it seemed and B'rotherhood are about their work! to attend. . wise to condense the RURAL CHURCH MR. HATFIELD Dr. Ru cker, who clinic to one day. CONFERENCE Mit ELLIFF has a session for mis DR. CALDWELL There will be four and one-half hours of The annual Rm·al conference time as compared to five sionaries in the afte1·noon, has also in Church Conference will be held at Lons hours· in the two-day c'linic last year. vited all associational Annuity repre dale, June 18-21. Among the speakers Using the time around the tables at sentatives and associational W.l\II.U. presidents to attend. His aftemoon ses will be Dr. Perry Webb and Dr. J. P. meal periods for gene1·al p1·og1·am will McBeth. The missionaries' 1·etreat will also help. sion will be ve1·y import,ant. The most s i ~?>" nifi ca nt matter s of as be combined with this conference accord Associational workers should plan now ing to the vote of missionaries last year. to anive for the opening hour , 9 :30 a.m., sociational aucl state educational work will be discussed. A glimpse into the The vote was taken after· the 1962 cal and stay through the close at . 8 p.m. enclal' had been prepared, which accomlts :Mileage and meals are prov id ed for, the future of our Southern Baptist educa tional ministry will be given. for the elate being in the denominational associational Vacation Bible School (state) calendar. teams. As director of the Religious Education Division, I am looking forward to a one Because most teams prefer to drive MIGRANT MISSIONS home after the one-day clinic, no provi and-half-hour session with our mission The February issue of the Royal sion is made for all t eam memb ~ r s to aries. Will you men who face t he chal stay over night in Little Rock ·homes. lenge of promoting our work on the Senice Magazine· carries an excellen Individuals who find it necessary to stay strategic associational level please come article about the Arkansas Mission pro over night in order to attend the clinic, prepa1·ed to shar e with us your obser gram for migmn.ts. The article is a should notify the Sunday School De vations and suggestions? reprint f rom Home Mission Magazine. partment by mail p1:ior to the, clinic. W e have n ever before f elt quite the A letter has come from a man in Oregon, Lawson Hatfield, Seci·etary urgency of co-o1·dination; unification , and who is doing resea1·ch along· tln1.t line, vitalizat1on of om· educational work as requesting additional information. Our now. W e a1·e committed to this objec mission work with the migrants has attracted att ention far and wide. Most Executive Board ,1 t ive, but it can never be done without (Continued from page 2) the pooling of every wo1thwhile id ea. of the work has been clone ·in · the fall, but s ince imported labor is now used They can't understand why the assof Incidentally, a number orfinqt{iries and for strawberry picking and cotton chop ciation needs money and they ce1'tainly unofficial 1·equests have been made to ping the prog ram may be enlarged to do not under stand why anything called u s by pa.storS' and missionaries who want include spring months. Most of these the "Cooperative Program" needs so the Pilot P1·oj ect tried in their area. much money. laborer s speak Spanish; so we import No decision hfts yet been made. There Spanish speaking preachers to conduct Yes, we understand, these people are fore, ·your suggestions and opinions will ser vices among them. Baptists and members of Baptist be given car eful consid eration. churches, but the majority of them are . Some ass o c i ~t ional g r ~ up s ar e plan POTTSVILLE CHURCH ACTIVATED numbered with the unenlisted millions. nmg to char t er a bus for the Feb. 19 Une11listed means non-attenda nce, non t1·ip to promote fellowship and fo1·estall The· Pottsville ChUl'ch b u i I cl i n g g iving, uninterest ed, 1t111infonned. Why possible travel problems clue to' the which has been closed for almost 20 m·e they unenlisted? W ell, if we knew weathel'.-J. T. Elliff, Director years is now alive with an active Sun the answer, we would be doing some day School and preaching services. First thing be.sides writing this mticle for the Chm·ch of Russrllville and the Missions Arkansas Baptist News magazine. But, REBIND OWN BlllLE. Easy, simpli Department have given financial assist all · of them_ are product s of Baptist fied method. Kits ; cover, glue, end ance in re-establishing- the services. Rev. churches. Om: lack of stewardship sheets, materials, instructions. Lexide H eT man Hurd is mission pastor. t eaching has caused some of our un cover $1.95. Morocco $5.00. State Bible enlis ted ill. s ize. U. S. Bible Bindery, Box 15051. ASSOCIATIONAL SURVEY Dnllas 1, Tex. The Forward P1·ogram· of Church Fi Independence Co unty Association nance will help f ind, inform, challenge plans a n association-wide survey f or and enlist the lost chu1·ch members. In Aug. 12-19 in preparation for the Church ·doing this it will get more money for The Development Ministry which will be Kingdom causes. LITTLE GIANT HOTOMATIC Gas Water Heater No. 3 launched. Why not start studyin g· the Program? Will SUillliY all the hot Why not order a package and learn water needed for Bautistries, Church Kitchens, Rest Room s. PLANS NEW MISSION all about it? Now is a good time to Heats 450 GPH , 20• rise in do tha t. W e'll be g·lad to visit your tern perature. Inexpen sive, too. First Church, Warren, W. ·E. Speed, Write for free folder. pastor, plans to begin a mission in F eb church and help with a stud y period. LITTLE GIANT MFG. ·CO. - ltalph Douglas, Associate !::iec1·etary. 907 7th Street, Orange, Texas l'Uary.-C. W.' Caldwell, Supe1·intendent PJ g c Twent y-Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST ,_ Missions-Evangelism Training Union more intelligently follow his leaders in a truly great progTam of work. "By all means win some'' Every associational Brotherhood off i Group learning clinic cer should take the course in 'the As Transfer month sociational B'rotherhood Manual, as well I ONE OF our greatest needs in Train 'i1IEP.E are o>er 2,700,000 Baptists ing Union is to make our meetings as the Church Brotherhood Guidebook •e mo>ed and left no forwarding more meaningful-to have better pro course. This, next to worldliness in grams. The purpose The new RA courses are prime ne t he lives of our mem · of the group learning cessities for all those who would lead bel:s, is the big prob clinic in Memphis in RA w·ork. The Brotherhood course of lem in the work of Feb. 12-16 is not to "Effective Christian Witnessing" should Southern Baptists. give the people Train be taught to every Brotherhood man How may we correct ing Union methods and to every RA counselor. Other this pro b 1 em that but to show by de courses in stewardship and world mis grows 1 a r g e r each monstrations how to sions are being prepared by the Broth year? use available mater erhood Commission. February has been ials. M a n y c h u r c h · The Brotherhood, Department stands designated a:s · the leaders have not be ready to provide instructors for any of month to encourage gun yet to develop the above-named courses. Contact your our unattached Bap .the use of non-pro Brotherhood Department. Books a!I'e tists to t r a n s f 'e r MR . DAVIS jected visual aids. Mit REED available from the Baptist Book Store. their membership to If the matter of expense is your - Nelson Tull, Secretary churches where they live. Usually, Bap problem_ write to Mrs. T. M. Deaton, · i.:; - should belong to churches where Kensington Place, .Memphis, for a room · hey live and should attend where they in a private home for $1.25 per night belong. When people are asked to "move (breakfast not served). She is getting Student Union · heir letter," it really means move their many rooms near Bellevue Church, or membership from one Baptist chm:ch on a bus line. Arkansas A&M College o another. · One church takes a mem- Educational directors and Training ber in upon the baptism at the hands Union directors should work together STATISTICS: Arkansas A & M Col o • another body of "like faith and to .enlist car loads of Training Union lege is a four-year college located at ~ rder." 1 workers to attend the Group-Learning Monticello. Of the 1,040 students en In moving . the membership one is Clinic.-Ralph W. Davis, Secretary rolled, 497 are Bap- to that part of the church cove tist. There are eight which says, "We moreover engage international hat when we remove from this place Brotherhood s t u d e n t s enrolled. e shall as soon as possible unite with They are from Iran. some other church to carry out the BSU DIRECTOR: Miss Peggy Peterson ~pi rit of this covenant and the principles Some Brotherhood musts has been the director of God's Word." IT IS said that an old Negro once since September, re made the remark, "You can't no more J> If the pastors will stress this part placing ' Darrel Cole of the covenant it will help to solve teach people what you don't know than you can come back man, who is directing our non-reside.nt membership problem. the student work in To facilitate this matter three cards from where you ain't been." We of the Little Rock. are available for this information. DR. LOGUE BSU CENTER: ._rom our office we have mailed some Brotherhood Depart ment can accept this . The Baptist Student Center was built information explaining the s e cards. in 1954. Perhaps the late C. C. Smith, Order cards from the Book Store. philosophy without reservation. T h o s e vice president of Arkansas A & M .for The cards will not help much unless who w o u 1 d teach many years, was the person most re .f n know the un-attached Baptists and must k'now what .they sponsible for the fulfillment of the eir addresses. Please check your pros would teach. Those dream of Baptists of' Southeast .Arkan • lists again and make another effort who would lead must sas to provide a spiritual ministry for reach those good people. Most of know where they are students enrolled at A & M. em have been saved, I am sure, but going, and how to get The center is built on the campus and need some encouragement, sym MR. TULL there . cost approximately $26,000. The State • y and love. The above paragraph is intended to Convention paid approximately $16,000 er from our Tract Department, point to the absolute necessity of study of this, and the . local area, $10,000. You Are a Baptist Why Not Be ing· to learn, and of training .to learn (First Church, Monticello, contributed - '! ., "Belong Where' You Live" and how. "Learning and learning how" $5,000.) There are 1,900 square feet nr Last Engagement." My slogan mean, together, the acquiring of perti in the center. :his is, "Think about it, talk about nent information and the development BSU ACTIVITIES : A full program ray about it and then just do it and utilization of particular skills. of student work is promoted at A & M. :he glory of God."· For every Bap In order to work effectively at his Daily devotional services held in the ~t moves his membership we have Brotherhood job, every Brotherhood of chapel of the center have been noted for us to come for baptism. When ficer must have an adequate concept of their true worship quality and good at . ·t friends see Christians move the general program of Brotherhood, and tendance.-Tom ·J. Logue, Director :or God it does something to them. also a detailed knowledge of the partic (T his is the fifth in a series on the 15 Baptist ors, don't wait for Baptists to ular duties, responsibilities, privileges, Student Unions in A rka nsas. ) . our church building, but look. them and opportunities of his office . and invite them. Remember even Every church Brotherhood officer • · -"-oe.;. """'~ you go, other groups are knocking oug·ht to study the Church Brotherhood MISSIONARY Robert L. Field eir doors. When people transfer Guidebook. He ought to fulfiU all the en asked the people of a small'Bra memberships this is a part of requirements of the ·course in order to rnng the results of Evangelism." obtain credit. Every man in the Broth zilian town if any Christians lived a part of Evangelism.-J esse S. erhood should be given the opportunity there. "No, but one passed through Director of Evangelism to take this course, in order that fle may here one time," was the reply. Page Twenty-Three Sunday School Lesson------[In connection with the 8-unday School lesson th·is week, S·tmclay atloraiion and worship, he has failed School teachers and othe1· 1·eacle?"S will be inte1·estecl in the a1·ticle, "Ever to keep ihe commandment. This, 110 doubt, is the primary reason for the on Swulay . . ."beginnin g on page 6 of th·is issue.- The Editor] commandment. Otherwise, one cannot explain why J esus was so scrupulous in worshipping on the sabbath (Lu. 4:16- Christian use of the Lord's day 20, 31-40) as the sacred writers are careful to tell us. By D. HOYLE HAIRE The cessation from labor has many facets, but the primary reason for not Pasto1·, First Church, Marianna working on Sunday is to enable the believer to have time to worship, undis tracted by the ordinary cares and duties February 4, 1962 of life. Thet·efore, we are to "remember Scripture Passages: Exodus 20:8-11; Nehemiah 13:15-22; the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy Mark 2:23, 3:6; Luke 4:16-20, 31-40 work. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy Gael." The Lord's Day THE name of our day of worship The command to l'emember the sab is to honor God, the Creator and Sav wa,; divinely given. John the beloved bath cl.ay indicates that the sabbath iour. The heart of the day is devotion Apostle, the one most sensitive to the was in existence before Moses l'eceived to God. hea1-t of J esus and it from God. Moses takes the thoughts the last of all the of his people as far back as it is possible Apostles to die, said, for them to go. They al'e directed to The Lord's day to "I was in the Spirit think of the great work of Him who meet human need on the Lord's Day" in six days made heaven and earth, the (R e v. 1:10). No sea, and all that is in them. The thing wr othe1· te1·m that cle to be bome in mind by Israel-and ..lHE SABBATH was made for man. Scl·ibes our clay of for that matter, by the Chl'istian as and not man for the sabbath." Here worship and 1·est is well-was that by this seventh day of we find that Jesus has established a quite as meaningful r est God gave . the. great rule for the new principle. It is not laws or humac as this. To l'emem consecration ·of His people's time. God institutions that a1·e sacred, but t h ber that it is the sanctified the seventh day because it meeting of human need. The Pharisee> 'Lord's Day will make was the best day, best for human wel had set up the sabbath as an institutio MR. HAIRE its proper use an easy fare and divine glory. to be reverenced of itself. Jesus sai · thing for the Christian. It is when we As every Bible student knows, there the sabbath was not to be worshippec. f01·g et this that we become cm·eless, and was a continuing controversy between so to speak, but that it was a day even confused as to how it should be Jesus and the Pharisees. One of the which man was to worship God wb used. most outstanding was their differences gave it. Since its roots a1·e found in the very as regards the observance of the sabbath. Laws and institutions become sacr beginning of the human family, and Why should there be any disagreement only as they meet human need. Peop since the first laws commanded by between them? C e r t a i n 1 y not over are sacred in the eyes of God, 11 Moses give sanction to it, the obsel·v whether or not it should be observed. things. This is why Jesus propound ance of the Lord's Day is not a matter The disagreement was over the method the question, "What shall it profit of choice with us. Indeed, sin ce the of keeping the sabbath, and the purpose man if he g-ain the whole world a entrance of sin into human life, man of keeping- it. lose his own soul?" This is · why H is so constituted that he is p1·one to The scribes of Jesus' day had de also said, on the occasion of healir. _ forget God. The commandment, in vised 1200 rules out of the Fourth this 'man's hand (as' Matthew recor part, is designed to meet this fabl Commandment. They had indeed made it in 12:12) "How much then is a m weakness in man. it a burden for the people. It was better than a sheep." Man, made in to throw off this yoke that we have image and likeness of God, the cro the story of the disciples eating- grain of His creation, is the object of l Historical background on the sabbath, and Jesus . healing- on love and care. All things are to se the sabbath. Apparently these things man. Men are not created to ser institutions. 'fherefore, "the sabb - EMEMBER the sabbath clay, etc." were done with deliberate intent, so that "R the question could be raised and our was made for man, not man for • The Hebrew word for "sabba th" means sabbath." "rest." Sabbath could be applied to any Lord's answer given. sae1·ed season as a time for cessation from labo1·. It is so used of the Day How the Lord's day of Atonement. The Lord's day for As has been previously noted, the replaced sabbath fh·st four commandments r elate to our worship of God duties to God. In the first, we are THE new faith of the Christians commanded to wo1·ship J ehov P a g ·e T w c n t ,Y - f o u r A~KANSAS BAP T a: un::mi ab e, because it was INDEX in a spm radically differ ent A Smile or T o e joy and liberty of the new A The restrictions of the sabbath Annual report of contributions- 2-1 pp27-31 Conditioned r eflex Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, editoria ls en- in:olerable to the Christians. Of joyed (letter) - 2-1 p5: new sub3cribers- pll · A BOY enter ed t he candy store ' -~- n o:her six days none so naturally Associational Leadership Clinic- 2-1 p22 Associational Schools of Miss ions- 2-1 p22 his mother and when the proprietor =>-est~ itself to them as the first day Attendance l'eport- 2-1 piS handed · him a piece of candy, he hur f he week. . B riedly popped it into his mouth. :;;pecial significance cm-i1e to be at BSU, Ark. A&M College- -!2 -l p23 Bale ntine, George L., authol' i -l p7 "Well, what do you say ?" his mother ed t o the f irst day. Jesus rose from Bookshelf, th<> -2-l pii asked. dead on t he f irst day of the week. Bre we r, Harold, to Hatfield -2-l plO "Charge it," he r eplied. He appeared to his disciples on the Brothe l')wod mus ts- 2-l p~:J =- :- day. On the following Sunday c Cat·oline Ass n. missions schools- 2-1 pl2 repeated his visitation to them. The Child Care Executive's ,Assn.- 2-1 p20 Corny Holy Spirit was sent upon the Chris- Children's nool<- 2-1 p26 BABY Ear of Corn- "Mama, wher e . - on Pentecost, which wa:s the first 'Chl'istian use of Lord's Day' (SS)- 2-1 p24 Cooperative Program contributions, stewardship ' did I come from?" day of the week. Thus 'it received a (Exec. Bd. )- 2-1 p2 :unal seal as the day of grace. in Acts Counselor's cornet·- 2-1 p31 Mama Ear of Corn- "Hush, dear; the Crawfordsville, First, note-burning- 2-1 plO :. :'i and I Cor. 16:2, the first day of stalk brought you." D . - e week is found to be the Il'!eeting DeQueen, First, exceeds budget- 2-1 p1 0 of t he Christians. · E Political gardening The J ewish sabbath was chosen in Earle church ordains deacons- 2-1 111 2 re.:ognition of God having rested from 'Ego-powe r' tC.L)- 2-1 p9 ASKED a small boy, looking up :from Elliott, l{alph H., 'Message of C. en es h;'- 2-1 p15 ; the evening paper , "Dad, do political is labors of creation on that day. The 'Con'- nl!): 'Pro'.:... pl8 Lord's day is the day .Jesus Christ com E rod, Be n M., receives degree--2-1 pl3 plums grow from seeds ?" • . eted His work of creation, i.e., the E vangelis tic confe re nce--2-l p2 Page Twenty-Six ARKA~SAS ANNUAL REPORT Total Cash Contributions Received in Office of Executive Secretary of Executive Board of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention During the Months, of .Janu.ary 1 -December 31, 1961 Xotify Dr. S. A. Whitlow, 401 West Capitol, Little Rock, Arlcansas~ if ~tny errors are found in t his report. Cooperative Desig Cooperative Desig. Cooperative De sig- Put oM Program nated Ch urches and Pastors Program nated Ch urches and Pastors Progtam nated .ARKA~SAS VALLEY Pea Ridge 1st : B. Green 2,275.32 773.42 Calvary, Mansfield I . 7.41 : K. Caery $736.51 $189.26 P leasant Hill : J. Lawson 182.98 13.16 Cauthron : D . Preston 27.80 em rial 245.71 Rogers 1st: L. O'Kell ey 7, 809.06 1,215.90 Cedar Creek: J. Stagogs ~ 16. GO Siloam Springs 1st : C. Palmer 10,71<1.31 4,153.78 Glal'k's Chapel : J . Maness 60.00 27 .50 ht : J. Gulledge 4,305.99 1,492.78 S ugar Creek 32.78 Dayton: D . Schlei;f.f 17 f).O l 5.00 n : R. Palmer GOO .OO l:l2.G8 S ulphur S prings 1st: Denton : V . Heyden reich 75.57 _Chapel: W. Ginn 72.44 20.59 F. Hamilton 46.03 Eveni ng Shade : B. Kennedy 306.30 13.66 : :\I. Dark 6,052.63 154.78 Sunnyside, Roge l'S: J. Overton 159.95 138.33 Fell owsh ip : E. Lancaste1· 561.4(i 37.1l5 hip 1s t 31.45 'rrinity: J . Conner 21.57 H a rtford 1st : H. P lunkett 921.10 313.58 -·-hip 14.05 'l'wel ve C01·ners : J. Lawson 52.92 Haw Creek: R. Whitten 179.43 Bfto!Da :,t: J. Brewer 12,460.98 1 ,74~:iii Park Street Mission 78.04 H on: A. Staggs . '20.00 B. Pierce 3,GOO .OO 1,055.49 Miscella neous 2.00 Huntington : B. Mal'tin . 480.67 1<10 .00 n \·ille 30.00 Total $43,124.01 $12,681.47 lone: W . Mf;!ans k : W. Steward 205.67 71.74 zgs : :~ , BIG CREEK James Fork: E . Hoga n ( 94.!)0 J....xa: L Castleman 380.09 95 .91 Long R idge : D. Preston lilarizooa 1s t: D. Haire 6,059.93 1,709.52 C<;nmty Line: B. Colbert $16.00 E lizabeth: J. Floyd 19. 00 $25 .80 Mansfield: T. Newton 2,585.01 48!i .fl7 lila.JTell : C. T hompson 1,354.60 499.13 MidlaQd: R. Lanman 435.07 1G.OG roe : .P Stender 332.47 49.00 Enterprise : ·D. Flood 80.64 65.86 F lora 5.71 New Home : W. Nance 15.00 .. : J. Collier 454.47 547.73 Parks : H . Allen 174.37 57.00 n.h Side, Helena: J. Gordan 31.30 Gum Springs · 36.00 Hardy: P . Hanington 517.85 84.17 Pilot V iew: P. White T own: D. Steele Plensant nrove No. 2: J . Evans 81~ii ii ida Mammoth Spring 280:92 53.50 Mt. Calm Pleas'!nt Grove No.3 10.30 '"'":» Chapel: D. W ells 15.84 Proviflence : J-L Milqm 13.20 tebobeth . 48.00 Mt. Zion : C. White 55.45 50.00 Saddle Rock Ct·eek: P . Black 97.15 w Lake: R. Raifot·d 43.79 Shiloh rner: R. K imble 531.98 116.31 Salem: J . Brown 202.00 _89.35 Spring River 66.05 Union H ope: J. Noles 8.00 3.00 est Helena: W . D eese 12,082.34 1,291.00 Unity 17.02 "est Helena 2nd : R. Pat·chman 1,280.24 219.1 9 Viola: A. Wiles 120.00 147.47 Total $1,399.62 $516.15 Waldron 1st: T. Spurgin 11,150.42 90~.46 T otal $5 0,987.08 $9,390.12 W est ,Hartford : W . L eon a rd 497.01 337.18 ASHLEY BLACK RIVER Winfield Cah·ary, Crossett: P. Ragland $27. 00 Alicia : J. Cossey $278.25 $143.01 M iscell aneous 50.00 Corinth A: E. F1llton $409.95 73.50 Banks : S. Norris 8.00 T otal $18,248.1 3 $2,531.36 Black Rock: D. Bournes 531.09 93.58 Crossett 1st : B. Hickem 18,220.00 2,232.00 BUCKVILLE Crossett 2nd: H . Braswell 73.84 Campbell Station: J. Baker 21.50 Eden: V. Alexander Clear Springs: 0. D avis 4.25 Cedar Glades: M. Keith $44.00 Fellowship: R. Carpenter 988.80 166.75 College City, Walnut Ridge: Mt. Tabor: 0. K insey 80.39 F ountain Hill: J . Noble 64G.07 603.79 J. Queen 462.74 99.26 Mountain V a ll ey: J . Anderson 56.00 Hamburg 1st : E. Griever 5,896.72 398.07 Diaz: D. Cooper 54.66 Rock Springs : H . Speet· 112.49 $10.78 Jarvis Chapel: R. Nixon 316.41 Grubbs : .r. W a lker 97.50 46.90 Total $292.88 $10.78 H orseshoe: L. Bankster .lagnolia : W. Braswell 63.14 11.58 CADDO RIVER Martinville: S. Gardner Hox ie : J. Coleman 800.40 93.38 :Ueridian : D. Kelley 60.00 Imboden: J. Smit h 866.61 298.82 Amity: J. Wats9n $98.25 $168.18 Black Springs: A. B eshears t. Olive No.1 Immanuel, Newport: W. Davis 1,604.69 251.99 60.00 10.fi 6 • Olive No. 2: W. Brown 1,814. 09 . 136.89 Jacksonport: J. Fuqua 87.01 18.00 Caddo Gap 60.00 8.:l6 Glenwood : B. D enton t. Pleasant 10.00 45 .55 Murphy's Corner: R. Criner 196.44 6.84 984.22 138.03 Liberty: E . Wilson t. Zion : E . Morgan 35.00 N ew Hope No.1: W. Behanon 237.93 53.85 12.50 - nh Crossett : D. Dodson 649.108 160.92 New Hope No.2: S. ~orr i s 90.75 Little Hope: A. Beshear s 24.00 r di.s Newport 1st : W . Dishongh 6,814.76 448.23 Mt. Gilead : S. S het·man iloh 90.00 12.64 Old Walnut Ridge: B. Johnson 69.97 24 .31 Mt. I da: J . McClenny 1,55 0. 59 392.41 611 ple, Crossett : J . Buckner 2,637.64 112.77 Ozark 162.00 Norman: W . Gilbreath 648.26 158.66 -,iry: E . McElroy 4.92 31.75 Pitts: B. Garner 9.50 Oden : B. Probasco 602.35 205 .25 Total $3 1,915.66 $4,001.63 P leasant Ridge: J. Hall 30.00 5.00 Pencil Bluff : J. Carney 276.57 59.85 P leasan t Valley 20 .00 P ine Ridge BARTHOLOMEW R avenden: J. Wicker 11.00 20.00 Refuge : R. Watson 85 .06 $100.50 Sedgwick: C. Fow]er 200.50 S ulphur Springs: C. Moore 192.01 113.81 6.00 S mith ville: L. Madden 352.62 140.40 Total $4 ,593.81 $1,255.11 62 .41 Swi fton: J. Baker 118.26 64.35 CALVARY 55.21 Tuckerman : B. King 490.00 29f> .59 469.99 $25.70 Walnut Ridge 1st: W . ;Heard 4,947.85 2,022.32 Antioch: V. Johnson $100.00 287.59 20.54' White Oak 10.00 Augusta 1st: T. Lindley 3,301.30 $2,777.16 60.00 Total $18,568.36 $4,147.33 Beebe 1st: D. Wrigh t 850.00· 446.68 378.27 11.65 Bethany 54.00 12.00 BOONE-NEWTON COUNTY Cen tral, Bald Knob: 3,285.68 333.93 Alpena : S. Hacker $42 8.4 0 $137.00 M. Wilfon g 1,818.35 152.11 33.10 Batavia 1st: K. Edmondson 132.00 21.85 Cotton Pla n t 1st : I. Prince 1,100.00 259.23 120.00 Dear Creek Springs 96.00 (i9.88 C!'Osby: J. Pruitt 150. 00 20.00 Bellefon te: E. Powers 98.72 . 31.5!) E l Puso: E. Anderson 237.08 53.00 1(547.00 966.53 Box ley : ,C. Taylor 30.00 Good Hope : H. Wrig ht 42.44 21.50 1 ,2 ~3.71 162.94 Burlington: M. Spence 214.01 26.50 C: J'elwry : H . Cato 123.46 37.00 464.00 154. 80 Cassville: D. Mulford s~.fl5 Gl'i ffithv ille 1st: W. Baker I 64.00 D eer: D. Mulford 60.00 2.57 Higginson: R. McElroy 88.77 80.69 6~.01 Eagle Heights : D. J ackson 1,852.30 470 .65 Hunter 1st: P . Mehaffey 430.12 96.16 7.50 E lmwood: L. Burls wort h 63 .76 Judsonia 1st: W. Bmnett 1,850.00 331.90 3.5 8 Emma nuCI, Harrison: C. Roten 171.79 100.55 Kensett 1st: C. B1-ya nt 685.50 135.31 92 .35 Ever ton: P . Taylor 89.87 7.44 L iberty: D. Hug hes 13.91 no .oo Gaithet: J. Car ter 60.00 McCrol'y 1st: C. Evans 610.31 319.65 10.569.43 1,435.15 Grubb Spring: J. McBee 102.fj2 McHae : H. Boyd 60 .00 1'45.95 200.04 21.l:l Harrison ht : R. Hilton 10,755 .7!) 2,153.99 M icl way : 0. A uten 69.00 $19,149.37 $3,132.37 H opewell 73.04 Mm·1·ow : W. B lock 190.64 L ea,:,er $1,794.00 $84.93 H. Johns ' 122.56 -.r : D. Burris Anderson Chapel ·: J. Robbins 106.25 34.22 Total $20,112.95 $6,444.95 1st: M. Craig 6,718.48 1,197.72 Centennial, Pine Bluff: LIBERTY L. Eaker 315.00 66.35 55.00 108.71 Central, Pine Bluff: G. Estes 1,512.49 74.00 Buena Vista: D. Linkous $456.94 : .. I. Howie 70.00 Dollarway: R. Roge1·s 225.62 32.06 Caledonia: D. Shirey 39.00 $31.85 r: E. Miller 20.00 Douglas 245.56 14.20 Calion: E. Ward 750.38 66.65 J. P atterson 512.86 67.45 Dumas 1st: M. Cole 6,000.00 1,696.78 Calvary, ElDorado: J. Bums 317.00 227.07 : H. No,ble 176.56 88.86 FotTest Park, Pine Bluff: ·Camden 1st : J. Maddox 21,478.89 3,758.4:! Ridge : L. Gardner G. Smith 967.00 648.01 Camden 2nd: W. Rogers 1,261.53 243.22 D. Bowman 1,132.92 276.06 Gould 1,167.59 560.88 Chidester: C. Everett 258.24 14.58 52.43 Grady: J. King 216.02 Cross Roads: J. Hargett 1,320.11 200.00 324.00 148.63 Greenlee Memorial: C .. Belknap 366.73 103.58 Cullen dale 1st: R. Parker 11,422.29 • 1,401.40 262.29 4.00 Hardin : M. May 472.40 78.00 East Main, El Dorado: 916.59 555.71 Hickory Grove: J. Ray 88.00 20.64 R. McMurry 3,830.94 907.28 48.00 13.00 Humphrey : L . J oily 1,070.66 256.09 Ebenezer: J. Burton 1,145.34 130.00 135.62 21.05' Immanuel, Pine Bluff: ElDorado 1st: W. Warmath 39,330.47 30,002.57 $27,894.66 $6,668.46 J. Harrison 9,418.50 707.33 El Do1·ado 2nd: L. Webb 7,050.21 2,207.36 1, 1 9 6 2 P a g e T w e n t y - N' i n e, Cooperative DesJg. Cooperative Desig Cooperotlve DesJg. Churches end Pastors Program nated Churches and Pastors Program nated Ch urches and Pastors Program neted Elliott: D. Moore 3,093.28 699.65 Emmanuel, Blytheville: OUACHITA Felsenthal: J. Smith 173.00 211.80 V. Fowler 247.39 Acorn $384.96 $16.16 Galilee: C. McCollum 504.35 167.79 Etowah: B. Wiles 246.80 Bethel Gmce, Camden: D. Creech 251.29 27.Ql Fairview : R. King 293.61 25.00 Board Camp: H. Shreve 471.96 39.06 Harmony: C. Crowe 40. 7:l 12.75 Gosnell: W. Kreis 100.25 86.70 Cherry Hill : S. Sherman 218.68 Hills ide, Camden: H. V oegele 464.60 74.70 Joiner: L. Baldwin 81.50 86.52 Concord: D. Kelley 63.87 Huttig: B. Murphy 2,372.65 726.% Keiser: R. Bragg 701.95 76.39 Cove: D. Goodrum 161.92 26.00 Immanuel, El Dorado: Leachville: G. Hadley 5,338.00 553.93 Dallas Avenue, Menn: D. Railey 21,656.64 4·,781.89 Leachville 2nd: C. Smith 93.07 18. 13 C. Hughes 1,271.20 108.GG Joyce City 4.G67.78 H80.4G Luxora 479 .50 3 1:1.57 Gi ll ham: J. Holman 220.!;5 46.:ll Junction City: H . Fuller 3,298.!)1 u:za .25 Manila 1st : E . Pipkins 2,068.2 1. 214.19 t:\·nnnis : J. Westlnl a ry 1 , 1962 P a g e T h i r t y .- .. 0 n e In .the world of religion .... Josef Nordenhauf has taken issue with an article published in the Vatican City newspaper, Observatore Romano, which asserted that Christian unity can be realized only through an hierarchy presided over by an infallible authority. In a statement released to all Baptist publicationR throughout the wo rld by his office, Dr. Nordenhaug· said: '"This candid r eR tatement of the old Roman Catholic position on 'infallibility calis for an equally candid statement by those of us who have an acute and vivid consciousness of the sovereignty of Christ." 'Love your enemy' .... The Palma Ceia Methodist Church, Tampa, Florida, has MONTGOMERY, Ala. (EP) -' appointed George G. Hill as "minister of world affairs." His duties Found bleeding from the mouth as a full-time peacemaker is believed to be unique in Protestantism. and ear and lying at the door of His pastoral assignment as the third minister on the church staff is his church after a beating by four to "promote peace without compromising with Communist ideals." unidentified white men, the Rev. .... World membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Robert Faga returned to his pulpit day Saints _(Mormon) increased in 1961 by some 132,000, bringing and preached a sermon on the sub the denomination's total membership to 1,825,000. Last year the ject "Love Your Enemy." denomination added 26 new stakes for a total of 345 ; and three mis Mr. Faga, a Lutheran minister sions, giving. the church 64. A Mormon stake is a regional grouping who has been serving a Negro of wards (congregations). church, said that he is undecided .... A preliminary estimate by the"United States Census Bureau about' whether to continue mid shows that church construction in 1961 totaled $984 million, or $29 week ev.ening services at the million less than the record set in 1960. However, it was the second c~urch where he is' serving until a best year for church construction in history, far surpassing a:ll years Negro minister can be obtained. prior to ·1960.- The Survey Bulletin · He has been preaching at the mis sion since last August, awaiting a Refugee count down against 15,000 persons in camps a visa to go to Nigeria as a mis year ago. sionary. GENEVA, Switzer.land (EP) The United Nations High Commis Devil in catechism sioner for Refugees here stated in Dr. Goodspeed dies LONDON (EP)-All references pis year-end report that signifi to the devil were stricken from the LOS ANGELES, Calif. (EP) cant Pl'Ogress in resettling the ref Church of Engla.nd catechism last Dr. Edga.r Johnson Goodspeed, 90, ugees in European camps were year, but opposition to the move a~1thor .of more tha·n 50 books in made in 19'61. · has forced Satan back into the re cluding the . Smith - Goodspeed Felix Schnyder said the number vised version. · translation of the Bible, died here of refugees in camps was reduced The new copies say, instead of on· Jani1ary 13. to 8,700 at the end of 1961 as "I .renounce the devil and all his works," contained in the former version, "I would renounce the dev Ask Me About Travel By il and fight against evil." Air - & - Stea~ship Business or Pleasure No Service Charge You Pay Only .Regular Rates Rail- & -Bus CRUISES- Conducted and In~ependent Tours, Hotel Res·e.rvations, · ' ·· Travelers Checques, Luggage Inslj.rance :·. ,BYRON W. HOUSE T~AVEL ·AG .ENCY. 121 EAST FOURTH STREET ·· Uttle Rock, Arkansas