Baptist and Reflector ‘SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE” * ORGAN TENNESSEE BAPTIST CONVENTION

Volume 105 THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939 Number 32 Sixth Congress of Baptist World Alliance Meets in Atlanta “Significant” is the word for describing the Sixth Congress of Jewel College, Liberty, Missouri. He then recognized Dr. Rush- the Baptist World Alliance, which drew Baptists from sixty brooke, who read messages of greeting from President Roosevelt; nations to Atlanta, the beautiful and hospitable capital city of David Lloyd George of England; the Rev. P. T. Thomson, pres­ Georgia, for seven days, July 22-28, 1939. ident of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland; Dr. At the close range of a few days after the last session, it is Charles Brown, former president of the British Baptist Union; difficult to name one, or even a dozen items on the program as Dr. J. C. Carlile, past president of the British Baptist Union and “most significant” for the future of Baptists around the world. editor of the Baptist Times; Dr. T. R. Glover, University of But in the minds of many messengers, and of countless others Cambridge, England, past president of the British Baptist Union; who “ listened in” over radio, the outstanding achievement of the and C. T. LeQuesne, eastern treasurer, Baptist World Alliance. Congress is the fact that it was used as a great sounding board There followed a series of welcomes and responses. Then be­ for that cardinal principle of Baptists, the imperishable but gan the colorful and moving “ Roll Call of the Nations," to which imperiled doctrine of religious liberty. answer was made by the representatives of nearly sixty lands. This note was sounded from the outset, when Dr. J. H. Rush- Some had to relay their message to the assembled thousands by brooke, London (later elected president of the Alliance) read a interpreters. message from President Roosevelt, who reminded the Congress Saturday afternoon’s addresses of welcome were from Dr. L. R. that “freedom is preserved only at the cost of eternal vigilance.” Scarborough, president. Southern Baptist Convention; Dr. L. K. It rang out again, Saturday night, in the wistful but courageous Williams, president, National Baptist Convention; Dr. G. L. Prince, voice of Dr. H. Prochazka, as he answered the “ Roll Call of the president, National Baptist Convention of America; Dr. Ellis A. Nations” for Czecho-Slovakia: “ I am from the country which Fuller, representing Baptists of Atlanta; and Dr. C. D. Hubert, was, but is not, yet shall be— shall be because of the sovereign representing Baptists of Georgia. grace of God.” It was the clarion call in Dr. George W. Truett’s Gracious response to these welcome addresses was made by presidential address; it formed the chief subject of Dr. Rush- Principal N. J. Nordstrom, of Bethel Theological Seminary, Stock­ brooke’s report to the Congress. Messengers from lands where holm, Sweden: “ . . . . We sincerely thank you all. The Southern religious liberty is throttled told the boldness of the stand made Baptist Convention is the largest in the world. We are gathered by their fellow-countrymen. Countries where “ soul liberty” is in the heart of the Baptist world. We are inspired by loyalty to threatened likewise found ready tongues to speak for them. God— the secret of Southern Baptist strength.” Baptists had a world audience for the promulgation of these As the Congress turned to the "Roll Call of the Nations,” the views, and dispelled much misunderstanding as to their faith and audience stood and sang an old hymn, “ Stand Up, Stand Up for practice. Jesus.” The roll call, by continents, was responded to by the fol­ lowing representatives (figures show number of Baptists in each Never was a religious gathering accorded more hearty or more country): sympathetic treatment by the press. More than a million lines Dr. F. W. Simoleit, Cameroons, Africa: 4,000; Tanimola Oyerinde, and several hundred pictures, it was estimated by Dr. Clifton D. Nigeria, Africa: 20,000; Saw San Po Thin, Burma; the Rev. Ben­ Gray, Lewiston, Me., honorary associate secretary of the Alliance, jamin Pradhan, India; the Rev. Wu Chi Chung, China: 30,000; were printed in the three Atlanta dailies— The '"Journal, The Manchuria, represented by proxy: 2,000; Dr. H. H. Bingham, Georgian, and The Constitution. All the press services had rep­ Canada: 150,000; Dr. E. A. Fridell, president, Northern Baptist resentatives present. Both the New York Times and the Chicago Convention; Dr. W. W. Hamilton, New Orleans, representing the Tribune had special correspondents covering the event. 4,475,000 Southern Baptists; Dr. J. M. Nabrit, National Baptist Similar treatment at the hands of the great radio networks, Convention; Dr. S. A. Pleasants, National Baptist Convention of both NBC and CBS, made it possible for millions throughout the America; Dr. C. S. Detweiler, Haiti and Nicarauga; telegram from length and breadth of the land to hear Dr. Truett’s masterly Jamaica; the Rev. M. A. Pellicier, Porto Rico: 5,000; the Rev. presidential address, “ The Baptist Message and Mission for the Honorio Espinoza, Chile: 4,000; Dr. Djalma Cunha, Brazil: 50,000. World Today.” The NBC Red Network, on Tuesday and Thurs­ Dr. H. H. Sterne, pastor in New York State, a native of South day, also carried impressions of the Congress by Dr. Walter W. Africa (13,000), speaking for the Baptist Union there, gave a VanKirk, ace religious news commentator. WSB, “ The Voice of humorous twist to his response when he said: “ It has been fifteen the South,” and W AGA, the other Atlanta Journal station, be­ years since I left my homeland to preach to the heathen in tween them had almost every session on the air. America.” Saturday Afternoon, July 22 Saturday Night, July 22 Just before two o’clock the 30,000 Baptists gathered in Ponce For the benefit of some messengers who remained in their de Leon baseball park heard the strains of martial music. As places in the ball park all through the intermission and others two bands, those of the Yaraab Temple and the Salvation Army, who came early to the night session, Mr. Hoffman began the slowly marched across the field in front of the speakers’ platform, song service nearly forty-five minutes before the Congress officially playing "Onward, Christian Soldiers,” the vast audience rose resumed. After several other musical selections, the 300-vol^e as one man and began singing the old familiar words. The bands choir sang the “ Hallelujah Chorus,” the first of the many times were two of the five which had participated in the colorful parade it was sung by request throughout the Congress. from the State Capitol to the baseball field, a parade seen by Some 28,000 people heard Dr. Truett call the session to order, 125,000 Atlantians. with prayer following by Dr. E. R. Carter, Atlanta. Promptly at two o’clock Dr. Truett struck the gavel to open Addresses of welcome were then heard from Mayor William the Congress. John Hoffman, Atlanta, song leader for the B. Hartsfield, representing the City of Atlanta; Gov. E. D. Rivers, Alliance sessions, announced the Coronation Hymn, “ A ll Hail the representing the Commonwealth of Georgia; Dr. C. R. Stauffer, Power of Jesus’ Name.” Thirty thousand voices blended in one president of the Atlanta Christian Council; Rabbi David Marx, mighty chorus of praise to their Lord. Atlanta; and U. S. Senator Walter F. George, representing the Opening prayer was offered by the Rev. Griffith J. Harris of nation. Wales. Dr. Truett accepted his president’s gavel (its history will Introduced by Dr. Truett as “ a humble Baptist deacon in the be given at a later date) from Minetry L. Jones, William Vienna (Ga.) church,” Senator George said, among other things: \

was one of the most masterful addresses ever delivered. The service ended by singing “ A ll Hail the Power of Jesus' Name." Sunday evening another vast audience gathered in the stadium with President Truett in the chair. After a band concert and baptist and Reflector other moving music and prayer by Rev. Danila Pascu, Rumania, 1 •1 - - ■ 1 ■ » — ■■■ — O. W. Taylor, Editor John D. Freeman, Executive Secretary several addresses were delivered by Dr. Robert E. Speer, New Don Norman, Field Representative York; Mrs. W. J. Cox, Memphis, on “ The Woman’s Part” ; Rev. BAPTIST AND REFLECTOR COMMITTEE J. B. Middlebrook, Huddersfield, England, on “ The Fullness of W . C. Creasman, R. Kelly White, P. L. Ramsey, John A. Huff, C. W . Pope, Christ” ; Dr. Gordon Palmer, Philadelphia, on “ Jesus Our Lib­ C. O. Simpson erator” and Dr. L. R. Scarborough, Texas, on “ Perpetuating Pentecost.” While the other speakers delivered splendid ad­ McCowat-Mercer Press, Inc., Jackson, Tenn. dresses, certainly none of them excelled our own Mrs. W. J. Cox and Dr. L. R. Scarborough. Entered at Postofflce, Jackson. Tenn.. as second-class matter as a weekly, except during Christmas week, under the act of March 3, 18/9. Monday Morning, July 24 Editorial and General Office, 149 Sixth Avenue, North, Nashville, Tenn. With President George W. Truett presiding, and with worship Terms of Subscription—Single subscriptions payable in advance, one year S2.00, six months $1.00. Club rates and plans sent on request. conducted by Dr. B. Udvarnoki, Budapest, Hungary, and with Obituaries and Obituary Aesolutions— The first 100 w*ords free; all other the singing of “ How Firm a Foundation” and “ Lead On O King words one cent each. Other resolutions 1 cent each for all words. Eternal,” and other gospel hymns and with singing by negro Advertisements— Rates upon request. Announcements of open dates by choirs, the fifth session of the Congress was held in the municipal evangelists and singers, and others, fifty cents per insertion. Advertising Representatives— Jacobs List, Inc., Clinton, S. C. auditorium. The executive secretary of the Alliance, Dr. J. H. Rushbrooke, London, made his report and then spoke forcefully to it. “Are we living on such a level as spares us from the condemnation EDITORIAL we pass on others?” “ Democracy among Baptists can be pre-* served only by character and information.” Following this there were brief addresses as follows: “ Evangelism as the Primary “The citizens of Atlanta are representative Americans. There is Task of the Church,” Rev. Charies W. Koller, Chicago; "Methods in this commonwealth no man who would deny the humblest Adapted to Present-day Conditions,” Rev. W. C. Smalley, Sec­ citizen the right to worship God according to the dictates of his retary, Baptist Union of Western Canada; “ Personal Evangelism,” conscience...... We have conceived liberty as in .no sense deriv­ Rev. Henry Cook, London, England; “ Evangelism and Christian ative, but an inherent right...... A ll that is worthy in human Education,” Professor Rolvix Harlan, Richmond, Va. civilization is buttressed, at last, by men and women who be­ In the afternoon sectional meetings were held in different lieve in God.” places. One of the most important of these was that for young Response was made by the Hon. Albert Matthews, Lieutenant people in the auditorium, with Chairman T. G. Dunning^of London Governor of Ontario and treasurer of the Baptist World Alliance. presiding. Our own Dr. Frank H. Leavell and Mr. J. E. Lambdin After brief congregational singing, Dr. Truett named the business, were prominently connected with this meeting. The leading nominations, and resolutions committees. address of the afternoon was delivered by Rev. Luther Wasley Immediately after the naming of committees, the “ Roll Call of Smith, Philadelphia, on “ Youth and Moral Standards.” He placed the Nations” was continued by Dr. Rushbrooke, with responses the major responsibility for youth’s shortcomings upon' their by the following representatives (numbers denote number of elder's for “ tossing over their moral standards and sliding down Baptists in each country): Henri Vincent, Belgium and France: into a pagan futility.” 2,200; Dr. H. Prochazka, Czecho-Slovakia; Rev. J. Norgaard, Monday evening in the stadium a crowd of 57,000 or more Denmark: 6,500; Prof. Oswald Tark, Estonia: 8,000; Rev. A. Sund- witnessed a gripping “PAGEANT OF WORLD BAPTIST HIS­ quist, Finland; Dr. Paul Schmidt (Kassulman, interpreter), Ger­ TORY.” The pageant was written by Rev. E. A. Payne, Editorial many: 80,000; Principal P. W. Evans, Great Britain and Ireland: Secretary of The British Baptist Missionary Society, and was 382,000; Dr. Bela Udvarnoki, Hungary; Rev. Manfredi Ronchi, produced by Eugene J. Bergmann, assisted by a cast made up Italy: 5,000; Rev. A. Eglitis, Latvia: 12,000; Rev. E. H. Wang, of Atlanta people. After the splendid chorus, “ Swing Low Sweet Norway: 7,000; Rev. L. Miksa (Dr. W. O. Lewis, interpreter), Chariot” by the negro choirs, and a prologue, “ How Firm A Poland: 66,184; Mr. Hatchell, retired missionary, spoke for the Foundation” by the organ, there were presented twelve episodes Rev. A. Mauricio, Portugal: 600; Rev. Danila Pascu, Rumania: and an epilogue graphically depicting Baptist history in Europe, 70,000; Dr. W. Holms Coats, Scotland: 23,000; Rev. Samuel Vila, Asia, and America from 1608 to the present. It would‘take a full Spain: 153 baptisms during the last five years; Rev. Hj. Danielson, issue of Baptist and Reflector adequately to describe the'pictures Sweden: 50,000; Rev. J. Utzinger (letter), Switzerland: 1,400; Dr. and the meaning and the effect of this wonderful presentation I. V. Neprash, U. S. S. R.: No report for last fifteen years; and and to give full credit for its production. A t the conclusion Rev. W. R. Watkins, Wales. people bearing flags from every section of the globe, and other Before the closing prayer by Dr. C. J. Tinsley, Australia, the members of the cast, marched to the platform and to the front assembled thousands heard a 500-voice chorus, composed of the of the platform and together with the vast audience sang “ Blest combined choirs of negro churches in Atlanta and under the Be The Tie That Binds” and “ A ll Hail The Power of Jesus’ Name.” direction of Dr. Kemper Harreld, sing such old favorites as “ Were Whoever witnessed it can never forget that mighty presentation. You There When They Crucified My Lord?”, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” and “ Lord, I Want To Be a Christian.” Many lingered Tuesday Morning, July 25, 1939 after the benediction to hear this great chorus sing other spirituals. Tuesday morning the seventh session of the Congress met again in Ponce de Leon Park, because the auditorium could not ac­ Sunday, July 23 commodate even the messengers attending the morning session. Sunday morning the pulpits of Atlanta churches, and churches Rev. Honorio Espinoza, pastor, First Baptist Church, Santiago, in contiguous territory, were occupied by out-of-town speakers, Chile, gave a stirring devotional message, followed by congrega­ with overflow crowds in attendance. “ The church w ill never be tional singing. out of date until its job is done,” said Principal W. Holms Coats, Dr. Truett called for the report of the Nominating Committee, of the Baptist Seminary, Glasgow, Scotland, in his sermon at which a reporter for The Atlanta Constitution had “ scooped" Druid Hills Baptist Church, Louie D. Newton, pastor. ahead of his rivals and published Tuesday morning. The election Sunday afternoon a crowd of more than 42,000 people gathered of officers was thus pushed up two days, and its report—presented in the stadium in Ponce de Leon Park, with Vice-President L. K. later in the morning, at its own request— was unanimously ac­ William, Chicago^ presiding. After a very fine concert by the cepted and gave to the Alliance a new president. Dr. J. H. Rush- Salvation Arm y Band, and after other music under the direction brooke; a new executive secretary, Dr. W. O. Lewis, Paris, France, of John D. Hoffman, Atlanta, Alliance song leader, climaxed for many years representative of Northern Baptists in Europe; with a moving rendition of “The Hallelujah Chorus,” Dr. George and a second honorary associate secretary, Dr. Louie D. Newton, W. Truett, Dallas, president o f the Alliance, delivered the pres­ Atlanta, whose industry, tact, and poise (in bringing the Congress idential address on “The Message and * 1 Mission for the World to Atlanta and heading up the General Committee in charge of Today,” published in last week’s Baptist and Reflector. preparations) caused one speaker to refer to him as “ the great The message was broadcast over the nation. In fine form and adjuster.” with the audience in rapport with him, Dr. Truett spoke for an The report of Commission No. 1, on “ What Baptists Can Do To hour eloquently, positively and compassionately setting forth the Avert War and Promote Peace,” by Principal N. J. Nordstrom, Baptist position and the application of Baptist principles to Stockholm, Sweden, was received by the Congress and was re­ present-day life. “ For any person or institution to dare to come ferred, according to custom, to the Resolutions Committee. The between the soul and God is a blasphemous impertinence and report asked the 12,000,000 Baptists around the world to eradicate a defamation of the crown rights of the Son of God.” “ Tolera­ conditions leading to war. tion is a gift from man while liberty is a gift from God.” It Dr. W. O. Lewis, opening discussion on the report, said he

Page 2 BAPTIST AND REFLECTOIt believed in “ collective security,” and named as a dangerous period Other morning speakers were Dr. D. J. Evans, Rochester, N. Y., for the peace of the world the time between now and October. on “ The Church as a Field” ; H. L. Taylor, England, “ The Church After a musical interlude, Dr. P. W. Evans, president-elect as a Force” ; and Rev. F. Rockschies, Berlin, Germany, "The of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, opened the Church as a Fellowship,” with Dr. William Mueller, Philadelphia, second division of the morning program with a masterly address interpreting the last speech, in which the Berlin pastor declared on "The Nature of Scriptural Authority.” “ The authority ascribed that in the church is the “ fellowship of the Gospel, of the spirit, to the Bible rests ultimately on the belief that the Scripture is of suffering, of example, of peace, and of power." The Rev. the Word of God. This fact is corroborated by other considera­ Benjamin Pradhan, Cuttack, India, opened discussion on the tions: the inherent sublimity and spirituality of the Bible; its subject to which the three speakers had addressed themselves. reliability, its indispensability, and its uniqueness.” Dr. J. M. Dawson, Waco, Texas, offered the closing prayer. Rev. Reginald Kirby, Melbourne, Australia, speaking on “ The •Bible and Public Worship,” said: “The Bible gives to the preacher Wednesday Noon, July 26 not only the text but the texture and tendency of his message. At noon Dr. C. Oscar Johnson, St. Louis, Mo., preached at an It is the vehicle of the thought and motive of the Spirit of Christ.” “oldtime Baptist revival” downtown, within a stone’s throw of Dr. E. A. Fridell, Berkeley, California, president of the Northern Atlanta’s Five Points, for the benefit of the office workers who Baptist Convention, in his address on “The Bible in the School,” could not get to the Alliance sessions. The meeting, arranged told the advantages of “ a well-guarded devotional use of the by Dr. Newton, brought the Governor, the Mayor, and other Bible in public schools, the academic use of the Bible in public dignitaries to the improvised platform on Walton Street, between schools (literature, history, biography),” but declared that “ the Peachtree and Broad—the city’s busiest section at its busiest great need in our public schools is not so much for Christian hour— and found eager thousands pouring into the street from teaching— where it becomes easy to slip into a dangerous union the office buildings to join in singing the Gospel hymns, for of church and state— as it is for Christian teachers.” which the Salvation Army Band played. Dr. Johnson was at his Professor Hugo Luck, Poland, speaking on “The Bible in Family best, and preached a powerful message. Life,” said: “ The Bible claims a place in our home and family Five Language-Group Meetings were held at the auditorium worship, but that first of all it claims a place in our personal lives. and various Atlanta churches Wednesday at 2:30 p. m., as follows; We must love the Bible ourselves before we can succeed with English-speaking, Dr. C. H. Sears, New York, chairman; German- it in the home.” speaking, Prediger Paul Schmidt, Berlin; Latin-speaking, Rev. Dr. W. R. White, Oklahoma City, said that “ the Bible ferrets, Luca L. Sezonov, chairman; Scandinavian, Rev. Johannes Nor- fathoms, fastens, fixes, and finishes man.” gaard, Denmark, chairman; Slav-speaking, Rev. Joseph Novotny, East Orange, N. J. Tuesday Night, July 25 Wednesday Night, July 26 The eighth session, with Dr. Nordstrom of Sweden in the chair, With Dr. L. K. Williams, Chicago, presiding, the Congress opened with prayer by Dr. Korps, of Riga. Dr. E. O. Sellers, centered its attention at the tenth session on a mighty missionary Baptist Bible Institute, New Orleans, led the congregational singing. ,....__ demonstration. Rev. A. Mauricio, Portugal, led the opening prayer. Mrs. Ernest Brown, London, triumphed over mechanical dif­ With incisive clarity, Dr. Earle V. Pierce, Minneapolis, Minn., ficulties caused by partial and temporary failure of the loud past president of the Northern Baptist Convention, built upon his speaker system and delivered an excellent address on “ Our Her­ great text, “ Look Upon the Fields!” Declaring that there are itage of Truth and Freedom.” The three great citadels of dem­ five ways of looking upon humanity as it is— with indifference, ocracy she named as freedom of religion (the church), freedom with curiosity, with pride, with disgust, being the four most com­ of education (the school), and freedom of opinion (the press). mon—he said that the fifth way of looking, with love, brought Further: “ Democracy needs a vital religious life to be of service tlie reaction of compassion. “ Three things stand out on the to the state.” horizon of humanity as we lift our eyes from the level of earthly During the musical interlude. Dr. Sellers and the negro chorus concern to the level of Christ’s look: the vastness and vicious­ sang “ Wonderful Jesus.” ness of heathenism; the fields white unto the harvest; and the Dr. Arnold T. Ohm, Norwegian Baptist Theological Seminary, vast triumph of Christian churches in the fields of the world.” Oslo, made a deep impression in his Congress Sermon, on the After moving pictures of India had been shown by Rev. E. C. text, “ I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I, Brush, Dr. J. B. McLaurin, Cocanada, India, gave the Congress but Christ liveth in me.” Speaking flawless English, Dr. Ohm four great words from “The Church in India” : The Word of God— said: “ Christ today has more volunteers for palm-waving than proclaimed; Unity—oneness in Christ; Faith—confident and joy­ for cross-bearing. Crucifixion with Christ means forgiveness of ous; and “ Bhakti”— “loving devotion of a disciple to his lord.” sins, personal sacrifice, and the resurrection. The seeds of all Dr. William Axling, biographer of Kagawa, in the course of sins are in the heart of man. Christ was crucified by these sins, relating the work being done by Japanese Christians, urged the yet forguve them all. Crucifixion means cutting sin dead and sending of men and money into Japan, which along with China, having nothing to do with it in the future. The greatest need he asserted, is “largely the victim of circumstances.” in the churches today is a revival of the consciousness of the Reporters for at least one Atlanta newspaper learned later that forgiveness of sin.” China’s representative, Rev. Wu Chi Chung, had a similar appeal Wednesday Morning, July 26 for China in his prepared address, but omitted it at a suggestion With Dr. Truett in the chair, the morning worship was led by from the chair, which he graciously did. Mr. Wu displayed the Nicodcmus Jonadab, India. Chinese flag and told its meaning, emphasizing “ we are people Dr. W. Holms Coats, in presenting the Report of Commission with a heart.” No. 3, “ The Baptist Contribution to Christian Unity,” cited briefly “ Negroes in the Work of Foreign Missions” was ably discussed the work of the church in relation to Christian groups the world by Dr. J. H. Jackson, Philadelphia. This address was preceded over, but said “ it is evident that there is little inclination among by moving pictures of Africa, furnished by the British Baptist Baptists for closer corporate union with other, branches of the Missionary and shown by Rev. E. A. Payne. church. Most members of the Commission gave it as their opinion * Dr. W. C. Taylor, Richmond, Va., addressed the Congress on that such incorporation would compromise our Baptist witness “ The Work of Southern Baptists in South America” and showed and would not effect much improvement in conditions of work moving pictures of this work. Both the address and the pictures on the mission fields or elsewhere." were of the highest quality. A special order of the morning was the report by Dr. W. Pitt The 40-foot screen on which the missionary pictures were Beers, New York City, from the Committee on Evangelism,. headed projected was announced as the largest ever used to show 16 mm. by him. The committee recommendation that an intensive five- film, the tiny “ frames” being magnified (it. was said) 300,000 year program of evangelism be mapped by every Baptist con­ times. vention and union in the world, to meet its own individual needs, Thursday Morning, July 27 was enthusiastically and unanimously voted. Effectual inaugu­ The worship period for the Eleventh Session was conducted ration of this world-wide evangelistic crusade' was nullified to by Rev. Wu Chi Chung of China. some extent by failure of the Resolutions Committee Thursday After a musical interlude, the Congress went immediately into morning to give its unreserved endorsement of the projected plan, consideration of the report of its Commission No. 3, “Findings of for which committeemen from each country had already been the Oxford and Edinburgh Conferences,” presented by Dr. W. O. named. Carver, Louisville, Ky., who stressed the fact that on few points Dr. John R. Sampey, Louisville, Ky., president of the Southern' was there unanimity of opinion, among the commissioners, on Baptist Theological Seminary, addressed the Congress on “ The the report. New Testament Doctrine of the Church," declaring that the “ New "Responses to our questionnaire indicate that Baptists have Testament gives no hint of a provincial church or a national definite and reasoned fears that membership in the World Council church or a universal church visible. Nor is there any hint of of Churches would probably be embarrassing. On the other a diocesan bishop, and the only priesthood known in the first hand, there are those who feel that it would be better for Baptists Christian century was the priesthood of believers.” to enter the Council with clear understanding of the terms and

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1939 Page 3 Conditions of our membership. Co-operation in the World Council, Rev. Luca L. Sezonov, Bucharest, Rumania, speaking on “The however, cannot be purchased at the cost of breaches in our Crown Rights of the Redeemer,” recounted in his sermon the Baptist fellowship.” trials and persecutions of Rumanian Baptists, and named the Dr. E. E. Aubrey, Chicago, 111., in opening the discussion on “ crown rights” of. Christ, because of His work for us, as follows: the report, pointed out that “ unity through creative differences” (1) He has the right to demand inner unity in His disciples. is possible, and implied his disappointment as he said “ the report (2) He has the right to demand an outward confession about hesitates on the threshold of the World Council of Churches.” Him from His disciples. (3) He has the right to demand that we place the Kingdom of God first. (4) He has the right to demand At this point the procedure indicated on the printed program the supreme loyalty from His followers. “ Our Lord Jesus Christ was interrupted to allow for completion of the business before calls upon His disciples of all colors and races and languages for the Congress, in order that a special afternoon session would not costly devotion in witnessing and living for Him.” have to be convened. The resolutions committee, headed by Dr. M. E. Aubrey, of Dr. L. L. Gwaltney, editor of The Alabama Baptist, Birming­ England, presented resolutions commending the reports of Com­ ham, in his address, "What Shall We Say to the Communist?” missions 1, 2, and 3; denouncing the sale and use of intoxicants; named four items: “ (1) His doctrine of political Communism finds deploring and condemning “all racial animosity and every form no basis in the New Testament scriptures. (2) Communism finds of oppression or unfair discrimination toward the Jews, colored no sanction in reason. (3) It ruthlessly attacks religion and seeks people, or subject races in any part of the world” ; insisting “ on to banish God from hearts and lives of men; therefore it must a maintenance of full religious liberty for every man of every be condemned and opposed. (4) The Communist’s political faith, or of no faith.” philosophy must be opposed because it leads to the totalitarian state as truly as does Fascism.” After the passage of this general resolution on religious liberty, messengers voted unanimously specific resolutions hitting per­ Dr. M. E. Aubrey, London, speaking on “ Christianity and the secution of Baptists in Russia and Rumania, and asking that Totalitarian State,” said: “ Our first duty is to make safe the delegations be appointed to call on the ambassador of Russia and religious foundations of democracy. The next thing is that the the minister from Rumania, in Washington, to explain the A l­ churches we,'especially as Baptists, must carry through the im­ liance position on suppression of Baptist religious freedom in plications of our faith in freedom. We must make democracy their countries. Dr. Truett later named two representative depu­ worth saving.” tations to carry out the above named commissions. In his address on "Liberalism, Collectivism, and the Baptists,” Excellent addresses on the ordinances were given by Dr. F. W. Dr. Paul Schmidt, Berlin, said: “ The Christian church did not Patterson, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, on “ The Ordinances of the interfere or meddle either in the affairs of state or in the basic Gospel” ; Dr. J. A. Bacoats, Baker, La., “ Believers’ Baptism as spiritual attitudes controlling the world at that time. The early a Personal Experience” ; Principal Oswald Tark, Tallinn, Estonia, Christian church observed rather definitely the dual entities of “The Lord’s Supper as a Personal Experience,” and Dr. Wallace worldly kingdom and the church’s province and realm.” Bassett, Dallas, Texas, on "Christ Sent Me Not to Baptize But Dr. William A. Mueller, German-born professor of church to Preach the Gospel.” Discussion on these speeches was opened history at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, by Dr. R. L. Child, Bristol, England. said: “ I am against National Socialism, but I am also against the tie-up of the Christian religion with democracy. This Con­ Thursday Night, July 27 gress has avoided frank discussion of political issues. I believe democracy is the best form of government, but nowhere in the With Dr. Nordstrom presiding, Mr. Douglas Gow, Canada, led New Testament do we find it is the duty of the Christian church the opening prayer as the Congress entered its Twelfth Session. to undergird or promote democracy.” Rev. J. Cocutz, general secretary of the Baptist Union of Invitations to the Congress to hold its next session, in 1944, were Rumania, started the Young People's Demonstration on a high heard from Dr. Bela Udvarncki, Budapest, Hungary, and Dr. note when he passionately urged “ The Best for Christ.” Having McLaurin, for Rangoon, Burma. These invitations were referred suffered imprisonment for his faith, he modestly concealed that to the executive committee for decision. fact as he said: “ My subject this evening was born out of the hard and glorious experience of Rumanian Baptists. Its material is not taken from any book; it is found in the very lives of my Friday Nighl, July 28 fellow Baptists, who are giving their best for Christ under the The last session of the Congress opened at 7:30 p. m. in Ponce most trying circumstances. I saw them standing before a road de Leon Park, with Dr. Truett presiding. Dr. L. K. Williams full of thorns and stones, full of persecution and ridicule. They led the opening prayer. Dr. Louie D. Newton presented the have gone singing down this road of suffering. Not one denied chairmen of the- various local committees who helped make the his faith or forsook his convictions because the road was too Congress a success, and they were roundly applauded. hard to travel.” Speaking on “ Young Baptists and Their Freedom,” Dr. C. L. Dr. Clifton D. Gray, honorary associate secretary of the A l­ Seasholes, Dayton, Ohio, said: “ Freedom must be considered in liance, summarized the work of the Sixth World Congress as relation to law. There is no freedom through breaking the laws follows: “ (1) Our size— never before in the history of the world of nature. Break them and they break you. There is no freedom have so many Baptists been gathered in one place. (2) The press from law, but there is freedom through law. I discover my free­ and radio— never before has a religious meeting been so completely dom supremely through engaging activity and absorbing de- covered. (3) There has been a needed re-affirmation of the >tion.” historic Baptist position with reference to church and state. (4) We have recaptured the meaning of the Great Commission. Rev. Albert Paul, Vancouver, B. C., speaking on “ Youth and Evangelism has been given a large place during these days.” Church Loyalty,” said: “ We do ill service to youth when we make it appear to be easy to be a Christian. Our generation Dr. S. W. Hughes, England, spoke on “ World Peace,” as follows: must give a genuine demonstration of loyalty to Christ in every “ (1) We believe that the desire for peace is common to the 2,- field of life. An ounce of action is worth a ton of talk. Unmoved 000,000,000 inhabitants of the world. (2) We believe that this by our studied eloquence, youth w ill be profoundly impressed universal desire is an expression of the will of God— therefore, when it sees us with a Cross upon our backs, laboring for Christ it will prevail. (3) We believe that Jesus Christ, The Prince of in our time.” Peace, can make mankind capable of achieving this world hope.” “ Unfinished Business” was the subject to which Dr. .Theodore Dr. C. Oscar Johnson, St. Louis, Mo., delivered the Coronation F. Adams, Richmond, Va., addressed himself, saying: “ As Chrisf Address. Speaking on “The Uplifted Christ,” he said: “ Jesus tians we shall go from this historic meeting with much unfinished draws us by His love, His uplifting power, His life, His death, business; we shall go from Atlanta to continue the greatest task His resurrection, His Holy Spirit. He it is who lifts above the that ever challenged man— the winning of the world to Christ. fog.” We cannot be content until Christ is Lord in every realm and area of life—spiritual, social, economic and international. We During the night session, Dr. Rushbrooke took the gavel as seek perfection, too, in faith and love. We cannot escape the new president of the Alliance. Accepting it from Dr. Truett, he compulsion of the Gospel as we face our unfinished task.” said: “ I shall need not only all the powers I possess, but the grace of God, to succeed Dr. Truett.” Friday Morning, July 28 Messengers stood and sang, in closing the last session, “ God Be With You Till We Meet Again.” Back in the auditorium for the last morning session, Dr. Truett introduced Dr. McLaurin of India as presiding officer (in place In the parting prayer. Dr. Truett closed with these words: “ ...... of the late Dr. B. A. Nag). The worship was led by Dr. C. J. God, be with us* today, and tomorrow, and on throughout the Tinsley, of Australia. Great Beyond. Amen.”

Page * BAPTIST AND REFLECTOR information of the affairs of the day present an enviable treat Honoring a Faithful Minister to all who are fortunate in being able to accept his and Mrs. Hight’s sincere hospitality. “ Words fitly spoken are like apples of gold in pic­ (The above was written by Mrs. Lee Robinson of Mt. Pleasant, tures of silver” is a truth who worked so faithfqlly with Rev. Hight in his work there.) which the subject of this article has faithfully taught those “of the third and fourth generations” of “ them that love him” in beautiful Baptist Memorial Hospital Maury County, where for many years before and after the early beginning of the at Memphis ministry of the Rev. J. E. Hight it seemed that every­ By A. U. Boone, Hospital Pastor, Memphis, Tcnn. thing prospered more than From time to time our people of the three states, Tennessee, the Baptist denomination Mississippi, and Arkansas, will be glad to hear tidings from the and where the need for his Hospital. services has been as great as "on Greenland’s icy moun­ tain or India’s coral strand." Brother Hight was born Ownership near Santa Fe in 1861. His It may be that some of our readers do not know that the parents were Christlike and Baptist Hospital of Memphis is owned by the Baptist conventions ambitious. That section was of the three states. So let everyone of our members know that peculiarly fortunate in pos­ this institution belongs to them. The service is for the world, sessing an accredited college but a board of trustees selected by the three conventions is in REV. J. E. HIGHT of ™hich Brother Hight is control and responsible. The business management has been an alumnus. He is indeed a committed to a local board appointed by the trustees. Mr. A. E. glorious tribute to the leadership of such men as the late B. Moore Jennings, who has given and raised a large portion of the money and the Rev. J. W. Patten. invested in the institution, is chairman of this board. The financial In his youth Bro. Hight was called to the ministry but resisted. affairs have been managed in a most satisfactory and gratifying He entered the teaching profession and following that yielded to manner. Indeed the story is a romance in figures. the fascination of the business world where his customary success soon became established. He married Miss Ida May Parsons, and their two daughters, one son and one adopted son are presenting the blessed privileges which they inherited in this godly home, Recent Enlargement each to his fellowman in his own way. Additional room and improvement has been possible and Bro. Hight’s impression of his call to the ministry increased, profitable. New offices and new Hospital floors are now open and soon after his marriage he surrendered to God’s w ill and has and all of the space has become valuable. We have a pardonable been an outstanding Christian leader, not only in the denomination pride in the standing of our great house of healing. The most he so nobly represents, but in all movements requiring a high attractive part of our building is our new chapel. This was type of citizenship all through the years. At all times Bro. Hight dedicated last fall, and we look upon it as “God’s Room.” The shows the sturdiness of Abraham, the diplomacy and statesman­ attendance at our Monday night meetings has grown in numbers ship of Joseph, the sweetness of the psalm-singer and the desire and interest and gratifying results. There has been a number of and ability for the erection of sacred architecture of both David conversions among the students and there seems to be a deepening and Solomon. He has been the leader in building several churches, of spiritual life in those who are already believers. It is our that purpose always accompanying his interest and success in desire and ambition to have the pupil nurses realize that the evangelism. Hand in hand with him through those early years religion of Jesus Christ is holy, and beautiful, and joyful. went Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Brownlow, whose ambition to share their knowledge of eternal life made them a happy inspiration to this youthful minister. His two longest pastorates were at Knob Creek Church, which Continued Progress celebrated its centennial in 1926 and which he led for fifteen years, Along with the increase of room we are realizing an increase and the First Baptist Church of Mt. Pleasant, where he served in the things that matter most. The Lord who has led in the sixteen years. His ministry in the latter church began in a build­ history of the Hospital is bringing added blessings every day. ing of unworthy size and commodities. The commodious, at­ July was a great month in every way. The spirit of our forces tractive and comfortable church which now stands is a monument is being improved, patronage is increasing and facilities for to his leadership, a fulfillment of his desire for the permanency service are being enlarged. Recently we have had patients ad­ of the work there and an object of interest and pride to the entire mitted from California to Florida. This increase is from people of community. lofty position and from the poor and lowly. Among those who have So great has been the usefulness of this consecrated man of been received of late, I would mention Mrs. John W. Gillon of God and so far-reaching his services that in almost any group Oklahoma, the widow of one of our former Secretaries in Tennes­ of Christian people which assembles someone will be found whom see; Mr. and Mrs. Wilbanks, of California; Mr. D. R. Mitchener, he baptized or whom he has influenced by the fact that like of St. Petersburg, Florida, a former prominent citizen of Memphis; Enoch of old he walks before us, “as a friend of God.” On one Evangelist D. P. Montgomery, of Leesburg, Florida. occasion he baptized fifty-two people in fifty minutes! The loss of Bro. Hight's eye-sight has limited his ability to respond to the many demands and opportunities to officiate publicly, but it has not dimmed his vision spiritually nor in­ Needs tellectually. Not a great while ago he baptized his grandson, In our religious department there are two needs which con John Hight Wilkes, in Mt. Pleasant, and in the pulpit there, as be supplied from the outside. In the first place we are trying well as in the First Baptist Church in Columbia, he has this to improve our library. Hundreds of our people have useful summer made his audiences feel his identity with Ezra, the scribe, books which they will probably never use again. We need books and Moses, the law-giver, and all the prophets, as from memory of unquestionable value and elevating influence. It is suggested he so impressivly presented the Holy Scriptures and fluently that these be mailed to us, and we can use them to great advantage. discussed them. We also need Bibles with good print. These we place in Hospital Bro. and Mrs. Hight live in Columbia where he has contributed rooms and in the hands of many people who may not be able much to the civic and commercial interests of the city. His to buy them. I f any of our readers are interested and surely gracious personality and his consistent example of faith and many of them are, please send us a contribution which will be prayer are echoed by many in whose homes in their childhood used in the purchase of these Bibles and some other literary he has knelt with them, weaving about them the protection of productions. Those who desire will have a report as to the use heavenly guidance, encouraging them to “remember thy Creator made of their contributions. Sums ranging from fifty cents up in the days of thy youth.” His habitual communion with things w ill be appreciated and wisely used for the benefit of our great celestial, his unfailing store of wit and wisdom, and his reliable Hospital family.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939 Page 5 Who’s Who Among Tenn. BaptistsA Tribute to a Pioneer Baptist Preacher

______Rev. Guy H. Turner was I born in Jackson, Tenn., while his father, Rev. J. H. Tur­ ner, was studying for the ministry in Union Univer­ sity. Lived in Mississippi and Arkansas while his father served as pastor of churches in those states. Entered Union University in December, 1930. Ordained July 26, 1931, by the Alamo Baptist Church where his father was pastor. October 30, 1932, married Miss Louise Cox, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Cox, Bolivar, Tenn. Graduated with the A. B. degree from Union University in 1934 and with the Th. M. degree from the Southern Baptist Theological I Seminary, Louisville, Ky., in 1937. Served four splendid rural churches during his n.iY H tiipnpd college and seminary days. QU„ „ ™ R R in March, 1937, accepted the Halts, T«nn. Dr. M. E. Dodd, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Shreveport, pastorate of the First Baptist Church, Halls, Tenn. Major inter­ Louisiana, places flowers on the grave of Rev. Porter Clay, brother ests: Evangelism and working with young people. of the distinguished Henry Clay of Kentucky, at Camden, Arkan­ sas. Rev. Clay was pastor of the Baptist church at Frankford, Kentucky, about 1820. He was born in Hanover County, Virginia, A Typical Case March, 1799, and was the fifth son of Rev. John Clay. Others in the picture are Dr. L. T. Jerry, historian of the By Louis J. Bristow, Superintendent Ouachita Baptist Association in Arkansas; Mr. John N. Ride, It was at the Southern Baptist Convention in Oklahoma City superintendent of the Sunday school, and Rev. A. M. Herrington, in May that State Secretary Reeder of Illinois spoke to me of her. pastor of the First Baptist Church, Camden, Arkansas. He said she was a widow, entirely destitute. Efforts had been The inscription on the simple little grave marker reads: “ Porter made to get her into other hospitals, but without, success. Her Clay, brother of Hon. Henry d ay, died 1850.” ------church would pay her transportation, but that was as much as Dr. Dodd visited the grave and carried flowers as a tribute to a it could do. The doctor had written: “ An X-ray picture ef the pioneer Baptist preacher and a heroic soul. lumbar spine and pelvis was made, and apparently Mrs. Blank The Arkansas Baptist Convention, during its annual session to is suffering from a spondylolisthesis.” And he added, significantly be held in Camden, Arkansas, December 5 to 7, w ill conduct a enough, “ the progress, if this diagnosis is correct, is doubtful.” memorial service at the grave of Clay. Dr. Dodd has been invited The doctor wrote of other troubles also which afflicted the woman. to give the address. So she came, early in June. A complete examination, surgery, long-drawn-out treatment— and recovery followed. She left New Orleans for her home in Illinois last Friday, the beneficiary of kindly ministrations of those who constitute the personnel of the Southern Baptist Hospital. She has been blessed in a physical way: and I believe those who support our work and thus had part in her cure are blessed also. — New Orleans. Consolation Corner By J. Luther McAliley Nearly twelve millions of human beings in the United States are unemployed, according to the latest estimate. This horde of ^rnen and women would populate nearly four cities as large as J 0 &* B le w York City. A ll these people are considered sane and capable ■ f thinking, of acting and of rendering services of various sorts. RATES Is there any pursuit at all to which these people could devote themselves which would inspire their minds, revive their hopes and, perchance, open tp many of them new sources of labor and of earning? There certainly is. STUDY—mental activity— has a marvelous power about it when any sound mind sets seriously about the investigation of any worthy subject. One’s imagination is kindled, original ideas are bom, discoveries of valuable things nearby are made. Best of all: One’s mind leaves the horde of "unemployed” and becomes employed in the most fruitful manner— and not without gain, at that. “ If you devote your time to study, you will avoid all the irk­ someness of this life, nor will you long for the approach of night, being tired of the day; nor will you be a burden to yourself, nor o t h e r your society insupportable to others.” “ There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.” “ Study to show thyself approved unto God; a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” The very tact that the human mind is capable of delving into the darkness of the unknown and of discovering the great basic H G'.iDY WANNING , A MANKIMf. M truth which God has covered, declares aloud that man’s mind was made for study. Your mind is your most wonderful tool.

Paje 6 BAPTIST a n d r e f l e c t o r A Digest of Religious Thought By C. IV. Pope, Contributing Editor, Jefferson City, Tenn. (Neither the editor nor contributing editor necessarily concurs in the opinions expressed on this page unless it is so stated) IF CHRIST CAME BACK TO GERMANY But a baby is an individual with a soul, and at the proper time Eva Lips is individually responsible to God. For one person to dedicate Christian Herald another person, without his knowledge or consent, is a violation When I was a child in Germany, Christ was real. He was of the right of individual responsibility. Better for parents to close. He was everywhere. In our music, in our art, in our dedicate themselves to the Lord for the task of bringing up their poetry, in our books and our churches, Christ was real and Christ children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, who at the was everywhere. But something has happened to all that in proper time may dedicate themselves to the Lord. C. W. P.) modern Germany. Christ has been driven off by one who has * * • • • come to power with a new faith in a new way, and he will not WHY SOUTHERN BAPTISTS SHOULD EMPHASIZE tolerate anyone whose faith may challenge his. Adolf Hitler THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION recognized the deep-rooted presence of God in the hearts of the German people, and to safeguard his own power he began to Dr. W. T. Conner uproot it. He proclaimed, “ Germany possesses two souls, and Baptist Standard one of them is mine.’’ He has compelled each German to make I believe that Southern Baptists are at the time when they a written statement of his church affiliation, telling why he is a need to give fresh attention to the question of their preachers. member. Were Christ to come back to Germany today He would We have never held that a preacher should have certain courses find all the members of his race ousted from office with only a of study before he was ordained, and we do not now. But of possibility of making a scant living. He would find scientists, all people it seems to me that Southern Baptists need to see that preachers, artists, teachers and musicians living in exile. He their preachers and religious leaders have a sane and well balanced would find the Old Testament forbidden in all the German training. If Christianity is something fundamentally institutional schools. He would find the words, “ Zion” and “ Jehovah” for­ then it does not depend so much on the intelligence of the bidden, not only in Jewish synagogues, but also in Protestant preacher and those to whom he preaches. In that case grace churches. He would find that Jesus Himself has been made is mediated by officials by virtue of the fact that they are officials. “Aryan” instead of Jewish. This was because the loyalty to But according to Baptists the grace of God is personally ap­ Jesus could not be wiped out of the German heart, and some propriated. Now this means two things: It means that Baptists provision must be made whereby worshipping Jesus would not should be spiritual and they should be intelligent. In an oligarchy be treason. Christ would find in Luther’s Germany three divided only the few need to be intelligent. Intelligence of the the masses bands of Protestants: In the first class are those who have sur­ is disturbing to an oligarchy. But in democracy the masses need rendered to Adolf Hitler whose announced creed is, “ We believe to be intelligent, and if the masses are intelligent their leaders in Adolf Hitler. In him alone we see the savior and leader of must be intelligent. Ignorance is dangerous in a democracy. the German nation.” In the second class he would find the faith­ Again, our free democratic church polity demands intelligence. ful souls who have taken their religion under-ground to Germany’s We believe that these free associations of spiritually-minded men catacombs. They would make Christ think of the Christians under and women fire of the nature of local democracies. Neither Rome Nero. But in the third group He would find those who would nor Jerusalem must dominate Antioch. Another thing that really thrill His heart— those who dare Hitler, openly, to send emphasizes the need of training for our preachers is the new them to the German Calvary. And I think Jesus would make emphasis in the religious world. Some things which once stood a pilgrimage out to a concentration camp where a man named to the forefront in our thinking are now dropping into the back­ Martin Niemoeller sits in a dark cell because he dared to fight ground. And some things which once occupied the background for Christ in the open. of our thinking are how coming to the forefront. We need to be sure that we let the right things drop into the background and REPEAL IS COMPLETE FAILURE the right things come to the front. Our seminaries are wisely I). U. Kingsley giving attention to these new phases of thought as applied to Alabama Baptist religion. Yet another reason why we should give special atten­ The promised wet prosperity has not come. No one has ever tion to the education of the ministry is the new attacks that are seen a family become prosperous because they began to drink being directed at religion. The minds of many people are being intoxicants. The Nation is made up of 32,500,000 families. If shaken in their belief in both theology and the ethical teachings drinking intoxicants will not make a family prosperous, then it of religion. The issues of Atheism, Communism and the totali­ will not make a nation prosperous. If the money spent for tarian state demand intelligent ministers capable of making an liquor were spent for dry goods, shoes, groceries, etc., it would intelligent defense. A state that demands absolute obedience in give employment to ten times as many people in the production all matters on the part of its citizenry is demanding something of the goods purchased. Since Repeal we have had an average that Christians cannot give. of 10,000,000 unemployed in spite of the promised cure for un­ employment. Cash is paid for liquor, and many of the same purchasers buy groceries with promises of payment. The honest MARTIN NIEMOELLER ACQUITTED, YET IMPRISONED non-drinker must pay the grocer sufficient profit to offset the Christian Century losses sustained from the drunkard. The wets boast of the taxes Pastor Martin Niemoller was recently acquitted of the charges which the government receives from their business. But for brought against him by Hitler and the Nazi regime. However, he every dollar of revenue derived from whiskey the people pay is still imprisoned without charges. Niemoller is the pastor of twelve dollars in expenses produced from wet business, such as the Dahlem Church in Berlin, Germany. Niemoller has been court costs, enlarged orphans homes, automobile wrecks, hospital imprisoned in a concentration camp for more than a year be­ bills, insane asylums and relief money. If the liquor interests cause he had the courage to speak his convictions, and refused were forced to pay for all automobile accidents and other damage to subordinate his Christ to Adolf Hitler. His church still holds done by them they would have to go out of business. services in defiance of Hitler. Recently an attempt was made by * * • * • the head of the Evangelical Church, favorable to Hitler, to oust BAPTIST CHURCH DEDICATES BABIES Niemoller from the pastorate, and thus cut off support for his Western Recorder family. The congregation of three thousand defied the effort A friend in Missouri calls our attention to a recent issue of the and openly declared in resolution, “ We consider pastor Niemoller Word and Way in which it was stated that a St. Louis pastor of our rightfully chosen minister, even though he be imprisoned, a Baptist church recently “ dedicated twenty-five babies to the and we hold thereunto in all faith.” Recently a sympathetic Lord.” The friend asks if this ceremonial is warranted in the minister speaking in Neimoeller's church said, “ A church which scriptures. Dedicating babies in churches is a type of ceremonial is merely a slave of worldly authorities has lost its integrity. and will worship. A t the time it is performed it does the babies It is dignity and liberty which give sense to a Christian church.” no harm, and no good. Afterward, like infant baptism, it does There is untold courage in the conduct of this brave church harm. Let the parents in their prayers dedicate their children which dares to defend the rights of its imprisoned pastor—and to God. Every Christian parent ought to do that. But let the therein lies untold hope for the future. (The anvil of the Gospel church of Christ follow its revealed pattern of doctrine. If it may be battered by the blows of Hitler and his pagan regime, but does, it w ill find no place for baby-dedication in the church. (We ultimately it is the anvil which wears the hammers out. Paul, doubt that any pastor or parent has any power, right, or authority like Niemoller, was confined in prison while Nero, like Hitler, to dedicate anybody to the Lord except himself. We may dedicate sat upon his throne. But wait for a few decades, and “ men be­ money, or property or talents, over which we have authority. gin to name their sons, Paul, and their dogs Nero.” C. W. P.)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939 Page 7 Alraljnl attft (Cammurnty SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR AUGUST 20, 1939 By Q. L. Rives, Pastor First Baptist Church, Tullahoma, Tam. Lesson Text: Joel 1:3-7; Daniel 5:1-5, 25-28. that prompts them to gain at some one else’s loss is the same Golden Text: " l l ’oe unto him that givelh his neighbor drink."— nature that prompts them to hold their gains in supreme miserli­ Habakkuk 2:15. ness and utter selfishness. Prohibition forces w ill do wisely to The matter of the use of alcohol as a beverage is quite old in emphasize this phase for all that it is worth, and it is worth a the history of the race. It goes back as far as Noah’s getting great deal in its appeal to sound business. drunk soon after the Flood. Its curse is glimpsed all through 2. The social cost. To realize something of the gravity of this the Bible. The followers of Jesus were accused, unjustly, of being kind of cost is to remember that there is in reality no place for intoxicated on the Day of Pentecost. Caesar, in his Gallic Wars, the inebriate but a padded cell. Who but another drunk genuinely tells how attempts were made to undermine the stamina of the enjoys the presence and association of a drunk? There is a deep- barbarian peoples by inducing them to use wines and liquors. seated contempt, even among the old-time bar-keepers, for the Thus we see that the problem is far from new. person who loses control of himself due to alcohol. What to do What does alcohol cost the community? What is its consump­ with the person who is dead drunk is yet unsolved. If he, or she, tion costing the community in which you live? As a citizen of is left to himself he is more than apt to hurt some one. If he the community, what is my obligation and my opportunity with is carried to his home he is either an abominable nuisance or regard to its cost to the same? This, it would seem, is a whole­ a dangerous threat. If he is incarcerated it costs the tax-payer some approach, for with such an approach we soon are con­ his money to shut him in and take care of him. fronted with the solemn principle that indeed and in truth we Ask any family afflicted with an alcoholic addict what it costs are our brother’s keeper. We have personal and individual re­ to put up with such an one. Ask any mother, with anxiety and sponsibility concerning the problem. worry in every feature, what it has cost her to lie awake at night This becomes increasingly clear when attention is given to the awaiting the return of a son or of a daughter, knowing in advance Golden Text, “ Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink.’’ that her child will come home a raving maniac or in a pitiable If by carelessness or compromise upon the part of Christian stupor induced by alcohol. Ask any father what it costs to watch citizenship the unsuspecting are made victims of the habit of the pride and hope of his life, a son to take up where he expects strong drink when by an exercise of vote and influence the to leave off in his business or profession or a daughter who is opposite might have been the case, in all fairness it does seem nothing less than the “ apple of his eye,” slip down and down that the responsibility for the matter rests in part upon such into the gutter instead of climb step by step to higher levels citizenship. Suffice it to mention just here that there are more either of usefulness or of exquisite charm. Financial costs than enough nominal Christian voters in most any given com­ measured by these kinds of cost are but as nothing. munity to put out and keep out traffic in beverage alcohol. 2. The moral cost. And by moral we mean the mores, or the Continued agitation and education, coupled with efficient or­ customs, that come to prevail in the community. The hope of ganization of the suflrage, suggest means for the correction of the distillers and distributors of beverage alcohol is to gradually, such cases. with shrewd advertising and high-pressure propaganda, build I. A Glimpse at the Text of the Lesson Concerning Alcohol's into the customs of the people the idep that drinking is smart Cost to the Community. and socially desirable. If the young can be made to believe that “ Awake, ye drunkards, and weep,” Joel 1:5. “ Belshazzar .... by refraining or refusing to drink they shut themselves out of drank wine before the thousand,” Daniel 5:1. “ Tekel; thou art the elite, socially or professionally, the steadily mounting income weighed in the balances, and art found wanting,” Daniel 5:27. to those who profit the most from the business w ill be practically Alcohol makes drunkards and drunkards make trouble to the assured. This can, in all probability, be accomplished but at what community. This trouble that is made costs; in many instances terrific cost to the mores, or customs, of the people! If it is done, it costs tremendously. Belshazzar’s kingdom paid the price by the youth enter virtual slavery, paying into the tills of the brewers being invaded by a foreign foe, Darius the Median. The king­ and distillers enormous sums of money and into society broken dom fell, was divided, with a drunkard on its throne. Bad bodies, diseased minds and damned souls. Think of the necessity enough for the drunken king to be slain by the invader but for new and larger hospitals and sanitariums, with added medical even worse for his kingdom to suffer invasion. If strong drink staff and equipment, to care for this human wreckage. It is could have affected Balshazzar merely, or even if it could have extremely doubtful, with the present prospect of the tax load in been confined in its curse to him and his thousand lords, it the years that lie ahead, that America could carry such a load, would not have been so costly but the cost covered the entire in addition. kingdom. 4. The spiritual cost. While this cost is mentioned last, it is But this is the essential nature of alcohol. It always “ spills in reality first in importance. That which when taken into the over” like the liquid that it is. It always “ spreads out” farther body never fails to destroy will-power, break down resistance than it is expected to spread. Its ravages are like the ravages to other temptations, and bring to the surface the worst that is of a sweeping, roaring conflagration. The Indians of America within needs to be as far from the reach of the unsuspecting were correct when they called it “ fire-water.” as it is possible to place it. A ll alcohol is poison to the human “ Tekel” . Weighed and wanting. How accurately this describes body. What is the essential difference if some kinds kill in ten verage alcohol. It doesn’t measure up. It disappoints. It minutes while other kinds kill in ten years? cats. It damns. We can dress it up and gloss it over all we In conclusion, what can the individual of the community do please but it remains the Devil’s product. Its fiery taste is the about it? Let it be determined that he can and he should do foretaste of Hell. Its dark color is a reflection of the vice and something. A defeatist attitude upon his part plays into the crime that surround it. It is well to be reminded of a saying hands of those who would fill thdir pockets by debauching their that is as old as it is true: three houses go together; the gambling fellow-men. Let him be wary of every statement of supposed house, the house of-ill-fame, and the house where liquor is sold. fact and of solemn promise made by the liquor interests. Why The fact that the last named house may not be called a saloon should one who capitalizes upon his brother’s weaknesses be does not either change its nature or its evil and repulsive asso­ expected to tell the truth or carry out a promise? Why should ciations. Drinking, gambling and immortality are always found one who violates every law of God, when he engages in the side by side. Witness the phenomenal rise of gambling in manufacture or distribution of stuff that degrades and despoils America concurrent with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amend­ human beings, be expected to obey a civil law or assist in the ment and the legalization of the manufacture and sale of execution of the same? spirituous liquors by the various states. Immorality is advancing Let us examine the attitude of any office-seeker who boasts at the same pace. of his personal abstinence but at the same time votes for legali­ II. A Glance at Contemporary Events, Regarding the Cost of zation. This is moral cowardice of the basest sort This is in­ Alcohol to the Community. consistency of the rankest kind. This is betrayal of the public 1. The economic cost. While this is not the most important trust of the most despicable grade. Any person who lives his cost, either as to amount or as to ultimate results, it usually is individual life one way and votes another is a hypocrite and mentioned or thought of first. When business men can be shown deserves the treatment of a hypocrite. that the money that is spent for alcohol will not be spent for The member of the community, whether local, state or national, groceries, clothing, furniture, radios, life insurance, and count­ if a genuine Christian, can and should do three things: abstain less other commodities, they will not be long in making themselves from the use of alcohol as a beverage, get and disseminate the vocal for change. Men and families who profit most in the liquor facts about the thing itself as well as the industry as a whole, industry cannot be counted upon to turn much of their immense and use his vote and influence on every possible occasion to profits back into commercial and industrial channels. The nature outlaw it.

Page 8 BAPTIST AND REFLECTOR pleasanter and more profitable than ‘sing­ ing alone.’ ” THE YOUNG SOUTH “Say,” mused Marjorie, “ Am I like that? Yes, I ’m afraid I am getting a little that Send nil contributions to "The Toung South," way. I’m going to try to learn to be like f 1 / 149 Sixth Arenue, North, / / 1 Mary, right now. I'll try to encourage Nashville, Tennessee others to do things instead of discouraging them because I like to shine, myself. No more ‘singing alone’ for me! There goes WHAT CAN A LITTLE CHAP DO? jorie was loath to admit that she feared Hilda. I ’m going to ask her to tell the that the children liked jolly Miss James By John Oxenham juniors a story next Sunday. She can tell even better than herself. stories better than I can." What can a little chap do “ I ’ve heard that Hilda Steams was a bit “ That’s my girl!" smiled Aunt Beulah For his country and for you? hurt because you never asked her to help approvingly, as Marjorie hurried away.— What can a little chap do? you with the juniors, and Esther Johnson Hazel L. Whitney, in Watchman-Examiner. would love to make posters for the young He can play a straight game all through; people’s society,” continued Aunt Beulah, That’s one thing he can do. gently. His soul he can brace “Ye-es, they're both good workers, I Against everything base, guess. I just have my own ways and hate And the trace will be seen breaking someone else in,” confessed All his life in his face; Marjorie uncomfortably. That’s an excellent thing he can do. “ How was the church service, last Sun­ He can look to the light, day morning? I had a sick headache and He can keep his thoughts white, didn’t go.” “I want the book called ‘Who Is Your He can fight the great fight, Marjorie laughed. “ Oh, it was the fun­ Principal?’ but I don’t know who wrote it.” He can do with his might niest thing I ever saw! Mr. Hobson was After due deliberation and skilful ques­ What is good in God’s sight; away and a man from Bridgton preached tioning, the librarian discovered that Those are truly great things he can do. in his place. Some of us girls went up in “Hoosier Schoolmaster" was the book desired. Though his years be few, the choir; but he had such a great, big, If he keep himself true deep baritone voice that no one could hear us sing, nor anyone in the congregation, He can march in the queue The inquisitive traveler saw an Irishman Of the good and the great, for that matter. There we stood, singing away for dear life, and he might as well on a river bank, and watched him hauling Who battled with fate up water. And won through; have been singing alone, for all the good it did.” “How long have you been doing this?” That’s a wonderful thing he can do. asked the traveler. "It was funny for once; but would you “Tin years, sor." And in each little thing like it all of the time?” He can follow the King:— _____, “And how many bucketfuls do you carry “ No-o-o. He was a good singer; but we off in a day?” Yes, in each smallest thing like to ‘make a glad noise unto the Lord,’ He can follow the King. “ Tin to fifteen, sor.” ■ too. Now, Mr. Hobson has a sweet, tenor “ Dear, dear. Now, how much water voice; but he sings with us. He doesn’t SINGING ALONE would you say you had carried since you overpower us, as this man did." started?” “ Why the big rush?” called Aunt Beulah. "Maybe he liked doing all of the sing­ “Come and sit down a minute and tell me “ A ll the water you don't see there now, ing, himself,” laughed Aunt Beulah. sor.”— Kansas City Star. about it." Marjorie shot her a suspicious look, as “ Oh, dear!” sighed Marjorie, dropping she went on, “ That reminds me of a woman down on Aunt Beulah’s cool, shady porch, we had in the little church where I be­ Prof—Now, class, how many make a “ I’d like to sit here forever; but I have so longed when I was your age. We called dozen? much to do I don’t know which way to her ‘Our Martha,’ because, like Martha, Class— Twelve! turn. There is that picnic for the junior she was ‘troubled about many things.’ No Prof— How many make a million? society; then I must get those two inter­ matter who was president of the ladies’ Class— Very few these days. , mediates off to summer camp, teach my aid or the missionary society, Martha was Sunday school class, think up sports for the president, in fact if not in name. No Sunday school picnic, make posters for the matter who was superintendent of the “Where were you boys when I called for young people, and— ” Sunday school, she ran it. If you put her you to help me an hour ago?" asked Farmer “ Whoa!” laughed Aunt Beulah. (Aunt on a committee, she did the planning, no Jones at the supper-table. Beulah was “ Aunt” to all of the children matter who was chairman. After a while, “ I was in the bam settin’ a hen,” said and young people in Crapptown, and they no one else wanted to try to do anything. one. confided in her and loved her as much as Martha had to do it all. Like that man, “ And I was in the loft settin' a saw,” though she had every right to that title, last Sunday, she found herself ‘singing answered another. as indeed she had.) “ That program sounds alone.’ ” “ I was in grandma's room settin’ the too complicated for me. Couldn’t you cut “ Why!” gasped Marjorie. clock," came from the third boy. down a little? There must be others to “ One day, Martha moved away,” con­ “ I was up in the pantry settin’ a trap,” whom you could give a part of the work, tinued Aunt Beulah, apparently not notic­ said the fourth. and take it just a little easier until you ing the interruption. “ She was sure that “ You’re a fine set,” remarked the farmer. get rested.” the church would go to pieces without her, “And where were you?” he asked, turning “ I don’t see how I can,” mused Marjorie, but, strange to say, it didn’t. A retired to the youngest. a little anxious pucker coming between missionary— let’s call her Mary— had moved “ I was on the doorstep settin’ still,” was her brows. “ I have my plans and it is hard into the neighborhood, but had seemed to the reply. to get others to carry them out. You see, find no place where she could fit into the I have had special training at college and church life. She quietly slipped into know just how to do those things,” she Martha’s place as leader, but what a finished a little importantly. change! Mary seemed to know just what “But, Dearie, haven't you ever heard it each person’s talent was and she coaxed McCo wat-M ercer Press said that the real leaders are not the ones him or her to use it. Almost before we Jackson, Tennessee who do all of the work themselves, but knew what was happening, we found that, the ones who can get the most people to instead of one leader, we had a number ★ work? Couldn’t Mary James take your of leaders, attending to the work for Offers a complete Printing, Binding .Sunday school class a few Sundays and which they were best fitted. No one was and Mailing Service to Publishers let you have a little rest?” slighted. Everyone who wanted to work and Religious Organizations. An ex­ “ Ye-es, I suppose so; but she’s old- had a chance. More and more got to cellently equipped manufacturing fashioned and wouldn’t understand my wanting to do things; and the church grew plant, coupled with more than thirty- methods.” and everyone was happy. When ‘Our five years’ experience, assures our “The children like her, don’t they?” Martha’ came back for a visit, she couldn’t clientele of superior advantages. . "Ye-es. Oh, she’s all right. I just like understand what had happened. She never Inquiries Solicited teaching my own class, I guess.” Mar­ found out that singing together was far

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939 Page 9 AN ASSOCIATIONAL SUPERINTENDENT SPEAKS SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPARTMENT J We plan to have by the end of 1939: Je»ie Daniel M itt Janie Lannom M itt Ada V. William* 1. 17 Sunday school training courses; 2. Superintendent Office Secretary Elementary Leaaer 2 new Sunday schools; 3. 2 Standard Sun­ 149 Sixth Avenue, North, Nathviiie, Tennettee day schools; 4. 8 new classes; 5. 14 Vaca­ Theme- “ Enlargement and Bible Study for Evangelitm." Motto—"Try It” tion Bible schools; 6. 17 churches giving to missions; 7. 100 increase in Sunday school VACATION BIBLE SCHOOLS REPORTED JULY, 1939 enrollment. Our work in general in the Enroll- Average association is doing very well. We will Church Principal ment...... Attendance sions Class give you more information in the near Beech Itlver Association—Janie Sue Jones. Plney Creek...... Janie Sue Jones 21 15 0 D future.— L. L. Downs, Dover, Associational Rock H ill ...... - ...... -Mrs. a M. Baker 48 29 0 E Sunday School Superintendent, Stewart 19 12 0 - 20 14 0 E County. i!culah Association—Hildreth Smith. _ Fail-view...... Hildreth Smith...... 42 32 14 ' D 24 18 0 . 157 134 5 ____. ANOTHER ASSOCIATIONAL Mt. Pella ...... Hildreth Smith 45 34 0 E SUPERINTENDENT SPEAKS 67 44 0 C Dig Emory Association—-Ruby Doyle. We had one of the best meetings last 32 20 0 fourth Sunday we have ever had. Sixteen O') 15 0 E~~ 204 165 0 ____, of the twenty-five churches represented. Walnut Hill 126 100 0 B We had eight pastors present, representing 95 62 0 E 68 48 0 B eleven churches. I do not have an accurate 57 54 0 — report on Vacation Bible schools, but I will Dig Hatchie Association-—Juanita Pugh. Pleasant Grove— ...... ______W . N. Bashau______31 23 0 report twelve. We are still working to get Ripley, First______James Sullivan____ 132 105 4 C ~" cue in every church. We are planning for Stanton ...... ______Corinne Williams... 71 50 0 D Harmony______J. T. Newsom______72 57 0 D a training course in each church in October. Bledsoe Association—Oscar Lumpkin. We have five Standard Sunday schools and Bledsoe Creek ______Oscar Lumpkin— - 19 13 1 E Brooks School ______Oscar Lumpkin __ ___ 37 23 0 E working for more.— John T. Courtney, Jef­ Campbell County Association— Mrs. A. J. Campbell. ferson City, Associational S. S. Supt., Jef­ Eva Brewer- - ~ . 52 40 0 31 29 0 ferson County. 38 30 2 . * * * * * 64 42 0 ' ___ Cedar Hill 55 44 0 __ Good Hope______.... — Floyd Buckner- ...... - ...... - 171 137 .s' 0 B OCTOBER IS TRAINING MONTH Carroll County Association—-Zenona Faust. 23 20 0 E »•' The superintendent of training in each 35 27 3 E association is urged to begin now, his plan 35 29 0 _____ for this very important work. Churches, 42 32 0 E 36 31 0 E of course, may study books of their own Trezevant- Martha Galloway..-...... 37 32 0 E Chilhowee Association— F. H. Chunn. choice. But since it is the beginning of 86 63 0 E the new Sunday school year it seems all 31 19 o 82 ' 59 0 HZ together fitting that churches should study Clinton Association— Mrs. A. J. Campbell or re-study administration or departmental 67 44 0 23 21 0 E (age-group) books. 55 52 0 E Some associational leaders are making Lake City, First...... M. K. Cobble...... 83 70 0 ___ _ Mrs. H. H. Wallace. 33 27 0 E plans for an administration course in every Concord Association—W . J. Owen. Baptist church. Mr. Associational Leader, Mt. View ...... Mrs. Elsie Hall ...... 45 42 0 41 32 0 what are you planning? Holley Grove------______j . w . Owen______48 38 0 CC Lascassas------J. W . Owen------43 37 0 C C ♦ • * * * Crockett Association—Juanita Pugh. Alamo______L. G. Frey______83 72 0 — Cumberland Association— Hobert Ford. SEND IN YOUR VACATION BIBLE Clarksville, First ------Richard N. Owen 160 117 1 SCHOOL REPORT Hermon------Mary Gifford...... 45 35 0 — Duck River Association—Clyde Bryan. Vacation Bible schools reported to date Union Ridge______Clyde Bryan 26 22 0 are 428. Has the report for your school Cowan------Clyde Bryan__ 60 40 0 come in? Check up on it and see. Rush Decherd------Clyde Bryan______25 15 0 — Dyer County Association—Juanita Pugh. _____it in. Heloise------Juanita Pugh...... 24 19 0 D • * * * * Midway------:_____Juanita Pugh 22 14 0 E l Hill------.------Juanita Pugh 52 34 0 B t Tennessee Association—Myrtle Treece. OCOEE ASSOCIATION LEADS nings Chapel Ethel Smutin 21 12 0 pie Grove_____ ------Ethel Smutin______27 18 0 E To date Ocoee Association leads in the vary______------Ethel Smutin _____ 22 16 0 ____ number of Vacation Bible schools reported Dutch Bottoms__ ------Myrtle Treece— __ 34 25 0 E Liberty Hill_____ ------Ethel Smutin______20 18 0 , to date. The number is twenty-six. What Pleasant Grove— ------George Jennings__ 62 45 1 C association w ill lead next week? Point Pleasant— ------Ralph Fowler______71 56 0 C Rays Chapel_____ ------Myrtle Treece 27 25 0 E * * * * * Newport, Second... ------Mrs. Charles Holt 69 55 0 C Union...... ------Myrtle Treece______41 30 0 C Bethel------Lois Fielden______35 27 0 D THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Rankin...... ------Anne Fisher—— . 29 25 0 E Waterville.... ____George ______Jennings. 19 15 0 E “ When we become partners with God in Fayette County Association—Thelma Hundley. his work, He becomes a partner with us Somerville------Mrs. A. G. Rose 103 79 0 — Gibson County Association—Avonia Gerald. in our work.” G ibson -Avonia Gerald______47 32 0 E Kenton______Avonia Gerald 77 56 8 . Lane view------Florine Derry berry 35 26 0 _____ Latham's Chapel Aleene Lowrance___ 55 41 2 _____ Chapel Hill -Avonia Gerald 48 30 0 E Giles County Association— Mr. and Mrs. Roy Profltt. Minor Hill ------Roy Profltt 50 44 0 D A GUIDE TO BUYERS New Zion ------Roy Profltt______31 29 0 D Pulaski ___ -Mrs. R. P. Beadle - Bibles, books, hymnals, church sup­ 135 87 0 C plies advertised or announced in this Thompson’s Chapel ------Mrs. Roy Profltt 18 16 0 E Powder S]Spring------...... Sara J. Northern___ paper may be ordered from our store 55 / 45 0 E at publisher’s prices. Narrow Valley------Franklin Fowler _____ 30 29 0 D Grainger County Association—Franklin Fowler. Rutledge------Lena B. Hodge_____ 93 73 0 1—BAPTIST BOOK STORE—I Grand Junction------_ A . M. Senter______43 35 0 III EIGHTH AVE., N* NASHVILLE Pleasant Grove ------:------Thelma Hundley 27 20 0 — Hardeman County Association—Thelma Hundley. T o o n e ------Thelma Hundley___ 32 32 0 Whltevllle------Howard Kirksey ___ 105 71 0 — BLUE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE Hlwassee Association—Francis Tallant. A Symbol of Christian Education Ten Mile ------Francis Tallant___ 39 34 4 _ Seventy-live miles southeast of Memphis Holston Association— In the hills of Mississippi Chinquepln Grove_____ .E d w ard Glover.______101 . 76 0 Member of Southern Association of Colleges. Clear Branch------Mary Chandler______67 54 0 C~ Member of Association of American Colleges. Hulan Avenue, Erwin .Margaret Pickering ______60 67 14 c PU R PO SE : Christian homemaking, development Ninth Ave., Erwin .Margaret Pickering ______108 74 0 c of leadership, initiative, poise, personality and Shallow Ford------Lucy Blankenship ...... - ...... 66 48 0 c ability to think. Flag Pond ------John Tillery______112 95 0 c Oldest senior college for Women in Bllsslsslppl. Shady Grove------Mrs. C. W . Adams------36 33 0 D D Lawrence 7*. Loverey. President. (Continued Next Week)

Page 10 BAPTIST AND REFLECTOR NOTICE! ______T ------Study carefully these goals and achieve­ ments listed below. You have just two Baptist Training Union more months to reach your goals. So if HEN*RV C. R O G E R S ...... Director you have not already reached them, note MISS ROXIE JACOBS...... Junior-Intermediate Leader MISS RUBY BALLARD ...... Office Secretary carefully the ones you have not reached 149-6th Avenue. North NASHVILLE. TENS. and get to work on them. How many Convention President...... LAWRENCE NEWMAN associations w ill have reached every goal by the first of October? Will your asso­ ciation be one of these?

SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH EASTERN ist Column: Goals from October i. 1938 to October 1. 1939. 1st Column: Goals from October 1. 1938 to October 1, 1939. 2nd Column: Attained from October 1. 1938 to July i. 1939. 2nd Column: Attained from October 1, 1938 to July 1, 1939.

New A-1 New A -i New New A -t New A - 1 Unions Unions Training N ew Association Training Awards T ithcrs Association Unions Unions Training Training Awards Tithcrs Unions Unions Unions Unions Duck R iver...... 8 S 5 O 4 2 2 o . 300 I 13 East Tennessee...... 10 I 0 2 o 9 3 3 1 O 500 70 35 0 iliawnssec...... 3 i i O O o IOO 57 G rain ger...... 5 14 O 1 2 0 K 4 4 2 7 f O 300 10 0 M cM inn...... 7 I 1 0 600 H olston...... 10 31 8 6 2 1 1 0 800 900 Ocoee...... JO 41 30 33 2 5 25 1 3 3 3.000 2.697 175 53 Holston V a lle y ...... 5 0 2 O 2 0 1 0 200 8 10 0 Polk ( ountv ...... 5 5 2 o 3 I o o 200 Jefferson...... 12 13 1 2 1 50 0 o 2 5 4 I Sequatchie Valley...... 5 3 i O I o 200 60 Mulberry Gap ...... , 5 14 1 0 1 6 0 0 200 10 0 i 2 o I o i l l Tennessee \ alle y ...... 5 i o 200 N o la ch u ck y...... 8 9 10 14 3 2 2 850 250 25 30 William Carey ...... 2 o I o i 5 3 I 0 IOO 51 to 0 W a tau ga...... 8 19 5 6 2 0 1 I 800 675 25 0

CENTRAL 1st Column: Goals from October 1, 1938 to October 1. 1939. 2nd Column: Attained from October i, 1938 to July 1. 1939. EASTERN 1st Column: Goals from October 1, 1038 to October 1, 1939. New A -i N e v A -i New 2nd Column: Attained from October 1, 1938 to July i, 1939. Association Unions Unions Training Training Awards Tithers Unions Unions New A -i New A -i New Association Unions Unions Training Training A w ards Tithers Beech R iver...... 5 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 200 17 25 0 Unions Unions Bledsoe ...... 5 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 250 63 10 0 Cumberland...... 1 0 5 2 3 2 1 0 250 87 25 0 C am p b ell...... 5 20 2 O 1 4 1 0 300 105 10 O G iles...... 4 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 50 10 5 0 2 0 0 0 25 0 5 0 C lin to n ...... 5 8 2 O 1 2 1 0 350 178 25 0 judson...... 2 0 0 1 5 3 0 0 75 26 5 0 Cumberland Gap ...... 10 6 2 0 1 1 0 0 IOO 0 10 0 Lawrence...... 3 O 0 0 5 I 0 0 100 14 5 0 K n o x ...... 10 19 IS I 5 0 2 0 2,500 1.872 50 0 M aury...... 5 0 2 O 5 » 1 0 *50 63 25 0 M id lan d ...... 2 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 150 39 5 0 Nashville...... 15 48 50 51 2 7 5 1 2,500 2,200 100 186 N orthern...... 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 » 25 20 2 • Robertson...... 8 8 2 0 5 3 2 1 300 137 50 0 Providence ...... s 4 2 I 2 1 0 0 250 7 10 0 Stew art...... 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 IOO 83 10 0 S ev ier...... 5 3 3 0 I 0 0 0 150 164 to 0 Sw eetw ater...... 5 7 1 2 1 2 0 0 500 239 25 O WESTERN 1 st Column: Goals from October 1, 1938 to October 1, 1939. 2nd Column: Attained from October 1. 1938 to July 1, 1939. NORTH CENTRAL New A -i New A -i New 1st Column: Goals from October 1. 1938 to October 1, 1939. 2nd Column: Attained from October 1. 1938 to July 1, 1939. Association Unions Unions Training Training Awards T ithcrs Unions Unions New A-I New A -i New 5 3 4 2 2 O 1 0 15 41 Association Unions Unions Training Training Awards Tithers Big H atchie...... 5 7 3 O 2 I t 0 Unions Unions Carroll C o u n ty ...... 3 2 4 I 1 1 2 0 200 0 ( rockett ( ounty...... 4 2 1 O 0 O 0 0 150 Big E m o ry ...... 6 11 10 13 2 2 1 I 800 25 21 0 2 O 364 Dyer County ...... 5 0 O 0 0 200 C o n co rd ...... 4 9 3 0 1 1 1 0 132 25 0 3 3 O 375 Fayette...... I 0 1 0 0 150 11 5 0 New R iv e r...... 3 4 2 O 1 0 0 0 100 146 IO 0 Gibson...... 8 10 2 2 3 1 0 0 400 108 New S alem ...... 5 3 5 4 I 0 1 1 ISO 15 15 0 Hardeman...... 3 4 3 O I O 1 0 o s R iverside...... 2 6 I 0 1 I 0 0 IO 0 8 6 O 94 M adison...... 5 2 O 1 0 S alem ...... 4 5 3 0 1 0 1 0 50 9.1 10 0 M cN airy...... 5 8 2 O 1 2 0 0 250 34 10 12 Stockton Valley ...... I 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 30 O 8 0 Shelby...... II 15 15 7 I 0 2 0 2,500 1,786 IOO 0 S ton e...... 1 I 0 0 1 0 0 66 15 O 0 O 3 125 \\ eakley...... 2 2 I 0 0 1 Inion...... 3 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 150 79 20 0 Western District...... 5 5 3 I I 0 0 0 200 751 10 0 W ilson ...... 5 3 4 1 1 0 0 0 250 80 20 O

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939 Page 11 SUMMER ACTIVITIES AT FORK MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CAMP, WOMAN-S MISSIONARY UNION CAMPBELL COUNTY Mrs. George Ridenour Mrs. C. D. Crtatman, President Mist Mary Northington. Nashville Miss Margaret Bruce. Nashville Hermitage Executive Secretary-Treasurer Young People's Secretary This has been a busy three months with 14S Sixth Avenue. North. Nashville, Tennessee us— five Vacation Bible Schools and four young people’s camps. Besides this we organized one mission Sunday school and BROWN’S VACATION God was so good in blessing our efforts helped in two others, prepared numbers By Amos R. Wells and we were able to have our prayer of for the annual young people’s program “ I ’ve had a vacation,” said Timothy Brown; Thanksgiving as we had faith to believe making several twenty-mile trips to prac­ tice and arrange for this, and carried on “ A fine one, although I have not left the He would before we had our programs town. our regular associational work. I merely vacated my worries and fears. printed. We truly hope the entire $7,- We have had such blessed opportunities And at once became younger by fairly five 000.00 will come in from Tennessee! to work with the boys and girls in the years. groups here at the camp. In all we have I vacated my ruts, and began to enjoy had an even hundred young people for at My regular, humdrum, but useful employ. least three days each here in camp. This I changed my whole outlook and vision of W. M. S. AND Y. W. A. MEMBERS is about twice the number we had last life, year. The neighborhood vacation Bible W. M. S. and Y. W. A.’s read the fol­ And made it a pastime instead of a strife. School was a great success. I ’ve had a vacation, not vacant, a bore, lowing interesting article “MULTUM IN The first camp was a group of G. A. age But fuller and freer than ever before; PARVO” and make your plans to order a girls. Miss Ercelle Hunter was with us The best of vacations for fat purse or number of these boxes. We must not let and taught “ Questing in Galilee” ; Miss Eva lean— the young people get ahead of US with their -Brewer taught the book, "Living For A change of the seeing instead of the Jesus” ; and Mr. Ridenour held the morn­ scene.” “ foot of dimes”. Already the money is ing and evening worship periods. Crea — Christian Endeavor World. coming into Dr. Freeman’s office from this Ridenour had the music and handwork source. It is not necessary to send in the part and ± managed the cooking end of receptacle holding the dimes. Please send the camp. Of course we all helped each KNOXVILLE, FIRST. W. M. S. HAS other out in the different activities. Mr. only the money in the form of check or SUCCESSFUL TRAINING SCHOOL Ridenour was the director of recreation PROGRAM money order. Send all money for both the and took them on hikes, held soft ball and (Letter from Miss Laura D. Powers, "foot of dimes” and the building boxes to horseshoe pitching games. In the evenings President) Dr. John D. Freeman, 149-Gth Ave., North, before bed-time there was always a period I want to tell you of our fine program Nashville, marked “For the W. M. U. Train­ of indoor play and singing. How they en­ joyed fruit-basket, spin the plate, Bible for the Training School which we had the ing School Building.” first week in July. baseball, going to Jerusalem, etc. It was While I was in Union City at our State such a joy to have the piano to use this ------MULTUM IN PARVO W. M. UrCutiVentlon and later in Oklahoma year. This was made possible by a love City at the meeting of the W. M. U. at the gift from one of the Chattanooga groups Thus the Romans expressed it: “ Much who gave enough for me to have my piano Southern Baptist Convention, we heard in little” ! Through the ages people have much about the plans for our new building thoroughly gone over and parts renewed so realized that things accumulate, that re­ it could be used. for the Training School that I “caught the ceptacles are not only convenient but fever” and determined that our W. M. S. The second camp was the group of suggestive. Accordingly in devising ways twenty boys. Most of these had never been should do her full part and that we should and means for raising the money needed do it early in the year so as to keep this to camp before and not much of any place for the new building project of the W. M. else. It was what could surely be called a special gift from interfering with our State U. Training School it has seemed well to Mission offering in the fall. So, we ordered raw group. We had hoped to have another furnish at a nominal cost offering boxes man and some others to help but were some copies of our Training School playlet shaped like the School’s proposed building. which was so ably prepared by our new disappointed at the last and the same W, M. S. and Y. W. A. members as well as teachers took care of this bunch. It was president, Mrs. C. D. Creasman, and put their organizations will delight to use such them in the hands of a group of talented simply amazing to see the difference the a box for their thrifty savings and loving second day—what they learned and “caught “iris in our Business Woman’s Circle. Mrs. offerings toward the project. ale Gardner directed them so that-helped on to” and how they responded to the make their work just “ tops” ! For example: $20 will provide 100 teaching and Christian atmosphere. The square feet of the roof; $12 to $15 will lay last day of this camp was an R. A. Conclave Before the playlet we used our four with seven churches represented in the graduates of the Training School who are a square yard of the foundation; a glass number of boys. A demonstration of R. A. members of our church in the following in a window will cost $8.50; one hundred work was given, a talk by Miss Hunter, devotional program; brick can be laid for $5. Sunbeams, Girls' Auxiliary and Royal Ambassador members a first-aid class by Miss Brewer, some ball Scripture Reading— Miss Edna Earl Hut­ are being urged each to use the “ Foot of games and a picnic dinner. It was a really chinson Dimes” card as a reminder to save and worth-while day. Prayer— Mrs. F. F. Brown give their dimes: the August issue of The third was a Y. W. A. group who Talks; “ What the Training School Has World Comrades carries a stirring playlet: studied “ Pioneer Women" taught by Mr. Meant to Me”— Mrs. Clarice Hamilton "March of the Dimes” . Similarly, a playlet Ridenour, and were also given health and Groh and Mrs. Judson G. Jackson in the August issue of The Window of Christian life talks by Miss Brewer. They Our older. Business Woman’s Circle made Y. W. A. sets forth the spiritual values that did some really splendid handwork of wool the lovely programs. We met at night so should accrue to all who contribute to the embroidery. The last camp of G. A. girls tha.t the two Business Women's Circles building project even as the new plant is was last week and only one of them had could be with us. designed to deepen the missionary purpose been to camp before. Nine of them did all A month before the meeting we began of all who are trained therein: the title of of the work for the step of Maiden and to pray for the offering, our goal was the Y. W. A. playlet is “ Opening Windows were awarded the armbands at the closing $150.00. We decided that each circle should in the New Training School.” recognition service. Miss Brewer taught raise as many dollars as she could and the Forward steps class and Crea taught these dollars should be clipped to a string Y. W. A. and W. M. S. members are, "Under Muny Flags.” Fourteen of them and brought to the meeting in July. After therefore, encouraged to order and use the received seals or certificates for the book. the playlet our secretary called the roll of offering boxes. They are of white card­ We do thank the Lord that we huve circles and the treasuer of each circle came board, printed in black: an artistic person been permitted to do this work for Him forward with the gifts. The general can easily add color to her box! The post­ this summer. Through all of the hindrances treasurer received the “ line of dollars” tie- paid prices are as follows: 5c each; 50c a and the hard work we have felt that the ing each new line to the main line until it dozen; $4 per hundred. Order from W. M. Lord was with us and we trust Him to reached entirely across the room and half U. Training School, 334 East Broadway, multiply the seed which has been sown in way back! Did we get our $150.00? Indeed Louisville, Ky. Won’t you “build” largely the young hearts. Personal talks and con­ we did! I just knew we would! We had in this undertaking for “ Life Beautiful” tacts were frequent during the camp times. $150.50 that night and one circle added through those who will be trained in this We thank all of you who have made this theirs later. new “ House Beautiful” ? time of service possible.

Page 12 BAPTIST AND REFLECTOR in the history of that period. In 1651, partly effective. A more effective method William Witter invited John Clark, Oba- of giving truth a voice is at hand. It is diah Holmes, and John Crandall to come by the use of radio. Multitudes listen to over from Rhode Island and hold a meet­ the radio who are rarely seen in the ing at Swampscott. The three were ar­ churches. Great numbers of our population rested for holding that Baptist meeting. are being moulded in their attitude toward Obadiah Holmes was brutally whipped on the churches by what they hear over the Boston Common. The brutality caused a air. A t present, no effective antidote to revulsion of feeling on the part of many certain kinds of false teaching is heard of the Colonists. Their fellow-religionists over the air. Of all the believers in the in England also disapproved. The result New Testament, the Baptists are best was that the cause of religious freedom qualified to meet these errors, whether was advanced on this continent. In 1651, from religious teachers who have strayed William Witter was 69 years old, and he from the simplicities of the gospel, or from was blind. That age was “old” at that political and other propagandists who have time. My mother wvas in the eighth gen­ strayed from the fundamental principles eration in direct descent from William given in the New Testament for . the Witter. Her name was Rachel Witter. guidance of human relationships in or­ From her I learned the fundamentals of ganized society. For the sake of Christi­ our Baptist faith. She taught me un­ anity in all the world, and for the sake swerving loyalty to conviction and a fear­ of the nations, there is need of the most less avowal of the truth. widespread and effective proclamation of Since I have become old and blind, I the Baptist Message, in the full measure have thought much about my old and blind of it as set forth on the Cross, in the ancestor, and of how the fearless cham­ Sermon on the Mount, and in all the life SHE WAS A REAL MOTHER IN ISRAEL pions of the great fundamentals of our and conversations of Jesus Christ. faith endured ostracism, hardship, exile, Something more than evangelism is By R. K. Bennett and persecution in the age to which he called for. The whole New Testament Mrs. Thomas Flem Williams, whose belonged. The Roman Catholics have message, as it affects life and destiny, here photo is shown herewith, was before her made me think of him and them. Being and hereafter, is demanded. Where others marriage, Miss Fannie Jett Walker, blind, I sit much by the radio and listen. put humanistic motives, we can put re­ daughter of E. T. and Martha Marshall As I have listened, I have become im­ demptive motives. Where others see little Walker. She was born November 14, 1862. pressed by the use the Roman Church danger in regimented lives for the people, She went to Glory on June 4, 1939. Her is making of the radio. Sermons by priests if thereby their bread and butter may be husband, whom the writer had not the and religious addresses by laymen are made sure, we can exalt those principles of privilege of knowing, preceded her in heard over the radio which, because of freedom, human initiative and responsibil­ death about twenty-one years. For more the meat of the gospel in them and the ity which inhere in the teachings of the than half a century she was a faithful soundness of the teachings involved, would Gospels and the Epistles. Besides making member of Stanton Baptist Church. She appeal to Baptists and others. The mul­ known in clear expositions the truths by was also a charter member of the Woman’s titudes who hear these messages are liable which men attain to the fuller and higher Missionary Society of this church. She to judge all the teachings and practices of life, we can also tell of the Baptist heroes was the mother of seven children, all of the Roman Church by these. Able men and martyrs who shook off the yoke of whom survive: Flem Williams, Memphis, also make historical addresses of a most tyranny and opened the way for liberty and Term.; Ed Williams, Stanton, Tenn.; Misses arresting and impressive character. In salvation. Jett, Corinne, and Mattie, of Stanton; Mrs. these addresses the Church of Rome is There is no Baptist group in the world Frank Crockett, Farmington, Mo.; Mrs. exalted, and the wrongs done by her are so well conditioned to do a world-moving Eugene Goodloe, of Stanton. “ Her children obscured or presented in a false light. The and world-moulding work of enlighten­ rise up and call her blessed." stories of the martyrs and the great lenders ment in the middle of the 20th century as What Dorcas was to the work in Joppa, of that Church are told in a captivating the Baptists of the Southern Convention. Mrs. Williams was to the work at Stanton. way, well calculated to create a sympa­ There is no other enterprise today awaiting She lived for her church* and home, giving thetic attitude on the part of hearers. The their attention so vast as this and fraught of her time, talents and substance, first, legends of the Roman Church are also re­ with such opportunities of immeasurable of course, herself without stint. She did counted in a manner to make the untaught good to the world in this generation and it all quietly, joyfully, for her Lord. Her and unwary believe that miracles are in the generations to follow. home was the preacher’s home in the days common in connection with the activities when there was no resident pastor. There of this Church. Constantly, also, the edu­ A GOOD POSITION was a room many of us remember as "The cational work of the Church is presented Awaits you In bu.inpH. when you qualify. W rite for KItKK booklet, "1‘lanning Your Parsonage,” where w e spent many nights to the thoughts of the people. This is Future." Atiilre.. in restful sleep. We ate at her table. We done in a way not only to magnify its EDMONDSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS sat at her fireside with the family circle, greatness, but also to suggest its superiority Chattanooga, Tenneaaee enjoying the fellowship of her home and to the educational work of all others in the sweet influence of her life. To her, this country and the imperative need of and to many like her in this great little it to the stability and welfare of the Gray’s Ointment church, must go much of the credit, so far nation. The average man, or woman, who USED SINCE 1820 FOR----- n O SUPERFICIAL as human fidelity goes, of keeping the listens to all or most of the messages put K i l l ■ S i CUTS a n d b u r n s missionary zeal of the church on a high upon the air by the Roman Church, if his AND MINOR BRUISES _Bl0ne through the years that have passed. knowledge of the history, teachings, and 26c at your drug store. FOR C0LD8 — Utt our Gray's (Nothol) May their example of faithfulness spur us guiding principles of that Church has not Nose Drops. Small slzo 25c, larsa alia 50a onward to greater heights. May their forewarned, would almost certainly have at your druggist. prayers forever be had as memorials be­ for the Church a regard which the facts of fore the Throne; and their tears be caught the past and the present do not justify. in God’s bottle against another day. Be­ In view of what has already happened in cause He wrought through them the ret­ this country, and seems likely to happen, F O R K j N io f j m ACADEMY m rospect is not unmixed with joy, while this is a portentous fact. This is not the ' A Christian school w ith the hishost academic rating. place to name the conspicuous errors in Small classes. Supervised study. Upper Schoel pro* the prospect is just as bright as the pares for university er business. R. 0 . T. C. Also promises of God. the teaching of the Roman Church, its nest-graduate course. Separate Junior School for beys below blah school arado. House mother. A ll sports. — Stanton, Tennessee. anti-Biblical practices, and its dangerous Every modem eauipmont. 24 states represented. Cat* ideas as to the relation it should sustain to slog. President J. J. Wicker. FORK UNION. VA. A DESCENDANT OF WILLIAM WITTER the State. Suffice it to say that the ec­ LEARNS FROM RADIO clesiastical trends to which William Witter ' and men greater than he opposed them­ By O. C. S. Wallace, Baltimore EYE COMFORT selves with all their might were but cubs Raliavo Irritation duo to ovar-4 Nineteen years after the landing of the compared with the full-grown lions which iiaa. exposure to Dust. Glare Pilgrims at Plymouth, the Pedobaptists of are at large now. JOHN R. DICKEY'S OLD RELIABLE EYE WASH the Massachusetts Colony blamed William A clamor against the errors of Rome and refreshen ami brings comfort. Used 65 yeara. Witter for attacking one of their religious of other false teachers whose words come Genuine In red box. 25c and 50c at drug atores. Aik for large also with dropper. practices. He told them that “ infant to the people over the air, might be raised DICKEY DRUG COMPANY. BRISTOL. VA. baptism was of the devil.” So it is written by pulpit and press, but would only be THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939 J Page 13 AMONG THE BRETHREN By FLEETWOOD BALL The church at Des Art, Ark., W. J. Rev. J. Ben Eller and family, of Greens­ Morris, pastor, was assisted by W. R. boro, N. C., spent the night of the 1st in Wildon Thompson accepted a call to Vestal in a revival, resulting in 15 addi­ Nashville. They were en route to Arkan­ the care of the church at Coleman, Okla. tions. sas for a vacation during which Dr. Eller .....HA R------BAR---- will supply for Second Church, Little Z. M. Leverette has resigned at Sylvania, E. Butler Abbington, of Little Rock,Rock, and First Church, Fort Smith. Ga., and accepted a call to Jackson, Ga. Ark., lately closed a meeting with the ----BAR------BAR-- church at Casa, Ark., Wallace Marks, Rev. S. P. DeVault, who moved from T. L. Crouch has resigned the care of pastor. There were 17 additions, two by Nashville to Johnson City in May, reports the First Church, Neosho, Mo., and will letter. that he has been kept busy holding meet- enter envangelistic work. ----BAR---- . ings and supplying. We miss Bro. DeVault ----BAR— H. A. Turner, pastor of the First Church, around Nashville and are glad that the The church at East Juliette, Ga., has Dumas, Ark., established a mission point Lord continues to use him. secured L. L. Minton as pastor. He re­ near Dumas, and just closed a meeting ----BAR---- cently resigned there. there with 19 additions to a church which Buntyn Street Baptist Church, Memphis, ----BAR---- was recently organized. L. G. Cannon, pastor, a new church that W. L. Head preached in evangelistic ----BAR---- came into Shelby County Association last services in Comer, Ga., W. R. Callaway, fall, is happy over the interest and growth pastor, resulting in 54 additions. Highland Church, Shreveport, La., John evident in the church. —BAR— Caylor, pastor, has passed another century ----BAR---- “There was a time when there were mark with the addition last Sunday of 13 We appreciate an invitation to be present 12 Baptists, now there are more than 12,- members. The church has a net member­ at the birthday anniversary of Miss Louise 000,000 Baptists,” says C. W. Koller. ship of 1,905. Elizabeth Dorcas Herndon, church mis­ ----BAR------BAR---- sionary, in the Highland Park Baptist Maurice M. Hall lately resigned as pastor J. Norris Palmer of the First Church, Church, Chattanooga, Wednesday evening, at La Compete, La., and accepted a call Baton Rouge, lately did the preaching in August 23rd. to the First Church, Judsonia, Ark. ----BAR---- a revival in Bernice,1 La., A. T. Mitchell, July 5, Evangelist A. D. Muse, Memphis, ----BAR---- pastor. There were 12 additions. The The pulpit of Bellevue Church, Memphis, closed a revival with Levi Baptist Church, guest preacher was formerly pastor there. R. G. Lee, pastor, was supplied the 1st and Memphis, with 20 additions. July 19 he 3rd Sundays in August by C. B. Waller. —BAR— closed a meeting at Guin, Ala., with 4 con­ ----BAR---- In recognition of the 20th anniversary versions. Following this he began a tent D. V. Cason has resigned as pastor of as pastor of the Second Church, Little meeting at Blytheville, Ark., which runs the First Church, Washington, Ga., to ac­ Rock, Ark., C. B. Waller was honored on to August 29. cept a call to Central Church, Waycross, a recent Sunday by his members and —RAR— Ga., elTecctive September 1. friends o f the Second Church. He was Pastor R. R. Denny of the Baptist Taber­ , - ■ ---- BAR---- formerly a Tennessee pastor. nacle, Chattanooga,' recently led in a Louie D. Newton, pastor of Druid Hill —BAR— gracious revival with Maple Grove Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga., was elected one of Church, Ocoee Association. There were 18 the Associate Secretaries of the Baptist Mrs. G. W. Bottoms, of Monticello, Ark., conversions, 5 restorations and 11 addi­ World Alliance. who has given liberally to the Baptist tions, with others to follow. —BAR— Orphanage and for whom it was named, ----BAR---- The pastor, Berton Callico, urges all has given funds for the erection of an ad­ The third week in July Pastor G. G. former pastors of the church at Irvington, ministration building, which will be dedi­ Joyner, of Jackson, was in a good meeting Ky., to attend a Homecoming at that place cated Aug. 15. O. J. Wade will preach the with Piney Creek Baptist Church, Hender­ as part of their 50th anniversary. dedication sermon. son County. Following that a gracious —BAR— meeting was held with the Providence The First Church, Wake Forest, N. C., Baptist Church in Crockett County Asso­ for many years an educational center, has ciation in which he had the assistance of By THE EDITOR called Everett Gill, of Europe, as pastor, Pastor L. P. Fleming of Luxora, Ark., of and he has accepted. In a revival at Comer, Ga., W. M. Cal- whose work he writes in fine praise. Bro. ---- BAR— away, pastor, in which the preaching was Joyner began a meeting with Spring Creek J. T. Bradfield, pastor of the church at done by Evangelist W. L. Head, there were Baptist Church, July 30, but we have not uron, is in the midst of a meeting there 55 additions, 50 of them by baptism. heard what the results were. in which H. L. Watters, of Parsons, is do­ ---- BAR---- ing the preaching. ----BAR---- “ Thanking God for the confidence and ---- BAR---- In a revival at Pine Orchard, S. D. gifts of our Baptist people to the Baptist C. E. Davis has resigned as pastor of Knisley, Wartburg, pastor, in which the Bible Institute,” President W. W. Hamil­ the churches at Leon and Haymond, Ky., preaching was done by J. F. Wolfenbarger, ton, writing July 31, says: “ We are grate­ accepted the call to Livingston, Ky., and is there were 23 conversions and 20 baptized ful beyond words that the Baptist Bible on the field. into the church, with 6 additions by letter. Institute, through the aid of many friends, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND TRAINING UNION ATTENDANCE, JULY 30, 1939 Sunday Training Parkview _ 104 39 Morristown, First _____ 389 School Union West _ 603 123 Murfreesboro: First __ 319 87 254 116 Jamestown, First _ „ 189 67 Florence ______26 35 Antioch ... ~ ...... 104 63 Kingsport: Calvary — 230 46 Mission ______103 . 124 79 _ 436 108 Nashville: Edgefield 82 62 50 Knoxville: Fifth Avenue . _. 811 167 Fatherland at. Mission . 72 61 Bristol, Virglnfa Avenue------___238 75 First 828 F i r s t ______1076 390 Chapel Hill, Smyrna-. ___67 60 639 134 F re e la n d ______117 Chattanooga: Avondale______162 ...._ 454 G ru ce______:______830 90 129 .... 43 Inglewood ______1_____ .. 306 103 - 522 161 ..... 246 61 New Hope ______- 160 130 78 337 North E n d ______239 126 353 98 81 36 Radnor 173 37 201 . 183 87 Shelby Avenue 368 192 215 39 .... 178 64 Newbern - 132 38 .... 424 79 ... . 160 19 New Tuzewell, F irs t. - 116 44 139 93 38 Paris, F i r s t ______- 346 First 425 108 . 315 Philadelphia . 63 38 115 70 Pine Orchard 160 204 164 First ...... 508 99 Rock wood, First ______265 . 102 44 108 64 Sevierviile. Alder Branch __ 148 93 200 101 Pigeon Forge ------173 98 . - 100 39 Maynardsville______54 65 Shelbyville ______— 195 90 40 Memphis: Bellevue------1520 348 Ten M ile ______61 95 lull 60 Trezevant ______104 SO - 456 Union City Clt; 527 90 21 First ____ . 728 130 Union Hill . 245 94 Guy*. Gravel Hill______62 66 Walter Hill, Powells Chapel- 157 36 Harrlman. Trenton Street____Z 337 91 Temple -...... 1101 176 Watertown. First ------~ 173 41 Jackson: Culvary ------132 Union Avenue 210 Yorkvllle, B eth el ------62

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is today paying a full year’s interest on our 2 dedications for special religious service. first mortgage bonds.” REPORT OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS Knoxville—Fifth Avenue received 3 ad­ ----BAR---- OF THE BAPTIST WORLD ditions by letter; Lincoln Park welcomed On the way home from the Baptist ALLIANCE 3 additions by letter, 4 for baptism. Nash­ World Alliance to Texarkana, Ark., and Atlanta — July 22-28, 1939 ville—Associational Missionary received 3 suffering a heart attack in the home of a The official report of the Sixth Con­ for baptism; Freeland received 3 for bap­ sister-in-law in Chattanooga, Mrs. T. C. gress of the Baptist World Alliance, a tism; New Hope welcomed 1 by letter; Molesdale, Dr. Matthew Thomas Andrews, book of three hundred or more pages, North End received 1 by letter, Pastor 70, died Friday, July 31. He was widely carrying all of the addresses and ser­ Hatcher baptized 7; Radnor, Pastor Mosley known and well beloved. God comfort all mons and commission reports of the baptized 1; Richland received 4 by letter, fhc bereaved. Atlanta Congress, will go to press with­ 13 for baptism, Pastor Huckaba baptized ----BAR---- in the very near future. 13. Memphis—Bellevue received 2 by Word comes that W. Herschel Ford, This book w ill sell for $2.50 per copy, letter; Temple welcomed 4 by letter, 1 for formerly pastor of Broadway Baptist postpaid. Checks or post office money baptism. Church, Knoxville, and now pastor of orders should be made out to The Baptist ----BAR— Southside Baptist Church, Jacksonville, World Alliance. Orders must be re­ Fla., has received 58 new members in the BRIEFS CONCERNING THE BRETHREN ceived, with checks or post office money first month of his work and that a lot has orders attached, not later than Septem­ Called and Accepted been purchased and the erection of a new ber 15th if you desire a copy of the first Maurice M. Hall, First Judsonia, Ark. building will begin at once. edition. Address your order to Dr. E. P. J. Garrott, First, Prescott, Ark. ----BAR---- Gordon C. Goodier, Compton Hghts Gh., Pastor T. W. Carl, Big Sandy, writes Louie D. Newton, 1085 Ponce de Leon Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Georgia. St. Louis, Mo. in splendid praise of the preaching of O. L. D. Eaton, Waukon Ch., Iowa. F. Huckaba, pastor North Edgefield Baptist J. H. Kyzar, First, Laurens, S. C. Church, Nashville, in a gracious revival in S. J. Gardner, Siloam & Reedy River New Boston Baptist Church, Western FREE PAPERS FOR SOBRIETY’S SAKE Chs., near Greenville, S. C. District Association, in which there were In order to place up-to-the minute facts Everett Gill, Sr., Wake Forest Ch., Wake 13 professions and additions by baptism about repeal and present-day liquor Forest, N. C. and 2 by letter. problems into the hands of those who need Melvin T. Wilson, Mer Rouge & Oak ----BAR---- to learn the truth on this question, The Ridge Chs., La. With C. M. Pickier, pastor Red Bank National Voice, national temperance week­ Baptist Church, Chattanooga, doing the ly, is repeating its offer this week to send Resigned preaching and Bro. Vern Powers of Mt. free bundles of papers for distribution E. P. J. Garrott, First, Conway, Ark. Juliet leading the singing, Smyrna Baptist purposes anywhere in the United States. J. C. Dodson, Pike City, Okla. Church, Chapel Hill, recently experienced In order to secure a free bundle of 25 Truman L. Crouch, First, Neosho, Mo. a fine revival in which there were 12 assorted copies of this temperance publica­ L. D. Eaton, Riseville, Iowa. additions by baptism and 2 by letter. C. N. tion, church workers and friends of sobri­ J. H. Kyzar, Drew, Miss. Barclay is pastor. ety may address a postal card request to S. J. Gardner, Pickens M ill and Second ---- BAR---- The National Voice, Box 23, Los Angeles, Chs., S. C. There were three professions of faith California. Melvin T. Wilson, Bowen Memorial Ch., the closing night of a series of services at Many thousands have been reached dur­ Miss. Boma, J. F. Neville, pastor, in which the ing recent months by the distribution of Ordained preaching was done by James H. Williams these free temperance papers. of Smith’s Grove, Ky. The visiting min­ John Ray, Silver Lake Ch., Bartlesville, ister feeling it necessary to leave for a rest, —BAR— Okla. the services of Pastor J. Harold Stephens Adolph Greenwalt, Silver Lake Ch., With the Churches: Birchwood received of Cookeville were secured to continue the Bartlesville, Okla. 3 by letter, 7 for baptism. Cowan received meeting. 2 for baptism. Elizabcthton— First wel­ Died ---- BAR---- Pastor Woodrow Medlock was recently comed one addition by letter. Kingsport Rev. J. E. Herring, Alberta, Ala. assisted in a revival at Powell Chapel by — First welcomed one addition by letter, Dr. M. T. Andrews, Texarkana, Ark. B. B. Powers of Mt. Juliet, a former pastor, who did most of the preaching. Two HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY members were received by letter and 30 A Baptist preparatory school for boys. Fully accredited. Junior School, High were approved- for baptism and the church School, Post Graduate, and Commercial Courses. High academic standards, small was greatly revived. classes, experienced Christian teachers. Excellent program of extra-curricular ---- BAR---- activities. “The Best For the Boy At a Reasonable Cost.” Sunday, July 30, Union Hill Baptist Address, Col. A. H. Camden, Chatham, Virginia. v Church, near Goodlettsville, C. H. Robin­ son, pastor, had a great all-day inspira­ tional meeting for the completion of their new 'auditorium. Special speakers were E. B. Crain, pastor Eastland Baptist Church, Nashville, and Harold Gregory, missionary in the Nashville Association. ---- BAR---- Baptist and Reflector appreciates the following out-of-town visits this week; Pastor A. B. Pierce and Miss Katie Pierce, Westmoreland; Pastor B. Frank Collins, Chattanooga; Pastor H. D. Burns, Franklin; Pastor W. C. McGill, Springfield; James H. Williams, Smiths Grove, Ky.; Pastor REVIVAL SONG BOOKS Melvine W. Crump and son, John W., Baltimore, Md., and Pastor Floyd T. Buck­ Abiding Songs— A “ little hymnal” Song* of Victory— Designed pri­ ner. Westbourne. Come again, friends! containing a choice selection of best marily for revival use—greatly In ---- BAR---- loved hymns and gospel songs with demand for the special year of Renewing his subscription, Aug. 1, Bro. responsive readings. Round or evangelism. A nicely balanced assort­ John Edens of Corryton, Tenn., writes; shaped notes. Cloth or bristol bind- ment of hymns and gospel songs, "I am now starting on my ninetieth year „ ing. Cloth,-dozen, ( 4.15; fifty,. #13.75; including recent copyrights. Round since last Thursday. 1 have been a con­ *' hundred, $ 27.50, carriage extra. or shaped notes. Bristol binding stant subscriber and reader of Baptist and _ Bristol, dozen, $ 3.00 postpaid; fifty, only. Dozen, $ 2.00 postpaid; fifty, Reflector .for more than fifty years, and am S8.75; hundred, $ 17.50, carriage $ 6.25; hundred, $ 12.50, carriage lost without it.” This is certainly a fine extra. extra. record of loyalty. Baptist and Reflector thanks Bro. Eden for it and for his good letter and prays abundant blessings upon BAPTIST BOOK STORE him. IGI-8U1 Ave., N. NASHVILLE, TENN.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939 Page 15 SLIPPING JUST A LITTLE!!!

Receipt*, {j&i flttltf Game. l/ip ta Keep. 6un Qocd in SujJtt

The Co-operative Program holds its place in the confidence of Tennessee Baptists. Our churches continue their loyal support of all the kingdom tasks. July receipts through the Program went THIRTEEN PER CENT ahead of those for last July, thus keeping safe for another month our goal of A TEN PERCENT INCREASE FOR THE YEAR.

c- Here Is The Record Co-operative Program'receipts for July, 1939 ...... 17,173.62 Co-operative Program receipts for July, 1938 ______$15,190.72

Gain for the month...... $ 1,982,90 Per cent of gain...... 13% ♦Co-operative Program receipts Nov. I, 1938-July 31, 1939 $180,063.40 Co-operative Program receipts Nov. I , 1937-July 3 1, 1938 159,230.79 ' ...... Increase for nine months...... $ 20,832.61 Per cent of increase for nine months 13 .1

. T h is sum is only $4,000.00 short of receipts for entire first year of Secretary Freeman's services.

Three Months Remain

O ctober 31st will be here very soon! Another year's record will have been made during the three months before that time. Every loyal worker in our churches should be willing to help us attain a second goal which is even more important than the reaching of the ten per cent increase in receipts. That second goal is "LET US SECURE A N OFFERING FROM EVERY BAPTIST C H U R C H IN THE STATE FOR THE PROGRAM ." Nearly six undred churches did not give through it last year. Let us strive to cut that number by a large section. It can be one if some interested worker will visit the churches not giving and lead them to make an offering while there.

Watch for the Third Quarterly Report

The third quarter's report of receipts from the churches will be published in the columns of Baptist and Re­ flector at an early date. W atch for it. Study it. REMEMBER! Every church not listed in that report has not sent one cent to our office since the first of last November. You will know the churches of your association. Make a list of those not included in this quarterly report, and get your friends to aid you in visiting these churches to tell them about our great work and ask them for an offering to the Co-operative Program causes.

Our State Convention Coming!

November is State Convention Month. We meet in Chattanooga this year. Do not let the fact that you have been to other great Baptist meetings cause you to overlook this annual gathering. W e want at least 1,000 messengers from the churches to be present at this meeting. Surely every church should be interested enough in our general work to want to have a part in planning for the things that are to be done during 1940.

EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE TENNESSEE BAPTIST CONVENTION NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

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