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even including· the laying of new planks along much of the Boardwalk-something that has to be done every 15 to 20 years, one of the workmen told n;te. (This may or may not influence the muleriders to consider replacing some planks in their own plat­ Along the Boardwalk form while they are here.) THIS is about the most inaccessible place from ATLANTIC City, N. J., May 18-0ne . good the air of any convention city in America. Many of thing about having the Baptist conventions meet us had to take a limousine ride from Philadelphia, in this ocean resort-if you are slow recognizi·ng an hour and a half's trip, to get here. old friends you can blaine it on their sunglasl'les. Or yours. One messenger, who was just trying to break CLABE Hankins is along, but the old fellow has in a new pair of trifocals, had an even better e:x;cuse. been mighty quiet considering' that Sal is not with him. When I told him some of our readers had ac­ ONE ·of my Baptist editor friends I have been cused him of being a fictitious character, he said, knowing for years had to tell me who she is. Since "There are days when Sal wishes I wuz." I saw her a year ago she has lost 30 pounds of surplus avoirdupois and swapped he·r spectacles for contact lenses. (So you see, ladies and gentlemen, it can be done! But I'm telling you, not showing you.) · IN THIS ISS.UE: THE jet flight from Memphis to Washington was the most chilling. in my jet-riding career. Us­ CONVENTION time is over for another year, ually a jet flight is about as smooth as sitting in but bef-Qre we turn to other matters let's meet our your den with a good book and the TV tuned down. new president, Wayne Dehoney, through the edi­ But even a Boeing 707 has a rough time· in a rain tol'ial columns on the next page. A look at reports . and electrical storm, like the one our pilot tackled from our· institutions and agencies begins on pag~ half an hour out of Washington. Some of us wanted 12, and our Home Mission Board report is re­ him to stop and let us off. Or at least let us d'ouble viewed on page 24. Still more convention news our insurance. will be found on page 5 and in our· Arkansas sec­ tion beginning on page 7. INCIDENTALLY, I used to think that the * * * safest flying was by commercial ai:rliner. But now EVERYONE else does it!" A familiar sound I'm not so sure. With so many planes continuing to to parents. Read what Rosalind Street has to say crash, many of them in bad weather, I'm beginning on the subject of individuality on page 6. "' to wonder if private pilots are not mo:re careful * * * about the weather than commercial pilots. COVER story page 4. Certainly, ,unfavorable weathe:r is still one of ' . the biggest threats to safe flying.

THE prices here along the famous Boardwalk Arlansa~ Baptist r:=:~c:::-.:. ·::::...... ~ Evangehcal ~ress A88'n are mighty high, at least In the estimation of us 1 1 fellows .from down on Bunker. Even a l.Oc paper June 4, 1964 Volume 63, Number 23 costs 15 .cents! And I paid 25 cents for a · glass of Editor, ERWIN L. McDoNALD, Litt. D. ice tea with a thin slice of lemon. This did include A.ssomat(} Editor, MRS. E. F. STOKES sugar and the use of an ice-tea spoon. (Having no Managing Editor, MRS. TED WOODS control over the price, I took a double serving. of Field Representative, J. I. CossEY sugar!) · Secretary to Editor, · MRS. HARRY GIBERSON Rooms are awful high, too, especiaUy here at Mwil Clerk, MRS. WELDON TAYLOR the headquarters (or hindquarters) hotel-the Am­ 401 West Capitol bassador. But I reckon they've got to make up Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 Published weekly except on July 4 and December 25'. somehow for not doing much business this week in Second-class postage paid at Little Rock, Arkansas. Individual subscription, $2.25 per year. Church budget, 14 cents per month or '$1.68 per year per church family. Club plan (10 or more paid the bar. annually in advance) $1.75 per year. Subscriptions to foreign . address, $3.75 per year. Advertising rates on request. . Articles carrying the author's by-line do not necessarily reflect THERE'S already a lot of getting ready for the editorial policy of the paper. Abbreviations used in crediting news items: BP Baptist Press ; CB Church the Democratic National Convention here in July, Bulletin; DP Daily Press; EP Evangeli'lal Press.

.Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST Arlansa~ Bapfisi------...... -___:.__. _ ____;·EniroRIALs ~ Only one 0f these asked that his name be with­ New SBC president drawn-Forrest C. Fr~ezor. ' On the first ballot, Adams and Dehoney each THE announcement of K. Owen White, made received more than 1,000 votes, with Adams in the about two weeks ahead of the Atlantic City meet­ lead. The grapevine had it t~at It, Leo Eddleman ing of the Southern Baptist Convention and to the was a scant 30 votes behin? D ~ horiey. effect that he could not serve a second term as In the runoff, Dehoney, the retiring president of. convention president for health reasons, left the the Pastors Cpnference, won over Adams by more. field wide open. And now that first action has been th;m 700 votes. , taken on an amendment to the SBC constitution to limit a president's' tenure to a one-year term, Many had predicted, before ·the eiection was· and with every prospect that this irill be adopted held, that Wayne Dehoney woul~ be the new SBC when. voted on again next spring, the Atlantic City president. And there. was much to give cr~dence election probably gives portent of elections to to this prediction. At 45, PreS)ident Dehoney is come. still regarded as something of ''a young man O:ij his way up.'' Yet he is no novice in SBC affairs. When it was time to Jlect a .president, the line He has long been active in denominational life and of nominators taking ·their stances behind the this year, as head of the Pastors Conference, helTexas Baptist State Convention; he will be entitled to the honor of bringing with W. 0. Vaught Jr., pastor of Immanuel Church, him to this office one of the most beautiful of Little Rock; ' Southern Baptist first ladies-the former Miss Lealice ,Bishop, of K~ntucky, a pretty brunet. (See Wayne Dehoney, pastor of First Church, Jack- son, Tenn. ; · last week's cover.) I · The new president does not need our endorse­ H. Leo Eddleman, president of New Orleans ment, but we recommend him as one well qualified Seminary; ; for the high office he now holds and one deserving Solomon F. Dowis, retired executive . of the the prayers and loyal support of all Southern Bap­ Home Mission Board. tists. Blessings on you, President Dehoney.-ELM

JUNE 4, 1964 Page Threte LETTERS THE E·DITOR The Bookshelf 1 Angel at Her Shoulder, by Kenneth L. Wilson,. Harper and Row, 19.64, $3.95 This is the story of Lillian Dickson the~ people SPEAK and ·her phenomenal succel)s working amoJig the natives of the p1ysterious islalld of Formosa. When she arrived with her missionary husband, James THE spelling and sentence strudure in till• departlllen* are those of the writers. The only Dickson, on Formosa in 1927, she found editing of letters to the editor Is the writing ..,, that leprosy, head hunting, tuberculosis headllnflll and, occasionally, deletion of parts that are not regarded as essential. the selling of little girls into prostitu­ tion, anq government corruption were all being taken for granted. She has Civil disobedience helped to' build '100 churches and to establish 100 kindergartens for more HISTORICALLY, civil disobedience than 5,000 children; a school for aborig­ has an honorable and impressive rec­ inal boys of high school age where farm-. ord. All Americans are beneficiaries of ing, animal husbandry, and trades are a system of justice. made possible by taught; a similar school for girls where the courageous resistance of others 170 at a time are taught housekeeping, against unjust laws. To cite a hallowed child care, hygiene, cooking, and sew­ example, the Boston Tea-party was. civil ing; a teachers' training school which disobedience against the injustice of has already . graduated more than 200; taxation without representation. Again, 14 clinics serving- 28,000 patients a when slavery was legal, many citizens month; three tuberculosis sanatoria; jeopardized their lives to help runaway and five maternity wards. All' of this slaves escape to free territory. Public was started and sustained by volun­ demonstrations against child labor, op­ tary contributions rather than by in­ pressive working conditions, or the de­ stitlitional supp.ort. To quote Mrs. Dick­ nial of female suffrage provide other son, "We work on a shoe!;ltring, but it's examples of civil disobedience. God's shoestring." But is it Christian? Is there bibli­ cal precedent for civil disobedience? These are the questions which trouble June B-RA Camp Plutarch on Superstition, by H. Armin modern believers. UGH! Little man big bag, but Mollering, The Christopher Publish­ The answer is affirmative. Whenever ing House, $4 laws violated the conscience of the early this Royal Ambassador and his Explaining the reasons for Plutarch's Christians, they declared that they must pals will make it all right with. relentless o-pposition to it, Dr. Moeller­ obey God rather than men. The ap.os­ the help of each other and their ing defines and traces the origin of tles suffered imprisonment, exile, and counselor. Like hundreds ·of boys Deisidaimonia, which is defined as a death rather than to heed the injunc­ piety of dread, a terror inspired, fear tions against their preaching. all over the Southern Baptist Con­ distorted caricature · of true piety. He When the first century believers vention, they are off for a week reconciles and places in· what he regards passed the public images of the em­ at one of our many Royal 'Am­ as their proper perspective the appar­ peror, they flaunted the Roman law re­ bassador camps. ent contradictions in Plutarch's doc­ quiring them to confess aloud, "Caesar trines, regardless of how they have been is lord." Instead they declared, "Jesus previously treated by other scholars. is Lord!" Their willingness to suffer NEWLY elected president ' of and die as a result of this civil diso­ the Greater Lit,tle Rock Minister­ bepience ushered in a new day when no man was required to worship Caesar. ial Association is Editor Erwin In the Midst of Plenty, The Poor in , On the other hand, there is an arro­ L. McDonald. of Arkansas Baptist America, by Ben H. Bagdikian, Bea­ :gant disrespect for law and _order which Newsmagazine, who served the as­ con Press, 1964, $4.50 is intrinsically different from histori­ sociation last year as second vice Author Bagdikian describes the cal civil disobedience. It is that aimless president and chairman of the plight of America's poor as he came flaunting of laws which contributes to know them on little-travelled dirt nothing to the establishment of justice. program committee. roads, in rural - slums and city flop­ The scofflaw attitude, particularly . houses, on Indian reservations and in where it engenders violence, may have ent day violence in th'e streets should migrant camps. solidified opposition to corrective civil teach us that lawlessness inevitably · ri-ghts legislation. breeds more lawlessness. Poverty, he contends, must be mea­ Many young people, both white and The bibilical concept of citizenship sured according to the standards of a non-white, become scofflaws because of provides the best answer to the nation's man's own community. If America's the examples set by their elders. When present dilemma. Believers are not free impoverished seem lucky in contrast governors block school doors in defi­ to neglect the weighty matters of jus­ to the poor of Asia or Africa, it should ance of the law, when Sunday school tice, mercy, and love. Christian citi­ be remembered that they, in turn, need bombers are unapprehended, when mur­ zens must gain the initiative in cr2at-. not compete against the automated, derers of civil rights demonstrators go ing just laws, opposing discrimination, asphalted, missile-protected, college­ unpunished, when hooded mobs beat alleviating oppression, and demonstrat­ -degree milieu of life in the U. S. and intimidate the innocent, wheri citi­ ing proper observance of the law. "Let America's deprived, he points out, live zens habitually criticize the federal ' justice roll down like waters, and right­ alienated from the traditional hand­ government and the courts, it is vain eousness like an ever-flowing stream" holds by which most of us solve our 'to hope that the concept of law itself (Amos 5:24, RSV).-Ross Coggins, problems and get ahead in our sup­ will not be seriously undermined. Pres- Nashville, Tenn. posedly open society. Page Four ARKANSAS BAPTIST At opening BJA session

Brooks. Hays urges Christian. wttness on political tss ue s ATLANTIC CITY - Brooks triumphant until it becomes the Hays, consultant to President ·church universal. And it is part Johnson and former .SBC presi- of my thesis that Baptist individ­ dent, told North ·American Bap- uality is not jeopardized by this tists in a jubilee celebration here voluntary yielding of our forces that their insistence on separa- to the human family's moral and tion of church and state must spiritual undertakings." never be allowed to curtail their Christian involvement in gov­ Christian witness on political ·is- ernmental affairs can come in sues. many ways, he said, but "the first He urged the Baptists to great- and foremost instrument of pow­ er activity in fields of Christian er is the individual's dedication. cooperation, racial justice, and ... Individuals should be .encour­ preservation of the First Amend- aged ·to participate in efforts to BROOKS HAn ment to the U. S. Constitution. find moral solutions to. political and . sometimes I fear we are out­ The former Congressman from problems." numbered not by men of hate but Arkansas spoke on the same pro- He suggested also. that Baptists by men of indifference-lacking g;ram with John Difenbaker, for- should support their own denomi­ a sense of urgency regarding mer prime minister of Canada. national commiSSIOns of social tragic racial cleavages in Chris­ Difenbaker also is a Baptist. The concern, especially the Baptist tian ·society." session in Convention Hall Joint Committee on Public Af­ Hays said too that "it is im­ opened a week-end Baptist Jubi- fairs in Washington and the perative that we maintain unin­ lee celebration marking the 150th Christian Life Commission m hibited and unimpaired the inde­ anniversary of the first organized Nashville. pendence of the pulpit. No eco­ Baptist work in North America. Greatest challenge nomic, social or· political pressures Hays reminded the audience "The racial conflict is OtJr ought ever to be applied to the that historical decisions oJ the greatest challenge," Hays said. minister to silence the utterances church-, especially those to send "It has been said that there are that his conscience inspires." missionaries to foreign lands, ·. just two groups-men of hate and Hays lauded the deacon who re­ have in themselves "involved the men of love. But there is a third portedly said, "Pastor, I did not relationship of religion to human group-men of indifference. We like your sermon, but I'm afraid government." Policies of many are a divided people in this land, Jesus did." governments affecting religious activity are particularly of inter­ est. (Ashamed of way we're acting' New issues ATLANTIC CITY-She wasn't In ours it's more like a political "Today, with new issues, some exactly typical, but many agreed convention," she spoke with feel­ of global dimensions, awaiting de­ with her. ing •and concern. · termination we must profit by She was a Southern Baptist After the stormy session on tel­ experiences of the past and re­ from South C ~trolina. But she· lowship with other Baptists,' a solve not to retreat from respon­ didn't wear her messenger badge pastor of a large First Church, sibility for the handling of severe a single time during the conven­ left the hall and telephoned his problems of our distraught tion. "I am ashamed of the way wife back home. "I want to g.et world," Hays declared. He re­ we are acting," · was her explana- out," he said. m~ nded Baptists that some of tion. ' The voice votes were predomi­ them shy away .from the word Bu.t she did more than refuse nantly one-sided - with loud c•ecumenicity," used to describe to wear her badge. She made a shouts. The written ballots , the current trend toward cooper­ tour of American Baptist exhibits showed the convention to be al­ ative Christianity. and talked with her fellow Bap­ most evenly divided. "We Baptists are often found tists there. Trying to show them "I'd like to start a secession opposing only the word-not the "not all of us are like that," she movement, but I won't," said the attitude itself. Whatever we call said. South Carolina messenger. . it, let us resolve that our Conven­ And she, along with many, They'll just work a little hard­

tions thr01ughout North America many other Southern Baptists, . er with extra effort to show the faithfully exemplify the attitude visited some of the American world that "not all of us are like of loyalty to the church, knowing Baptist sessions. "I feel like I've that."---,Mrs. Marse Grant, m that it cannot become the church been to church in their meetings. Riblical RecoTdeT ( N. C.) JUNt 4, 1964 Page Five Courtship, Marriage and the Home the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is _that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God." (Romans 12 :2). I am fully sympathetic with th.e fact that the better you like each • -other the more you want to be -Coffee tn his apartment( alone-just the two of you. But do have the character and the re­ sourcefulness to find ways . that will not jeopardize your reputa­ tion. Why don't you share the cake and the beautiful records with another couple, picnicking in the park, maybe. 1 Or, don't you have some friends in town who will share their home with you? Remembering their owh courting days, maybe they will lend you their living QUESTION: "I am a Chris­ to see what God teaches and to room, or kitchen for nibbling the tian girl on a state school campus. find solid Scriptural guidelines cake and enjoying the records. If While the college has not publicly that lead in "paths of righteous- they are discerning friends, they approved girls visiting in boys' -ness for his namesake." Much of will find a way to be far enough apartments: it is common practice the discussion must be classified- out of the picture for you to have among students. So far as I can ' as rationalization rather than hon- pleasant dating, but near enough tell nothing is thought of it by est seeking to know and follow to protect you from any grounds other students nor' by the faculty Christ's way. · for criticism. and staff. Even in this free-wheeling, un- It is important for couples to be inhibited era, girls who date "My boy friend asked me to go aware that the line is thin between ' young men in the young men's by his apartment to have coffee Christian fellowship, ties that apartments or rooms do so at and cake (home-baked, from his "bind our hearts in Christian considerable risk to their rept,lta­ mother) after our · date at a love" and man-woman attraction, tions and to the effectiveness of movie. He also has some very physical affection. Both ex- their Christian witness. When the beautiful records he wants me to periences involve emotion; and keys of one's life are surrendered hear. both are right if kept within the to Christ, that should include the "I didn't go that time, but I framework of divine approval. A key to one's dating habits. find myself leaning toward ac­ courting couple alone in the young I heard Dr. David Mace say: cepting his invitation if he asks man's apartment will find the "Whether we like it or not, we are me again. We talk a lot about . temptation to slip too far· over that living in· a society where the in- Christianity and the church on our thin line very hard to resist. dividual is autonomous and free­ dates, so it seems it would be all The . Christian cause is weak­ dom is a horror unless exercised right. Would you approve?" ened when young disciples of in responsible maturity. Om: goal Christ are swept into the stream is not external coercion but inter­ ANSWER: No, I would not nal cohesion." approve. of un-Christian conduct. It is inevitable that Christian couples The decision, dear gfrl, must be But my approval or disapproval will · find themselves in conflict yours. I shall be your friend, whatever you decide. is not the criterion by which your with the dating concepts and prac­ Reach yo'ur conclusion in the decision should be made. tices of un-Christian couples. light of your devotion to .Christ; "If ye were of the world, the and remember; no tranquilizer A matter that needs to be faced world would love his own ; but brings peace of heart like a clear is our tendency to tidk much about because ye are not of the world, conscience. our own ideas of Christian' living, but I have chosen you .out of the with very •little research in the world, therefore the world hateth Bible to find God's directions con­ you." (John 15 :19) cerning our conduct. Even among I ~ 4/-.lt.U.i-- ·couples who discuss their dating "Wherefore, co.me out from habits ,with me, I find that much among them, and be ye separate, Mrs. J. H. Street of their talk about Christian prin­ saith the Lord ... " (II Corin­ P. 0. Box 853 . ciples is emotion-tinged, sentimen­ thians 6 :17). ' New Orleans Baptist Seminary · tal conversation about person-at­ "And be not conformed to this. 3939 Gentilly Boulevard titudes, with not enough searching world: but be ye transformed by New Orleans, Louisiana

Page Six ARKANSAS BAPTIST Arkansas All Over------­ £ dtta~t t6 "ia ~ea~te d' The smoking hazard "WHAT is the church's obliga­ tion to the smoker?" was the re­ curring question ministers and lay workers of many denomina­ tions asked themselves at a recent conference at Aldersgate Camp near Little Rock. Sponsored jointly· by the Ark­ ansas Division of the American Can~er Society and the Arkansas Council of Churches, participants in the one-day meeting saw a film produced by the American Cancer Society ; heard Presbyterian Al­ len Anderson speak on the reli­ gioas implications of smoking; listened to Little Rock surgeon Grimsley Graham tell the chances the chain smoker takes with his own. life ; and heard George I vey of First Methodist Church of Camden tell of his experiences in group therapy with persons who wanted to stop smoking. Rev. Sam Allen, executive se­ cretary Of the Arkansas · Council of Churches, moderated the meet­ ing and stat~d that the partici­ pants did not come to sit in judg­ ment upon· the smoker but to at­ tempt to discover how the church could minister to the smoker. : Torh Snodgrass, of the Ameri­ 'Best fishes of Baptist Press' can Cancer Society, showed a film, ONE of the features of the an- . new editor and his paper. By "Is Smoking Worth It?" which nual meeting of Baptist editors changing just one letter in the has been shown to most of the is the awarding of type line gaug- entire wording we came up with school children of Arkansas, and es to new editors being admit- our citation to Erwin. It reads, stated that originally the warn­ ted to the Southern Baptist Press 'Best Fishes (instead of wishes) in,gs were slanted at the teenager, Association. At the meeting of the of Baptist Press to Erwin L. Mc­ but soon it was discovered that Associat~on in Atl~ntic qity re- Donald, Editor, Arkansas Baptist the information should have cently In connection with the Newsmagazine.' started with the elementary Southern Baptist Convention, "I do not apologize for the bat­ schools. The real problem, he said, Theo Sommerkamp, on behalf of tered . condition · of this ruler. It is that young people are not going Baptist Press, sprang a surprise only attests to its usefulness and t<;> stop smoking· until the adults award on the editor of the Ark- fishworthiness over the years. I do. amsas Baptist Newsmagazine. got it out of the bottom of my Dr. Graham stated that only 5 , After awarding g~uges to two Dad's tackle box while he and I or 16 percent of those who have new editors, Sommerkamp said, were fishing for bass on a Florida lung cancer live. In Arkansas as he brandished a trick fisher- lake last Christmas." there has been a 90 percent in­ man's ruler, with its inches really [The award came as a result, crease in chronic bronchitis and just half an inch in length: we think, of the fact the Arkansas emphysema, he stated. The non­ "We would now like to have editor does an inordinate amount smoker has the edge on the smok­ that stainless steel razorback, Er- of talking about fishing, plus the er in practically every known dis­ win L. McDonald, stand while we additional fact he had griped to ease, the surgeon said. read this citation. Baptist Press over the fact the The film "Is Smoking Worth "The wording engraved on the line gauge award was not estab­ It?" is available to churches and metal pica sticks reads, 'Best lished · until he was already en­ can be obtained by callin'g Tom wishes of Baptist Press to ... ' sconced in his editorial chair.­ Snodgrass at FR 4-0997 in Little and then gives the name of the Editor] Rock.

JUNE 4, 1964 Page Seven ------~~------~------Ouachita graduates class of 160 Wendy Louise Beard, Camden; Janet Ball Benson, ArKadelphia; Sandra Kay Branch, Wynne; Michele Carter, Nash­ ville; Laura LaVerne Chatman, Poplar ARKADELPHIA - D~ Earle; Garee Michael Harrison, Gering, Bluff, . Mo.; Roy Thomas Coulter, Ho.t grees were conferred upon 160 Neb.; Harold McKay Harrison, Smack­ Spr~ngs; Carol Sue Croisant, Muskogee, at the .78th arinual commence­ over; Russell Wayne Haver, North Lit­ Okla.; Betty June Dake, Midland; Mar­ tle Rock; Suzanne Higgs, Carthage; jorie Gail Dorsey, Little Rock; ment at Ouachita College Sunday Ernest Lee Holloway III, Arkadelphia; Frances Ann Dryer, Mountain Home; afternoon. Thomas Allen Holloway, Jones Mills; George · Franklin Flynn, Arkadelphia; Dr. T. Keith Glennan, presi­ Gary Wayne Howard, Carthage, Mo.; Julia McManus Freeman, Carthage; dent of Case Institute of Tech­ Martha Jennings. Howard, Little Virginia Marion Hanna, Ft. Smith; Eva nblogy, Cleveland, 0., was the Rock; William Lee Johnson, P.ine Bluff,; Marie Harrell, North .Little Rock; Lou Ann Hiland Kelley, Arkadel­ Jackie Dene Hatley, Corning; Jerry commencement speaker. He is a phia; Harry Thomas Kennedy, Little Gene Hatley, Corning; Edwin L. Hink­ former administrator of the Na­ Rock; Carolyn Ann , King, Little Rock; son, North Little Rock; Joan Holland, tional A-eronautics and Space Ad­ Buford Leon Lowe, Blytheville; Dudley Piedmont, Mo.; James L. Hope, Ft. ministration and former commis­ L~ nch, Arkadelphia; Gary Brown Ma­ Smith; Dorothy Sue Horne, Sparkman; sioner of the Atomic Energy lesky, San Antonio, Tex.; James Frank­ Jill May Lawhon, Arkansas City; lin Marshall, Benton; Linda Marie Ma­ Mary Ann Otwell, Waldo; Elizabeth Commission. shaw, Camden; Neil Stueart Matlock, Ann Paine, Lawton, Okla.; Martha Mr. A. B. Hill, Little Rock, and Dallas, · Tex.; Rebecca Fuller Mitchel, Lynn Rierce, Little Rock; Glynda John­ Carey Selph, Houston, Tex., will Arkadelphia; Phyllis Jannett Molen­ ston Richardson, Crossett; Rebecca be honored as "Distinguished cupp, San Jose, Calif.; Ralph Davis Kay Moore Sims, Crossett; Yvonne So­ Morris, St. Louis, Mo.; Howard Glenn lesbee, Greenwood; Manerva Jo Stan­ Alumni" of the college. Nichols Jr., Pine Bluff; Loyd Gerald ford, Blytheville; Varessa Nellis Louis The Ouachita Choir, under the Pearcy, Norwalk, Calif.; Threet, Martinsville, Va.; Carolyn Le­ direction of Dr.. James T. Luck, Rita Loy Presley, Winfield, Ma..; ann Viala, Little Rock; Margo Camille sang Mendelssohn's "St. Paul" Richard Perry Red, North Little Rock; Walker, Walnut Ridge; Beth McClung oratorio at baccalaureate exer­ Rebecca Robertson Roberson, El Do-· Williams, Arkadelphia; Janet Marie rado; Vivian Lynn Robeson, Malvern; Williams, Watseka, Ill.; Mary Nell cises Sunday morning, with Dr. Donald Lee Robinson, Ft. Smith; James Zachry, Ben Lomand. Ben Elrod, Ouachita vice presi­ Preston Rowland, Shreveport, La.; Bachelor of Music-Beverly Gallegly dent, as narrator. Thomas . Franklin Sawyer, Waldron; Coad, Little Rock; Henry Harmon 'Other commencement d~y ~­ Elizabeth Ann Self, Holly Grove; Clif­ Dempsey,. El Dorado; Jo Ann Hellen, tivities included a 12 :30 p.m. ford Charles Schaaf Jr., Ferguson, Mo.; Benton; Royce Lawrence Jones, Mal­ Ruth Ann Sellars, Houston, Tex.; vern; John Leonard Wood, Tyler, Tex. luncheon for former students and Bruce Wayne Sims, Crossett; Charles Bachelor of Music Education-Con­ their guests at Birkett Williams Bernard Smith, Warren; David Neal nie Harrellson Cox, Bernie, Mo.; Doris Hall, a concert at 2 p.m. by the Smith, Arkadelphia; Ellen Miller, Arkadelphia; Linda Kay college concert band, conducted Jean Amarylis Steed, Gurdon; Glen . Miller, Bauxite; James Douglas Willis, by Marvin Lawson, and a tea at Neal Swigert, Bolivar, Mo.; David Warren. Wayne Tucker, McGhee; David Lee Master of Arts-Adalberto Albert 3 p.m. in the Student Center. Vick, Ft. Worth, Tex.; Robert William ,Riusech, Arkadelphia. Receiving degrees were: Webb, Jonesboro; Richard Benton Weh­ Bachelor of Arts - Gerald Rhay meir, Malvern; Vernon Alton Weiner, Revivals . Atchison, Texarkana; Larry Marcus Rison; Stanley· Gray Whitlow, Shreve­ Atkinson, Little Rock; Donald Ray port, La.; Caryl Joy Young, Ft. Smith; DERMOTT city-wide revival, ·Austin, Willisvill'e; Norma Louise Bal­ Joy Sawyer Young, Ft. Smith; Robert May 6-17; ,Walter K. Ayers, evan­ lou, Little Rock; David L. Basham, Ft. Earl Clark, Indep.endence, Mo.; James gelist; Mr. and Mrs. Mark Short, Smith; Linda .Lou Blasingame, North Franklin Flynn, Arkadelphia. Little Rock; Larry Joe Bogan, Fay­ Bachelor of Science-Arthur E~ Al­ music-directors; 39 iprofessions of etteville; Nancy Karen Brooks, Rogers; len, Stuttgart; . Beau Browning Beard, 'faith; 6 by . letter; 30 rededica­ Doyle Eugene Brown, Blytheville; Wil- Camden·; Nancy Elledge, Arkadelphia; tions; sponsored by First Church, liam Henry Buie, New Bern, N. C.; Ruby Louise Hawthorn, Hot Springs; Dermott (pastorless), and Tem­ Judith Ann Henry, Pine Bluff; Har­ Wanda Sue Bullock, McGhee; Patricia ple Church, Jody Gannaway, pas­ Lynn Burroughs, Hope; Walter Bruce riett Irene High, Hope; Judith Dean Huffman, Malvern; Judith Elizabeth tor. Cash of Warren; 1 TJ:!omas Lynn Chapman, Blytheville; Johnston, De Queen; Garry Lynn Jerry Joe "Christian, Malvern; Donald Jo~es, Pine Bluff; Lee Roy Joyner, JJ,'., Gee Clemons, Thornton; Hoyt Wayne Clarendon. LINWOOD Church, Moscow; Davenport, Little Rock; Fred Robert Charlene Sampson Orton, Malvern; Ouachita College youth revival Davidson, Donaldson; Ray Lester Dav­ David Lowell Osman, Bald Knob; Shir­ team : Doug Dickens, evangelist; is, Lake Worth, Fla.; Donald Dale Dur- ' ley Mae Passmore, Oxley; Michael Len Doyne Robertson, song leader; en, Hot Springs; William Kime Eu­ Schifres, Pine Bluff; Billy Juanelle Lynn Goodson, pianist; Larry banks, Ft. Smith; Dwight Lyle Fine, Siegler, Cove; Jean Amarylis Steed, Bone, recreational leader ; 5 by Hopkins, Mo.; James Darwin Foshee, Gurdon; Clayt:.Dn Donald Vandenberg, . Hot Springs; Robert Winston Fulmer, Bismarck; Carolyn Timm, Little Rock; profession of faith; 3 for baptism; Arkadelphia; Delbert Darral Garne:r;, Mary Louis Van Duyn, Stuttgart; 10 rededications. Hot Springs; Molly Hellen Goforth, Eloise Wahnetah, Chicago, Ill.; Caro­ Piggott; Barry Winfield Goss~ MorrH­ lyn Jean Waymack, Pine Bluff; George ALY, May 17-24; Rev. Allan ton; Sam Welch, Arkadelphia; Richard Dav­ McCurry, Faulkner, County mis­ John Edwin Halbert, St. Louis, Mo.; id Wilhelm, Little Rock; Mary Sue sionary, evangelist; Jesse S. Reed,. Edwin Thomas Hamil, Jr., Orlando, Wright, Arkadelphia; Carolyn Frank Fla.; Alice Kay Hardy, Crossett; Yarbrough, Hope. state director of Evangelism, song Charles Thomas Hargrove, Harbor Bachelor of Science in Education­ director; 5 professions of faith, 2 City, Califr; Robert Eugene Harris; Barbara Ann _Batchelor, Van Buren; by baptism; 3 by letter. : Page Eight ARKANSAS 'BAPTIST Arkansans serve tn• Brazil Radio-t.v. schedules "BAPTIST HOUR" topics for June are: Benevolent Incapacita­ tors, June 7; Who Am I?, June 14; The Good Temptations of T9- day, June 21; We Need Spacious Christians for This Space Age, June 28.

Stations carrying the program, all on Sunday and the time, were amiounced by the Radio-T'. V. Commission of the Southern Bap­ tist Convention:

KVRC, Arkadelphia, 3 p.m. ; KTHS, Berryville, 8 a.m.; KCON, Conway, 2:30 p.m. KAGH, Crossett, 8:30 a.m.;. KDQN, De­ Queen, 7 a.m.; KF A Y, Fayette­ ville, 8:30 a.m.; KBJT, Fordyce, 4 p.m., KXJK; Forrest City, 9:30 a.m.; KXAR, Hope, 5 p.m.; KNEA, Jonesboro, 6:30; a.m.; KPCA, Markeq Tree, 8 a.m. ; KEN A, Mena, 1 :30 p.m.; KHBM, Monticello, 3 :30 p.m.; KDRS, Paragould, 8 :30 p.m.; KUOA, S i l o am Sprgs., 7 :30 a.m.; DR. and Mrs: Glenn E. Hickey, Batesville Church, during college KWRF, Warren, 8 a.m.; KWYN, . natives of Arkansas, were ap­ days. Wynne, 7:30 a.m. pointed m1sswnaries to North Tl;J.ey have one child, Daniel Brazil during the May meeting of Glenn, seven. "Master Control" schedules for the Southern Baptist Foreign They · and the 23 missionaries Sunday: Mission Board in Richmond, Va. and missionary associates C0m­ They now live in Wellington, Tex., missioned with them bring the KCCB, Corning, 10 :30 a.m.; where he has been pastor of First Foreign Mission Board's overseas . KDQN, DeQueen, 3 p.m. ; KXJK; Church for four and a half years. staff to 1,842.-Foreign Mission Forrest City, 10 a.m.; KWHN, Born in Oden, Dr. Hickey grew News Fort Smith, 12:30 p.m.; KAAY up there and in nearby Mount Ida. Little Rock, 9:05 a.m.; KBHC, He traces his interest in mission· On sum·mer faculty Nashville, 5:30 p.m.; KCCL, service to his teen years in Mount Paris, 4 p.m.; KPBA, Pine Bluff, Ida when his pastor . was a mis­ NASHVILLE - Miss J o y c e 7 a.m.; KDRS, Paragould, 10 sionary on furlough from Brazil. Plumlee of Harrison, now a stu­ a.m. KUOA, Siloam Springs car­ Mrs. Hickey is the former Dor- · dent at Southwestern Seminary, ries the program at 10. a.m. on othy Thomerson, of Malvern. Both Ft. Worth, has been selected to Saturdays. graduated from Ouachita College; serve on the children's building Arkadelphia, with bachelor of faculty at Ridgecrest (N.C.) Bap­ KTP A, Prescott, will carry the arts degrees and attended South­ tist Assembly this summer. program but did not list time. western Seminary, Fort Worth, Miss Plumlee will serve with Tex., where Mr. Hickey rec·eived eight other seminary students. She International Sunday School the bachelor of divinity and doc­ will be, in charge of toddlers. All lesson is carried Sunday mornings tor of theology degrees. nine workers will receive semin­ by KCCB, Corning, at· 10:30; Dr. Hickey's former pastorates ary credit for 12-weeks of clinical KDRS, Paragould, at 10:15; and include Roseville Church, Ozark. training. KTP A, Prescott, at 9 :45. He also served as associate and in­ terim pastor and music director New Arkansas Sgptist S.ubscribers at First Church, Ashdown, and taught in the Mount Ida high school. Mrs. Hickey did secretari­ Three months free new church: al and music work for her home Church Pastor Association church, Third, Malvern, and West Providence Roy Cragg Trinity JUNIE. 4, 1964 Page Nine OBC editors named Southern graduates

Top row left to right : D o n n a Joyce, Stamps, editor ; L i n d a M a r i e Davis, Woodbridge, Va., co-editor; left: Carol ·Wen z e l, North L i t t l e Rock, co-editor.

ARKADELPHIA- Editors of student publications for next year have been selected \ by the Ouachita College. Donna Joyce Stamps was chosen editor of the Signal news­ paper staff. Carol Wenzel, North Little Rock, and Linda M~rie Davis, Woodbridge, Va., were named co-editors of the Ouachi­ tonian annual staff. Miss Joyce, a freshman journal­ ism major, served as editor of the student newspaper and, of the school annual, at Stamps. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin L. Joyce of Stamps. Miss Wenzel, a junior journal­ ism major, is presently serving as editor of the Ouachitonian and was a member of the staff last year. She is the ·daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Wenzel, North Little Rock. Miss Davis, also a junior jour­ nalism major, has worked as clubs editor for the Ouachitonian and FIVE from ArkanS(J)S are feature editor for the Signal this among the 135 gra{luates of South­ year. She was awarded the Bap­ ern Seminary r·eceiving diplomas tist .Standar,d scholarship for May 29. All a?'e r·eceiving Bach­ journalism last summer. Her par­ elo1' of Divinity deg?'ees. They ents are Mr. and .Mrs. E. B. Davis, · a?'e: (top ?'ow) Robe1't M. Baird, Woodbridge, Va. Little Rock, A.zton D. Davis, He­ Danny Eakin, DeQueen was be?' Sp1'ings; (.cente?' ?'OW) Ed­ chosen business manager of the wa?'d F. McDonald III, No1'th Lit­ Signal, and Pat Hamilton, Pig­ tle Rock, J e1'1'Y L. Mize, Benton; gott, · business manager of the (left) Rober·t E .. Pless, No?'th Lit­ Ouacliitonian. tle Rock. I Page Ten ARKANSAS BAPTIST Benton youth dies Assembly speaker FRED Orin Sawyer, 16, a mem­ REV. Eugene Troop, Itabuna, ber of the youth and adult choirs Bahia, Btazil, will be the mission of First Church, Benton, was kill­ speaker for the fifth Concord As­ ed May 25 when he was strqck sociational Sum­ by a Missouri Pacific freight m e r Assembly train on a trestle across the Sa­ Aug. 3-8 at the line River, near Benton. , Arkansas State His father is Dr. James F. Saw­ Assembly yer, Benton dentist who gives an­ Grounds near Si­ nually of his time at his own ex­ loam Springs. pense to serve on Southern Bap­ Mr. Troop is a tist mission fields. graduate of the According · to officers; young East S'ide High Sawyer and two companions were School, Kansas sighted by the engineer from a City, William Jewell College, distance of one-half mile. The Liberty, and was graduated from other two boys were able to jump t'he Southwestern Seminary, and escape with only minor ·in­ Fort Worth, with the B. D. degree. juries. The train, going at 35 LICENSED TO PREACH­ He was appointed by the miles an hour with the emergency Jimmy Lee, son of Rev. ThurlQ Foreign Mission Board in Decem­ brake on, struck Sawyer, who was Lee, pastor- of Westside Church, , ber 1959. He is serving as running ahead. Manila, was recently licensed. He superintendent of missions with Survivors beside his father in- will gmduate from Ouachita Col­ 52 Baptist churches and 26 pastors ' elude his mother; a b~other, Greg; lege in 1965. He is maTried to the in his district.-Reporter two sisters, Sharon and Camille, for·mer Carolyn Risenhoo·ver· of 1 all of Benton ; and his grand­ Oden. They aTe members of Parrk ORDAINED deacons of Second parents, Mrs. C. . 0. Sawyer, Ham­ Hill Church, Arkadelphia. He is Church, Forrest City, on May 4 burg, and Mr. and Mrs. Hampton available joT supply or· pastoral were Melvin G. Marrow and Rob­ Ethridge, Crossett. wor·k. . ert Thomason. Pastor Edgar Har­ The youth was recently elected vey served as moderator. The or­ president of the Benton High REV. James Holcoma, Ludelle dination sermon was preached by School Student Council. He would Church, Bartholomew Association, Rev. D. Hoyle Haire, pastor of have been a senior next fall. (DP) has resigned to accept the pas­ First Church, Marianna. The torate of Eagle Lake Cross Roads charge to the church was given by Church. He assumed · his duties Rev. T. R. Hammons, pastor of on May 24. Burnt Cane Church, Widener. I

SBC BOARD MEMBERS

ARKANSANS named to Southern Baptist Convention boards and committees at the annual sessions of SBC recently at Atlantic City, N. J., include:

Committee on Committee.s: Lloyd L. Hunnicutt, Magnolia, and Jack B. Jones, Little Rock. I Executive Corrtmittee, for terms expiring in 1967: Dale Cowl­ ing, Little Rock, and Jay Heflin, Little Rock (re-elected). Home Mission Boar·d: W. H. Hicks, Little Rock, for term ex- piring in 1967, re-elected. . Souther·n Seminary, for term expiring in 1969, Erwin L. , McDon11ld (re-elected). Southern Baptist Hospital, for term expiring in 1967, Tom GRADUATE - John Thomas F. Digby, North Little Rock. Lamb, H arTisbur-g, r·eceived his Brotherhood Commission, for term expiring in 1967, Mason Bachelor- of Divinity degr-ee fr·om Craig, McGehee. . New Ot'leans Semina·ry during re­ Radio and Television Commission, members at large, for term cent commencement exercises. DT. expiring in 1967, John H. Pounders Jr. Joe Cothen, pastor, Alta Woods Committee on Boards: Paul Roberts, Little Rock, chairman; Chur·ch, Jack.son, Miss., was the and C. R. Cole. speaker'. Page Eleven JUNE4,19.~6~4~------~------By the BAPTIST PRESS Seminaries report to the Convention

Seminary Extension Department areas, game room, student store, book store, post of­ fice and a commuters' room equipped '

ALTHOUGH 12 months have elapsed, Midwest­ Golden Gate Seminary ern Seminary still remembers the visit to its cam­ pus by thousands of messengers attending the 1963 A TWENTIETH anniversary celebration, a session of the Sou~hern Baptist Convention in Kan­ marked enrollment upturn, a new doctoral degree, sas City, Mo. and a development program for 1964-1974 high­ President Millard J. Berquist told the 1964 Con­ lighted the 1964 progress report of Golden Gate vention that "the Seminary's cause was greatly Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, Calif. helped, and the Convention contributed immensely Begun in Golden Gate Baptist Church, Oakland, to understanding and good will;" because of these Calif., in 1944, Golden Gate Seminary pauses after visits. two decades to commemorate 20 years of operation (Continued on page 16)

JUNE-4, 1964 Pa£ i Thirteen . . . . Other tnstttuttons and agenctes report

Foreign Mission Board Baptist state papers

I:r{ its foreign mission work, the "THE best investment any cHurch can make in furthering th~ Southern Baptist Convention kingdom of God, at home and to the ends of the earth, is putting closed the year 1963 with attain­ the Baptist state paper in the homes of the membership." ment of a long-awaited goal of So declares Louie D. Newton, Atlanta, chairman of the South­ 1800 missionaries in service. ern Baptist Convention's Committee on Baptist State Papers. Baker J. Cauthen, Richmond, Newton, chairman of the committee since the SEC voted it into executive secretary of the Foreign being in 1940, ma.kes the statement in his 19'64 report to the Mission Board, said that on Dec. Convention. 31 there were 1803 missionaries Newton recalled when the Baltimore Convention established under appointment for se,rvice in the committee 24 years ago, the state papers had a combinea cir­ 53 countries. culation of 190,683. Their combined circulation today exceeds 1.5 He tQld the 1964 session of the million, he reported. Convention these 53 countries are There are 28 Baptist state papers, most ·of them weeklies. Their divided into four areas for admin­ editors serve as members of the committee. The circulation ranges istration, rather than three ar~as from 375,000 for the Baptist Standard in Texas to 1162 for the as had been the case before 1963. Hawaii Baptist. These areas are Africa, The Or­ The papers in Texas, Alal:>arua and Georgia each have passed ient, Latin America, and Europe the 100,000 mark. Mississippi's paper is approaching that mark. and the Middle East. Previously "The Baptist state papers are the packhorses of every phase of Africa, Europe and the Middle denominational life, and a constant channel of informing, enlist. · East were in a single area togeth­ ing, and inspiring the people," Newton commented. A forme.r er. Baptist ·editQr himself, Newton said he looked forward to the ·day "Europe and the Middle East when every Baptist tithes and when every Baptist home receives were set apart by the Foreign its state Baptist paper. Mission Board in June, 1963, as T'he circulation plan of a church budgeting the paper for every a separate area for missionary ad­ home in its InEfmbership is the 1 major plan pursued by the 28 ministration. Dr. J. D. Hughey, 1 papers. president of the Baptist The~og~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cal Seminary, Ruschlikon-Zurich, "Simultaneous campaigns were vention that two ·years of research Switzerland, was chosen as area held in all churches and missions will be conducted in the creation secretary, to take up his new dut­ in Ecuador, with 313 professions," of a Brotherhood for young men ies on January 1, 1964" Cauthen according to the area report from 18 through 24 years of age. Head­ announced. Latin America. "Latin pastors ing the research team is Norman He said that in 1948, when the from Costa Rica and Colombia as­ Godfrey, secretary of the young Convention met in Memphis, there .sisted. men's department. were 625 foreign missionaries. "Five states in North Brazil pro­ Schroeder said the seminary There was a conviction at least moted statewide evangelistic cam­ syllabus will be used by professors. 1750 missionaries - later in­ paigns of one week's duration. to teach principles of Brotherhood creased to 1800-should be in serv­ Costa Rica's simultaneous evange­ and Royal Ambassador work to ice at an early date. listic campaign recorded 227 de­ prospective preachers and ed~ca­ "The year 1963 will be long re­ cisions." tional directors. membered as a year of great ef-· forts in evangelism," Cauthen The West Coast Laymen's Cru­ pointed out, Brotherhood Commission sade, planned July 22-26, expects In the .area report from the Or­ to .see 1,500 Baptist men from ient, attention was called to the RESEARCH into a Brotherhood throughout the nation converge on New Life evangelistic campaigns. for young men, preparation of a California, Oregon and Washing­ "The project centered in Japan, seminary teaching syllabus for ton to assist needy churches in presenting Christ ,tb their com­ where it included meetings in ap­ men's work, and direction of ~;~. proximately 150 places," it was giant laymen's witnessing crusade munities. I reported. will highlight Brotherhood work T'he men, who will pay their But campaigns elsewhere in the during 1964. own expenses, will do door-to-door Orient took place , in the Philip- · George W. Schroeder,. Memph}s, witnessing, give their Christian pines, Hong Kong and Macao, Tai­ executive secretary of the Broth­ testimonies in churches and be­ wan, Okinawa, Korea, Guam and erhood Commission, said in his re­ fore professional groups and ad­ Singapore. port to the Southern Baptist Con- dress civic clubs. Page Fo rteen ARKANSAS BAPTIST Sunday School· Board Movement, used $44,067, ·while Baptist schools are expected to $2,124,000 went into operating, open, Brantley observed. contingency and 11pecial purpose He said Southern Baptists now PUBLICATION of a book on reserve funds. operate 73 schools of various Baptist heritage is one . of the types. There are six SBC seminar­ ways in which the Sunday School ies. The Southern Baptist Con­ Board · of the Southern Baptist An_nuity Board vention and Negro Baptists uoint­ Convention is helping to celebrate ly operate another seminary. 150 years of nationally organized A NEW option allowing a re­ tired minister to serve a church Operated by state Baptist Baptist work. groups are 37 senior colleges, 17 The book, "Baptist Advance," and still continue to get his re­ tirement income from the Annui­ junior colleges, seven academies was noted in the board's 1964 re­ and five Bible schools. port to the Convention. ty Board was revealed in that agency's 1964 report to the South- · Finding qualified teachers for Advance sale . of the papel'­ the schools continues to be "a ma­ bound book provides 16,000 copies ern Baptist Convention. jor problem," ~rantley warned. for those who register at the Bap­ R. Alton Reed, executive secre­ tary of the Annuity Board, locat­ "The sciences, English, and eco­ tist Jubilee Celebration in Atlan­ nomics are areas critically short tic City. Over 800 pre-publication ed in Dallas, toid SBC messengers a retired person now may choose of Ph.D.'s, while there is a great orders for hard-bound copies have oversupply of teachers of re­ been received from church, col­ to serve as interim, supply or temporary pastor under either a ligion, education, and music with lege and seminary libraries. This .less than a doctor's degree." exceeds the expectations of Broad­ time or compensation option. ma:n Press, book publishing arm Previously, a retired person of the board. could serve only on a time option. Southern Baptist Hospitals James L. Sullivan, Nashville, The new compensation option executive secretary treasurer of allows a retired minister to earn DIRECTORS of Southern Bap­ the board, s'aid Broadman Press up to $1,500 during any 12-month tist Hospitals this year authorized efforts "are meeting with the period. His compensation may in­ Southern Baptist Hospital in New most successful response in the clude cash salary, car expense, Orleans and Baptist Memorial board's history. It has :been a transportation, hous~ rent, etc., Hospital in Jacksonville to con­ record year for this book-publish­ Reed said. tinue with deliberate speed multi­ ing arm of the Sunday School The time option, initiated sev­ million-dollar expansion and de­ Board." eral years ago, remains the same. velopment programs. The Broadman Readers Plan A person who retires at age 65 Summarizing its year's activi­ has met good response. A total of may serve a church for three ties the board said it: 34 new books were published by months' without affecting his re­ Broadman Press and 29 by Con­ tirement income. The . time in- 1. Gave the two hospitals au­ vention Press within the 1963 fis­ creases as follows: age 66, five thority to establish and operate cal· year: Sixty-two new church months; 67, seveR; 68, nine; 69, satellite, or branch, hospitals in supply items, 9 films and 17 film­ ten; 70, eleven; and 71 years or fast-growing areas of the cities strips, 75 new recordings and mu: older, 12 months. remote from a hospital, when and sic publications were produced. "The Annuity Board approved if they deem such facilities are The board reported net receipts the options so retired persort's may required. from its publishing, book store continue to serve the denomina- ' I and assembly operations at $27,- tion, especially in pioneer areas 2. Accepted a plan by Baptist 952,000, an increase of $115,000 and continue to receive their age Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville over the 1961-62 fiscal year. retirement annuity," Reed said. to expand its hospital by 192 beds, ·From the board's $7,360,000 net build a 17-story tower and estah earnjngs, $874,732 went directly Education Commission lish the hospital as a major medi­ to th~ program of cooperation cal center in the Jacksonville TWO new Southern Baptist col­ with ·state Baptist boards to ad­ area. vance Sunday School, Training leges began classes in .1963, the Union, Student, Church Music Education Commission reported 3. Gave Southern Baptist Hos­ and Church Architectural work. to the 1964 Southern Baptist Con­ pital, New Orleans, permission to The sum of · $3,531,000 went to vention. They are Mobile College let the contract of an eight-story the education and service pro­ in Alabama and Houston Baptist addition to its main plant, which grams through which the board College in Texas. would increase its capacity to 600 j serves ·southern Baptist churches. In addition, Commission Exec­ beds and more than double space .I Other financial designations in­ utive Secretary Rabun L. Brant­ available for medical care. i eluded $336,610 · for Southern ley said, in five states new· col­ Baptist Convention S1Jpport and leges are in planning stages. 4. Established the Bethesda $450,000 to the Southern Baptist, Maryland Baptists are working Foundation, an subsidiary organi­ Convention Building fund. The toward. a junior college. zation to accumulate funds for ex­ program of . special ministries, Atlanta, Ch~rleston, S'. C., Dal­ pansion, education ' and welfar such as support of the 30,000 las, and St. Louis are cities where programs at both hospitals.

JU~\f 4, 1964 ~~------~-- "~------~------~--~--- Historical Commission (Righ_t) ALA.SKA Baptist leaders Dr. SOUTHERN Baptists will learn J. T. Burdine, pastor of Univer­ more about their Baptist back­ sity Church, College, and Dr. ground through two projects Williann H. Hansen, executive sec­ which developed in 19(i3, the Con­ retary of the AlQ;ska Convention. vention's Historical Commission (Dr. Hansen is a native of Luther· reported to the annual SBC ses-. ville, Pope County, Ark.) The gen­ sion in Atlantic City. , uine Alaskan parka Dr. Burdine Erwin M. Hearne Jr., a Dallas is sporting, solid r-ed, WQ;S made artist, continued depicting in oil by Mrs. Burdine for. protection paintings "Great Moments in Bap­ against the A£a1Skan cold. tist History." He was commis­ sioned by the Sunday School Christian Life Commission Board. "IN 1963 the Christian Life Reproductions of these oil Commission experienced by far paintings have been appearing on the most uaeful, exciting, and ef­ Sunday School Board quarterly fective year in its history," de~ covers and in magazines. Commis­ clared Foy Valentine, Nashville, sion Executive Secretary Davis C. the Commission's executive secre­ Woolley of · Nashville said other tary. Chaplains Commission historical sketches by Hearne In making the commission's WHILE some denominations re­ were being offered to weekly Bap­ 1964 report to the Southern Ba;p­ tist state papers for publicatton. port difficulty in supply the de­ tist Convention, Valentine stated mand for military chaplains, The second project is the com­ the highlight of the past year was pletion of the 544-page book, "Bap­ . Southern Baptists have six men the coming of William M. Dyal Jr. available for every active duty tist Advance." "This pook was as the new director of organiza­ produced in cooperation with oth­ opening. tion. Dyal's coming has . helped to George W. Cummins of Atlan­ er Baptist bodies in the Baptist expand the commission's work in Jubilee Advance observance," ta, director of the SBC Chaplains the field of Christian social ethics Commission, also · reported to the Woolley said. at the state convention level, he re­ The book was to make its debut Convention the denomination has ported. 489 chaplains on active military at the Baptist Third Jubilee .cele­ Valentine noted a "particularly bration in Atlantic City, May 22- duty. · productive" year in the commis­ The military services assign 24. sion's writing ministry, stating In other commission matters, quotas to denominations, based on that "according to careful · esti­ membership. "We have met this Woolley said the commission has mates, the Commission's written extended its microfilm acquisi­ quota for some 10 years," Cum­ materials had a total circulation tions. During 1963, it secured mi­ mins said. last year of 30,936,596 .." An additional 752 Southern crofilmed material from other According to Valentine, the countries,-Norway, Sweden, Ger­ Baptist ministers serve in reserve summer conferences at Glorieta, programs of the military, Na­ many, South Africa, and India. N. M., and Ridgecrest, N. C., as­ The European periodicals and tional Guard and Civil Air Pa­ semblies on "The Things That minute& placed on microfilm were trol. Make for Peace." attracted the The commission, which was es­ secured through aid of the Baptist largest sustained attendance in seminary in Ruschlikon-Zurich, tablished by the Convention in the history of these conferences. Switzerland. . 1941 as its official endorsing . In 1963, the Historical Com­ accessions bring the total pages agency for chaplains, operates as mission added 160,140 pages of on film in our Library to 7,670,- a division of the SBC Home Mis­ microfilm to its collection. "These 140," the executive secrebry said. sion Board.

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He reported that since those visits, the seminary gree, the only; degree presently offered at Midwest­ has completed the men's residence hall and cafeteria ern. Another 11 persons have taken special work "in which were under construction. These were occupied preparation for educational or ·missionary service" last Sept. 1 and dedicated Oct.13. but have not sought a degree. "This is the first on-campus living accommoda­ "An evening school, designed chiefly for lay tions Midwestern has ;and it has contributed great­ workers in the churches and for student wives, has ly to campus morale," he explained. "It is hoped met with enthusiastic response," Berquist said. "A that construction of married student apartments three-year schedule of courses and cl~sses has been can be started soon." set up." The 159 enrolled in certificate work in eve­ Berquist reported 195 students have been work­ ning classes come from 50 churches in 30 communi­ ing this year toward the bachelor of divinity de- ties. ARKANSAS . BAfJTIST Page Sixt'1'tn Departments------

Sunday School Brotherhood 'on the sentiments expressed it will make for mil.ch better har­ 101 Determined Convention sidelights mony thr-oughout our Convention Churches than Southern· Baptists have YOUR Brotherhood Secretary known for some years. attended his first Southern Bap­ Mr. Owen Cooper, layman of THE Sunday School depart­ tist ConventiOn in several years Yazoo City, Miss., brought a mes­ ment of the state convention is when he went to s•age on Thursday night, closing sponsoring a project during the Atlantic City to the Home Mission Board presen­ next church year, the Convention's 1 tation. His message was a very 1964-65, called 107th meeting. practical challenge to men and to ONE HUNDRED The whole ex­ churches to do the Lord's work in AND ONE DE­ perience was in­ the Lord's own way. T E RMINED teresting, infor­ On Friday afternoon of Conven­ CHURCHES. We mative, challeng­ tion week several hundred men, are i n v i t i n g ing and inspira­ ·representing the seven Conven­ churches to offi­ tional. The miles tions present for the Baptist Jubi­ cially enroll, if MR. TULL of walking back lee, gathered in an upper rodm at they .are serious and forth on the famed Board­ the Convention Hall for the firjt · MR. HATFIELD about being Will- walk between the motel and Con­ such fellowship meeting in his­ ing to place priority on a yef!.r vention Hall furnished e~ercise tory. It was a great experience. long program of reaching people aplenty and an opportunity to rub This meeting· was followed by a through the Sunday school. Such shoulders with some 40,000 Bap­ fellowship supper to which some priority would involve a dedicated tists representing seven Baptist 300 men from the seven Conven­ use of the principles of locating Conventions. The regular sessions tions were invited. Your Brother- of t'he Convention were well and visiting prospects, enlarging . hood secretary had th~ privilege and training the leadership, and planned, and the other meetings of attending this supper; and of providing or adjusting · building in connection with the Convention having fellowship with Baptists space to J'lrovide for growth. were profitable. men from all over our nation. Of ·course, we do not intend to One of the most encouraging We are grateful for the privi­ limit the number to 101 churches. meetings of all was a preconven­ lege of sharing with other South­ A larger number of churches may tion meeting at the El Concha Ho­ ern Baptists the opportunities of be serious about being determined tel, at which were gathered some a great Convention !-Nelson Tull, to grow. There may be less than 200 to 300 leaders of various Secretary 101 churches thus minded. phases of Southern Baptist work We will work with any number and of Sta:te Convention work. The indicating serious intention te concept pf ''priority" in the organ­ MISS Martha Hairston, South­ place the requirements for growth izatiortal work of the churches of ern Baptist missionary to ·North in: a year. long priority position. the Convention was pretty well Brazil, returned to the States May Such growth priority never pe­ exploded at this meeting; and, if 14 on medical leave. A native of nalizes ot:"ler functions or organi­ the organizational work of our Warren, she may be addressed at zations. Sunday School enrolment Convention will follow through Rte. 2, Box. 526, Warren. growth lifts everything a church Student Union does. · Southern Baptist Convention­ . 'wide plans for making a ·major BSU ALUMNI NEWS emphasis on adult Sunday school THE first edition of a BSU alumni newspaper is out. The enrolment will provide ample newsletter will be published several times a year. If you desire to guidelines and materials to assist be included on the mailing list at no cost to you, please clip and this Arkansas project. The Adult mJLil the coupon below. Thrust materials are now appear­ ing in The Builder and other Sun­ To: day school literature. Student Department Interested? 401 W. Capitol Write now. Little Rock, Arkansas Details will be sent you. Please send the BSU Alumni Newsletter to: Some churches may want to plan now to participate in fol­ name lowing years. This is a part of a long range program· for 1965 to street address 1970.-Lawson Hatfield, State Sunday School Secretary city state JU~4, 1964 ------. Pa ~: Seventee News about missionaries Ouachita camp REV. and Mrs. Edward G. Ber­ attractions Dear ed: BAND ry, Southern Baptist missionaries We is gettirl redy fer Va­ Be sure to bring. your band in­ to South Brazil, arrived in the cation Bible School agin. As strument to music camp this year! States May 21 for furlough. usual im sposed to be in We are trying to select music They may be addressed at 320 charge of the handy work fer which will be interesting and chal­ High St., Maryville, Tenn., 37801. the boys. Last year we made lenging -to all band students, both She is the former Lois Roberts, of bird houses an kick-the-can Junior and Senior High. Maryville; he was born in Brazil, sets. This year we is goin to We will try a different system where his parents w'ere mission­ make towl racks and song­ . for placement in the · band this aries, and is a graduate of Ouach­ book holders. Them young- . year. Please prepare the following ita College. He plans to study in uns rely do get a kick out of material for a try-out: Southern Baptist Theological Sem­ it all. ( 1) The follo .ving Concer-t inary, Louisville, Ky., during fur­ The part i like best tho is Major Scales by memory, both lough. the openin exersises where slurred and tongued: F, B flat, REV. and Mrs. Van Glad en, the precher tells a story an E flat;, A flat, D flat. (2) An Southern Baptist m1sswnaries, we git to make an offerin to exercise that will best demon­ left Mexico May 10 to begin fur­ the Corporative Progrum. I strate your technical ability-pos­ lough after the1r first term of mis­ shore have lernt a lot bout sibly an All-State or All-Region sion service. They may be ad­ the Corporative Program in tryout exercise. Do not memorize dressed at 3102 Oconto Rd., Rich­ Vacation Bible School. Last this. ( 3) A solo of your own mond 30, Va., until the middle of year we lernt how many mis- choosing, possibly the one you .Tune, then at 6025 Walnut Drive, - sionarys we have an somthin played for district or state con­ Fort Worth, Tex., 76114. He is a bout what they do . We lernt test this year. This should be by native of Jack County, Texas; she bout the hospitals and memory, if possible. is the former Alma Ruth Franks, prechers schools to. Y e no UKELELE CLASS native of Lepanto, Ark. Bro. H unkston, hes the tre­ For those who want to learn to sure, went to Vacation Bible play the uke we are offering a class MR. and Mrs. Glen D. Herring­ School when he wuz a boy each day. Bring your uke or we ton, Southern Baptist mission­ and it did help him to no will have some available for you aries to Malaysia, have moved better bout where our money to buy at $7.00 each. from Singapore to PetaJing Jaya, goes. Some churches have VOICE CLASSES where their address is 64 Jalan trobal with there treasure, i Almost everyone attending mu­ ·University, Petaling Jaya, Selang­ here. But we dont cause he sic camp will be enrolled in a voice or, Malaysia. He is a native of went to Vacation Bible class. The basic text for these clas­ Vivian, La. (son of a Baptist min­ School. Reckoh all treasures ses will be the study course books, ister, he grew up in Louisiana, Ar- should go. "Beginning Vocalist," "Progres­ . kansas, and Texas) ; she is the sing Vocalist," and "Advanced former Mary Ann Johnson, na­ Vocalist." If you have already pur­ tive of Elgin, Tex. chased one of these books, bring REV. and Mrs. Ross B. Fryer, it with you to this cJass. The Jr., Southern Baptist missionaries Book Store will have some avail­ who had been on furlough, able at camp. Also, bring any were scheduled to leave the States CHURCH FURNITURE I voc~l music you may have or some May 23 for Indonesia, where they extra money to purchase music at will begin a new assignment in the Book Store. Bukittinggi, Sumatra. (Their ad­ At · OUACHINANNY dress: Kotak Pos 46, Bukittinggi, Each afternoon before supper, Sumatra, Indonesia.) Mr. Fryer is A we will have a period of informal a native of Dallas, Tex. ; Mrs. Fry­ singing; stunts, and talent show. er is the former Mary Lynn Price Come prepared to participate in Baker, of Warren. · these activities.-Hoyt A. Mul­ key, Secretary MIMEOGRAPH • Complete with Supplies Any Church C.an Afford • Multi-Color Printing Little Giant Hotomatic WAGONER BROTHERS Gas 1Water Heater ·No. 3 • Prints Legal-Postcard Siz.e Will supply all the hot water ' needed. tor Baptistries. Church $48.52 Postpaid MANUFACTURING CO. Kitchens. Rest Rooms. Heats ' 450 GPH, 20' rise In tempera­ COMMISSION SALES CO. Write or Call ture. Write for free folders on water heaters, Fiberglass Bap­ P.O. Box U62 Phone OR 5-2468 tistries, spires and crosses. LITTLE GIANT MFG . CO. Texarkana, Ark. BOONEVILLE, ARKANSAS 907 7th Street. Orange. Teus

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MOTHER Nature is lavish, we might say ex­ travagant, in her use of ·color. Have you sometimes wished you could keep some of that color? Some of the beauty can be preserved. apart that they do not touch each other. Carefully All summer you may be taking hikes through sift more of the borax mixture over these blossoms. fields and woods. You may drive many miles along Wo,rk the mixture among the petals while disturb­ the highway.s or perhaps just stroll through your ing' them as little as possible. They should be ·com­ own garden or anound the lawn. In any of these pletely covered with at least an inch· of the mixture. places one can find materials worthy of being pre- Allow to stand in a dark place and without dis­ served. 1 turbing for about ten days, sometimes less. Experi­ The more interested one becomes in such a proj­ ence will show what is best. Carefully remove the ect, the more skilled one becomes in seeking out covering and gently shake the blossoms to remove materials of different textures, colors, and growth. any excess mixture. You may prefer to 'use a soft Such materials make interesting arrangements. brush. An artist's brush is good. Daisies, zinnias, Grasses, leaves, flowers, · and branches can be pre­ and marigolds' are examples of flowers that are easy served to enjoy all winter in your home or to give to preserve in this way. as gifts. Late summer or fall are good times for preserv­ Start this project in the spring or summer if ing branches from trees and shrubs, using the glyc­ possible: Some spring flowers are sturdy enough to erin method. The heavier textured leaves, the oak save. Keep on ·the lookout for pretty grasses, such for example, are best for using· this method, al­ as timothy or other tall summer grasses. Oats, though almost all leaves preserve very well. wheat, and rye m·ake graceful aciditions to a bou­ In a suitable jar or vase, put two parts of water quet. Gather grasses and grains with long stems. to one part glycerin. Glycerin can be bought at drug­ Tie them in small bunches so that ·they will keep stores or some food markets. Gather branches the their shape and so that air can get to them. Hang size wanted for arrangements. Place the stems in the bunches upside down in some dry, dark place, the glycerin .mixture two or more inches deep. If perhaps a closet or dark attic. Colors last better you · crush the ends of the stems, they will absorb whe~ drying is done in the dark. more of the glycerin, Allow the grasses and grains t_o hang until com­ Allow the branches to stand in· the liquid for pletely dry. Gather some when green and some when ten days or more-all winter if necessary. They can ripe for different colorings. Sour dock seed-heads be removed from the liquid at any time and used - ~'\1 also can be cut at different stages of ripeness and arrangements. The leaves may darken, but they are dried by hanging upside down. They make good ad­ still beautiful and will last for years if cared for. ditions to y0ur winter bouquets. Cattails, green or Dried arrangements, if carefully takep apart, c~n ripe, add variations in texture and c0loring. be stored and used many times. Many kinds of flowers caN be preserved, some One word of caution : Do not be discouraged if with almost perfect color, by using borax or a mix­ some of your trials are not what you call successful. ture of borax and cornmeal. These should be used If you are like others who make a hobby of this in equal parts. The mixture is not as likely to dis­ sort of thing, you will have many failures. The at­ color the flower as is pure borax. tempts that do turn out well are worth the effort. The following method of drying has proved Try and try again. Try ideas of-your own. If they practical : In a shallow container-a shoe box, a pan, are new and successfu,l, that is good. Libraries have or a dish-spread about an inch of the borax mix­ many hooks to help in this hobby. ture. Lay the blossoms on this in a flat position · Surprise the family with some beautiful dried with the open side up. They should be far enough arrangements for the winter.

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We pay' Occupation Height __~ Weight__ in addition to any other insurance you Beneficiary Relationship ___ carry. We send you our payments Air I als~ apply for coverage for the members of my family listed below: Mail Special Delivery so you have cash NAME AGE HEIGHT WEIGHT BENEFICIARY on hand fast. No limit on number of times 1. you collect. 2. 2. We cover all accidents and 3. ·.sicknesses, 4. except pregnancy, any act of war or mili­ To the best of your knowledg~ and belief, are you and all members listed above in good health tary service, ~pre-existing · accidents or and free from any physical impairment, or disease? Yes 0 No 0 To the best of your knowledge, have you or any member above listed had medical advice or IMPORTANT: ·Check table below and inclllde y.. r first treatment, or have you or they been advised to have a surgical operation in the last five ·years? premlii~h application. Yes 0 No 0 If so, please give details stating person affected, cause, date, name and address of attending physician, and whether fully recovered. LOOK AT THESE AMERICAN TEMPERANCE LOW RATES Pay Monthly Pay Yearly Each child 18 $280 Neither I nor any person listed above uses tobacco or alcoholic beverages, and I hereby apply and under pays i •$28 for a policy based on the understanding that the policy does not cover conditions originating prior to its effective date, and that the policy is issued solely and entirely in reliance upon the Each adult $380 $38 written answers to the above questions. 19·64 pays . Date: Signed:X ______Each adult AT·IAT 65-100 pays $590 $59 Moil this application with your first premtum to 1303 SAVE TWO MONTHS PREMIUM IY P'AYING YEARLYI AMERICAN TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATES, Inc., Box 131, Libertyvdle, lllliois JUNE 4,1964 Page Twenty-One Sunday School lesson------proof of love. This not only calls for love in speech but love in The Christian faces a needy world deeds. In Matthew 25:31-46, and here, the Spirit of God is giving BY BERNES K. SELPH, PASTOR directions to his ,children. He shows them they are to love one FIRST CHURCH, BENTON another. Love is to begin with the JUNE 7, 1964 brethren. This is specific, direct. DEUTERONOMY 10:19-19; MATTHEW 25 :31-46: Love expressed help is to charac­ JAMES 2:14-'17; I JoHN 3:11-18 terize Christian brotherhood. But love has a way of spilling NO one will argue with . the and the nations are gathered over. Jesus wanted us to start the truthfulness of this heading. before Christ the Judge. with the brethren but never stop The morning I began studying It is hardly conceivable that there. He wants us to go beyond this lesson my Jesus is talking about general the church in our love. But the p h o n e rang. benevolence. He is not speaking Christian must begin somewhere. When I answered of natural sentiment that re­ He ought to begin in the brother­ it a party on the sponds to every need. There is hood of Christians. His expres­ other end of the nothing wrong with this senti­ sions of love here will bring ample wire said, "I ment; it seems not to be the point rewards. How can one love those have a problem. under discussion here. outside the church if he does not Can you help Just what is under discussion? love those inside the church? me?" The prob­ Look at the words "brethren" and James emphasizes .this in 2:14- lem - money to "righteous." Does the term -17. In order to teach that faith DR. SELPH meet a need. "brethren" include all men? Does is more than a clttim he uses an God makes an appeal to his it mean mankind as such or refer illustration ·of a destitute brother people through a command given, to a particular group? or sister. Deuteronomy 10 :'18-19. The Lord It seems to refer to a specific Now our faith in Christ should wants his people to be like him. group. Looking at the word as make us compassionate towards He has not overlooked the "father­ used 1 throughout the Bible its a brother or sister in Christ who tess and the widow." He vindicates usage is found to mean those re­ is in need, and reach farther. the defenseless. God. has ordained lated by blood kin, descendents of It prompts us to help others. that man care for his own. Not a family, and those spiritually kin, How to help the needy? Some­ to do so is to bring judgment of or the brotherhood of Christians. times one needs a word : a word God on the one refusing help. Per­ Here, it seems to refer to those in of wisdom, warning, instruction, chance someone says, "Look, the Christian fold. encouragement. Sometimes one wouldn't it be much better for needs money. Sometimes one needs God to miraculously help the poor The deeds done here are done by food and drink--physically, emo­ widows than to punish the one certain people to certain people. tionally, mentally. Sometimes one who refuses to help?" They are ·done to his "brethren" needs visiting--in prison, in hos­ It might not. At least, it would and those who did the -deeds seem pitals, in homes. forever prevent the one who could to be motivated by this very fact · help from experiencing the joy of that they were his "brethren." Family Reading For helping. All we'd have in that case What they did not realize would be. selfish people who would was that they had done this unto Summer become more and more selfish. their Lord. Jesus sought to help God is interested in developing them see that he was identified personalities, and to do so involves with his people so closely that the danger of being misunder..: what was done to them was done stood by those who do not parti­ unto him. 'I'he "righteous" had cularly care for such involve­ served him when they least sus­ ment. This puts Christianity in pected it. the realm of the practical. · The great need of our world is But what is the basis for under­ love for one another. we are not girding benevolence? Jesus sets as concerned now about how we this out in Matthew 25 :31-46, will manifest our love as we are where he shows it to be dependent about the fact of our love. Love An exciting living narrative of the whole Bible in the language chil­ upon one's . personal relationship will find a way. dren understand and adults enjoy with him. This passage must be The term "brother" is also used reacling with them. $4.95 studied in the light of its back­ in I John 3:11-18 and most likely A Buy Broadman Books al your ground. The larger scripture pas­ refers to the Christian. But in its 0 BAPTIST BOOK STORE sage is concerned with judgment, usage here it is related to the 408 Spring .st. Little Rock, Ark.

Peg~ Twenty-Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST Attendance Report A Smile or Two May 24, 1964 Sunday Training Addi­ Church School Union tiona Caught in his own web Beifne, .'First 82 41 Berryville, Freema:r:t Hgts. 156 70 "AD writing is a vidous circle/' Blytheville said the man who was making his First 659 Chapel 46 living at it. , Trinity 241 3 Camden "How do you m_ean ?" asked his Cullendale First 433 172 First 530 165 friend. · · Conway, Pickles Gap 77 53 Crossett, First 493 120 "Well, I write the advertisement. El Dorado Then I get paid fot it. They then East Mainl 317 113 First 865 print it and my wife reads it. Then Forrest City First 523 143 Midway 41 42 I pay for it." Fort Smith' Barling, First 150 75 Grand Avenue 743 286 Mission 24 It was the reverse Spradling 260 117 Trinity 305 134 WIFE : "It has been a wonder­ Greenwood, First 232 78 Gurdon, Beech Street 159 59 ful vacation, but I'm packed to go Harrison, Eagle Hgts. 259 95 Hot Springs, Park Place 345 119 home. Let's look. around and see Huntsville, Calvary 36 25 if we have left anything." Jacksonville Berea 105 52 Husband: "One thing is certain. Chapel Hill 51 27 First 454 144 2 We don't have to look to see if we Second 226 97 4 Jonesboro have anything left." Central 531 164 Nettleton 237 94 Lavaca 257 142 Central air Little Rock First 1006 255 6 CALLED to examine an elec­ White Rock 11 Forest Highlands 194 76 tric refrigerator that was using Immanuel 1118 357 Forest Tower 26 22 too much electrjcity, the service Rosedale' 229 63 McGehee, _First 443 170 3 man could not find the. reason. Chapel 78 26 He idly asked tbe cook, "How Magnolia, Central 663' 222 Marked Tree, First 169 48 do you like the refrigerator? Monticello, Second 265 120 North Little Rock "I like it fine," she said. "I open Baring Cross 786 197 2 Steady work Southside' 56 30 the door and it cools off the whole Camp Robinson 43 19 "I NEED a job, 'Senator," said Calvary 445 90 kitchen." Gravel Ridge First 221" 112 1 the man from his home state. Park Hill 866 216 3 Sylvan Hills First 285 100 3 The senator thought for a mo­ Pine BluH Centennial Friendly 1 225 89 ment. "Well, I'll tell you," he said, Siloam Springs, First 305 174 Springdale, First 436 AN assistant district attorney "there aren't any jobs. But here's Van Buren was questioning an obstinate wit­ First 432 108 2 what I'll do. I'll get up a commit­ Second 76 27 ness who, in replying, insisted on Ward, Cocklebur 43 ~0 tee to investigate why there are Warren, Immanuel 286 17 addressing all his answers directly Westside 86 47 no jobs and you can be head of back at the attorney. that." "Witness, speak to the jury!" the judge ordered testily. Wanted INDEX. The man turned, looked the jury over, nodded affably, and said, "MADAM," said tl;l.e new care­ B-Boardman, Dr. George Dana, last baptism taker to' the lady who had just (BL) pl9; Bookshelf p4 "Howdy." C- Children's Nook p20; Christian faces a employed. him, "I want to thank needy world (SS) p22; Civil disobedience (letter) you for giviJlg me the job, and p4 ; Concord Association· speaker pll ; Courtship: Coffee in his apartment? (CMH) p6; Cover No telltale dirt ask you one question. I riotice storY' 'tr4 • D- Defeatism (MR) p19 RECENTLY I bought a smart you advertised for a married man. H--- Hickey, Dr. and Mrs. Glenn E . to Brazil p9 k--Lamb, John T. graduates pll; Lee, Jimmy black towel to match the bath­ Does that mean that you will have licensed to preach pll room decorations. It was some M- McDonald, Erwin L. : Named president Lit­ some work in your home for my tle Rock ministerial association p4; Editor hon­ time before I noticed that my 5- wife?" ored by Baptist Press p7 0 - 0BC graduates 160 p8; Editors named pl(j year-old son seemed to be delib­ "Oh, no," replied the woman. P - Plumlee, Joyce on Ridgecrest faculty p9; Preacher poet p19 ' erately avoiding using it. "I wanted a married man so as R--Radio-t.v. schedules p9; 'Revivals p8 When I asked him the reason., he S- Sawyer, Fred 0. dies pll ; Southern Baptist to be sure I'd get someone used to Convention, Atlantic City: Seminaries report replied~ "I can't tell when I've taking orders from a woman." ppl2, 13, 16; Institutions, agency reports pp14-16: H0m~ , Mission Board report p24 ; Along the wiped all the dirt off me." Boardwalk (PS) p2; New SBC president (E) p3 ; Brooks Hays speech p5; "Ashamed of way Stray.ed: One elephant! we're doing" p5 ; Arkansans named· to boards pll ; Southern Seminary graduates plO ; Smok­ FREE-TO MINISTERS, AMONG the 9,000 votes cast ing hazard :ri7 · U- Uncle Deak p18 for . a riew president of Southern Sermon outlines. Sample of my Baptist Convention, in sessions re­ Key to ·listings: (BL) .Beacon Lights of Bap­ new magazine, The SHEPHERD'S tist History; (CMH) Courtship, Maniage and • STAFF. Write Ward B. Chandler, cently at Atlantic City, was one the Home; (E) Editorial ; .(FF) FundamentaL!< of the faith; (PS) Pe\'sonally Speaking; (~.S) P. 0. Box ·5056, Dept. AB, vote for sowebody by the name of Sunday School lesson; (MR) Middle of the Roall•; Pasad~na, Calif. (KYM) Know Your Missionaries. Barry Goldwater.

JUNE 4, 1964 Page Twenty-Three Home Mission Board Southern Baptist Foundation • Baptist work 10 50 states TRUST funds held by the Southern Baptist Foundation amounted to $·'1.,055,000 at the end By Walker L. Knight of 1963, J . W. Storer, Nashville, the executive secretary of SBC ag­ A PRIMARY source for the sharply with that of 20 years ago ency, reported to the 1964 s~ssion men, the monies, and the. national when he came as assistant to J. of the Southern Baptist Conven­ leadership for Southern Baptists' B. Lawrence, then executive sec­ tion. growth into an expanded, 50-state retary. Convention showed up in the re­ That year the budget was He said $750,000 was ~eceived port of the Hoine Mission · Board 593,606, and the missionaries during the year for investment, to the SBC in Atlantic City. numbered 489. including over $200,000 from set­ The report dealt with the ex­ In a statistical' summary, Red­ tlement of estates. It was pointed penditure of more than $61j2 mil­ ford noted a gain of 144 in mis­ out th.at the Foundation's general lion, a mission staff of 2,222, and sionary personnel over last year's fund yielded , 5.17 per cent recent expansion of the board's total of '2,07&. In addition the for 1963. program structure to 14 phases. board used 645 students in ten • • • Executive Secretary Courts weeks of summer mission work, Redford, of Atlanta, said, "The and the Chaplains Commission re­ The executive secretary said the older and stronger states have ported 750 Southern Baptist chap­ Foundation aids in estate plan­ taken over additional financial re­ lains on active duty. ning; the wt:iting of wills and re­ sponsibility in most categories and The mission force reported 46,- lated matters. Most of those who are thus making · it possible for 226 professions of faith, a de- ­ consult Southern Baptist Founda- · the Home. Mission Board to give crease from 48,700 the previous tion 'have complex tax problems increasing support to new work year. This reflected a like decrease and therefore require the best ad­ and to the pioneer areas." in converts within the Conven­ vice to be had, Storer added. Two-thirds of the $4,065,000 'tion. spent by the missions division During the year, the board has When advice is sought on mak­ went to the newer areas, and most led Baptist churches, associations ing wills, for instance, the Foun­ of the $61,4 million in loan funds of churches and state conventions dation refers the inquiry to ... one to 479 churches in 1963 went the in a Latin American refugee re­ of the .top legal experts in this same way. settlement ministry which relo­ field." · Funds which were spent in the cated 450 persons. "older and stronger" states went Redford was somewhat optimis­ "It is the provmce of Southern Baptist F'Y. .mdation to help people primarily into work for mission tic concerning work in Cuba and who have material possessions to centers, language missions, and Panama, two trouble areas of the see that such possessions .are the with National Baptists (Negro), board's work.. "Work in both has Redford said. been interrupted by political sit­ gifts of God, and carry consequent responsibility," Storer said. The pattern of transition of the uations," he said, "but most of "pioneer" areas also was revealed. the missionaries have remained on The report · showed seven states, their fields of service." formerly included in the pioneer "The work in Panama has been program, now in other programs. temporarily interrupted from These are California, Oregon, time to time but it appears that Washington, Colorado, · Kansas, all of the workers are back on the Indiana and Ohio. field and that the work is progressing in a very satisfactory Redford, who made his tenth way." and final report as the mission The new program alignment of agency's executive secretary, has the mission agency includes these been with the board during all of 14 areas: chaplaincy, urban­ these "pioneering" years. Most of rural mission, pioneer missions, the expansion has come during his metropolitan missions, mission 10 years as head of the board. He center work, Jewish work, associ­ has announced his retirement ef­ ational administrative service, fective in December and the board survey and special studies, church is expected to elect his successor extension, National Baptist (Ne­ at its summer meeting at Ridge­ gro) work, language missiOns, crest (N. C.) Baptist Assembly. evangelism, church loans, and spe­ This final report contrasted cial mission ministries.