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Lord, help us to be so compassionate in our genuine concern for others that we shall be able to sidestep our self-cent~redness. Personally ' speaking IN THIS ISSU'E:

Correct diagnosis SEWNARY PRESIDENT, Duke K. McCall, calls on Baptists to quit worrying about them­ When Duke K. McCall was a· little boy, his selves to the point o~ neglecting the world. Read teachers taught him to "sit erect." He learned what the Southern Seminary head has to say in a that lesGon so well, and continues to sit so gue&t .editorial on page 3. · straight up, that some have said of him "Duke . . . 1s. the only fellow we ever saw who could' strut JANUARY is "Will-Making Month" through­ sitting down.'' out the Southern Baptist Cqnvention. This week's Dr. McCall, for many years president of South­ cover shows Arkansas Executive Secretary, Dr. ern Semmary, Louisville, really "struts his stuff" Charles H. Ashcraft, and Mrs. Ashcraft as they in our lead editorial this week. Be sure to read council with Ed. F. McDonald Jr. on revising their what this preacher-teacher-denominational leader wills. The cover story is on page 6. has to say about us Baptists loving ourselves to ...... death. - WITH SNOW still lingering in some parts of I must confess that I am still licking the the state, readers will be interested in Harri.et wounds inflicted on my own personality by the Hall's thoughts on being snowbound, found in Feminine Intuition on page 6. McCall edito.rial. It may be my m~sery craving .... company that causes me to recommend the item . . . . for your own consideration. But I am convinced THREE BAPTIST BUILDING employees that Dr. McCall is not only giving us the proper mark 25 years of service with the Arkansas Bap­ diagnosis but that he is. prescribing the only cure tist State Convention, for a total of more than 75 for what ails us-as individuals, as churches, as );ears. See page 8 for people and positions. agencies and institution~. ' . Too many of us are like the little boy whose "HIS LAND," the newest Billy Graham mother was teaching him the·Golden Rule. He said, film, will ~e shown in a state-wide preview· next "But, Mother, if I do unto others as I would have week in Little -Rock. Details are on page 10. them do unto me, what will the others do Y" Or we are like. Peter when the Lord had told him three times, ''Feed my sheep.'' We point to somebody else and ask, "Lord, and what shall this Arlansa~ Baptist man do1" ~ . Volume 69 No. ~ Do we need to recall again what Jesus said to January 15, 1970 Pe'!;erf Here it is: "If I .will that he tarry till I Editor, ERWIN L. McDoNALD, ·Litt. D. come, what is that to theef follow thou me" (Jn. · Associate Editor, MRS. E. F. STOKES 21:22). Managing Editor, MRS. WILLIAM L. KENNEDY Spiritual blessings, including God's love, can­ not be hoarded. They must be used, not aoused. S~cretary to Editor, MRS. HARRY GIBERSON And Mark 8:35 is true of churches and other in­ Mail Clerk, Mas. WELDON TAYLOR 526 .Weot Capitol Avenue, Little Rock, A.rkansll8 12201. l"ub!lahed ~:~titution.s as of individuals·: "For whosoever will -ekly except on July 4 and December l!ti. Second-class poat&ire save his life shall lose it ; but whosoever shall lm11e paid at Little Rock, Arkansas. Individual subscription, $2.76 per year. Church budset 16 cents per his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same month or $1.92 per year per church- family. Club plan' (1() or more shall save it." paid annually In advance), $2.26 per year. Subscriptions to foreilrri address, $4,76 per year. Advertialns rates o~ ·request. The pastor whose church wanted to meet the Opinions ~pressed In editorials and sisned articles are ·those of tbe payments on the building debt by cutting down on writer. Member of Southern- l>dptlst Press Association; ~ssocla~d Churah Press, Evansellcal P~l!BII' .A.ssoclatloll. ~ission its world giving through the Cooperative Abbreviations used In credltins neW! items : BP Ba!!_tist Press ; CB Church Bulletin : DP Dally Press : EP EviUlfrOUcal· Press : LC Loeal Program was wise in holding out against this ac­ Correspondent ; AB Assoclational Bulletin ; ·EBPS European• Baptist tion. Praa Service. ·

Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST N~WSMAGAZINE ------Editorials IGuest editorial I And it all starts in ch'qrches where the mem­ bers love themselves more than they love anything (.Nobody cares' beyond their comfortable congregation. Churches have taken their own temperature and worried The theme song of Americans . today is what about their own welfare until they are hypochron- m~ed to be g. silly little rhyme chanted by children: driacs. As soon as churches quit worrying about "Everybody hates me, whether they are going to live or die and put a N(Jbody loves me; 1ost world in the center of their concern, our Gc,ing out into the garden and eat worms." Christian enterprise will begin to get well. Young people 'turn to dope because they feel We will wake up one day and find that young nobody cares about "me." Adults turn to alcohol people have rediscovered that adults are human to escape boredom and loneliness. Ministers drink beings. Adults will 'be surprised at the joy of in­ the dreg~ of despair because nobody cares. vesting themselves in these wonderful young peo- Somcbody needs to tElll this sick society that pie. Our Baptist organizations and agencies will a long ti~e ago Jesus said, ''Thou shalt love thy find that each is not only essential to the other neighbor as thyself." The question is not, Am I but is doing an excellent job which guarantees the popu1art The cure is not a multitude of friends 8uccess of the whole effort of the people of God. to pat me on the back. The great "I Am" created the other-even Yet t1at is precisely what so many young peo- the universe, including you and me-because the pie seem to think is the need. That is exactly what essence of the infinite God is love.-Duke K .. Me­ many adults require. The result of this sinful self- Call, President, Southern Semi~ary, Louisville, · ishness is more sickness. Hell is created here and Ky., in Baptist 'Message, Louisiana now. A lake of fie.ry brimstone would be prefer- M·ODERN (PERJVERSION able to the agony of these people damned by the devil 's most fiendish device. · OF THE SCRIPTURES The Christian cure for this sickness is not to · get love but to give it. The issue is not who cares (Not the way it is found in the Scriptures, ?ut for me hut, rather, whom do I care fort the way it is often read or practiced by professmg ,- The standard Jesus used for loving one's Christians) : neighbor was to be the way a healthy human be- · Moreover if t1vy ·brother shall trespass again,st .ing feels about himself. This is no proposal to th'ee, do not mention it to him, but, instead, tell surmount a martyr's suffering. Of course you and it to his immediate superior, with a suggestion your welfare are important but use that as a yard- that th.d man be fired. You will thus not gain a stick for your caring about the welfare of others. brother but you mGy succeed in destroying some- Ther~ never will be enough counselors in a one you do not like (Mt. 18:15). suburban community, on a seminary campus, or So shall my heavenly Father forgive you, even in the center of a city to salve the ulcered egos if ye fnm '!lour hearts forgive not every one his of self-centered people. The Biblical message is, brother the~r trespasses (Mt. 18 :35). "God so loved the world"- not himself. The c __t_/_ J_ • transformed Christian reveals that he is a child of ~ - I ... Tf~ ~· God by turning his face toward others. ~ · · • But what happens to individuals happens to · - churches, to state convention, to Christian agen- A lot of folks that's talkin' .about how bad th' cies. 1960s was is expectin' th' 1970s to be a heap bet: The Foreign Mission Board can get sick by ter. Only trouble with that reasonin' is that a new worrying only about itself. decade ain't likely to be much better than th' peo- Self-centeredness is the seed of disintegration pie livin' in.it. And· so fur, th' last thing anybody for a sPminary. Seminary faculty members are seems to be plannin' fer th' 1970s is to .be. less badly undercompensated fOT their service but we cantankerous an' more neighborly than they was could easily tear the enterprise apart by worry- in th' 1960s. ing about ourselves. · · . Baptist colleges have tended to say, let all tht' Contam~ation ~s one of th' key wor~s these world go to bits but give us enough. days. We a1r gettm' to be more an' more con- StatH conventions are shriveling on the vine sarned over contamination of th' air, land, an' sea, because of preoccupation with their own pro- · an' less an' less consarned over contamination of grams. · th' human race. · " JANUARY 15, 1970 1 mu.st say itl Billy Graham to · address congress Sees Baptists at the controls WASHINGTON, D. C.-Evan­ gelist · Billy Graham and Miss An­ BY DR. CHARLES H. AsHCRAFT gie Brooks, president of the Unit- · Executive Seeretary ed Nations and a Baptist leader Arkansas Baptist State Convention of Liberia, are among the speak· ers scheduled to -address the 12th Baptist World Congress in Tokyo, Baptists are a front-seat people. such a ritual. Proud leaders of other July 12-18. They are not wired for rear seats and days. who did 1)-0t glance at the score­ will not be out of reach of the con­ board are now the late proud leaders ~ore than 60 church leaders trols. They are ori­ who were last seen in a horizontal from 30 countries have agreed to ented for first place stance. take part in the congress, accord­ and have no special­ ing to Mr11o R. L. Mathis, Waco, ty for lesser ratings. 'Southern Baptists possess no inboard Tex., program committee chair· They are rigged and immunity against a future time when man. · the role of pallbearer and respectful tuned for prime Other speakers included Ernest leadership and have mourner may be changed tq that of a horizontal ceremony in which they are F. PaYne, retired general secre-. no talent for trail­ tary of the Baptist · Union of ing. They maintain the chief subject matter. In the coming months I will be discussing what it Great Britain and Ireland and cur­ a heavy offensive rently one of the six pres'idents of team and have not takes to hold first place and maintain prime leadership as a denomination. .the World Council of Churches; invested in a defen­ and Lien Chow, a theological pro­ sive crew. There is Such titles as these will appear in the series-the role of our seminaries in fessor and pastor in the Republic DR. ASHCRAFT no middle ground in of •China (Taiwan). their struggle with which they can be denominational primacy, who deter­ reconciled. Life to them is unbearable, mines the extent of academic freedom, Claude Rhea, professor of music untenable and unendurable at any point theological terms and definitions, prop­ a't Samford University in Bir­ less than total victory. er sequence of Biblical doctrines, who mingham, Ala., will direct music owns our Baptist schools, re-stenciling for the congress. They cannot adjust, adapt, or live moral boundaries, how religious is the with subservience. Being the leaders- of-- religious press, where does renewal be· J. P. Allen, Ft. Worth, Tex., will the pack they can no longer tolerate gin, can we discipline ourselves, we are direct six Bible study sessions, the misery of mediocrity. killing the wrong people, my answer each led by a representative of a to race dilemmas, who decides on here­ different continent. Edwin Tuller; Since they are not trained for delay­ sy, the resurrection of Baptist distinc­ general secretary of the American ing tactics or defensive measures ~;thd tives, accrediting agencies, c:~n the Convention, will direct five sym­ are not committeed to meaningless ex­ truth divide us, why doesn't Ashcraff posiums on world problems. istence . they must stay out front or take a better picture, and other deeply . ' perish. relevant issues. The series will be con­ Mrs. Mathis made her report to cluded one man's opinion-but I must 'the Baptist World Alliance Ad­ The casualty rate in the ranks of ministrative Committee. Other re­ prime leadership has caused many to say it. I can hardly wait to read what I am going to write in our fine Ax· ports indicated that an attendance take time off from their fast duties to of 8,000 was expected for the con· serve as pallbearers. This is a terrible kansas Baptist Newsmagazine. It is a good publication. gress, which . will be held at w_aste of time because Jesus suggested Tokyo's sports palace, the Budo­ that the dead should bury the dead or I must say it/ kan. (ABNS) at least make prior arrangements for The people speak~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Vietnam atrocities' Why doesn't the American public sistencies. The military is not perfect, get angry and conscientious stricken but bur men are over here being wound· I don't know who wrote. the article, about that? Could it be be.cause one ed and dying to help a nation keep "The Atrocities in Vietnam," but I or two dying at a time isn't sensation­ it's freedom and have peace. The VC would like to add a few other angles al, so the Press ignores it; After all, skin alive downed pilots, put the heads to consider. what is 6,000 people murdered by the of our men on poles and stick their.•• VC? Nothing compared to the alleged in their mouths. Think what that does Consider, please, the angle of Viet ~09 at My Lail to their buddies who find them. .Cong and NV A massacres. No word was mentioned about the brutalities in­ Our men are over here freeing peo­ stigated by the Communist, enemies of Consider also, that if we make a mis· ple, not intentionally brutalizing or de­ freedom. My Lai's incident is minute take. we step up efforts to end the war humanizing them. Send your author compared to the thousands massacred just because war is brutal. Communists over here and I'll show him, until his in Hue during Tet of 1968. We don't are more brutal than war. Unprotected head spins, the good our servicemen do know who did what at My Lai, but we or left in the hands of partially trained over here •. do know the VC and NVA buried peo­ RVN Forces, the VC and NV A would ple alive at Hue. make all preVious massacres seem like I doubt if you will print this, but child's play. Christians, CatholicS' and you have my convictions. I hope these :Oid the Press give Hue proportionate Protestants, American and RVN sym­ considerations will give you a bigger coverage 'l Do you people back in the pathizers would be destroyed, picture of the atrocities in Viet N am. world know that by ·one's and two's the -Archie V. Lawre.nce, LT, CHC, USNR, VC, so far this year have massacred Lastly, please consider getting more Office of the Chaplain, 1st Marine Air­ over 6,000 RVN Villagers. upset over the VC than military incon- craft Wing, FPO San Francisco 96602 Page Four ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Arkansas Native Bruce Price honored

As a special feature of ceremonies honoring Dr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Price upon Dr. Price's retiring from the pas­ torate, on Jan. 4, First ·Church, New­ port News, Va., which he had served as pastor for 22 years, issued •an en­ larged edition of its weekly newspaper, First Baptist News. The paper carried highlights of the Price pastorate and ·greetings from his friends from many different states. During Dr. Price's pastorate, the church· received 2005 new members, 1001 by baptism. Total gifts to all causes for the period were $2,906,- 453.65, of which $971,536.37 was for missions. The value of the church property in­ creased from $340,000, in 1948, to $771,- 600, and the annual church budget in­ OZONE CHURCH, north of ClarkB'IJiUe, broke ground for their new creased from . $62,891.47, in 1948, to church plant recently. The 2,400 sq. feet will provide space fo•r an $163,512, in 1969 • .auditorium, baptistry, class rooms; kitchen, and fellowship hall. Par­ Dr. and Mrs. Clyde V. Hickerson, ticipa~ing were (left to right) George Williams, pastor; Elbert Smith, Richmond, Va., were present for ·the Armil Curran, Virgil Melson, and Emerson Wine, deacons. Sunday morning service on "Price Day." Dr. Hickerson was pastor of First Church, Russellville, Ark., at the time Dr. Price joined the church. North Pulaski R.A.s Counselors, leaders and Brotherhood to, hold conclave men will meet with Mr. Chance in an A native of Scottsville, Pope County, education and training session pertain­ Arkansas, Dr. Price grew up in Rus­ The North Pulaski Royal Ambassa­ ing to the new program for 1970. The . sellville. He received the A.B. degree dor Association has set Saturday, Jan. conclave will adjourn at 3 ·p.m. from Ou!!chita University and the Th.B. 24, as the date for their first annual and Th.M. -edgrees. from Southern Sem­ R.A. Conclave at Park Hill Church. A special invitation is extended to inary, ·Louisville. He has two honorary all R.A.s and Counselors over the state degrees--the D.D. degree from Ouach­ Jay Chance, director of Royal Ambas­ to attend the conclave. There will be sadors, Brotherhood Commission, South­ ita University and the [,L.D. degree a registration fee of "75 cents per per­ from Atlanta Law School. ern Baptist Convention, will be the fea­ son. · A ·hot dog lunch will be served tured speaker. at noon. :Former pastorates inelude Beech The opening ceremony and presenta­ Street Church, Texarkana. . tion of flags will be held at 9 a.m., For additional information or early with Ozzie Berryhill, Association R.A. registration, contact Mr. Berryhill, at Dr. Price is a former vice president leader, presiding. FR5-6609; Henry Boerner, Association of the Southern Baptist Convention, a R.A. secretary, at SK3-4385; or write former president of the Southern-Bap­ The morning session will include a the North Pulaski R.A. Association, tist Pastors' Conference, and a former. testimony and weightlifting demonstra­ P. 0. Box 462, North Little Rock, Ark. vice president of the Arkansas Baptist tion by Bennie Hindmon, pastor of Cen­ 7211'5. State Convention. tral Church, North Little Rock. Enter­ tainment will be provided by the New Mrs. Price is the former Miss Eva Life Singers from Baring Cross Church, Rankin of Pine Bluff. The Prices have North Little Rock. "Baptists Who Know, Care" .a son, Madison R. Price, D. D. S., New­ port News, Va. .; and a daughter, Mrs1 The afternoon session will be divided Church members wHI support Joseph C; Cox Jr., Richmond, Va. into two parts. The R.A.s will be led Baptist work in Arkansas and through a camping session by Bill Live­ around the world. if they are in· Dr. and Mrs. Frice have built a new ly, ' elementary director of Second formed of the needs by reading home in Newport News, where they Church, Little Rock, and John He.mil­ the ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWS· will continue to live. Th~ ir mailing ad­ ton, l:Iighway Church, will present a MAGAZINE. dress is P.O. Box 47.5, Newpo;t News, film, "Missions in Japan." va., 28607. Page Five JANUARY 15, 1970 The cover: Feminine intu itio n by Harriet Half

Snow on the mo·untains Snowbound in the Ozarks-and what a lovely way to spend a quiet day or two, knowing that most scheduled meetings can be postponed, and the worl<;l will go on anyway. Of course we do not enjoy hearing of broken bones from falls, or bumped fenders, or cars in the ditches. But when the world slows its pace it is a pause that refreshes if we will let it. There. is time to think, to plan, to read, and to evaluate life. - As I write today we have had about ten days of snow-covered landscape. There is a beautiful white blanket over all the frozen hillside. Usually one of the Dr. and Mrs. Ashcraft with Ed prettiest things in our back yard is the interesting pattern formed by the snow­ McDonald. edged rock wall that is about a foot high around the old well. Today ,it is com­ pletely covered. The snow-laden pine trees look like a <;Jhristmas card picture. • . only prettier, because no photograph can quite capture the full enchantment of 'Make your will' such a scene. As I have watched the snow and ice pile up during these days I have seen some of the limbs of trees bend and break. It reminds me that some folks let Executive Secretary Charles H. the weight of cares or pressures weigh so heavily ripon them that they become Ashcraft of the Arkansas Baptist victims of ulcers, heart 'attacks, or breakdowns. I wonder if we might learn a State Convention, with Mrs. Ash­ lesson from these snowbound days. Surely God does not intend that we shoutd craft, are among those who have 1oad ourselves unnecessarily with compulsions, pressures, or frustrations until· recently sought the counsel of the we bend or break. 'Baptist Foundation office in revis­ ing their wills. We need to take time for rest, meditation, spiritual inventory, and prayerful waiting on God. In Mark 1:35 we learn a significant thing about the pattern of the life of Jesus: "And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, The Ashcrafts moved to Little he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed." If our Master Rock last summer, upon lli. Ash­ needed time to be alone with the Father, how much more we also need to follow craft's election to his present posi­ his example. tion. In Grace Noll Crowell's poem, ·"The Day" she speaks of looking ·forward to "We believe that Baptists each day. The closing verse is her optimistic testimony: should tithe while they live and No day has ever failed me quite­ tithe when they • die," said Dr. Before the grayest day is done, Ashcraft. I c01ne upon some misty bloom Or a late line of crimson sun. Ed F. McDonald Jr., secretary Each night I pause, remembering of the Foundation, expressed ap­ Some gay, adventurous, lovely thing. precia;tion for tlte Ashcraft exam­ Comments, saggedlo~s. or 11u11tlons, may lit eddrtssed to Mrs. Andrew Hlil, Mt. Stquoyah Drive, ple. and expressed the hope that flyttt"lllt, Ark, . • many Arkansas Baptists who have not already included Baptist c·auses in their wills will do so. Morgan ordained From the churches W. R. (Bill) Morgan was ordained Dr. Ashcraft has volunteered to to the ministry · Dec. 28, by Eudora Youth Council members for 1970 have Church. The ordination sermon was speak on will making, during the been elected at First Church,. Pine month of January, which is "Will .------'"'!1 preached by ' the Bluff. They are Lynn . Brooks, Ronnie pastor, L. C. Hoff, Making Month," or at any time Schneider, Karen Johnson, Barbara during the· year, McDonald said. and the charge was Hazelip, David McClanahan, Doug .delivered by Noel Tharp, Sue Russell, Neil Breeden, Pam Barlow, superintend­ "Make Your Will Month" is ob­ Ray, 'Sandy Sanders, Gina Woodfield, ent of missions for served each January throughout and Larry Alexander. D e 1 t a Association. the Southern Baptist Convention. The o r dination 'Eleven new deacons were ordained prayer was offered by First Clturch, DeQueen, recently. by W. T. Rankin, Secretacy McDonald is open for They are: Ed Banks, Bob Barrett, Jim chairman of C:.eacons speaking engagements in church­ Blackmon, Wallace Bunyard, Gene Da­ · of Eudora Church. es and announces that he is al­ vis, Gerald Davis, Herman Jackson, Mr. Morgan has ready booked through March. Warren Norwood, Marvin Rumbo, Den­ MR. MORGAN been aalled as pas- nis Smiley, and Bill Watson. Joe C. tor of First Church, Ben Lomond. He Denton is the pastor. is a junior at Ouachita University. Page Six ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Dan Blake called by Arkadelphia 1st Dan Blake, formerly director of de­ velopment at Louisiana Baptist Chil­ tlren's Home in Monroe, assumed the · pastorate of . the First Church, Arka­ delphia, on Jan. 2. The pulpit commit­ tee which recom­ mended his election .. , to the church is made up of Bill Vin­ ing, chairman;. Nel­ son )Tipton, Kenneth Sandifer,, S h erwin Williams, Mrs. Don Dawley, Mrs. Jack MR. BLAKE King, Mrs. John Russ, and James Caldwell. Mrs. Lamar Watkins served on the committee be­ fore moving from Arkadelphia. The church had been without a full­ time pastor since Sam Reeves retired from the position last spring. S. A. Whitlow, the recently retired executive secretary of the Arkansas Baptist Con­ vention, served the church as interim pastor during the summer and Vesrter Wolber, chairman of the Division of Re­ ligion and Philosophy at Ouachita Uni­ versity, has served as interim pastor Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Miles since the summer. ' . Mr. Blake is a native of Jonesboro, La. and is a graduate of Louisiana Celebrate golden ann1versary Tech, from which he received a B. A. degree in 1959. Prior to his study at Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Miles of Route, Stanford, Beech Grove, Clark's Chapel, Louisiana Tech he attended Louisiana 4, Paragould, celebrated their golden Childress Chapel, Robbs Chapel, Center College for two years. He has also at­ wedding anniversary with an open Hill, Lafe, Brown's, Chapel, Epsaba, tended New Orleans Seminary and is house at their home Dec. 28. The cou­ Wall's Chapel, Eight Mile, Mt. Zion, completing work for a M. A. degree in ple a.re Iif6-long residents of the Para­ Leonard, Brookland, Holland (Mis­ history from N.orthwestern Str.te Col­ gould area. She is the former Lillian souri), Black Oak and Friendly . Hope. lege in Natchitoches, La. Willcockson of Walcott. The young minister has held pastor­ During the past 42 years ·Mr. Miles They are the parents of four sons ates at Jena First Church, the Goldan­ has pastored 17 BaptiSit churches- and a daughter. na Church, Simsboro First Church, all in Louisiana, and First Churcr, Centre­ ville, Miss. Immanuel exceeds Johnny Green moon fund goal He s~rved two years as moderator of the LaSalle Association and four years moves to Goodwin Immanuel Church, Little Rock, as a member of the board of trustees W. 0. Vaught Jr., pastor, set a of The Baptist Message, the Louisiana Goodwin Church recently called John­ ny Green as pastor. He comes from , new record for itself__ ~w:ith the Baptist State denominational newsmag­ raising of $26,50l for t-he....J,ottie azine. He also served as chairman of Philadelphia Church, Jonesboro, where he -had served since Moon Christmas Offering this the board of the Children's Home before year. This was $501 above the joining its staff. June, 1961>, during which time there church's goal of $26,000. Blake is married to the fornier Mary were 160 additions. The church gave for all causes Lou Reed of Goldanna, La., and is the Mr. Green is mar. in 1969 $439,000. This was $7,000 father of two daughters, Jill, 10, and ried and the father more- than the total ·given the Julie, 4. of four children: year· previously, but since the Steven, 14; Kathy, 1968 total included $13,0do for 13 ; Carol, 12; and some property sold by the church, Kay, 10. Goodwin the 1969 figure is actually $20,000 lfOllRGANIZED Church also called ·increase in giving by the church Bob McGraw, a stu­ membership. dent at Midsouth Bi- flfJJOII]ERVE MR. GREEN ble College, Mem- A total of . $67; 500 of the 1969 phis, as associate .pastor. budget went ' for world missions through the 'Cooperative Pro­ Mr. McGraw is married and the ·fa­ . gram.-·Church :Reporter COOPERATIVE PROGRAM ther of two children: Mandy, 9, and Mike, 7.

JANUARY 15, 1970 Page Seven I Your state convention· at work------A look into 1970

We are already two vo•eeks into 1970, and before we realize it the first month will be history. There will be many op­ portunities for Brotherhood during this year. on the state, associational, and church level. Missionary education and the involvement in mission actions of men and boys is an ever increasing need for every church if it is to do the work Jesus expects of His church. To assist .associations and churches in their task of missionary education and involvement of men and boys in mission actions, the State Brotherhood Department promotes several state wide events in additon to Baptist Men's Day in January. The first state widt event will be the Baptist Men's Rally on March 6-7. This Mrs. Stokes Mr. Davis meeting will combine information and inspiration regarding missions, witness­ ing, and special projects, E:very Baptist 3 Baptist Building employees· man should inake pla:qs to attend this meeting. More information will be serve more than 75 years mailed to each church soon. !May 1-2 is the date for the annual Three employees of the Executive ii

J, Harold Smith, pastor of The promised · r~turn Windsor Park Church, Ft. Smith, and nationally known radio ur~".. '""'r• will speak twice at BY HERSCHEL H. HOBBS ·the State Evan­ Pastor, First Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, gelism Confer­ past president, Southern Baptist Conventiov· ence, Jan. 26- 27. The confer­ will be at First "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, Church, Little which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so ·come in like manner as ye Rock. The first have seen him go into heaven" (Acts 1:1.1) session will be­ gin at 1:45 As Jesus ascended, the disciples "were looking stedfastly· into heaven." The Jan. 26. ·verb rendered "looking sted{astly" means to stretch one's eyes. They were stretch­ night, ing their eyes to maintain a 'liew of Jesus as he rose higher and higher. at the second session, Smith ' will speak on "The Living Lord." Suddenly "two men . , • in white apparel" (angels) stood by them. Why, asked they, were they standing and and looking into heaven as though trying to Dr. Smith is regarded by many hold on to Jesus' bodily presence? "This same Jesus" will return even as he went as being one of the greatest • away. In the meantime, he had promised his spiritual presence through the Holy preachers in America. Until fire Spirit. ·destroyed his dwelling place a few Several things may be deduced from this. years ago, he had one of the larg­ est libraries of any preacher i n As Jesus was their friend on earth, so is he our friend in heaven, where he America. ever holds intercession for us (Heb. 7:25). Furthermore, he is with us continuous­ ly in His Holy Spirit. And he wiH return in glory and victory in God's appointed Dr. Smith has been a full-time time. This assures victory and glory to all who trust in him. evangelist and radio evangelist. From 1950 to 1959 he was past.or But there is also implied a challenge to us. We are to live expectantly with of First Church, Ft. Smith. Since respect to his return. But we are not to stand gazing into heaven endeavoring 1964 he has been pastor at Wind­ to plot out the time and manner of his return. Rather, we are to be going into sor Park. He is dedicated to mis­ all the world declaring the good news of his first coming in redemption and the sions and evangelism. blessed hope of his return. Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Smith Because Jesus is away bodily does not mean that he is away spiritually. He will close the session with a mes­ is with us always even unto the final consummation of the age (Matt. 28:2'o). sage on "Revived 'Christianity." We should daily expect his bodily return. But it is not our business to predict Please hear this tremendous· when it will be. That is a secret hidden in the mind of the Father (Acts 1:7), preacher of the Word. You will Our business is to prepare men's hearts so that they will welcome his return. be blessed by his messages-Jesse S. Reed, Secretary, Evangelism

1970 Southern Baptist 12. Commitments 1 Have Made •. 23. Our Southern Baptist Heritage speakers' tournament 13. The Church Gathered-The Church 24. One Hundred Twenty Five Years Scattered for Christ Below are listed the topics from 14. Our Doctrines-Our Distinetives .2'5. 125th Anniversary of Southern Bap­ which young people may select for . tist Foreign Missions speeches: · 1'5. "Because I Live, Ye Shall Live Also" 26. 125th Anniversary of Soutbern Bap· 1. Man in the New Decade tist Home Missions 2. Celebrating God's Presence Through 16. Who in the World Do You Think You Are? 27. God at Work Through Southern Worship Baptists 17. You. Are More than You S. The Church: And Why I ~m In­ 28. Baptist Voices of Yesterday volved in It 18. Personal Encounters with God's Promises 29. Highlights of Baptist History in 4. Stand on Your Own the South 19. Individuality: God's. Unique Crea­ 5. Creative Tension, A Bridge to Un· 30. Light from the Past derstanding tion 20. What Does It Mean to Be? 31. What Our Baptist Heritage Means 6. Change-A Certainty of Our Day 'to Me 7. Profiles in · Finding Life. Topics Relating to 125th Anniversary of Southern Baptist Convention: 82. Through Trial to Triumph 8. Spanning the World · of Man 21. The Southern Baptist March in 33. Southern Baptists and the Volun­ 9. The Cost of Involvement History tary 'Principle 10. Sunday, 11:00 A.M. 34,' Lessons from Our Hfstory , 22. The Foundations on Which Bap­ 11. Moving from Mediocrity tists Build Today 85. The Contribution of Crises Page Nine JANUARY 15, 1970 . Shaping the 70's Preview of Billy Graham film music conference set On January 22-23 a "Shaping the scheduled in Little Rock 70's Church Music Conference" will be held at New Orleans Seminary for faculty, students, alumni and other in­ terested church musicians. The con­ ference will focus on numerous changes in the church music program of the local church for the 70's. There will be no fee for attending the conference. Church Musicians and other interested persons are invited. Full information is available from the 'Seminary School of Church Music, 3939 Gentilly Blvd., New Orleans, Louisiana.

CLIFF RICHARD discuPses with Cliff Barrows Zechariah's prophecy in World Wide Pictures' new church film "His Land."

"His Land", the newest Billy Graham evangelistic cru3ade tour. GETTING A MASTER'S degree motion picture, soon to be released will have a state-wide preview at the Cen­ Filmed in the Holy Lands by World Dec. 20 from New Orleans Semin­ ter Theatre, Little Rock, Jan. 20 at 10 Wide Pictures of Burbank, Calif., "His a.ry was Ronald L. Richardson, son a.m., Richard Boggan, the Arkansas Land" is concerned with how God has · fulfilled his promises in the past lead­ of Mr. and Mrs. J . C. Richardson representative for Billy Graham Films, has announced. All pastors, ministers ing up to the &reatest of all prophecies of Hot ·Springs. He holds a B. A. of education, music, and youth, anii -the Second Coming of. Jesus Christ. degree from North East Louisiana their wives are invited to attend, Bog­ It stars Cliff Richard, England's top gan reports. There will be no admission "pop" personality of "Two A Penny" Stat~ College. charge. fame, and Cliff Barrows, president of World Wide Pictures and director of Unlike most of Mr. Graham's films, music for all of 1\fr. Graham's crusades this film (only 60 minutes in length) and the "Hour of Decision." will not be premiere

New subscribers to Ark. Baptist Church Pastor Association One month free trial received: Mulberry, 1st Wendell Morse Clear Creek PASTOR-turned-hunter, Henry Davenport, of First Ch,urch, Nor­ phlet, displays the deer he killed New budget after free trial: Thanksgiving morning. He reports Midland Ch. Richard Lanman Buckner that he shot it at 225 yards in Calhoun County. Mt. Moriah, Murfreesboro Gaines Armstrong Little River Page Ten ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Arizona Board sells $5 1/4 million hospital PH 0 E N I X, Ariz.-The Executive Board of the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention voted 18-3 here to sell the Baptist Hospital of Phoenix to a local Still a bargain! corporation for $514 million. The ·hospital was bought by the James Allen Guinn J.r., Charitable 1 Foundation, which agreed to assume the hospital's $2,825,000 liabilities, pay the convention $2.4 million for its eq- , uity in the hospital. Last November, the messengers to the annual Arizona convention voted to Church budget, 16 cents per subscriber sell three of the state Baptist hospitals, and provided that 40 percent of any funds received in the hospital sales would go to Grand Canyon College, the per month,·or $1.92 per year convention-owned school in P~oenix. The Phoenix hospital is the first of the three to be sold following the con­ (still less-than 4 cents per copy!) vention action. In other major related action, the Arizona Baptist board voted to set aside the 60 percent income from the hospital sales not going to the school to establish an adequate ready cash re­ serve for the convention's church loan ' and church, bond funds. (BP) Literature samples Club rate, $2.25 per subscriber per year. available to churches NASHVILLE-For the first time, the (still less than 5 cents per copy!) Southern Baptist Sunday School Board here has produced sample church litera­ ture kits for Southern Baptist church­ es that want to have a preview of. lit­ erature for the 1970's. The kits will be available in time for "·Church Literature Selection Week," slated for Southern Baptist churches June 15-21, 1970. ' The materials will include a Sunday ' Individual subscriptions, $2.75 pe. r year School kit with 20 pieces of literature, . a Training Union kit with 13 pieces of literature, and a church music kit "!ith three pieces of literature. or $7.25 for three year~. "The kits will contain samples which are representative of all the new series . of literature for the quarter beginning October, 1970," said James Clark, man­ ager of the board's church literature de­ partment. Clark said churches may order the kits from the church literature depart­ ment, Southern Baptist Sunday School Amllll,,,. Boar!}, any time before June 1, 1970. (BP) ~ 525 West Capitol Ave. Little Rock, Ark. 72201

Page Eleven JANUARY 15,· 1970 ~ Texas Baptists ask Federal 11 ~4 million members estimated in sac NASHVILLE-Statistical proj-ections program for family planning based on early profile analfsis indicate that membership in Southern :Baptist WASHINGTON-The head of the fingertips that could break the chains Convention churches will be 11.4 South­ Texas Christian Life Commission told that bind many in poverty, despair and ern Baptist leaders were told here. a senate committee he~e that further disease," Dunn continued, "we have not · If the unofficial projections are cor­ delay and inaction on the part of Con­ taken the relatively small steps which rect, church membership would have in­ gress concerning the population explo­ would release thousands from their creased by 132,500 over the 1968 total sion "would be downright immoral." prison of ignoran<:e·" church membership. James M. Dunn, presenting a resolu­ Citing the need for research on hu­ Probable decreases were projected in tion of the Baptist General Convention man reproductions, Dunn said that 1 .Sunday School, Training Union, Broth­ of Texas, appeared before the subcom- freedom of choice is possible only when erhood and Woman's Missionary Union mittee on health of the Senate Labor the alternatives are clear. "Thousands enrollments, and in the number of bap­ and Public Welfare Committee in sup­ of American mothers do not know the tisms compared· to 1968. An increase port of a bill to enlarge the govern­ options that are theirs. Death and suf­ was projected in music ministry enroll­ ment's role in planned parenthood pro­ fering accompany this ignorance," he ments. grams. declared. "The churches involved in this esti­ The Texas executive was one of sev­ Dunn focused particularly on concern mate· are not completely representative eral witnesses appearing before the for the "dignity of millions of human of all Southern Baptist churches. Some subcommittee during two days of hear­ beings." They demand, he said "that 1 church size categories and state con­ ings on proposals to extend family we not exhibit a careless disregard -for ventions are over represented due in planning services. Sen. Ralph W. Yar­ their being brought into the world with­ part to the sequence of associational borough (D., Tex.) is chairman of the out the slightest possibility of ·being fed meetings," said Martin Bradley, secre­ subcommittee. and educated decently." tary, research and statistics depart-. Dunn cited the action taken by Texas This posture ''has deep theological, ment Southern Baptis,t Sunday School Baptists in their 1968 convention sup- · philosophical and ethical roots," Dunn Board. Howeyer, allowance is .made for porting "the right and responsibility of said. He explained: this in the statistical process of projec­ family planning" and urging that "full tion. family life education must be atvailable •"It is one thing to replenish the __earth, quite another to burden it. The estimate disclosed a possible de­ to all citizens, particu_larly to the poor cline in number of baptisms from 873- and. uneducated." •"It is ' one thing to acknowledge 025 to 868,288. This would be a decrease Specifically, Dunn Slaid. he ·had "clear freedom of conscience, quite another to of 4, 737 from the 1968 ~tal. deny . by inaction the facts necessary to directions" from the 1969 session of the ' The total Training Union ongoing .., Texas Baptist ·Convention to ·support a make choice a reality for the individ­ ual involved. and cumulative enrollment was pro­ particular bill sponsored by Sen. Joseph jected to be 2,649,612 compared to 2,· D. Tydings (D., Md,.). Tydings' bill calls •"It is one thing to accept family 725,097 in 1968, a decrease of 75,485. for spending $450 million over the next planning as a basic human right, quite five years to expand government pro­ another to assume the responsibility Sunday School enrollment . was pro­ grams of research and to provide vol­ which is government's." jected as 7,40'5,166 in 1969, a decrease untary family planning services to all Of 140,847. who desire them. The moral values involved in the need for family planning and birth con­ Music ministry continued upward Under the proposal a national cen­ trol information "add a note of urgency with an estimated total enrollment of ter for population and family planning to the need for positive government ac­ 1,065,805, an increase of 27,515. would' be created to coordinate the var­ tion," the Texp.s Christian Life Exec'li" Total mission gifts were projected to ious gove;rnmel}t activities of public in­ tive challenged. . formation, research and program plan­ be $134,373,70'8 for 1969, an increase of ning and development concerning fam­ Dunn concluded by explaining that $6,349,977; ily planning and birth control. there was some ~onfusion about the Final statistics b~sed on church let­ · stand-of church groups on the need for ters from more than 84,000 SB\J church­ The bill also would give aut?ority for government action in provid_ing .birth es will be released by the.. Southern grants to be made to nonprof1t organi- control information. He adm1tted that Baptist Sunday School Boar~'s research zations and institutions to assist in the ' at one time or another "every Christian establishment and operation o:( volun- · denomination . , • has opposed birth and statistics department· in February. tary family planning projects. control." The prelimin~ry statistical projec­ tions were released here during sessions Dunn told the senate group that "This is no longer so," he declared. "there is an urgent Christian thrust" (BP) . of the Southern Baptist Planning and for action now and that among church- Promotion Conference. (BP) men "impatience is mounting" for in­ creasing government action on birth control information. "If a cure for cancer were discovered and a vaccine available, the Congress would do everything possible to make it accessible to· all," he pointed out, adding: "to fail to do this kind of re­ search and sharing of information would be murder," he warned.

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Page Fourteen ARKANSAS I BAPTIST NEWSM~GAZINE Walter A •. Routh Jr., missionary in the Camranh Bay area. The small English-speaking congre. gation in Dalat, made up mostly of Southern Baptist missionaries and their children, gave money for the sewing machine for Anh. He lost two machines in the explosion. · Missio~ary Longbottom · is known to the people of Trai Mat, for he goes there often to preach on the street cor­ ner near the deiiri;royed home. He helped J)alat !Baptists open the reading room one block ·away. The walls of the build­ ing in which the room is located are cracked ·from top to bottom. It is not likely that it can reopen in its present location. That evening at a missionary fellow­ ship in his home, Longbottom appeared tormented by the plight of the pe.ople of Trai Mat. The next day he went back to check on the in.i'ured. There. is no Christian church of any kind in Trai Mat. A large Cao Dai tem­ ple stands on a nearby hill. (Cao Dai, a curious blend of religion and politics, came out of orthodox Buddhism.) The people of Trai Mat are not Christians, and they and others in the Dalat area are harder to reach with the gospel than the uprooted refugees of some areas of South Vietnam. The contrast seemed obvious, howev­ er, between the kind-eyed missionaries MISSIONARY AIDS VIET GONG VICTIM: Samuel F. Longbottom who come with a little wad of money Jr., (left) i'flllpects the wreckage which was once the shop and home. for necessities or to check on injured relatives or friends, and the Viet Cong of Phan Huu. Thuc, who lost jive of his six children when a Viet -who destroy their homes, kill th~ir Gong mortar hit his shop and home in the village of Trai Mat . babies, and kidnap their teenage boys near Dalat,.South Vietnam. Longbottom came to the aid of the.family for guerrilla warfare. with relief funds from Southern Baptists. (BP) Photo by H. Earl The relief money which Longbottom ·Bengs Jr. had as station chairman for the mis­ sionaries of Dalat was part of $20,000 which Southern Baptists have made Viet Cong te.rror provides available since 1968 for the relief of •. suffering in· South Vietnam. Most of the oppor~unity for ministry money has been used. (BP) DALAT, South Vietnam-A stunned destroyed his tailor shop and house. and grieving father stood limply An adult member of another family Ab~ut people-- against a counter in his friend's small was killed and oeveral additional per­ shop and received a few dollars of re­ sons were injured in the same foray. Wayne .H. Peterson, associattLP.rofes· lief money from a Southern Baptiiiri; This was the second recent attack sor of Old Testament interpretation at missionary. ·on Trai Mat, village of 8,000 on the Golden Gate Seminary, Strawberry outskirts of Dalat, a resort city of 82,- Point, Mill Valley, Calif., has been Across the street another stood on 000 in the mountains of central South .named to appear in the fifth edition the floor of what used to be his horne Vietnam. of . the Directory of American Scholars and shop. He received the promise of a in Part IV: Philosophy, Religion, and new electriq sewing ·machine. When the second attack came on Law. · The homes of both were destroyed by Trai Mat, Samuel F. Longbottom Jr., Prior to joining the faculty at Gold· Viet Cong less than· a week before. The Southern l3aptist missionary and evan­ en Gate, Dr. Peterson was a member first man, Phan Huu Thuc, lost five of gelism adviser in the area, had about of the religion faculty of Louisiana Col· his six children in the blast which left $200 in relief money on hand. So he lege~ Pineville, J;.a. only rubble of his house and damaged took part of it to the stricken father. several buildings, including the reading room maintained by Baptists. His in· He was accompanied by Doan Xuan jured wife was in a hospital. Huy, Dalat policeman and Baptist lay preacher, H. Earl Bengs, Jr., mission­ The wife of the second, Thian Nhu ary studying the Vietnamese language Anh, was also in a hospital. Five per­ (Southern Baptist missionaries to Vi- . sons were wounded by the mortar which etnam study language in Dalat), and

JANUARY 15, 1970 .e,aa• Fifteen ' Deaths---- SBC gifts reach operating John A. Blythe budget, miss .ca_pitat· needs John A. Blythe, 50, Rosie, died at his home Dec. 25. He was a member NASHVILLE- The Southern be added on to the 1970 SBC oper­ of the Rosie Church, where he served Baptist Convention ended 1969 ating budget of $27,158,119 and on the bo.ard of trustees. with Cooperative Program unified the 1970 · capital needs of more Survivors include his widow, Mrs. · budget contributions of $27,4'88,- than $1 million. · 440-surpassing the operating Tommie Kramer Blythe;. one son, Tim­ It was the second time in eight othy E. Blythe of the home; two daugh­ budget and paying all of the cap­ ital needs held over from 1968, but years that the convention did not ters, Mrs. Johnie Stewart of Little receive enough to go over the Rock, and Miss Peggy Blythe of the still about $650,000 short of the 1969 capital needs. total operating and capital needs home; two brothers, Lero·y Blythe of goals. In 1968, for the first time Arizona, and Doyle Blythe of Texas; The $27.4 million did provide since 1962, the SBC was ~722,580 and one sister, Mrs. Elsie Austin of $149,891 of the $800,00Q ,approved short of capital needs, and that Sa.vannah, ·Tenn. capital needs (building construc­ amount was added on to the 1969 tion) allocation, but th~ amount budget goal. Austin Fortinberry was $650,109 short of the funds required to meet the total 1969 In addition to the $27.4 million Austin E. Fortinberry, well-known SBC budget of $28;083,549. in Cooperative Program contriQu­ Jonesboro accountant, ·chl1rch and Ma­ tions supporting 19 SBC agencies, sonic leader, died Dec. 11. A native of But Cooperative Program con­ Southern Baptists gave a total of Mississippi, h~ was a graduate of Mis­ tributions for 1969 exceeded the $22,297,719 to designated, SPecific sissippi ·College. He had taught account­ 1968 gifts by $1,455,970, or 5.6 per Southern Baptist mission, educa­ ing in colleges in Mississippi, Alabama, cent. (Comparatively, during 1968 tional and benevolent causes dur­ and Arkansas. the percentage of increase over ing 1969. 1967 gifts was only 8.21 per cent.) He was a member of First Church, The $27.4. million in Cooperative Jonesboro, where he had been· chairman Porter W. Routh, exe·cutive sec­ Program gifts and $22.8 million of deacons and had taught a Sunday retary of the SBIC Executive Com­ in designated contribution provid­ school class for many years. He was a mittee, said here he felt the 5.6 ed a gr"'nd total of $49,731,159 for member of the board of trustees of Mt. per cent increase was significant, world mission causes of the SBC. Zion. Baptist Association. and noted "continued confidence in the Cooperative Program" by The grand total $49.7 million Survivors inchide his widow, Mrs. J;Japtists throughout the nation. was an increase of $2.4 million or Beatrice Fortinberry; a daughter, Mrs. Routh's office receives and chan­ 5,:;,7 pe~ cent over the grand total Preston Crane of Jonesboro; three nels the contributions to the 19 for 1968, grandchildren, and three great-grand­ SBC agencies receiving the funds. children. Designated giving did not in· "We are· grateful that increases crease as much as Cooperative in Cooperative Program funds Program gifts during 1969. While C. R. Stalnaker from 25 of the 81 &tate conven­ •Cooperative Program glfta were tions made it possible to report a up 5.0'7 per cent, designations rose Clifford R. Stalnaker, 60, North Lit­ 5.6 per cent increase over ' 1968," 4.42 per cen~ ($944,882 over 1968 tle Rock, died Jan. 6. He was a super­ Routh said. designations). visor at Arkansas Foundry for 3:2 years, and was a member of Sylva11 "We must have a s4x per cent Of. the $49.7 million total, •80.6 increase in 1970 if we are to pay million ~ent to support Southern Hills .l<'irst Church. the operating funds voted for Baptist foreign mission efforts, Survivors are his wiciow, Mrs. Mil­ 1970, the $6-50,109 due on 1969 and $10.9 million went to home dred Martin Stalnaker;. a son, Clifford capital funds, and the $1,050,000 mission programs. Seven South­ Stalnaker Jr. of North Little Rock; his already voted by the SBC for capi- ern Baptist affiliated· seminaries mother, Mrs. Bertie V. Stalnaker of . tal funds for the agencies in . received $5.5 million. · Little Rock; three bxothers, Wallace 1970," Rowth said. Stalnaker of. Maryland, Ralph Stal­ Other SBC agencies and the ·~e join with all Baptists in naker of Peoria, Ill., and Royce R. Stal­ total amounts received in 1969 in­ praying that these greatly needed ~lude the Annu-ity (retirement) naker of Little .Rock.; two sisters, Mrs. resources might be provided in Rhema Lavelle of Louisville, Ky., and Board, $126,292; Foundation, $80,- thiS first year of the new decade," 287; two hospitals, $77,879; Mrs. Lucille Smith of Little Rock, and he said. two grandchildren. Brotherhood (laymen's) Commis­ Under convention approved pro­ sion, $2~,887; · Christian Life cedure, the $650,000 in unmet 1969 <:ommission, • $172.038; Educati9n Mrs. H. D. Weatherford capital needs will auto~tically Commission, $125,111; Historical Commission, $102,082;. Radio-TV Mrs. Linnie I. Weatherford,. 64 Little Commission, $1.2 million; Stew­ Rock, died Jan. 7. She was the' widow J. J. DeBusk ardship Commission, $88,172; and of Hugh D. Weatherford. She had been ~blic Affairs Committee, $111,- an employee of U. S. Tiine Corpora­ J. J. DeBusk, 68, of. Heber Springs, 492. tion for 23 years, and was a member died Jan. 6. He was the owner of the of the T .E.L. Sunday school class at Red River Feed Company there, and The end of the year report from. Forty-seventh Street Church. was a past president of the Arkansas the SBC Executive Committee in­ Poultry Federation, Chairman of the cludes amounts given to national .Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Jo Heber Springs Water Commission, and and world wide Southern Baptist Lynne Pierson of North Little Rock; a a charter member of the Heber Springs mission efforts, and does n~ in­ sister, Mrs. C. D. Barfield of Pine Bluff, Chamber of Commerce. He was a mem­ clude state and local mission gifts and five grandchildren. ber of First Church at Heber Springs. by Baptists. (BP)

Page Sixteet " ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE The moral and spiritual principles Problems of the Christian life and ideals tl}at are built into the lives of growing ahildren will be major fac­ tors in disciplining th~ir lives. Also, the atmosphere of or the spirit in the Discipli.ne in the home home will make a major contribution. BY T. B. MASTON The best discipline is largely uncon­ Retired professor of Christian Ethics scious, primarily caught rather than · taught. ,SouthV~:estern Seminary Dlinois youth meet One of the most difficult and deli­ Where does physical punishment fit cate tasks of paren:ts is the discipline into the whole picture of discipline? SPRINGfiELD, IlL-More than 1,. of their children. Some may be too se­ Too many parents practically equate 600 teenagers and adult counselors at­ vere, others may be entirely too lax or physical punishment and discipline. tended the Youth Evangelism Confer­ easy, while many and possibly most are There are many other methods. of diBI-. ence here sponsored by Illinois Bap­ inconsistent. · · cipline: talking to a child, withdrawal tists, making it the largest youth meet­ Unfortunately the father and mother of privileges, restriction of activities, ing ever held by Baptists in the state. etc. The method used ·should be adapt­ frequently differ regarding the disci­ ed to the child as well as , to the of­ (BP) pline of the children. If this is true fense. they should work out their differences in private and not in the presence of At least one or two additional words Bap.tist-J ewish dialogue the children. should be addressed to parents concern- . ing the discipline of their children. FT. WORTH..:...Conversations between An understanding of the purpose of They cannot expect to have well-disci­ Baptist and Jewish leaders will be fea­ discipline will help parents to know tured during the four January "Faith when and how to discipline their chil­ plined children unless they themselves are well-disciplined. Also, :when prop­ In Action" radio programs carried each dre:q. The purpose from ,the viewpoint Sunday by the National Broadcasting of the child is that he may mature into erly understood discipline ·includes Co. (BP) a person who can discipline himself. If much more than punishment. this is to be accomplished, the child , must understand the purpose of the Beacon lights of Baptist history discipline and belie,ve in its fairness. Also, children cannot mature into well-disciplined persons unless th~y are -- On· slamming doors led increasingly to make their own de­ cisions. The effective shifting of au­ BY BERNES K. SELPH, TH.D. thority from parents to growing chil­ PASTOR, FIRST CHURCH, BENTON dren is one of life's most significant achievements. The· fortune of life often rests upon the most commonplace incidents. A casual , Another purpose of discipline is ; the word spoken, a chance aquaintance, a change in emphasis, may provide a fortitu­ maturing of law-abiding citizens. Th~ ous occasion. Even a slamming door may be the hinge upon which life opens to home more than any other agency or a new world. This proved to be true for Horatio Balch Hackett. institution will determine ·whether or not society has such citizens. Unless The young student in Andover Seminary, disturbed by the wind s.Jamming a parents in the home teac_h respect for door, went to adjust it. In the hallway he met professor Edward Robinson with authority and for those who exercise the sheets of his translation of Buttman's · Grammar. He told Hacket, "I have that authority, society will not . have just been to Mr. Cros•by's room, but he is out, to obtain his assistar.ce in the citizens who respect the law and those correction of these proofs; but you are just from teaching Greek, and can do the thing as well."* who en~orce the law. I Ther.e are a number of things that Hackett took the sheets, willing to share the work with Mr. Crosby. T~is will help to make the discipline more translation, from the thirteenth edition, was published in 1833. In the preface effective than it would be otherwise. to this work, Dr. Robinson mentioned the services of several young men con· Fairness of the punishment has been nected with the Theological seminary, "particularly by Mr. H. B. Hackett, late mentioned. The child should be con­ tutor in Amherst College." Dr. Francis Waylan, president of Brown UniVersity, vinced that the discipline 'or punish­ looking for one of such ability, read this commendation, and offered the young ment is not excessive for the particular man a position. · violation. The next 29 years Hackett taught in the theological department of this The child should also understand the school. He retired one year, which he gave to theological writing, and then took reason for the discipline. This ordinari­ a professorship in Rochester Theological Seminary for the next five years. He ly require,s the parent to be calm and died, Nov. 2, 1875, after having taught his morning class in Galatian,s. to talk the matter over with the child. A dedicated student all his life, Dr. Hackett was an acclaimed scholar in Seldom is a parent justified in punish­ Europe as well as fn ·America. He was a personal f~iend to many of the gre~t ing a child when he is angry. scholars in ·Germany. They quoted and commended h1m. ·Though he stood tall m There are few things more impor­ the academic world there was a child-like hull].ility about him that belled his ac­ tant in discipline than consistency. Too complishments. These are too numerous to mention, but included .revision of /the frequently parents let how they feel Bible translations archeological studies, articles for Smith's Bible Dictionary, and determine whether or not they disci­ com~entaries. Hi; book of Acts in the New Testament bore the recommendation pline a child. The effectiveness of pun­ o~ being .the best work accessible to the En~lish student. • ishment depends more on its consistency After 40 years of teaching, it was said of him that he never went to a class and the understanding of the child of without a new investigation and revision of the lesson for the hoflr. r the reason for the punishment than on its severity. •Geor&'e B. Wlttemore, Memorials af Hora.tio :Balch Hackett !Rochester, E. R. Andrews, 1876) p, 18

JA"'UARY 15, 1970 Page.. Seventeen box lunches to ghetto children, out of Baptist youngs·ters work school for the holidays and without ac­ cess to the public school lunch program. in ghettos· during Mission 70 A large number of the excess lunches originally planned for conference par­ BY RoBERT O'BRIEN ticipants resulted from what one Mis­ sion 70 spokesman called "a spontane­ ATLANTA-Herb Goree, a man with said Shirley Coble, a freshman at Penn ous Christian hunger strike" when ' a mission, "gazed toward the sewerage­ Valley Junior College in Kansas City. some of the youngsters learned of plans filled stream in the ghetto neighbor­ "Jesus gave me the ability to work," to distribute any leftover lunches in hood here. said the future missions candidate. the ghetto• . "Mission 70 opened my eyes to many "Why am I here?" he askelf. "Blights opportunities." EOA officials were so. enthused by like that-they're one reason I'm here," the students' 7.eal in the ghettos that ' said the Negro community organizer Nineteen-year-old Linda Busby of they asked for students to help out on for a neighborhood service 'center of the University of ~ew Mexico sounded a continuing basis. Economic Opportunity Atlanta (EOA), as if she had overheard Goree. "I've local headquarters of the Office of Eco­ learned that total involvement means Although Mission . 70 has concluded nomic Opportunity. giving up some of the good things," she with no prospect of continuing help, said. Mission 70 planners from the Southern The former building contractor Baptist Home and Foreign Mission jabbed his finger angrily at the stink­ ~n the ghetto, groups o_f youngsters Boards, the Sunday School Board, the ' ing stream. "I saw my brother suffer­ pamted the. ~orne of a bhnd man and Brotherhood Commission and the Worn­ ing and suddenly ·an the good things four operati~n Head Start cente~s, . an's Missionary Union hope local Hap­ I had didn't mean that' much anymore, cleaned up distressed areas of the Clt! tist youngsters can find ways to help. that's why I'm here." and conducted health surveys. The proJ- ects drew nationwide attention, includ- "I'm trying to build people with self The tall, 'lean, intense man ~urned ing a seven-minute spot on Walter respect, and I need all the help I can toward the house behind him and Cronkite's evening news program on get," Goree said. smiled at the enthusiastic young voices the Columbia Broadcasting System. and vigorous slapping sounds of paint The spirit of Mission 70 would inject brushes. While the kids worked, Mission 70 of. Christ into that ~'people building." ficials distributed about 1,000 leftover (BP) · ,.1 guess you're right," he admitted. "Those. kids and I do have something in common. We both care about the suf--­ fering of. others. You know, if more Travel with groups like that really cared we could Your Baptist editor lick this ghetto problem." on The teenagers at work in the small house. were part of more than 4,000 BAPTIST WORLD college students and young adults from TOUR ••• 50 states and at lea~ two foreign countries who descended on Atlanta, Dec. 28-31, for Mission 70, one of the · most successful affairs ever conducted by Southern Baptists for young people~ During the week Mission 70 planners Make your reservation 'now to attend the Baptist World Alliance from Southe.rn Baptist agencies con­ in Tokyo next July and continue around the world •.• fronted the youngsters With the role I • ' - their faith must play in the 1970s. By week's end, seli!sions of the conference visiting in Hawaii, Japan; Hong Kong, Thailand, India, were drawing standing ovations from Lebanon, Israel, and Greece. the crowd and many youngsters who came to scoff at the "ineffective church:' were leading the cheers. Leaving July 7, returning August 10. In the midst of thought provoking presentations on human· need in the All-expense ticket includes twin-bedded rooms with bath in 70s, the ghetto work projects generated first-class hotels. mission action learning experience and balanced theory with deed. · Tour Director McDonald is in direct contact with the Foreign Nearly . :1.,000 youngsters not only worked but paid $2 each to help pur­ Mil;sion Board for best possible exposure to our Baptist mission chase supplies, and many ventured for fields. the first time onto a frontier of human need. Contact immediately:. Working in cooperation with EOA, , the youngsters stepped from .behind Dr. Erwin L. McDonald the shelter of middle class Christian Editor, Arkansas Baptist Newsma'gazine communities and into the heart of in­ 525 West Capitol Ave., Little Rock 72201 terracial poverty and near poverty. Telephone: 376-4791, Ext. 63 "Mission 70 and work ·in the ghetto has made me aware there are needs in more places than I ever realized,"

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This fact seems to lend II you demand a quality tour but with a realistic selllne ptlce plus the best poslli­ some validity to the theory that bass and other fish will often strj.ke in anger ble Incentives, we have just that com­ rather than hunger or maybe they are just opportunists. One thing fo; sure; bination. Wrfte to the above addreu for full Information. those who don't fish in the winter won't catch any fish. Paa,e Nil"!eteen JANUARY 15, 1970 Children's nook~. ----~------­ Bible 'Z' quiz Found: a friend BY B. c. McWHoRTER BY GRAYCE KROGH BOLLER The name of each of . these Bible characters or places begins with the When Johnny saw Mrs. Johnson com­ Johnny offered. "We can walk slowly seldom- used initial letter Z. ing down the street, he crossed over to and if you take my arm, I don't think 1. This Z character climbed a syca­ the other side. He did not like Mrs. you'll fall again.'' · more treee. (Luke 19:2-4) J~hnson. Really he did not know her very well, but he had heard she was . "I shouldn't have come out in the 2. This Z character wrote the next cross and hard to get along with. So he snow," Mrs. Johnson explained, "but I to the last book in the Old Testament. stayed out of her way as much as he needed bread and a few other things. /My rheumatism hurts so much this bad This Z character was the 'father could. .a. weather that I ought to stay inside of John the Baptist. (Luke 1:5) It was fun to have a half day off where .it is warm." from school because of all the snow. 4. God sent Elij·ah to this Z city to Johnny slid a little, wishing he had a That must be why she looks cross, be fed by a widow. (1 Kings 17:9) her rheumatism hurts, Jo"hnny decided. sled. T~en he really could, have fun. 5. Two of this Z character's sons "Next time you need bread or other were disciples of Jesus. (Matthew 4:21) Just then a cry ;from across the street things, I'll go to the store for you," he made him look at Mrs. Johnson again. offered. · 6. This Z character was the las1t She had slipped, too, but not for fun. k~ng of Judah. (2 Chronicles 3~:10) She had fallen on the snow. Her bun­ "Well, that really is kind of you," dles were scattered here and there. Her the · old lad'Y smiled. Johnny liked her 7. This Z character wrote one of the hat had fallen off. Her pocketbook had smile. "It isn't much farther. I live minor books of prophecy of the Old opened, and her handkerchief and right down here.'' · Testament. This is an additional Z change purse had fallen out. character to the one under 2.- When they came to Mrs. Johnson's Johnny felt sorry the minute he saw little' house, Johnny helped her up the 8. This Z character led returned her. Then he hardened his heart and steps. He took the bundles into the exiles back to Judah. 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Salvation is· by faith Life and WQrk January 18, 1970 Romans 4:1-25 BY DR. L. H. COLEMAN, PASTOR, IMMANUEL CHURCH, PINE BLUFF

Thla Jeaaon treatment Ia baaed on the Lite ancl In my opm1on, the Life and Work Work Curriculum for Southern Baptlat Cburdl­ She bore a reproach in Jewish society. studies are far superior to the Inter­ ea, eopyrirht by The Sunday School Board of The birth of a child, especially a male the Southern Baptlat Convention~ All ~btl re­ national lessons. This quarter's study aerved. Uaed by permlaalon. child, was a sign of divine favor with from the book of Romans is unequalled God. Faith overcame human impossibil­ and certainly· unsurpassed. ham already had. What part did cir­ ities. Abraham grew strong with, in, cumcision play in Abraham's receiving and through faith. To God be all the The study in Romans continues. To­ divine favor? It was an external sign glory!· day's lesson underscores the conclu­ or seal of an internal condition which In the life of this son, named Isaac, sions found in. the past two studies­ was secured by f'<~.ith. Circumcision was salvation is by faith in Christ. another example of faith is seen. When not given 'to Abraham until 24 years God asked Abraham to offer up his son after he had found divine favor. Isaac as a sacrifice, Abraham had un­ Justification not of works Faith and law (Rom. 4 :13-22) usual faith. He believed that God could (Rom. 4:1-12) raise his son from the dead. In this The Jew was using Abraham as his As a consequence of God's covenant story, Old Testament typology reaches stock example of salvation by· works. with Abraham, there is a relationship its best. This amounted ·to the exemption of _Qf Abraham with all the redeemed. What is the basis between the relation­ The crowning charact~ristic of Abra­ faith as it relates to salvation. How­ ham's life was his faith. ever, Paul in clear logic stated that ship of Abraham with all the redeemed ? Abraham was the chief example of be­ A kinship of faith exists. Like Abra­ Raised for our justification" ing justified by faith. Abraham ham, we are justified by faith . apart (Rom. 4:23-25) '"faithed" or believed God and it was from the keeping of the law (which reckoned unto him for righteousness. no one except Christ has done; Christ These concluding verses deal with the (See Gen. 15:6.) He was saved by grace was the fulfillment of the Law). doctrine of the resurrection and the Jrel­ through faith. Abraham was not .iusti­ Note in verse 16 that Abraham was evance of. us to the faith of Abraham. fied by works of law (neither ha, .my­ the beginning point of a covenant of .Again Paul states that Abraham is for­ qne else been) but by faith. If man faith. He is the father of the faithful, evermore the classic example of jusii­ were saved ';>y works, 'then who would both then and now. fication by faith. All who believe after need God? God thereby would be un­ the pattern of Abraham also will be nec!!ssary and unessential. Abraham was not just the father of justified by faith. Faith is imputed "to the Jewish reli~ion; he was "a father those who believe upon him that raised Why did God ordain the law? of many na,ions" (vv. 17 & 18)·. In up Jesus our Lord from the dead" (v. (Please see Gal. 3:19-22.) God ordained Genesis 12, God emphasized: "through 24). . the law for the preparation of the com­ thee shall all the nations of the earth ing of Christ. The law was our school­ be blessed." This came through the per­ The God in whom we believe is identi­ master to prepare us for and teach us son and work of Christ. fied as the one who raised Jesus our about our need of Christ. Also, the law Lord from the dead. Abraham's faith, was our guardian (someone in charge In verses 19-22, another. illustration as ours, was directed to God as the one .of a minor and taking the place of the of the power and work of faith is giv­ who quickens the dead (vA 17). Abra­ parent). The wordJ "schoolmaster" and en. When Abraham was 100 and Sarah ham placed his faith in an omp.ipotent "guardian" are metaphors. 90, a child was born. How? Through God; we have placed our faith 'in the fr.ith. Sarah's womb was dead (v. 19). same person. If· you doubt the impor· Please note that man is save<,i or jus­ tance of believing in the resurrection -tified by faith apart from any system HARD TO GET- of our Lord, please read again Romans of legalism. Does not legalism declare 10:9. that man gets to heaven by his own Guaranteed first class accom· efforts ? Then would a man boast in modations-Tokyo, Osaka, Ban· Conclusion: himself and not in , God. Again and gkok, Hong Kong, Honolulu. Reg­ This lesson presents Paul's manifests again Paul boasted in Christ and Christ ularly scheduled air lines. 21 fan· of salvation by faith. We. take this doc­ alone; man is not to boast in his own tastic days-July 10-31. Sacred trine today as a routine matter of righteousness. course. We fail to get very excited concerts-E v a n 'g' e 1i s·m Rallies• . about it. However, when Paul · wrote David attests to the same truth. (See these wo:z:ds he was hurling death blows verses 6-8.) Write: Fritz Smith, Music in Evan'gelism. P. 0. Box 1012 Tyler, at legalism an,d Judaism. EaCh verse In verses 9-12, God made a special, Texas 75701-Phone: Area Code was a telling blow. His arguments and solemn covenant with Abraham and 214 597·1519. Group limitea to 20. presentation of great truths were mon­ sealed it by circumcision. Circumcision Hurry I Resene Today I uments .of grace to his first audiences was an attestation to the faith Abra- and also to future posterity. r JANUARY 15, 1970 Page Twenty-One lntemational The kingdom is at hCind January 18, 1970 • Matthew 4:12-25 9:85-88

By VEsTER E. WOLJ!ZR Religion Departmerif Ouachita University

Th• Oatllnea of the International Bible I..· in need of help. Jesus was · prepared for hls public 10ne for Christian Teaehlnc, Uniform Serlea, ministry by experiences at his baptism are eopyrJchted by the International Ceanetl of Rella-loaa Edaeatlon. Used br permlulon. His fame grew and spread over wide and in the wilderness of temptation. areas, including Syria; and the people This week we begin the study of Je­ brought in their suffering humanity to sus' work in Galilee. 2. He selected Galilee, also, because be healed. The Gospel writer catches he wanted to plant his ideas in soil the spirit of the people when he sug­ At the correct time (4:12) fertilized by Gentile influences so as to gests that they were more anxious to gain a hearing. have him heal their bodies than they Matthew skips over the early Judean 8. He selected Galilee because John were that he teach their minds or ministry. He states that Jesus' move preach to their hearts. It is pretty dif­ into Galilee was occasioned by the ar­ had made and baptized many converts who continued to live there. All of his ficult to get people to be as concerned rest of John. That arrest and its re­ with their mental and spiritual needs percussions are told in a playback in . twelve apostles were converts of John and were baptized by him, most of them as they are about their bodily needs. Matthew 14 and in Mark 6, King Her­ being from Galilee. rod had arrested John for criticizing Divine compassion and human prayer his marriage to his brother's former A ·familiar· message (4:17) wife. (9:35-88) Jesus Jtot only followed some of the roads that had been traveled by John, Vast crowds were attracted to Jesus J~sus timed his ministry in Galilee on his preaching and healing tours. after John had been removed from the he also took up the message of John scene, apparently wanting to gather and advanced it. He repeated the now 1. He was moved with compassion as up and advance the message and min­ familiar message which John had he saw the masses of exploited human­ istry of John. sounded: "Repent, for the kingdom of ity, helpless and leaderless. His compas­ heaven is at hand." Mark says that he sion was a true expression of the grace called on them to "repent, and believe of God as he looked down upon ' the In a select setting (4:12) in the gospel" (1:15). suff-.ring masses. Matthew, writing to Jews to show Two effective methods (4:23-25) 2. He noted· that the harvest was that Jesus was their Messiah, saw in more plentiful than the harvesters. So this great Galilean ministry a fulfill­ The traditional view of Jesus' pro­ he enlisted his disciples in a program ment of Isaiah's p1·ophecy of a "great gram is that he had a three-fold min­ of prayer for more laborers. light" in "Galilee of the Gentiles." Gali­ istry of teaching, preaching, and heal­ lee and Gilead were the first portions ing; but a better understanding of t~e In America, it does not make sense of Israel's territory to be captured by text gives a two-point program: teach­ for there ·to be such poor distribution Assyria about ten years prior to the ing and healing. He taug-ht in the syna­ of food that there are hungry children time when the message came to Isaiah gogues; and as he taught, he preached surrounded by abundance.- But it is not in 723 B.C. : the Gospel. The content of his teach- likely that there will ever be an ade­ . ing was the Gospel which he proclaimed quate distribution of food among the Although Galilee sat in darkness un­ as he taught. Coupled with his teach­ needy until there is a more adequate der Gentile dominion, Isaiah saw bet­ ing ministry was his ·healing ministry. distri'bution of human compassion ter days ahead. But the light which among the prosperous. Even though in his healing ministry Matthew saw in Galil~e was brighter James would . say to us that human than Isaiah could foresee, he was teaching (see Mk. 2), his mir­ acles were more than teaching aids. His compassion apart from practical ex­ miracles of healing were true expres­ pression will not satisfy human appe­ Jesus selected Galilee as the setting sions of his out-going love ·· for neople tites. We must devise some proper for his new and· revolutionary teaching methods of getting the food to where because its people were more open- the hunger is • . minded and receptive of new ideas than the priest-ridden and rabbi-indQctrinat­ "HIS LAND," the newest Billy Even so, there are· more hungry ed population of Judea. Thus, it might Graham church film is now being hearts in America than hungry stom­ be concluded that: scheduled for showing here in the achs; more people broken in spirit than state. For information write or there are broken in body. We must not 1. Jesus selected Galilee as the set­ call: concentrate attention -on a program of ting for his great teaching ministry Richard D. Bog'gan social reform and· think that we are because he wanted to stay in the ter­ World Wide Pictures bringing in the kingdom of God. On ritory of ancient Israel ar.d among peo­ P. 0. Box 9327 the other hand; we must . not deny a ple who were under the sway of the Little Rock, Arkansas 72209 cup of water (or a basket of food) to Jewish religion which he had come to Ph. 562-4247 the . starving and think that we are fulfill and advance. pleasing the Lord,

Page Twenty-Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE INDEX A Smile or Two ~Hendance Report January 4, 1970 . A-"Arkansas Outdoors," winter fi&hing p16. Sunday Tralninlr Cb, Church School Union Addns. B-Biake, Dan, to Arkadelphia First p7: No accompaniment Alicia 69 62 "Baptist Beliefs," \ christ's return p9 ; Blythe, Arkadelphia, Shiloh 21 John A., dies p16; "Beacon Lights," Horatio A stranger put in an appearance one Banner, Mt. Zion 64 Hackett p17. Sunday· morning at a ·small country Bay, l."lrst 181 tl9 1 · D-DeBusk, J. Jr, dies p16. Berryville :hureh in SeoUand. Being rather deaf, Freeman Heights 98 84 F-"Feminlne Intuition," snow, thougths on pS; Rock Springs 70 47 Fortlnberry,, Austin, dies p16. he carried an ear trumpet with 'him and Booneville, Fint 269 219 G-Green, Johnny to Goodwin Church ·p7, took a pl~ce in the front pew, where he Camden rested the trumpet on his knee. Cullendale 433 130 L--Loving ourselves too much (PS) p2, (E) First 481 126 1 p3; Leaders, Baptists as, (IMSI) p4. Cheroke.e VIllage 64 80 2 A venerable elder of the church, who Crossett, Mt. Olive 262 110 M-Morgan, Bill, ordained p6; Miles, Mr. and had never seen an e·ar trumpet, regard· E1 Dorado Mrs. J. 0 ., celebrate golden anniversary, p'7, Caledonia 81 29 1 0-0zone Church breaks eround p6. ed the stranger with suspicion. As the Ebenezer 1-47 69 minister mounted the pulpit for the ser­ Forrest City, First 632 161 .P-Prlce, Bruce, honored ·p6. mon, the visitor raised the trumpet but Ft. Smith, First 1;171 837 2 8-Scrlptures, a modern (per) version (E) 8 Gentry, Firat 98 41 1 P • v before he co1,1ld adjust i't, ·the elder was Green Foreat, First 141 79 ' 1 V-Vietnam atrocities (L) p4. Greenwood, Firat 297 125 at his side with the indignant ~rning: Hampton, !<'!rat U1 1>5 W-Weatherford, Mrs. H. D., dies p16. Harrison, E&~rle Hel&'hts 162 61 2 "One toot, and you're ootl" H~pe, First 484 160 2 Jacksonville Bayou Meto 187 70 First 4&1• 108 Room for improvement Marshall Road 287 181 .Jonesboro, Central 461 143 8 The ace salesman came back to the Daffy-nitions 'Lake Hamilton 124 office after six weeks on the road and Little Rock Igloo: icicle built for two.---.Joan I. Archview 171 "66 1 handed. in a healthy expense account. Geyer jlprl111rs 666 241 8 Welsh. Lifeline 668 191 "What's this big item for?" the boss ·Magnolja, Central 640 226 2 .Suitcase: Flee bag-Jane Hunt Clark Ma.rked Tree ' demanded. First 161 40 Flattery: candied commentBI.-Edith Nel•wander 96 66 "That's my hotel bill," was the reply. Mineral Sprin&'S, Central 111 46 Ogutsch. Monroe 78 87 Monticello "Well, from now on,'' the boss yelled, Honolulu typing school; whack-a-key. Northside 120 '75 "don't buy any more hotels!" Second 266 106 1 Norfork 61 68 8 -Hope-ful Times, Hope Ass'n. North Little Rock Baring Cross 601 196 6 . Deals a blow to liquor Southside Chapel , 27 25 Calvary. 430 148 Central 264 156 Forth-Seventh· St. 190 67 1 Gravel Rldtre 169 106 5 Criswell's Highway 165 66 Levy 488 102 Park Hill 882 233 New Book ... Sixteenth St. 61 .u Paris, First 348 108 Paragould, East Side 269 189 Pine Bluff Centennial 1>.46 111 Firat ·', 764 141 - Green ·Me·adows 62 19 Second \. 206 76 Watson Chapel 210 78 Springdale Berry St. 84 42 Elmdale 8911 187 First 251 122 Strong, Knowles Chapel 86 Van Buren, first 896 147 WHISKEY AT THE Jesse Turner Mission so Ch&pel • 49 WHEEL · Vandervoort, First 54 26 1 Warren First 888 1~8 The Scandal of Driving and Southalde. Mission, 69 Drinking Westside · ' sa 44 1 Williford, Sprlnelake 47 ..,& J. MofSe Grant Death on the highways is a The dij'~erence between a conviction major concern of every respon­ An optimistic personal testimony and prejudice is· that you can explain sible citizen. This book attacks of W. A. Criswell's first year as a convictlon Without getting angry. the problem. Factual reports of Convention president. He speaks horrible tragedies caused by with candor concerning the con­ People who sing their . own praises drunken driving ore bu,tressed troversy over his first Broadman by supporting testimony from book, with confidence over the usually do s1o without accompaniment. highway patrolmen and safety church, and with discerning Chris­ experts. There ore testimonies, tian frankness about today's racial BWA-AAQUND THE WORLD TOUR too, from pastors who hove problems. (26bl $3.50 Includes f:l(po 70, Holy Lands, Europe. comforted the bereaved in such situations. (26b) $1.50 also by Dr. Criswell 1st Clasa Hotels. Experienced Conduc­ Why I Prpach · That the Bible Is tors: 81 DA YS-$1,995. Write for In­ Published by Literally True $3.50 formation. BROADMAN PRESS .. See it at your. Baptist Book Store Available at your ROBERTS W~RLD TOURS, INC. Baptist Book Store Box 1684 Morristown Tenn. 37814 '08 Sprin1 St. Little Reek Published by Broadman Press or Rev. Raymond T. DeArmond; U32 'TUtl Mims S.' 'w., Birmingham, Ala. 85211

JANUARY 15, 1970 Twenty-Three In the world of religion 'Remarkable paradoxes' ing at the Madison Avenue Presbyteri­ Discrimination charge~ an Church here. (ABNS) in hurricane relief for world council l Baptist prof in Rome DETROIT, MICH.-The National NEW 'YORK, N. Y.-The life of the Council of Churches General Assembly World Council of Churches since its teaches Catholics requested member communion,s and. 1968 . Uppsala Assembly. has been ROME, ITALY-A Southern Baptist council staff members to use their in­ marked by a series of "remarkable par- professor is teaching a course here this fluence to stop funds going to the Mis­ adoxes," according to the executive sec- semester at the world's leading ·Cath­ sissippi Eme~;gency Council , until racial retary of the Council's New York of- olic university. imbalance in and discrimination by the fice. group be reversed. Dale Moody, Joseph Emerson Brown For example, the ·Council received a Prooesso~ of Christian Theology· at the The Mississippi state panel is alleged to be discriminating against the poor flow of letters charging ·it with being 1Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Communist just after the Pope visited in Louis!Ville, Ky., was invited last and blacks who were the victims of its headquarters in Geneva and spoke spring by Catholic officials to teach a Hurricane Camille. Charges have been of the possibility of the· Roman Cath- one-semester -seminar on "'Baptism and made by a Combined Community Or­ olic Church becoming a member of t.he Christian Unity" at the Pontificia Uni­ ganization Disaster Coalition which claims that Governor John B. Williams WCC, he said. versita Gregoriana. He is on sabbatical named no blacks or poor to the emer­ "And in a time of financial crisis leave from the seminary faculty during gency council. It also said that the. the World Council gives away 20 per- the current a<:hool year. poor have been victimized ~y insuran~e cent of its reserves," Dr. Eugene L. Dr. Moody is the second Protestant c·ompanies and treated unJustly in a1d Smith told the annual meeting of the to be invited to teach at the Gregorian programs. Friends of the· World Council. "Several University. The first Protestant was J. church bod,ies urge others to give, but Robert Nelson of Boston University, Earlier Robert G. Clark, the only the World Council is the only group to who taught here during the 1968-69 black Mi~sissippi &tate legislator, ap­ lay its own funds on the line." school year. peared at the ~s.sembly t~ plead the cause of ·.the coaht10n, of wh1ch the Del­ "In the last 16 months the World A graduate of Baylor University in ta Ministry, ' an NCC-related pr~gram, Council has moved on more fronts, tak- waco Tex., with the bachelor of arts is a member. en more ·risks, received more attacks, and Southern Seminary, with - aegre~, The U. S. Economic Development accepted a more diverse group . of the master of theology and the doctor Churches into meml>ership, broken with of theology degrees, Dr. Moody re.ceived Administration has allocated $495,000 to Mississippi, to be administe~d by more of its own traditions than in any the doctor of' philosophy degree from the governor's council. It was th1s sum similar period," Smith said. Oxford University in England . in 1965. that the NCC asked withheld. The Friends of the World Council, He has also written several books. Negro churchmen from Mississippi an organization of · individual contribu- Among them is Baptism: . Foundation attested to the truth of Mr. Clark'S' re­ tors to the WCC, held its annual meet- for Christian Unity, which some schol­ port on discrimination and lack of black ars have called "the definitive work" representation on the emergency c~un­ Seminaries enrollment on baptism in this century. (ABNS) cil. (ABNS) in slight increase · British pastors get DAYTON, OHIO-Enrollment in seminaries ho·lding memberhip slight salary boost in the American Association of LONDON, ENGLAND-Proposed fl\.. Theological Schoo 1 s (AATS) e&Je- ,. creases in the minimum stipends for Con pushed slightly ahead of 1968, a Baptist ministers were called "'Paltry" ~ ~as-::s""~ I'> ~ CD banner year, according to statis­ by P. J. Cooke, a member of the Bap. ;.II' 1:1"'~ tics on the fall term issued by the tist Union's Council. ~ ~~ .... ~-< association. m I'> r o The proposal would raise the mml­ ... ~a~ OJ. c The 171 U. S. and Canadian mum salary for a married minister­ ~II\" ~ 8:;,! sehools represented enrolled 29,- at present equal to $1,800 a year-by "=~~'s-~:~a=:t'"'Ill ~ Ill 690 students. Included were 19 new $72 in 1970, $72 in 1971, and $96 in £coli~"''"~~ AATS member schools. 1972. The proposal was adopted. >"' . 10 0 . . ftl =llol g;;"=IT ':f :I-· Institutions reporting in both At the same time it was announced . ~ ~!.~co 1968 and 1969-not including the !if' IJl ... ~ •\t iby the Anglican Church Commissioners ...... ;:! new schools-had an increase of that some clergymen would receive one-half of 1 per cent--28,088 in ' higher pay. The Commissioners intend t2: ~e~ 1968 and 28,177 in 1969. ;:~ =~- =-... to give the extra money in the form -~~ rn 9-:o~ All but one of the new AATS of block grants to dioceses, which will e ~f;rn affiliates are Roman Catholic. The apportion the funds to clergy as they ;. 'g i' traditionally Protestant associa­ think best. Ji ~ 'g ~ 1:1' !:! .... ~ tion began :receiving Catholic and The annual report showed that more ~~ pr '= S''"~ Orthodox applicants in 1966. Cath­ than 3,000 rectors and vicars--one in _,. !'> . 0 olic member schools now number three-are paid less than $57 a week. i.Ot= about 40. l: ~~ '= El These clergymen have the use of a ....~ house free of rent but they have to l i... ~ ' All six of the Southern Bap­ I •- tist Convention seminaries are pay for pos-tage, stationery, telephone members. (ABNS) and transportation, in addition to nor­ mal living costs. (ABNS)