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Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1970-1974 Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine

5-20-1971 May 20, 1971 Arkansas Baptist State Convention

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Personally speaking In·this issue Our ecological load • An Arkansas association has voted to disband and A couple with a little daughter · urge the churches to join other associations. Read about four years old went into a about this action taken recently by the churches of little Rock pet shop and ordered Stone-Van Buren-Searcy Association on page 5. two dozen goldfish. As the pet shop sa lesld~y· started to fill the order she could not help •being curious. "What are • A young layman tells an evangelism meeting why you going to do with so many gold­ he thinks the church is not reaching youl)g adults. fish?" she asked. This article, by a Malvern lawyer, is found on page 6. "We are going out tonight and leaving our little daughter with a ELM baby sitter," the mother explained. • A new seminary president has been ordained, and "Our daughter gets a big kick out of flushing the little he has some thoughts on Christian training through fish down the commode. We are getting these for her these Baptist institutions. See page 9. to have fun with tonight." "Not with my fish!" stormed the pet shop lady. And she would sell them not a one. • Ouachita president Daniel Grant tells what the Quite aside from what was about to happen to the Cooperative Program means to Ouachita University goldfish, just think what the parents were doing to in an article on page 11 . their daughter! · If children grow up to be hard hearted in their attitudes toward God's creation, surely the parents • Carr Bates, SBC President, urges harmony and unity .are largely responsible. And if the children have no concern for keeping their neighborhoods free from at the upcoming meeting of the convention. An clutter and other contaminatior'!, surely the parents interview with Dr. Bates is found on page 12. have failed them in a vital matter. All of which is to remind that May 16-23 is being observed as Soil Stewardship Week. • The p'rogram for the SBC annual meeting is found on pages 14 and 15. More and more Christians are facing up to the fact that our dereliction in failing to be good stewards of the world we live in is threatening us with an eco­ logical armageddon. If adults would just set the right • Another view of harmony for the Southern Baptist examples and give children the proper training, many Convention is written by Chester Swor. See this on of our problems of contamination would soon b'e page 16. solved. Foy Valentine of the Christian Life Commission of SBC has suggested some things we Christians can do, as stewards of our environment: We can face up to our Christian stewardship of the soil, water, and air. .. We can support public officials who are working for a reordering of public priorities regarding the en­ vironment. VOL. 70 ' MAY 20,1971 •N0.20 We can use the power we have-in buying, selling, ERWIN L. McDONALD, litt. D...... Editor and influencing- to support individuals and com­ MRS. E. F. STOKES ...... Associate Editor panies working for betterment of the environment. MRS. WILLIAM L. KENNEDY ...... Managing Editor We can bear our Christian witness concerning MRS. HARRY GIBERSON ...... Secretary to Editor God's ownership and man's responsibility of stewara- MRS. WELDON TAYLOR ...... Bookkeeper ship. , ... MISS LINDA FLESHER ...... Mail Clerk

As we have said here before, the earth really,Js 525 West Capitol Avenue, Little Rock, Arkan$as 72201. Published weekly except on July 4 the lord's. And our responsibility of stewardship dat~s and December 25. Second-class postage paid at Little Rock, Arkansas. back to God's instruction to Adam to dress and keep Individual subscription, Sl per year. Church budget, 16 cents per month or $2.16 per year per church family. Club plan (10 or more P.aid annually in advance), $2.52 per year. Sub· the garden (Gen. 2:15). · scrlptions to fore1gn address, S5 per year. Advertising rates on request. - Erwin l. McDonald Opfnlons expressed In editorials and signed articles are those of the writer. Member of Southern Baptist Press Association, ,Associated Churcll Press, Evangelical Press Assoc· latlon. Abbreviations used In crediting news Items: BP Baptist Press; CB Church Bulletin; DP Dally Prets; EP Evangelical Press; LC Local Correspondent; AB Assoclatlonal Bulletin; EBPS European Baptist Press Service. · Page 2 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE ______The editor's page Southern Baptists' new stewardship thrust

"You've got to tithe to be a Christian." ed the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation for God's "God will always bless you materially if you tithe." total word on stewardship. Just back from the con­ "When you put a tithe into the church treasury, ference, Mr. Lewis told the Program committee of the you have given God his part, and the other nine-tenths Arkansas Baptist Convention's executive Board: "We are yours." were amazed at the extent of what we found." "I'll give my tithe through my church as long as Something Cecil Ray, director of stewardship for the pastor and chl}rch do as I want them to do. But if the Baptist General Convention of Texas, said at the they cross me, I'll withhold the tithe, or use it some­ conference is worth repe~ting. "In the New Testa­ where else!" ment," he said, "there is really only one distinctly Christian motive-that is in response to one's love for These are some of the false ideas commonly held Christ and others.u Mr. Ray observed that "it is easier about tithing, according to Professor William Hen­ to present rule of law than to present the meaning of dricks, of Southwestern Seminary, Ft. Worth, in a study the Lordship of Christ-it is easier to demand the prepared for the first national conference on steward­ tithe." ship, held recently at Glorieta. (See article on page 14 of last week's Arkansas Baptist Newsmaga'iine.) On one thing all conference participants heartily But, hold on! Dr. Hendricks was not saying Chris­ agreed-that giving under 'grace should be more, not tians are not obligated to tithe. He, as others partici­ less, than giving under law. pating in the Glorieta conference, was emphasizing that Christian stewardship calls for total commitment­ The emphasis Southern Baptists have had now for for all that one is and all that he possesses, not just several decades, on every Baptist being a tither, has one-tenth. "paid off" in tremendous increases in giving. (This despite the fact that three out of four of us still don't Professor Hendricks would agree with Jerry tithe!) But we have lavished the most of our gifts on Horner, of the faculty of Southwestern Baptist College,· our local church fields. Only an average of a thin dime Bolivar, Mo., that "Christ did not die on the cross to out of each dollar has "escaped" to meet human needs enable us to give 2 per cent instead of 10 per cent." around the world. He would agree further that "grace is not a cloak of . covetousness to do less instead of more." The new, total commitment called for in the latest thr!Jst should result in still greater giving. But, what is According to our Roy F. Lewis, newly appointed more important, it should see a better distribution stewardship-Cooperative Program director here in through a stewardship more in harmony with the spirit Arkansas, the Glorieta conference participants search- and intent of Christ's Great Commission.

Easy abortion - a dangerous trend'

One of the things that always saddens me on the child, lying helpless within her body, she can get visiting biology departments is the sight of "pickled" rid of it. Or, if t_!).ere is "prospect that 'the baby might be human fetuses on exhibit as a part of the education deformed, if permitted to be born, the fetus can be process. For, as I see it, such fetuses are human beings, destroyed, legally, in some states. made-or started~to be in the image of God. As I see it, getting rid· of a child, before it is born, The thing that saddens me at the sight of such fetuses is not the use that is made of· them in the is not much different from getting rid of it after it is ·science laboratories. Rather, it is the ·realization that bqrn. And the idea of human beings being dispos­ here are human beings who never had the privilege aq!~-for whatever reason-by other human beings of being born and of living and developing. sounds like Nazism, Fascism, or Communism-not Democracy. Hitler's not liking Jews resulted in the Feeling this way about human beings, I am hor­ rified at the prevailing trend among us to make abor­ horrendous slaughter of 6,200,000 men, women, and children . . tion just a minor thing, as far as morality is concerned. For a long time, abortion has been, legally, a last r~­ It is my firm conviction that God, not man, is the sort, where the physical life of the expectant mother · Lord of life and death. I cannot by any stretch of my was believed by her physicians to be at stake. But now conscience or theology see easy' and whimsical abor­ this is being extended to the mental happiness of the tion as the Christian approach toward solving personal mother-to-be. If the pregnant woman does not wan.t or societal problems. · May 20, 1971 Page 3 I must say it! . observed in this unique arrangement. It is more than just important for the convention To stay in business to stay in business because when it goes so will the institutions. Any convention which wishes to remain To stay in business a mercharJt long in a place of maximum service and acceptability must move the inventory, a car will give more than casual concern to the following dealer must sell some cars, a college items. Until these matters are satisfactorily confronted must find students, a hospital must distrust will never cease in our ranks. have patients, a statesman must have v.otes, a church must reach people They are: constitutions not amenable to the mas­ and a convention must · serve ter constitution of the convention; salary adjustments churches. in all levels in relation to duties performed; giving Everything in a convention away institutions previously given to God, accredita­ should serve the best interests of tion agencies as they affect Baptist policy and polity; inequities in Cooperative Program allocations in the Dr. Ashcraft individual churches. The test of any department, agency, institution, light of changing needs and priorities; wild use of endowment and other non-Cooperative Program committee or board is how well it contributes to the ministry of local churches. The ability of the conven­ money; denominational ventures, ecumenical or not, tion to stay in business is in direct ratio to the degree which place Baptists in any positior;~ less than control; in which the convention serves not the invisible reaching outside the faith for strategic personnel as­ church. but the ones with street addresses and local signments; low key or no key emphasis on Baptist phone listings. The convention is allowed to serve the distinctives; endowment of state papers, manipulating churches by the good will and charity of those of boards; and anything less in behavior than submis­ churches through cooperative giving. sion to the lordship of Christ. Colleges, seminaries, periodicals, hospitals, chil­ Is Ashcraft making charges or attacking his breth7 -dren's homes, student cente(s, counselli ng services, ren? No, he is speaking on his own to his own heart associational offices, related special ministries, the as he watches red lights on the control board and executive board and the Baptist Building have for­ listens to the people who love their convention and its feited their .right to existence if local churches do not institutions most. God's people can take bankruptcy feel their redemptive touch. . .. and go on welfare, merge with a sicker crew and die While the denomination is chargeable and re­ with them, or improve the merchandise and encour­ sponsible to the churches, the churches in turn, age the sales force. Only losers ret"in losers as con­ through messenger representation and board partici­ sultants. I prefer to get out front and stay out front, and pation, have created the authority to establish and I find I'm not alone in this conviction. operate institutions who, likewise in turn, are respon­ . I must say it/ - Charles H. Ashcraft,' Executive sible to the convention. All democratic concepts are Secretary. The people speak ______

Likes us-right now Now, as missionaries outside of reflecting and creating opinion. Arkansas, we no longer receive the -Kenneth Chafin, Director, Division of Let me join my appreciation to that " Arkansas Baptist." In this modern day, Evangelism, Home Mission Board of already expressed by many others for we have few sacrifices to make, as SBC, Atlanta, Ga. the new format and the recent excellent compared with missionaries of earlier articles in the Arkansas Baptist. It's a days. But· doing without our state paper tremendous improvement and you're to is a sacrifice we feel could be avoided. Joy of being Mother be commended for the outstanding Can you send it to us? Include an invoice I'm writing to .you expressing my love work. I feel it is much more readable and we'll gladly pay for the subscription. as a mother. I've never been depressed and that there has even been an increase -Mrs. Darrel E. Garner, Lilongwe, taking care of my girl and we always in the relevancy and depth of the Malawi, Africa have Bible devotion time everyday articles. God grant it might continue. I together and also prayer time. Without continue to pray that the Lord will the help of God, I know I couldn't have increasingly use the Arkansas Baptist in 'Optimism' and 'hope' made it. I enjoy so much being a mother the spread of a Christ-centered, Holy and a Christian. My girl and I read the Spirit work among those of us who love Thank you for the excellent coverage Bible daily and thank our God for all he's Him here in Arkansas.- H. D. McCarty, you are giving to the various news done for us. We attend church. Pastor, University Church, Fayetteville, stories that relate to what we are doing Some people aren't blessed with Ark. in evangelism. children and I've got my dear God to be . There is so much going on in the thankful for. The Lord has done so much world "that di·scourages -our people and for our home and I wouldn't trade Appreciation from Africa makes them fearful. I know that when motherhood for anything in this world. Would you accept a belated fan letter they read of optimistic and hopeful God has done so much for all our lives telling you how great your magazine is? plans being m<1de in evangelism that it is and we cannot ·thank him enough. I .We've enjoyed it for many years and a source of encouragement to them. hope all young mothers will feel the appreciate your firm stand on I continue to be thankful for the very same as I always wiii.-Mrs. Sandra controversial issues. responsible role that you play both in Mahan, Mena, Ark. , Page 4 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE ______Arkansas all over and cabinet, typewriter and stand, tape Stone-Van Buren-Searcy Association recorder, paper cutter, adding machine, steel file cabinet, library table, and votes in called meeting to disband heating stove. The property may be seen 1969); First, Leslie; First, Marshall; by contacting Mr. Crow or Ray LeMarr, Stone-Van Buren-Searcy Association, Leslie. in a ca.lled meeting May 4, at First Morning Star; First, Mountain View; Church, Leslie, voted to disband and New Hopewell; Snowball; First, St. Joe; encourage the churches in its and Zion. membership to affiliate with other The churches last year gave a totai of Charles M. Covington associations. According to a report by $9,930 through the Cooperative ordained to ministry Amos Greer, pastor of First Church, Program; $17,570 for missions; Mountain View, and chairman of the expended $147,037 for local operation; Charles M. Cov­ assoication's Missions committee, gave $164,607 for all causes; and ington, who will carried in his church bulletin, the.vote to received 144 n~w members. graduate from disband was 25 to 13. Mr. Crow said that his church had Southern Seminary, The association dated from its been invited to'.join the Boone-Newton Louisville, Ky., this organization, at Pee Dee Church, in Association. Thl:! church voted May 12 to month, was ordain­ 1923. request membership in that association. ed to the ministry Reasons .for· disbanding, according to The associatlon will continue to by Tyler Street Dorsey L. Crow, pastor of First Church, operate until the association property, ' Church, Little Rock, Marshall, and association moderator, including a h0'me and office at Leslie, Sunday afternoon, were financial difficulties and lack of can be disposed of. Proceeds from the April 2'5. active support from the association's sale, by sealed bids to be received churches. between now and midnight of June 19, Mr. Covington Mr. Covington is The Arkansas Baptist State Convention will be given to the Missions department the son of Mr. and annual for 1970 lists 11 churches in of the Arkansas Baptist State Mrs. Mont Covington, Little Rock. Stone-Van Buren-Searcy Association: Convention. Harold Hightower, pastor of Tyler Calvary, Newnata; First, Clinton; Half Items for sale include an oak desk, two Street Church served as the moder­ Moon (which had made no report since swivel chairs, a mimeograph machine ator. Opening prayer was by a former Tyler Street deacon, Mike King. Don Hook, pastor of Baptist Tabernacle, Beacon lights of Baptist history Little Rock, led in the Council ques­ tioning. In lieu of public questioning, Hook ·Missions and prayer introduced Mr. Covington, who gave a personal testimony of his conver­ By Bernes .K. Selph sion experience and his call to the When the English Baptist Missionary Society was organized, Oct. 2, 1792, it faced ministry. opposition among leaders o.f the churches. Some arg.ued that "gift of tongues" must Doug Dickens, chaplain at Oua~:;hita be granted before attempting anything. Others held that only the "elect" could be University, led in the prayer of dedi­ saved in any land and they were secure. And others thought the movement good cation. Lawson Hatfield, Sunday School but that no action should be taken whereby the whole denomination would be ·secretary, Arkansas Baptist State Con­ committed. A formidable foe proved to be the East India Company which controlled vast vention, brought the charge to the can- holdings and general policy in the Far East where much of the work was anticipated. didate and the church, and Vester It "declared that they had hoped the age would become too enlightened for Wolber, professor at Ouachita, preach­ attempts to make proselytes , .. that the conversion of fifty or a hundred thousand ed the ordination message. The candi­ natives of any' degree of character would be the most serious dis:lster that could date's father, a deacon of Tyler Street happen, and they thanked God that it was impracticable."* Church, presented the Bible in behalf of the church. The benediction was by "Every step was made amia hinderances, but the men who went everywhere Mr. F-look. preaching had evidence that the Lord was working with them confirmmg the Word."*'* America and England joined hands in prayer to formulate and produce the Modern Missionary Movement; "The missionary Society in England originated in prayer. Jonathan Edwards in America poblis hed a book 'An humble attempt to News about missionaries promote explicit agreement and visible union of God's people in extraordinary Mr. and Mrs. J. Allison Ban.ks, prayer for the revival of religion and the advancement of Chrises Kingdom on Southern Baptist missionary associates, earth.' John Sutcliff, pastor of the Olney Baptist church, and other ministers were scheduled to leave Israel on April connected with the Northamptonshire Association, were induced by reading this 26 for furlough in the States (address: book to urge the churches to appoint a day in each month for unit.~d prayer. The Box 468, Lake City, Fla. 32055). Traveling appeal was heeded." """* by an indirect route, they expect to There arose a hallowed custom in 1784 that formed an integral part of the life of arrive in the States June 2. A Floridian, thousands of congregations that has since blessed the world. This idea of the regular Banks was born in White Springs and day of prayer crossed back to America. Luther Rice who went out to, Burma in 1812 reared in Perry. Mrs. Banks, the former wrote in his diary about this monthly meeting and encouraged participation. Prayer Sue Bradley, was born in Bradley, Ark., has undergirded missions. and reared in Florida; her family made • The Centenary Volume of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1792-1892 {The Baptist Missionary Society, London, 1892) p. 2 several moves before settling in Lake •• Ibid, p. 1 ' City. They were employed by the ••• Ibid, p. 2 Foreign Mlsslon.Board In 1968. · May 20, 1971 Page 5 The thing that into this great, wide world, he found it Glover expressed the feeling that alienates many polluted!" many concerned Christian young young people today With this as a backdrop, Mr. Glover people now outside ·their churches from active involve­ continues, it is not surprising that to­ "long for the church to provide them ment in the institu­ day's youn~ adult has an intense desire with Christian avenues for service to the tional · church is to become Involved in problem-solving. needy within their communiti'es." He failure of the church "He is aware that there is human misery feels that churches should provide pro­ to minister compas­ right outside his door and that he can­ grams for young people, combining the sionately to human not make today's terrible problems go ministry to material needs of people needs. away by refusing to deal with them." with ministering to spiritual needs. This was-the prem- Glover suggested as possible church­ Mr. Glover ise on which young The concerned young adult sees the attorney David M. church failing to meet human needs directed activities such things as sum­ (Mac) Glover, Malvern, himself a Bap-. all around it, but, what is equally ap­ mer programs of interaction of churches, tist layman, based his talk before the palling, failing to care, Glover declared. with financially prosperous churches meeting recently of Concerned Baptist "The church seems not to care about helping churches in financial difficulty. laymen, in Hot Springs. suffering humanity-the impoverished, Other suggested programs aimed at Speaking on the topic, "~oung Adults the sick, the imprisoned-of all colors." greater involvement of church members at Work," Mr. Glover expressed con­ Glover took note of the fact that some included: sports for the young people, cern for the large numbers of young. churches "have gone down the prim­ seminars and discussion groups for adults who are not at work within the rose path, turning from biblical truth older members, and arts and crafts for institutional framework of the church. in an effort to attract the world to their all, Recognizing that "some very ·good doors and becoming, in the metamor­ Such activities as these, he said, could work is being done by a small corps of phosis, a spiritless, divided, Civic club." be the means of bringing back into the young adults within the church," he He also noted that many Christian church many who have been alienated said that, privately, "many of these are young adults ''may be imbued to some by the lack of involvement of the church frustrated and dissatisfied about the very degree with the secular opinions of the itself.

Young layman's view More caring and helping seen as The cover need for 20th century. .church "Baptist Hour" annive1·sa•·y things that keep countless others of social gospel.~' He emphasized that the their peers out of active church life." Bible "is quite clear in setting out the And church young people who· are first purpose of the church-to take the not dissatisfied with their churches truth about Christ- to all men." "must meet the constant challenge of Glover cited New Testament refer­ defending their churches on matters ences to show that the early Christian for which there may be no real spiritual church concerned itself with material defense," Glover continued. as well as spiritual needs of people. "In In a search for reasons for many Chris­ the light of this, and in the light of our tian young people being outside the failure as churches to provide many church, Mr. Glover emphasized their examples of charity for today's con~ unique background of exposure to cerned young adults, perhaps we need human needs. to reevaluate our attitudes," Glover suggested. "The young adult Christian is a person of very intense convictions," he said. Considering some of the excuses "He was born in World War II. He is church leaders frequently give for lack the first generation that has grown up of greater involvement in meeting living with television .. Consequently, human needs, Glover listed some: "the he has grown up experiencing modern budget can't stand it; it would cause history. dissension in our membership; there "When he was in grammar school, are so many things to be done, how he watched the Korean War on TV. would we ever know where to start?; When he was in high school he watched where will we find the time?; let some­ body else do it." the Cold War in progress. And the Little Southern Baptists' first radio program, Rock school crisis, the Atlanta sit-ins, Concerned Christians are finding that "The Baptist Hour," is cel~brating 30 and poverty in Appalachia filled prime years of preaching Christ on the air. time. the donation of money alone is not enough, Glover said. He cited the need Proauced by the Radio and Television "In college, his TV hours were filled for Christians to reach out personally Commission, the program features the with the funerals of John F. Kennedy, to meet the needs of others. He said Bible-centered preaching of Dr. Martin luther King, and Robert F. that he knew "many Christian young Herschel H. Hobbs, pastor of First Baptist Kennedy, and with Vietnam body adults whose faith is languishing from Church, Oklahoma City. It is heard on counts. And when he finally graduated lack of charitable exercise." about 450 stations in all 50 states.

Page 6 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Sanders to Leachville Revivals------=-----=--- james H. Sanders, First Church, Forrest City, April18-25; pastor; 47 professions of faith, 3 by Jr., is now serving Bobby Moore, pastor, Del Fehsenfeld, letter. First Church, Leach­ St. Petersburg, Fla., evangelist, Dick Hill, North Main Church, Jonesboro, April ville, as minister of Hughes, song leader; 90 professions of 23-25; Ga rland Morris on, pastor, music. faith, 4 by letter. evangelist, Herbert "Red" Jo hnson, Mr. Sanders, the · Shady Grove, Little Rock, April 26- singer; 27 professions of faith, 4 by son of Rev. and Mrs. May 2; Walter Adkins, pastor, Ed letter. James H. Sanders of Walker, evangelist, Raymond Bull, Calvary, Paragould, April 26-May 2; First Church, Mo­ singer; 4 professions of faith, 4 by letter, junior Vester, pastor, Johnny Green, nette, is a senior at 72 rededications. evangelist; 16 for baptism, 3 by letter. Mon.ette High Sunset Lane, Little Rock, April 19-25; Whiteville Church, May 3-8; Malvin Mr. Sanders School. He plans to Jack Parchman, evangelist, Ray Mathis, pastor, Paul Huskey, evangelist; continue his educa- McClung, song leader; 37 for baptism, 1 profession of faith, 1 for baptism. tion at Arkansas State University this 12 by letter, 1 surrender to preach, 100 Melbourne, Belview, May 3-9; fall. rededications. Rayman Carneal, pastor, M. L. Arbuckle, He has been a member of the All­ First, Greenwood, Aptil 4-11; Lonnie Clarksville, Tenn., evangelist; 15 Region Choir for the past four years, Lasater, pastor, Herb Shreve, evangelist, profession of faith, 12 for baptism, 4 by and a member of the All -State Choir Charles Efurd, singer; 30 .professions of letter, many rededications. for two years. In 1970 he was ranked first faith, 15 additions to church. Parkway, Lake Village, May 2-9; Z. M. tenor in the All-State Choir. Mt. Olive, Crossett, April 18-25; L. H. Scarborough, pastor, Ed Edmonso n, McCollough, pastor, James Denton evangelist; 12 for baptism, 1 by letter. Clear Creek Watson, ev~ngelist, Larry Williams, song First, Blytheville, April 11-18; Alvis leader; 20 professions of faith, 9 by Carpenter, pastor, Vincent Cervera, Alma First Church letter, 2 for special service, 43 evangelist; 64 professio ns of faith, 11 by prepares to build rededications letter. Calvin C. Ussery, pastor at Hickory Martindale Church, Little Rock, April First Church, Alma, voted recently to Street, Texarkana, evangelist at Western 25 -May 2; Thurlo Lee, pastor, Clarence purchase a 10112 acre tract of land Hills, Oklahoma City, Okla., April19-45, Shell, evangelist, Ray McClung, singer; 7 located orl the Mt. Grove Road, Kenneth Myers song leader, Sam Pa t e, by baptism, 4 by letter. between Highway 64, and Interstate 40, just east of Highway 71. This is to be the . . . site of their entire new church plant. In - ~ rooms. Th7 ~odern bU1!d1~g IS OU r.eligion students the same business meeting, the church vene.ered w1th bn~k, paneled ms1de . .It also approved a basic proposed building prov1des. a small. ~1tchen and fellowsh ip honored at graduation plan. Edward L. Smith is Pastor. hall . ~~t~ central heat and an cond1t1onmg throughout. George * * * Lonsbury is mission pastor, and Bruce R. L. Whitten, pastor of First Church, Cushman is pastor of Van Buren First. Coal Hill, since October, 1966, has A combination note-burning and resigned effective May 30. Mr. Whitten dedication service was conducted by the has served also as principal of the high Woodland Church, recently. The pastor, school at Coal Hill. He and Mrs. Whitten Ralph Ehren, presided and recognized are moving to Dumas, where he will join the visitors, former members, and the school faculty. pastors. Former pastors present During the 41!2 years Mr. Whitten was included: George Lassett, Conway; Arch pastor at Coal Hill , there were 27 Wheeler, of · Union Grqve Church, Mr. Wilson Mr. Smith Clarksville; and Louis Dewitt, · additions to the church. A new concrete Zane Wilson, Mountain View, and Springdale. floor was poured for the auditorium and Robin Smith, North Little Rock, were the auditorium was paneled and A letter was read from former pastor j. Pat Shields, who was absent, honored at the recent commencement carpeted. A baptistry was built, with two exercises at Ouachita University for dressing rooms. Carpet was placed on conducting a revival. Two sprays of flowers were on display in memory of having the top grade-point averages the rostrum, and stained-glass windows among the ministerial students in their installed. Th e building was equipped H. K. Williams, pastor of Woodland Church when the land was purchased, graduating class. with air conditioning and central heat. Wilson, a psychology and speech and the auditorium built, and the church organized, in May 1950. He died exactly drama major, had the. highest grade * * * average among the ministerial students, Upon request from First Church, Van a year previous to the dedication date. 3.71. He graduated magna cum laude. Buren, approved by the missions Mr. Flora Nowotny was recognized f9r Smith, who graduated cum laude with committee and executive board of the her more than 20 years' service as treasurer of the church and was a 3.37 average, had the highest grade­ association, the state m1ss1on point average among religion majors. department provided $12,500 for the presented with a lamp by the church. purchase of 3.1 acres of land in north Mrs. Carl Patten, church clerk, Public choir concert Van Buren. This corner mission and presented a history of the church. This future church site, located near the new was followed by burning of two paid The adult choir of Heber Springs hi gh school on Pointer Trail and North notes, the total of which was $5895. First Church will present a concert of 11th has a frame house on it that will Assis.ting Dr. Ehren in the note-burning sacred and secular music in the Spring be adequate for a mission beginning. were: Deacon-trustees Kenneth Dennis, Park Amphitheatre in Heber Springs at Van Buren First Church has· combined Ed Nowotny, and Walter Nowotny. 7:30, Saturday night, May 22. This will be its jesse Turner and Chapel Missions and Missionary Paul E. Wilhelm led the a part of the ir community outreach is completing an auditorium and class dedication prayer. program. May 20, 1971 Page 7 James Burleson 25,000 responses projected to Kentucky post James W. Burleson, . director of for 'Operation Talk Back' Admissions at Oakland City College, Oakland City, Ind., has accepted the NASHVILLE (BP)-"Operation Talk express their own opinions. If they position of asseciate pastor for music Back" is only five weeks old and already don't then we won't get correct and youth at First Church, Henderson, the research and statistics department of evaluations from the results," he added. Ky. Mr. Burleson's resignation at the the Southern Baptist Sunday School The responses still are coming in at a college becomes effective June 30. Board has received more than 15,000 rate of more than 500 per day, with the A bachelor of arts graduate from questionnaires expressing strong closeout date of June 1 just a few weeks Ouachita University, Mr. Burleson did opinions about Southern Baptist away, Bradley said. He predicted a total graduate study at the University of literature. • of about 25,000 responses. Missouri and Southwestern Seminary. The questiortnaires were included in The questionnaires have come in held He served as director of public relations the April-June literature of the Sunday together by such things as straight pins, at Ouachita University and director of School Board, Brotherhood Commission safety pins, tape and glue, Bradley said. information services at the Radio and and Woman's Missionary Union, in a One enterprising respondent stapled Television Commission of the Southern joint effort to encourage Southern the three edges of the form with more Baptist Convention. Baptists to express opinions about the than 25 staples and another sewed Prior to his coming to Oakland City literature. . around the form's edge with a sewing ·college, in August, 1969, Mr. Burleson Martin Bradley, secretary of the machine. served as youth consultant for the board's Research and Statistics Responses have been received for all Church Music Department of the department, said many people have of the 75 board, Brotherhood and WMU Sunday School Board of the Southern written letters and included them with periodicals being surveyed from all 50 Baptist Convention·, Nashville, Tenn. the "Talk Back" questionnaires to states and Japan, Germany, Mexico, Mr. and Mrs. Burleson . have three further express their praise, criticism or Switzerland and Brazil. children: Jim, 13; Marcy, 8; and Christy, suggestions. Report date fot the results of the 8 months. The researcher continued that the survey will be Sept. 1. only potential problem encountered The total "Operation Talk Back" thus far in the survey has been where project, however, also includes two groups appreared to have filled out other phases involving personal contacts questionnaires simultaneously, all and studies in local church situations checking the same answers. and will not be completed until January, "We want to ,encourage people to 1973.

Larry Thomas ordained at Magazine church Mr. Burleson Dr. Armstrong Larry Thomas was Ouachita grad gets post ordained to the ministry May 4, at ARKADELPHIA-D. Wade Armstrong, First Church, Maga­ a 1942 graduate of Ouachita University, zine. has been named director of the Palm Leroy Rogers, Lake Baptist Association in West Palm pastor of the Maga.: Beach, Fla. Dr. Armstrong was formerly zine church, preach­ state director of evangelism and pastor ed the ordination in California. message with Sam • First, Arkadelphia Brown, pastor of Belleville Church, names interim staffer Mr. Thomas leading in the ques- tioning of the candidate. · David Barnes, 25, has been named in­ Herbert Rowland, pastor of Southside, terim youth director Booneville, gave the charge; Cecil at First Church, Harness, pastor East Point, Russellville, Arkadelphia. served as cl~rk; and Bill Williamson, Barnes will fill in pastor of Branch Church, served .a,s for George Fields, moderator. The council was made up of who is on leave of local pastors and deacons. absence during the Deacon J. T. Murray presented the Mrs. Frances Bodie of Little Rock was next four months to Bible on behalf of Magazine Church. presented the Ouachita University serve in the U. S. Mr. Thomas lis the son of Mrs. Irene Former Students Association's annual Mr. Barnes Army. Thomas and the late Lawrence Thomas Purple Heart Award at a luncheon Scheduled to of Magazine. He is marrie,d to the for­ preceding the University's graduate from Henderson State Col­ mer Patricia McCarty of Gree,rs Ferry. commencement exercises May B. Dr. lege May 14 with a B; A. degree in He graduated at Magazine High School Daniel Grant, OBU.president, conferred speech, Barnes is married and has a and is presently enrolled at Ft. Smith the award for "special service to two-year-old daughter, Angelia. Jul'lior College. Ouachita." Page 8 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Parkview, El Dorado Cothen inaugurated as seminary observes birthday president; urges cooperation

NEW ORLEANS (BP)-During his education, saying it must have a strong mauguration as president of New biblical orientation with an emphasis on Orleans Seminary here, Grady C. personal spiritual .development. Cothen urged all ·six Southern Baptist Saying that the seminaries must help seminaries to quit competing and, students develop spiritual resources instead, emphasize cooperative · adequate to meet the needs of the planning to improve theological people whom they serve, Cothen education. observed that "one of the great crises. of He said such cooperative planning by our times in ministry seems to be the all the seminaries might rally their inadequacy of the spiritual resources on alumni around the cause of theological the part of many ministers confronted education "instead of putting them with the difficulties of their time." against each ot.her in competition for The inaugural activities began with .a support." dinner, featuring an address by Southern Baptist Convention President Parkview Church, El Dorado, recently "In a time of polarizing around issues, Carl E. Bates, pastor of First Church, celebrated its 28th birthday. The church when name-calling is easier than Charlotte, N.C. had its beginning Easter Sunday, April problem-solving; in a time when it is 25, 1943, as a mission of Westside obvious that financial support may Bates told the group that the Church. It was known as Northside shortly diminish, we have a remarkable seminary's task was "not only to educate Mission, and services were bE\_gun on the opportunity to demonstrate to Southern the men and women who come to this southeast corner of Eighth ~nd College, Baptists and to the world a genuinely place, but to train them in the skills that in a store building. H. M. Geren was the cooperative effor.t in theological are calculated to keep our churches pastor of the Westside Church and R. L. education," Cothen said. warm spiritually and sound in their Mitcham was elected to serve as the "The overall welfare of the Southern outreach until our Lord shall appear." Mission .pastor. Baptist Convention and its theological Organization services were called for education enterpris·e needs a new Fayetteville lay meeting on June 22, 1943, by Bro. E.. D. Rucks, ·-communion of cooperation in planning moderator, with Mrs. H. M. Dumas, as our corporate future," he emphasized. draws large crowds clerk. Twenty-thre~ charter members If the six seminaries placed the The Lay Institute for Evangelism, held presented themselves for membership corporate good higher than their at Fayetteville's Mt. Sequoyah Methodist and they chose the name "Parkview individual needs, then "Christ would be Assembly, recently, saw almost 400 Baptist Church.'' R. L. Mitcham was honored in fact instead of word, people register for the training with called as the first pastor. theological education would prosper in attendance at the night sessions risillg to Of the charter members, the a new way, the individual institutions approximately 600 by those who following are still members of Parkview: would gain new stature, and we would attended locally. Nine different states E. D. Rucks, J. D. Bankston, Mrs. ]. D. furnish the quality of leadership the and one foreign country were Bankston, Bill Bankston, and Mrs. Annie denomination badly needs/' Cothen represented. Helms. said: · H. D. McCarty, chairman of the ]. B. Rose is pastor and Bill Stroud Jr. is The new seminary president said that pastor's committee for the institute, music and youth director. the six SBC seminaries have made strides reported that approximately two dozen in that direction in recent years throug_h Southern Baptist pastors and church staff the work of th.e seminary president's workers attended. Laymen from many Our heritage council. He cited as one such example of other Southern Baptist churches in From the tall mountains to the East cooperation the joint efforts at working Arkansas were also in attendance, And the hills of Tenness.ee, out agreements in all six SBC seminaries including representatives from all the Our Fathers came to find, at least,­ offering the doctor of ministry degree as major denominations and other A place they might be free. the basic professional degree program Christian groups, he said. . .for all seminaries. One of the outstanding features of the 'Twas here they found their promised Cothen offered several specific Institute was the report on Explo '72, a dream suggestions for other areas of training institute and conference which And nothing did they fear. cooperation by the six seminaries. He is expected to draw 100,000 people to The savage whoop and panther's scream proposed that some of the seminaries Dallas in june of 1972, McCarty said. Was music to their ear. offer the doctor of ministry degree with Explo and the Lay Institutes for emphasis on specli!lized areas and Evangelism are sponsored by Campus Their sons and daughters, too, were specialized programs, s·uch as one Crusade for Christ. strong seminary concentrating on student Over 75,000 received the Lay Institute And them their parents taught work. training in 1970 throughout the United To love the right and hate the wrong "This would eliminate the necessity of States, but the Mt. Sequoyah Institute As men and women ought. all schools offering all kinds of work," he was the first major institute in Arkansas, said. It would also "allow some schools McCarty said. At least a dozen weekend No greater heritage I know to develop a degree of expertise not institutes are planned throughout the Than they to us have given: now possible in the presentation of such state within the next year, with the next Be honest with all men below programs." . major institute planned for Immanuel And honor God in Heaven. Earlier, Cothen had emphasized in Church, Little Rock, in March of '72, he -Carl Ferrell gen~ral terms the tasks of theological said. May 20, 1971 Page 9 Your state convention at work ______long-range stewardship plan · Brotherhood considered for new department Camp prayer retreat for Baptist Men A new thrust in stewardship was Pr.ogram and its future in Ar~ansas. Every initiated for Southern Baptists in ministry supported by Baptists through A big week-end of fellowship, Arkansas by the Program Committee of this cooperative venture will be relaxation, and spiritual uplift for Baptist the Executive Board at its meeting on interpreted to ,the people in terms of Men is just a few weeks away. May 11 in Little Rock. persons and missionaries and mission The Baptist Men's Encampment and T-he committee has the responsibility fields. The financial needs of the Prayer Retreat is · scheduled for Friday of developing a program of work for the ministries will be presented forthrightly and Saturday, june 11·12, at Camp newly created department of and will be vindicated by, an equally Paron. The encampment chE:ck-in will Stewardship-Cooperative Program. The forthright accounting of past mission begin at 3 p.m. on Friday. The afternoon recommendations of the committee will expenditures. · · will be given to recreatio·n and be presented to the Executive Board at In order to evaluate their corporate fellowship. Recreation can include its meeting in August for approval. stewardship more accurately, ·church swimming, ping pong, horseshoes, Recognizing the limitations of any finance and budget committees will be volley ball, hiking or just plain relaxing short-tetm projects or so-called "crash encouraged to state proposed missions under the beautiful shade trees on the program," the committee, instead, dealt contributions in terms of a percentage grounds. with long-range objectives and goals. of the total budget. They will also be . Supper will be at 6:30 p.m. and the Concern was expressed for each encouraged to devise and follow a evening session will begin at 7:30. The individual Baptist and each Baptist regular, systematic, and orderly plan of retreat will close following the noon church, regardless of the level of annual increases in mission giving on a meal on Saturday. stewardship maturity. Efforts were made percentage basis. Program pers1;>nnel will include Blake to provide leadership and assistance for To keep mission funds flowing quickly Western, missionary from Japan.; jeff every situation, depending· upon the to the front" line of mission activity, Cheatham, pastor, First Church, local needs of individuals, churches, or churches will be encouraged to submit Dermott; Pedro Ruiz, U. S. Air Force; associations. 'contributions on a weekly basis. Donald Mink, Newport busi~essman, Efforts wil'l be made to learn the needs Assistance at this point will be offered to and others. There will be a time .of of each church and association by those churches · that have difficulty sharing through testimonies. Much time securing from each one detailed submitting their budgeted amount on a will be given to prayer," praying for stewardship information not presently monthly basis. specific requests of those attending. available from any one source. Each Recognition will be given· to those The theme of the retreat will be church and association will be asked to individuals, churches, and associations "Spirit-filled Ministering

What the Cooperative Program means to Ouachita

By Daniel R. Grant, President Ouachita University

The Cooperative to stay in the business of owning and of a $10,000,000 endowment. Even Program of the operating colleges and universities. though this total is not quite one-sixth Arkansas Baptist But because of what I be~an increas­ of the total budget of Ouachita Baptist Convention is liter­ ingly to see on our secular college and University, it is a vital part ~f that bud­ ally the life blood university campuses throughout the get and· Ouachita could not exist with­ of Christian higher nation, I became in'Creasingly con­ out it. education in Oua­ vinced that the crisis on our campuses chita. At a time and in our society generally required Special capital fund-raising ca.m-' when secularism that we retain and strengthen our paigns such as the Convention has is making serious Christian colleges and universities approved for Ouachita in 1972 and for inroads into many with all the energy and resources we Southern Baptist College in 1973 are Dr. Grant public institutions can muster. an occasional necessity because of the that once were During the 14 months that I have tremendous financial burdens that all strongly influenced by the Christian been back in my native state as presi­ private colleges and universities face. faith and morality, Arkansas Baptists dent of my alma mater-our Baptist But the life blood continues to be the are saying through our Cooperative senior university-it has been most dependable source of income provided Program that we want, and believe we gratifying to hear pastors and laymen in by the Cooperative Program. In this can afford, a Baptist senior university all parts of this great state committing kind of unity there is strength for Ch r is~ and a Baptist junior college whose themselves to doing whatever is neces­ tian higher education. Without it there whole energy and resources are com­ sary to retain a strong Christian wit­ simply cannot be any assurance of mitted to keeping Christ at the heart ness in higher educatibn by own~n ·g, success. of a college education. Ouachita Bap­ operating, ·and suppottfng financially I am personally indebted to Ark-ansa t1st University is not perfect, nor will an institution such as Ouachita, com• Baptists for working together )n ·this It ever be, but the administration and mitted both to education and Christian wonderful way to seek to keep Christ faculty are honestly seeking to provide excellence. at the heart of higher education for a quality education with a strong Chris­ As I have previously r'e'ported to the young people. I know I speak for our tian focus for our young people. Arkansas Baptist Con.vention, Oua­ faculty, administration, and student As recently as five or six years ago I chita's share of the Cooperative Pro­ body, past, pre.sent and future, when I was among those who had begun to gram receipts is a generous one. The express this special word of thanks to have doubts as to whether it was worth approximately $500,000 which we re­ all who support the Cooperative Pro­ the effort for Southern Baptists to try ceive annually is the, dQJiar equivalent gram. May 20, 1971 Page 11 A. I feel we are obligated by the action in Denver to give SBC President urges harmony the Sunday School Board a real chance to resolve the matter. at convention in St. Louis Q. Have you found any particular issues that seem to be uppermost in the minds of Southern Bapti~ts? EDITOR'S NOTE: Following is an interview with Carl A·. There seems to me to be as much concern expressed Bates, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and about the various colleges In the Southern Baptist pastor of First Church, Charlotte, N. C. The interview was Convention as any other individual part of Southern Baptist conducted by Toby Druin, associate editor of the BIBLICAL life. And there is the normal discussion of what is taking RECORDER, Baptist state weekly newspaper in North pl~$:e in our seminaries. There is as much concern about our Carolina. Bates reviews his first year as president of the SBC, approach to education as about any other phase of.Southern reflects on the upcoming annual SBC session in St. 'Louis, Baptist .life. june 1-J; and indicates he is willing to serve an additional Q. Do you s,ee any significant trends in Southern Baptist term as president. life? A. I think I see evidence of a real revival among QUESTION: How would you describe your first year as Southern Baptists. This is not just a surface thing; it is a deep president of the largest Protestant-evangelical religious searching for the presence and power of God. group in the nation? Q. What is your appraisal of the apparent spiritual ANSWER: Busy! And demanding. But I would be untrue awakening among'the nation's youth? to the experience to fail to add that it also has been deeply A. These young people have finally realized that they satisfying. I have found ~yself at times really assured that cannot build their lives on man-made systems. They have somebody somewhere. is praying for the president of the begun to sense that they have been the victims of Southern Baptist Convention. There has been liberty and manipulators and persons .with v~sted interests. They are all freedom that I could not have had any other way. At times I at sea and are ln·a great search for meaning and a foundation had speaking assignments under fatigue and found mysE!H on which to build their lives. It could be the start of the literally carried away in the spirit. I know this is because my greatest turn to Cod this world has ever seen if we could get own church has kept its prom!se to pray for its pastor while the message to them in language they can understand. he attempts to carry this responsibility. Many close, personal This is one of the greatest challenges we face. There has friends across the convention have prayed for the president. always been a generation gap, but there never has been a Q. You were elected president at what was labeled by credibility gap such as they see in the church. Now that these some observers as a "bitter" convention, and at that time you yovng people have recognized the credibility gaps in other announced that you hoped to be a peacemaker. Do you feel approaches, we must find ways to presertt to t.hem the New that you have accompli~hed your task in bringing a measure Testament. If we don't do this we are going to miss an of healing to the sac? opportunity that may never come again. A. This remains to be seen. I have tried to speak kindly of Q. What are some of the questions you are most any person or persons whose point of view ·is different from often asked? my own. I have granted him the right to differ without A. It depends on who I am having dialogue with. If it is shutting him out or marking him off, and I have tried to be college~age or teen-age young people, they want to know fair and considerate and Christian toward the various what the New Testament teaches. Surprisingly enough, they viewpoints around which people have polarized. But I have are not interested in the various philosophical apd done this not not because I have felt that it would issue in a theological expressions of the Christian faith. They ask me, "coolin'g down" of the situation, but because it is the way I "Tell us in understandable terms what the New Testament live. I have lived here in North Carolina with people with teaches about the Christian, faith." Pastors usually want. to whom I have differed almost diametrically, but we have been know what impressions I have gathered about Southern warm friends and brothers in Christ. We have tried to Baptist .life and most are grasping for some encouraging promote a great program to the glory of our Lord, and we signs. have succeeded. Q. Do they have reason for encouragement? Q. Are there other ·factors that have led to the more A. Yes! If they could see as I have seen Southern Baptists pea:ceful atmosphere that seems to prevail? and their commitmen·t to world outreach, they would be A, There has been a wide concern for a greater spirit of greatly encouraged. I believe Southern Baptists have the harmony that may turn out to be as importaht a concern as greatest opportunity to speak to the world in our history, the things that caused the bitterness at Denver. Whatever provided we speak out of one of our basic principles- the happened there happened because people were concerned. New Testament as the only and all-sufficient source of faith This same concern now seems to express itself and direct and practice. If we will stand on that and speak with courage itself toward harmony because I think we saw what could and boldness in this hour we will claim our greatest conceivably happen if we did not assume the vital marks of a opportunity. true Christian believer. Q. Southern Baptist support of the Cooperative Program Our Lord said, "By this shall all men know that you are appears to have· leveled off somewhat, although the first my disciples, if you love one another." And he gave the quarter of 1971 showed a healthy increase. What do we as critical and unbelieving world the right to examine the Southern Baptists need to do in the area of stewardship? genuineness of our profession. I think our concern now is A. We must improve our per capital giving and the that the world shall know that we really are true followers of various states must find ways to increase the percentage of Jesus Christ. the Cooperative Program dollar going to worldwide causes. It is my personal hope that in St. Louis this will be the Then, too, it is the first and primary conc;ern of every dominant thought in our minds and hearts-that we shall all Southern Baptist agency to promote the Cooperative pray the report goes out from our meeting that these people Program because it is the lifeline of all that we are trying to truly love one another, and love God. do. Q. There continues to be some discussion and criticism Q. You have kept a rigorous schedule as SBC president. of the handling of the withdrawal of Volume One of the How many miles have you traveled and how many states Broadman Bible Commentary as ordered by the Denver have .you visited? Do you know how many speeches you Convention. How do you feel about it? have made?

Page 12 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE A. I don't have any idea how many miles I have traveled. I have limited my travel to between Sundays. I promised my church I would be at home on Sundays and Wednesday nights, and it is a good thing I made the promise: I have received more than 150 invitations to speak on various programs and a quick calculation will show that I could spend the next three years away from home. I don't know how many speeches I have made, but I have spoken to many state conventions, evangelism conferences and associations and to the various boards and agencies of the convention. This constitutes a part of the pressure on the president, having to prepare an address that may n~t be at all like a sermon. But I am like most 'pastors who have come to this place-1 give the same speech and make different applications and put in new illustrations. But someone said that sooner or later if I were permitted to preach I would make a straight line to the ministry of the ' Holy Spirit and spend most of my message there. · Q. How have your presidential duties a'nd responsibilities affected your church? A. During the year the church has paid off its indebtedness on two city blocks of downtown Charlotte. The church has put $150,000 cash in the bank and the men under my associate Joe Burnette's direction have let a contract for new buildings ($1.8 million). I have no hesitation in saying that this church would go on if I were gone every Sunday. This is true for two reasons-! have had the finest assistant that any pastor ever had, in Joe Burnette, and we have the finest leadership in our young men and the ones who were here under the former pastor when he was president. (C. C. Warren, whom Bates succeeded at FBC, Charlotte, was SBC president in 195,6-57). The church has taken it in magnificent fashion. Our attendance is up, our offerings are up and the membership has shown some gain. ·~ Q. Has there been any single incident during the year that you would consider a highlight of the year? A. There have been many thrilling and exciting and gratifying experiences. I will never forget the closing night of the Nlorth Carolina evangelism conference when nearly 20,000 young people attended a youth rally. Another highlight was my opportunity to participate in the Foreign Mission appointment service ·for 27 missionaries in louisville. I suppose it was as moving an experience as I have had all year. Close to this was the experience in New Orleans when J. D. Crey gave me the mementoes from my old hotel room where I had my conversion experience. Q. What are a few of the things you would most like to see Southern Baptists accomplish? A. There are two or three things we must do: 1. Southern Baptists must not only increase their activity but must deepen their commitment. I think if we let people chide us for being activists and let them hinder our efforts, we ought to bow our heads in shame. 2. We have got to find a way to combine personal and social aspects of the gospel. We must not become divided in this hour in our nation on whether we will"do" the gospel or "preach" the gospel. 3. We must find new ways to say as well as live the same old truth which has not changed in this generation and will not change in the next. If we can find ways to speak to the great vacuum that exists in the present generation the wonderful truth of the gospel of God, and if we can show HONORED BY OBU- Cyril Bryant (top photo), a former that it makes a difference in our life, it could issue in a great editor of the ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE, and turning to Christ. We can be pure in the midst of immorality; Withrow Holland, pastor at Cape Girardeau, Mo., have been we can keep our purpose in a world gone mad; we can find awarded honorary degrees from Ouachita University. In ways to love one another in a world that is being destroyed ceremonies at the May 8 commencement Mr. Bryant was by hate. awarded the doctor of letters degree and Pastor Holland was Q. Will you allow.your name to be placed in nomination awarded the doctor of divinity degree. Dr. Bryant edited the for a second term as president? Arkansas publication from 1943-47. He is presently director A. If Southern Baptists want me and if I can help in some of publications for the Baptist World Alliance. Dr. Holland, way by accepting an additional term, I will do my best if who pastors First Church, Cape Girardeau, is a 1931 graduate of Ouachita. r~-elected. May 20, 1971 Page 13 Proposed Program I Southern Baptist Convention H1 Kiel Auditorium · St. Louis, Missouri June 1-4, 1971

THEME: "In the Spirit of Christ" General Boards: OFFICERS: Foreign Mission Board Carl Bates, President; pastor, First Baptist Church, Char­ Home Mission Board lotte, N.C. Sunday School Board Fred B. Rhodes, first vice president; deputy administrator, Annuity Board Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C. Institutions: Russell H. Dilday Jr., secondvice president; pastor, Second Golden Gate Seminary Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga. Midwestern Seminary Clifton J. Allen, recording secretary; retired editorial sec­ New Orleans Seminary retary, Baptist Sunday School Board, Nashville, Tenn. Southeastern Seminary W. Fred Kendall, registration secretary; executive secre­ Southern Seminary tary, Tennessee Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tenn. Southwestern Seminary Porter W. Routh, treasurer; executive secretary-treasurer, Seminary Extension Department SBC Executive Committee, Nashville, Tenn. Southern Baptist Foundation W. C. Fields, press representative; public relations secre­ Hospital Agency of the SBC tary, SBC Executive Committee, Nashville, Tenn. Commissions: Robert Scales, chairman, committee on order of business· American Baptist Seminary Commission pastor, Trinity Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, Okla. ' Brotherhood Commission William E. Jarvis, music director; minister of music First Christian Life Commission Baptist Church, Charlotte, N.c. ' Education Commission Tuesday morning, June 1~ Historical Commission THEME: "In the Spirit of Christ -- Consider Our Work" Radio and Television Commission 9:15 Music for inspiration Stewardship Commission 9:30 Call to order Standing Committees: Congregational Singing Denominational Calendar Scripture and prayer-Harold Zwald, pastor, Druid Public Affairs Committee Hills Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga. Associated Organizations: 9:40 Report of registration and constituting of the conven­ Woman's Missionary Union t~on-W . Fred Kendall, registration secretary; execl}­ Miscellaneous: tiVe secretary, Tennessee Baptist Convention, Nash­ American Bible Society ville, Tenn. Joint Committee on Public Affairs 9:45 Committee on order of business- Robert S. Scales, American Baptist Theological Seminary chairman; pastor, Trinity Baptist Church, Oklahoma Baptist World Alliance City, Okla. 4:00 Election of officers 9:50 Welcome Introduction of miscellaneous business and resolutions 10:05 Introduction 4:30 Benedicticm-Jam~s A. Walker, pastor, First Baptist 10:25 Announcement of committee on committees, com­ Church, Warren, Ark. mittee on resolutions, and tellers Tuesday evening, June 1 10:30 Congregational singing 7:00 Home Mission Board Special Music 8:00 Worship service 10:40 Executive Committee report- Porter W. Routh, ex­ Music ecutive secretary-treasurer, Nashville, Tenn. Scripture reading 'and prayer- Milo B. Arbuckle, 12:00 Election of officers pastor, Denver Temple Baptist Church, Denver, Colo. Introduction of miscellaneous business and resolutions Special music 12:45 Benediction-Jack Harwell, editor, Christian Index, Convention sermon-John Claypool, pastor, Crescent Atlanta, Ga. Hill Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky. Tuesday afternoon, June 1 Wednesday, June 2 THEME: '.'In the Spirit of Christ- Consider Our Common Task" THEME: "In the Spirit of Christ- Conside r Our Co-Laborers" 2:15 Music for inspiration · 9:15 Music for inspiration 2:30 Call to order 9:30 Call to order Music Congregational singing Scripture and prayer-James A. Langley, Executive Scripture and prayer...... Willis Bennett, professor of secretary, District of Columbia Baptist Convention church and co[Tlmunity, Southern Baptist Theologi­ Washington, D.C. ' cal Seminary, Louisville, Ky. 2:45 Recognition of fraternal messenge rs 9:40 Committee on resolutions- fi rst report 2:50 Election of officers 10:00 Committee on committees Receiving of agency reports as printed in the Book of 10:05 Committee on boards Reports and Consideration of agency recommen­ 10:10 Youth Speaks Up dations 10:30 Congregational singing Page 14 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE 10:35 "The Thrust of Theological Education"-Duke McCall, 8:00 Foreign Mission Board president, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 9:00 Joint commissioning serv.ice for missionaries of Home Louisville, l

private schools that are being tested in President's panel urges state and federal courts and said that it is "extremely conscious of two basic and more aid to private schools interrelated principles in this area: WASHINGTON (BP)-The President's non-public schools. Among these, the 1. "That all children in the United Panel on Non public Education, a unit of p;;~nel noted the following: States share equitably in the national the Commission_ on School Finance, "' "Parental choice in their children's resources available for education, an~ 2. made its first interim report to President education will erode as non-public that no public program be undertaken Nixon recommending increased federal schools vanish in large numbers. that will violate the constitutional aidThto privalte ah· n~ pdarbochciall. schoocls. "' "Educational diversity will be prohibition against any governmental e pane , c atre y arence . b d . . d · 1 'f · establishment of religion, or the Walton, president of Catholic University su .merge tnto e ucattona unt or.mtty, guarantee of free exercise of religion." here, said it is convinced "that some·- wht~h Cmmunity as s~abilizing The organization was formed by four non-public _pupils "be vigorously agents and enculturating institutions. convention agencies to provide a enforced by federal agencies." It asked "' "Taxes will rise to defray costs for continuing ministry in · resort areas. also that non-public schools receive a capital investment and for instruction. Christian campers who are members part of the proposed $1.5 billion What is crucial h~re is taxpayer reaction place a blue fish emblem on their trailers emergency education funds planned to among those who feel deprived of or cars for Identification. Not only can stabilize racial integration. choice," the panel said. they be spotted by other members, but Administration proposals for hopefully the emblem will spark tlie consolidating. existing aid to education In a larger "progress report" on its interest of fellow campers and thereby programs should include guarantees activities, the full commission said that it give members a chance for Christian that all currently eligible private school is "the public service aspect" of the non­ witnessing, an official of.the group said. pupils will continue to participate, the public schools which is "most germane" The main objective of the panel urged. to its deliberations. organization, said John McBride, Further, the report continued, a "The fact is that they educate, mainly associate director of the Southern division should be established in the at private expense, 5.6 million American Baptist Home Mission Board's Division Office of Education to deal directly with children who would otherwise be of Associational services, "is to bear non-public schools. educated at · the general public witness to the saving power of Jesus In its 11-page interim report to the expense," the 61-page progress 'report Christ, to com,municate through word President, the panel identified a number -said. and deed the good life in Christ, and to of probable consequences to the The commission noted the various.· be gen1,1ine and sensitive in our relations "interlocking set of problems" faced by programs of federal and state aid to with other people." May 20, 1971 Page 15 'Faith in Action' features missions Asuggestion for harmony Four Southern Baptist missionaries, By Chester E. Swor each representing a diffrent corner of I have not been present ih recent annual sessions of our Southern Baptist the globe, will be interviewed on NBC's Convention and have not, therefore, experienced the sessions in which "Faith in Action'~ program Sunday, June tensions reportedly ran high. In my continuing travels, however, I sense from 6. both those who attended the sessions and those who heard of the tension-taut J, 0. Terry, representing Southeast times that there is a genuine hunger that the St. Louis Convention in early June Asia; Wes Miller, Europe; Milton may be a time of tension-free planning, discussion, worship, and fellowship, Cunningham, Africa; and Alan permitting messengers to go home with a glow ot happy unity in their hearts. Compton, Latin America, tell how they While not for a moment suggesting that any messenger fa il to express the relate their work in each area both to conviction of his heart or the sentiment of his mind in any issues which may the world situation and to the cause of arise-for such a suggestion would be foreign to both my own convictions and Christ. to the " freedom to be heard" which makes our annual meetings truly The missionaries also offer meaningful-! am suggesting that we do our best this year to be completely predictions as to what is coming in their Christian in spirit, regardless of the "side" of an issue we support. respective areas. J, 0. Terry, who serves With genuine respect for the right of others to hold differing opinions, with specifically in the Philippines, for recognition of their sincerity in. their differing views, with voices warm with example, sees a definite reaching out for fellowship and respect and calm in tempo and temperature, we can discuss revival on the part of the people there, even controversial matters in a quiet spirit of Christian amity. due partly to the devastating effects of What we can do the past war. Other programs in the June "Faith in As a long-time devotee to Baptist life and polity, in the spirit of wanting the Action" series, all produced for- NBC by best for our Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis, prompted by nobody, the Radio and Television Commission, motivated only by a great desire that our June meeting be ·a source of great include interviews with Bobbie Brooks power to all of us, I am offering these suggestions: Fashion Award winner Meme .1. That all of us pray daily between now and the St. Lou is Convention that Drumwright, daughter of Southwestern this meeting may be one of great spiritual power and heartening fellowship. Seminary profess·or Huber Drumwright; Even those who do not plan to attend may well include this petition in their James Gebhart, Rio Grande border daily prayer times. 'missionary, and Richard White, a 2. That those of us who plan to attend shall pray personally and fervently that Christian businessman in Scottsdale, · ~the mind of Christ may be in us, and that the spirit of Christ may permeate and Ariz. motivate us. We recall that, though Christ spoke firmly and forthrightly concerning the principles of life, he was always fair, compassionate, and · redemptive. Therefore, I am not making a pl.ea for silence on any messenger's part; rather, I am making a plea for a truly Christ-like spirit in the times of Foreign mission briefs discussion. COSTA RICA: The Costa Rican gov­ 3. That any who contemplate offering controversial resolutions shall search ernment granted legal recognition to their s0uls for answers to these questions: "Is this resolution necessary? Is this ' the Baptist Convention of Costa Rica the time to offer it, or would a later year find us in better position for April 3, 25th anniversary of the con­ discussing it? Am I making this resolution only out ot a deep and abiding love vention's founding. ' for Christ and for our denomination? Will this resolution reopen wounds * •• which are beginning to heal?" GHANA : An epidemic of meningitis 4. If discussions arise in which differences of opinion ar.e inevitable, how fine and several snake bites have contrib­ it would be if every participant in the discussions would wei'gh what he is uted to a heavy patient load at the about to say on Rotary's excellent four-way scale or test: Baptist Medical Center in this coun­ "Is (what I am about to say) it the truth? try's northern city of Nalerigu. The hos­ "Is it fair to all concerned? pital staff treated over 10,500 patients "Will it.build goodwill and friendship? during the first quarter of this year. "Will it be beneficial to all concerned?" ••• If those o.f us who plan to attend the convention will, therefore, try earnestly INDONESI·A : "Response to a recent in advance to permit the mind of Christ to guide us in our thoughts and plans, hymn-writing contest indicates Indo­ let the spirit of Christ saturate our hearts, and permit the love and compassion nesian Baptists' concern to make their of Chri.st to motivate our words and actions at convention time, the St. Lou is worship a local product, not an import," Convention will be a high water mark in spiritual fellowship, planning and said ·Southern Baptist missionary Wil­ achieveme,nt. May it so bet liam N. McElrath. Suara Baptis (The Baptist Voice),. a bimonthly magazine resembling state Baptist papers in the Easter weekend vacations at the Ecu­ mer on special assignments. W. Bryant U.S., announced early this year a three­ ador Baptist camp near Manglaralto. Hicks, Southern Seminary, Louisville, month contest for entirely new hymns Sponsored by English-speaking First Ky., and R. Cal Guy, Southwestern with words and music original to Indo­ Church of Quito, the retreat was aimed Seminary, Ft. Worth, were invited to nesia. Modest prizes were offered by at high school students, mostly children assist in a survey of mission work in In­ an anonymous donor. When the three of North Americans related to oil com­ donesia. Dale Moody, Southern Semi­ months had passed, more than 70 panies and U.S. government agencies nary, was invited to serve as inspi· compositions lay on the desk of lmarto stationed in Ecuador. rational speaker at annual meetings Wirawan, editor. • •• of missions (organizations of Southern ••• U.S.A.: Three professors at two semi­ Baptist miss i onari~s) in Liberia, Ivory ECUADOR: Twenty-five teen-agers naries have ·been asked by the Foreign Coas~ Ghana, Uganda and in Eau participated in a youth retreat during Mission Board to go overseas this·.sum· Africa in July and August. Page 16 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Baptist beliefs Evangelism schools When good men disagree 9 held in Chicago By Herschel H. Hobbs CHICAGO, ILL. (BP)-In a move to test new Southern Baptist evangelistic "And the ~on tent ion was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder materials outside the Atlanta area, 27 one from the other"-Acts 15:39 · Chicago churches held simultaneous lay One of the strongest proofs as to the authenticity of the scriptures is that they evangelism schools here, recently. Use do not gloss over the characters contained in them. This verse is a case in point. of the materials in a Thursday night Both Paul and Barnabas were good Christian men. Yet they had a disagreement visitation in the Chicago area resulted in so strong and sharp as to break up their partnership in the work of the Lord. 43 professions of faith. There were 27 "Determined" (v. 37) is ao imperfect tense, showing that Barnabas continued to do similar decisions on other days of the so despite Paul's objections. John Mark was Barnabas' cousin or nephew. He had week. started out on the first missionary journey with Paul and Barnabas. But for some reason had turn€d back (Acts 13:13). When Barnabas proposed to give him a second Witness Involvement Now (WIN), chance on another such journey Paul objected (Acts 15:37-38). Some suggest that produced by the Division of Evangelism Mark may have sided with Barnabas in a dispute with Paul (Gal. 2:13). At any rate of the Southern Baptist Home Mission these two giants in the faith had a "sharp contention" over him. . Board, had been previously used only in These words render a Greek word (parochusmus) whence comes the English Atlanta churches with division staff owrk paroxysm. A. T. Robertson notes that the "son of consolation" lost his temper members teaching. The Chicago schools and that .Paul used sharp words towards his benefactor and friend (Acts 9:26-27). This were proving ground to determine dispute tore them apart. Failing to agree they went their separate ways: Barnabas whether the materials are as effective in took Mark and went to his home island of Cyprus; Paul took Silas as his companion a local church situation, board officials on his second missionary journey (Acts 15:39b-40). They did not quit the ministry, said. but chose areas in which to work. At best it was a sad event. Paul owed more to An . ~verage of 475 people attended Barnabas than to any other man. Barnabas left the greatest Christian of the time and the WIN schools, which featured of all time. classroom type presentations for five · Later records show a kindly reference by Paul to Barnabas (I Cor. 9:6). Mark did days. On the fourth evening, the make good (Col. 4:10; II Tim. 4;11; I Pet. 5:13). No one can blame Barnabas for students went into homes for personal giving Mark another chance. Under the circumstances no one can censure Paul for witnessing; testing the methods they had not wanting to risk another experience with Mark. And though they disagreed these learned during the week. · two grants continued to work for Christ, each in his own way. One layman spoke at a downtown rescue mission where 15 professions of Cooperative Program gifts faith were registered. A teenage girl witnessed to 11 of her friends and nine continue 1971 up~ard swing expressed commitment to Christ. , Jack Stanton, associate director of the NASHVILLE (BP)-Contributions Cooperative Program contributions, division and director of lay evangelism, thmugh the Souther.n Baptist $17.4 million in designated gifts to called the week a success. "This Cooperative Program unified budget specific Southern Baptist causes has meeting reached and trained laymen of continued an upward swing for the first · been received during the year, an various backgrounds to witness four months of 1971, a monthly financial increase of $918,058, or 5.4 per cent . . effectively and proved the feasibility of report from the denomination's The combined Cooperative Program our ultimate goal, which is to train Executive Committee disclosed here. and designated contributions tot:Jis laymen to train other ·laymen," Stanton Cooperative Program gifts for 1971 $27.8 million, up $1.6 million, or 6.37 per said. increased 7.8 per cent, or $747,786, over cent. contributions· for the same four-month Of the $27.8 million total, the WIN materials prepare a person to period in 1970, the report indicated. Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board lead a prospect from an introduction to Total Cooperative Program has received $21.5 million, including Christianity to the beginning of his contributions for the year reached $10.3 $16.3 million in designated gifts and $5.2 growth as a Christian, Stanton said. million, compared to $9.5 million in million in Cooperative Program funds. This was also the flrst time laymen had 1970. Most of the designations were in the been used as teachers. Of the 23 Giving through the denomination's Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for teachers, about eight were laymen. unified budget during the month of Foreign Missions. April reached $2.4 million, an increase • The SBC Home Mission Board James Norman, assistant to the of 6.52 per cent over contributions for received $3 million of the total, superintendent of missions in Chicago April of 1970. • including $1.8 million through the South Zone, expressed pleasure at the The 1971 budget adopted by the Cooperative Program and $1.1 million in use of layme.n in training. "In every convention last year requires an income designated gifts. Funds from the Annie school were laymen led there was a increase of 7.72 per cent for the year in Armstrong Easter Offering for Home good response. Pastors said that having a order to meet the total operating budget Missions are just beginning to arrive in lay teache.r added to the effectiveness of plus capital needs that were not met in Nashville for distribution to the board. the school." · 1970. To meet the total 1971 operating Amounts included in the financial budget, plus 1970 and 1971 capital report do not reflect contributions to The Chicago .week also disclosed the needs, an increase of 11.48 per cent will local and state Baptist mission programs, adaptiveness of WIN materials to each be required by December, 1971. but only include Southern Baptist church's particular situation, Norman In addition to the $10.3 million in Convention causes . . said. May 20, 1971 Page 17 World Baptists and other Christians Dear Pastor and Educational Director: RE: BIBLE SCHOOL By }ames Leo Garrett Professor of Christian Theology, Southern Baptist Semi.nary, Louisville At wholesale price we offer the fol­ Baptists have not been known for being pioneers in ecumenism, although lowing: two of our most popular items: , William Carey proposed that the first of . a series of decennial interdenominational world conferences be held at Capetown in 1810. 260 Lemon Jumble Cookies $2.00 Particularly has this been true of Southern Baptists, who a generation ago were 294 Vanilla Creme, Sandwich frequently identified by The Christian Century as "t'he problem child of Cookies $2.32 American Protestantism.'' today not a few Baptists, including Southern Ba'Ptists, are engaged in Jackson cookies are made with pure vegeta­ honest arid open-minded efforts to seek and partit!ipate in meaningful ble shortening, soft wheat cookie flour, cane · relations with Christians of other confessional, or denominational, identities. sugar and other fine ingredients. Baked in These efforts do not so much aim at structural or organizational mergers as, two modern plants. Guaranteed fresh. more often, at mutual respect and understanding and cooperative efforts of Cookies are easy to serve­ various kinds. Some of these efforts are being made in the local communities, THEY'RE DELICIOUS the· crucial locus of all transdenominational fellowship. Others are ~eing made on the denominational level, and one of these involves the Baptist World Call or write Alliance. The Baptist World Alliance, founded in London in 1905, has had as one of JACKSON COOKIE its three basic purposes: "more fully to show the essential oneness of Baptist people In the Lord Jesus Christ." Baptists have increasingly discovered that COMPANY oneness in Christ cannot and should not be confined to the Baptist family. Bakers of Jackson Vanilla Wafers. The wafer As early as the Atlanta (1939) congress of the BWA, two commissions that out sells all other brands in Arkansas. reported on matters related to Christian· unity. At the Cleveland (1950) congress, Dr. W. 0. Carver reported as chairman of a "commission on 372-2123 contemporary religious movements," focusing on the World Council of 113 So. Olive Churches. No. Little Rock, Ark. Under the leadership of Arnold T. Ohrn, general secretary from 1948 to 72114 1960, the BWA upgraded the role of its commissions so that Baptist leaders from various nations could meet and work together to study in detail matters or contact the Jackson Cookie of vital import to Baptists. Hence, six study commissions were functioning at salesman near you Rio de Janeiro in 1960, and, after reorganization under .Josef Nordenhaug, general secretary from 1960 to 1969, four study commissions (Baptist doctrine, J. D. Shumate Carl Cypert religious liberty and human rights, evangelism and missions, and Bible study Jacksonville North Little Rock and membership training) were active at Miami Beach in 1965. 982-8134 753-6502 For sev~ral years the Commission on Baptist Doctrine, of which Duke Jim Grumbles H. A. Shumate , K. McCall was chairman until1970, gave some attention to questio ns and issues Little Rock North Little Rock pertaining to Christian unity. However, under the urging of George R. 666-2256 945-2262 Beasley-Murray, it requested that a separate commission be established to deal exclusively with such matters, and thus Dr. Nordenhaug, authorized by the Andrew Lovelady Harold Turner .Executive Committee, appointed the central panel for such a commission in Damascus Hot Springs .1968 and recommended its. name,. Study Commission on Cooperative 335-2203 262-1560 Christianity (SCCC). Kennard Baker Bill Holley The new commission, with its full complement of members from the Harrj:;on Russellville various continents, met for the' first time in conjuction with the BWA Executive • 365-9136 967-2477 Committee meeting in Baden, Austria, in August, 1969, with 17 of its 30 members present. Sam Rosson Three guidelines for the commission's work were proposed: 1. W. C. Kibbe Fort Smith · inclusiveness of scope and non-limitation to cooperati'on or unity as expressed Batesville 785-1716 within the World Council of Churches; 2. consideration both of theological 793-7232 issues and practical areas of cooperation; and 3. study of the history of the Earl Douglass attitudes of the various Baptist unions and conventions to other Christians and Eugene S. Little Little Rock Pine Bluff 565-6108 of the relations or non-relations of Baptist bodies to non-Baptist Christian 247-1293 bodies. L. C. Smith Eight papers were read at the Baden meeting, six by Baptists, one by a Russell Robinson Rogers Roman Catholic, and one by a Mennonite. Five were treatments of the history Monticello 636-7025 of Baptist attitudes and relations: Great Britain, Soviet Union, southern 367-5094 Europe, Latin America, and the SBC. One was an ecclesiological study of Virgil Redwine catholicity in English Puritanism; another surveyed contemporary cooperative R. K. Smith Mt. Pine efforts in Bible translation and distribution; a third was a non-Baptist's analysis ElDorado 767-3723 862-3098 of Southern Baptists. At Tokyo in July, 1970, the SCCC, with numerous J. R. Parks congress registrants present, heard three papers in its commission sessions: Albert Efird Texarkana one on Christian unity in the New Testament; another on Baptist attitudes and Prescott 838-4509 relations in northern Europe; and a third on Baptists and the awakenings of 887-6884 modern history. In a plenary session of the Tokyo congress, the SCCC presented a panel of Wm. Day three speakers who dealt with the New Testament teaching on the unity of the Texarkana Church, present Baptist relations with other Christians, and "the way ahead." 838·0338 Page 18 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE KNIVES By Carl H. Zwinck NAMES of nine book's ofthe Bible can be found in the squares. If you FORKS start with the correct letter and move straight down qr straight to the right, you can spell the name of AND each book. ANSWERS 41n}J 'wn4eN ')jJl?W SPOONS 't)'!Ol '4euor: 'qof '~eJZ3 'sowv

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"GOOD morning, Joe and jim. knives are made from stainless steel which each is made is strong and Breakfast is ready. Wash your hands and are molded in one piece. lasting. and face," called Mother. · Forks are another interesting part "Let's enjoy our breakfast and be "Mother," th'e .two boys ofourcutlery. Atonetime,theyalso glad we have knives, fo rks, and exclaimed, "you haven't any spoons had handles made from bone, spoons," said Mother. on the table." wood, or ivory. The first forks did "We will," joe and Jim answered. "Let's suppose there were no not have four tines or prongs, as (Sunday School Board Syndicate, knives, forks, or spoons in my ·~ ours do. The earliest forks had -Only all rights reserved) cupboard, but your breakfast is two tines. Ours are made from the waiting on the table. What would same material' .as our knives and you do? How would you get your spoons. Texas SPIRENO Crusades food into your mouth? Before there were spoons, the "That is the problem people had palm of the hand must have been result in 2,000 decisions. hundreds of years ~go. What did awkward to use. People began MIDLAND, Tex. (BP)-The mass they do? They used their fingers as gathering seashells to use in place of response among young people that forks and the palms of their hands as their palms. Finally, someone resulted in 4,000 professions of faith at spoons. Are you wondering what thought of fitting handles to the First Ch.urch, Houston, was repeated in the West Texas oil cities of Midland and they used for knives? Let~s find out." shells. In this way our first real Odessa, with nearly 2,000 profess ions of Today the word "cutlery" refers to spoons came into being. They, too, faiths in two weeks. knives, forks, and spoons. Years ago soon had handles of bone, ivory an.d At Midland, 1,381 people accepted it meant only kn ives. At fi rst, knives wood. Christ during a week-long SPIRENO were whittled and chiseled out of Our spoons consist of bowls with (Spiritual Revolution Now) Crusade sponsored by the churches of the the rib bones of animals. The knife, handles attached. They may be Midland Baptist Association. In Odessa, as we know it, is composed of three made from alu mi num, plastic, 610 people accepted Christ during a different parts: the blade, the wood, silver, or stainless steel. Some, week-long revival at Sherwood Church. bolster, and the tang. The tang is the like knives and forks, are gold plated Youthful evangelist Richard Hogue, part of the knife which is set into or silver plated. We have fancy small who led the record. breaking SPIRENO campaign in Houston, conducted both the bolster or handle. This tang spoons, decorated spoons, and huge West Texas crusades. makes the knife strong and lorig- soup spoons. We have ladles, In Midland, Hogue sp9ke at rallies lasting. sometimes made from wood, to stir before and after school; in Houston, he The first good knife handles were hot liquids, such as jelly. All spoons spoke in public school assemblies on a designed from ivory from animal are patterned after the first ooe non-religious basis. A crusade leader said that about one-third to one-fourth tusks. Later, the handles were made made by man, a tiny bowl with an of the students turned out for the rallies from wood, and some were made attached handle. here. from bone. The knives we use are As you have your next meal, think 1n Odessa, Sherwood Baptist Church usually made from metal of some about how cutlery is made. Be Pastor Lenard Hartley said crowds were so great during the revival that the kind. In our stores today, we find thankful you have cutlery to use church had to hold two services nightly knives with hollow handles, solid ' instead of your fingers, seashells, or to accommodate the crowds. Later, the handles, short blades, long blades, chiseled bone. Notice how each services were moved to a nearby and tiny butter blades. Many of our piece is formed. The material from gymnasium. May 20, 1971 Page 19 The bookshelf ______~------Laymen's forum The Bible's Legacy for Womanhood, world." It sets out "to give you in jig by Edith Deen, Doubleday, 1970, $5.95 time the education you missed at slated At SBC The author looks to the great themes school." Very practical a!ld helpful. ' · ST. LOUIS (BP)-A laymen's forum on of the Bible and.the noble women who * * * missions involvement has been planned march through its pages for Living History of Israel, Tyndale, 1970, for june 2 at the Southern Baptist reaffirmation of the divine destiny of $4.95 Convention here by a committee of ' women. She points out that while This is a paraphrasing of ten books of laymen in cooperation with the widespread moral decjly is characteristic the Bible: joshua, Judges, 1-11 Samuel, 1- Southern Baptist Brotherhood of our day that "the simple virtues of II Kings, 1-11 Chronicles, Ezra and Commission. these ancient heroines shine forth as Nehemiah. It covers a period of about The laymen's forum will be held in timeless beacons." 1,000 years and is the final volume of the addition to a previously-announced * * * Living Bible paraphrases by Tyndale. Baptist Men's Conference scheduled on jesus Stood by Us, · Helen .Reagan * * * Monday evening, May 31. A joint Smith, Broad man, 1970, $3.75 Dare to Discipline, by Dr. James program will be printed for both This is a report of inspiring triumph Dobson, TyndaiE:, 1970, $3 .95 meetings, said W. J. Isbell, secretary of over tragedy of families who have lost This book about the management of the men's department for the SBC sons in the Vietnam war. children and young people was written Brotherhood Commission, Memphis. * * * . for parents, teachers, and others who The forum, which will be held on Defrost Your Frozen Assets, by C. W. are charged with the responsibility of Wednesday afternoon during the time Franke, Word 1969,$3.95 guiding and molding the rising scheduled for alumni meetings, will Mr. Franke reminds his readers that generation. begin with a luncheon at 1:15 at the the claims of Christ address themselves * * * Lennox Hotel, 125 Washington St. to the whole man. Here is a down-to- ·. Taylor's Bible Story Book, by Kenneth Isbell and the other members of the earth discussion of the relationship of R. Taylor, Tyndale, 1970, $6.95 . group planning the forum said that Christian faith to contemporary life. The author drew on his personal pastors and laymen and their wives were * * * experience of sharing the Scriptures invited-not just laymen. The Knack of Selling Yourself, by with his own ten children in family "This is not an action meeting, but an James T. Mangan, Dartnell, 1966, $6.95 worship, as he wrote this book. He effort to exchange some ideas," said This is an attempt to "show you how covers the full sweep of the narrative of Elmin Howell of Dallas, coordinator of you can fit in and be a real somebody the Bible, from the creation to the the River Ministry for the Baptist in today's complex society, scoring adventures of the early church. He General Convention of Texas and one of bigger and better achievements than writes in everyday English familiar to the planners. most of the highly trained experts of the children. Another committee member, Owen Cooper, a Y'azoo City, Miss., businessman and former vice president of the SBC, noted that speakers on !he New York Times News Service, floor of the· Southern Baptist May 6, 1971) Convention are permitted only three • Sen. Edward Kennedy, Mass., minutes to express themselves. This says "The United States ranks forum, however, is an opportunity for first in the world in gross na­ laymen to express their- ideas on tional product and military missions involvement and support in CHRISTIAN LIFE COMMISSION, SBC spending, but we are 13th more detail, he said. • The world's military spending­ from the top in infant mortality infla't~d by continuing price and 11th in the number of Alabaman to join increases- reached a peak physicians per inhabitant. Th-e Brotherhood staff last year of approximately Federal Government spends $204 billion, the U.S. Arms $1400 to train each South Clayton Gilbert, Alabama Royal Control and Disarmament Vietnamese soldier, but omly Ambassador secretary, has resigned to Agency said recently. In re­ $54 to educate each American become Crusader consultant for the leasing its fifth annual survey child." What can be done Brotherhood Commission of the of military spending and re­ about it? One method .is con­ Southern Baptist Convention, Memphis, lated data, covering 1969-70, version to a non-war economy. June 1. the agency said this was the Kennedy says "Economic Mr. Gilbert will replace Frank Lawton, equivalent in dollar terms of a conversion . . . emphasizes who resigned- to become minister of year's income produced by the application of technical education and administration for the 1.8 billion people in the skills to our most urgent social Whitehaven Church, Memphis. poorer half of the world's pop­ problems- problems in areas A native of Walker County, Alabama, ulation. In developing coun­ like unemployment, poverty, Gilbert is a graduate of Samford tries the increase in military crime, race, pollution, nutri­ University, Birmingham, and Southern spending since 1964 repre­ tion, housing, health care, Seminary, louisville, where he earned sented, the agency said, "the transportation, education,· and the bachelor of divinity and master of equivalent of three years' ex­ virtually every other aspect of theology degrees. penditure on public education our domestic life." He has served as · Alabama RA for the billion school-age (Friends Committee on Na­ secretary for mor-e than 13 years. Before chil.dren in those countries." tional Legislation Washington coming to the state office, he was pastor (By Benjamin Welles, The Newsletter, May, 1971) of churches in Guston, Ky.; and Maplesville and Tuscaloosa, Ala-. Page 20 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE When God's love is refused International May 23,1971 By Vester E. Wolber Isaiah 5 Religion Department, Ouachita .University In this the first of four lessons from Why did this nation ever get itself sight" are not intellectually conceited so Isaiah it is important that we introduce entangled in a meaningless war? It's much as thfi!y are morally rebellious. the great prophet of Judah. Isaiah spoke downright silly for political leaders to They have declared moral and religious God's message in jerusalem during the blame one another when all1 of us know independence from God and have last 40 years of the eighth century B C., that all of them who were in positions of sought to establish a thorough going while Uzziah, Jothi!m, Ahaz, and leadership were to blame, and all of us humanism. That prevailing system of Hezekiah in succession were kings over who failed to see and/or cry out against humanism doesn't seem to be working Judah. it were blamable. Most of us seem to very well-not in the American society! In his role of spokesman for God he have ,more talent for criticizing than we also served as statesman-advisor to have for confessi'!g. kings and princes in the capitol city. He Why does hatred · eat at the vitals of spelled out to them the will of God for this society causing it to writhe in pain Summer missionaries the nation, and never permitted his like a giant friendly dragor~ that has been drop significantly friendship to sway his judgment nor fed polson?. Instead of trying to ATLANTA (BP)-:-Budget limitations distort his message. find out who poisoned . our friendly have caused a 100-student reduction in dragon we might do better in identifying The song of the vineyard (5:1-7) h h 1 1 1 d the number of student summe~ workers If Isaiah were prophesying today he t e poison. T e Apost e Pau se ecte as appointed this year by the Southern his climactic statement from the Old just might make use of a guitar to gain h Baptist Home Mission Board's the attention of his audiences. In ancient Testament on t e subjl;!ct of sin a department of special mission ministries. jerusalem he composed and sang a song passage from Psalm 36:1 which says A total of 840 students will serve, of four brief stanzas. "Transgression speaks to the wicked compared to 938 last year. Of the 840, deep in his heart; there is no fear of God 1. The first stanza (vs. 1-2) tells a story before his eyes" (Rom. 3:18) 640 are financially supported by the of a ~isapp~inted far~er. As he chanted T~ere you have the answer to God's board and 200 are state Baptist Student !he f~rst lines }e d1d ,~ot reveal the modern question of why things are not Union appointees under the board's 1dent1ty of the beloved w.ho planted, __ working smoothly : we have developed supervision. · protected and nurtured h1s vmeyard. an American brand of humanism which This is the first time that the number of Because the poem may have been sun? doesn't d~ny Go9 so much as it ignores appointees has dropped significantly at a feast of tabernacles, and because It him. The reason why things are not since the program began in 1944, said was sung by a prophet of God the working is that there is little fear of God Emery Smith, associate secretary in the audience probably gave it a religious in the land. board's special mission ministries interpretation at once. If so, they soon 3. The third stanza (vs. 5-6) states department. "The only regret we have is identified the "beloved" as God. God's answer. He would withdraw his that we are not able to appoint as many as were requested," he added. The God planted ch6ice vines on a fertile hand of protection and permit his decrease in appointees has never hill. He digged the soil, carried away the vineyard to be trampled under foot and exceeded five students. rocks, and watched over his vineyard. devoured. He would turn them loose in The range of mission projects to which Having done all that could be done to their sins, withdraw his guiding hand, students are assigned continues insure a good harvest of choice grapes and withhold the rains. to broaden each year, Smith said. For the he prepared a wine vat and awaited the 4. The fourth stanza (v. 7) identifies · first time, three students will work out of harvest. When the ripened fruit turned Israel and Judah as the vineyard that government offices in Washington, D. C. out to be wild grapes his hopes turned reverted to the wild state and produced With their headquarters at Johenning into disappointment. · wild grapes. God expected a harvest of justice and righteousness but found Baptist Center in the nation's capitol, 2. The second stanza (vs. 3-4) asks a bloodshed and violence. they ~ill conduct surveys and do question. "What more was there to do Inverted morality (5:20-21) research to determine how adequately for my vineyard?" God asks. At this point l.n •a series of. woes the prophet the needs of Washington's poor people in the song the author has fully documents the sins of his people (7:8- are b-eing met and to set some priorities identified his "beloved" as the Lord, and 19). At the cente! of their problems was as to which needs are most acute. writes in the first person as if God is a system of· upside-down morality which Other students will work in resort speaking. make evil their good and good their areas and a number of Christian rock The singer has not, however, evil-not unlike some of our modern groups will tour the country. One group identified the vineyard. He has God call varieties of liberal morality. News and will set up a storefront sandwich shop• coffeehouse on Coney Island. Another on the people of Israel and Judah to entertainment media have popularized judge between the Lord and his the idea that the only really moral group will live in migrant camps, worthless vineyard. people who are free from hypocracy are working in the fields during the day' and leading out in Christian-oriented · h · · f those who scoff at moral conventions S u ff errng uman1ty IS orever activities during the evening. sounding its cry toward heaven to ask and get their sex without marital The majority of the students will be why things have gone wrong. Well God, ' entanglements. involved in inner city ministries and Those whom he describes as "wise in too, asks why. "Why did it yield wild many will lead Vacation Bible Schools grapes?" he said. The Lord of this their own eyes, and shrewd in their own and survey work. universe has been trying for several Approximately 1,300 students applied years to get the ear of American people The Outlines of the International Bible Lesson for Christian Teaching, Uniform Series, are copyrighted for appointment this year. Their that he might ask them why things have by the International Council of Religious Education. application revealed a growing mission gone wrong. Used by permission. consciousness, Smith said. · May 20, 1971 Page 21 Sund~Schoollason~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Could it happen here? Life and Work May 23,1971 By C. W. Brockwell, }r. Jeremiah 19;21; 25; 1-14 Minister of Education, Calvary Church, NLR

Americans are divided into two the ordinary prophets of the day said. numerous warnings of God? He groups: those who fear the country will He too proclaimed the fact that God was continually speaks through both men perish from pollution and those who glad they were in Canaan and that he and events but we do not hear. He gives fear the spread of Communism would continue to prosper them. But us "gnawing feelings," "unsatisfied following Vietnam. Both are present when Jeremiah began mentioning the desires," "sudden impulses," and dangers which must be dealt with but condition of absolute allegiance to God, "flashes of lignt," not to mention neither is the real issue of survival. A the people stopped up their ears and "catastrophic happenings" and nation exists only so long as God can use screamed bloody murder. "showers of blessing." Oh if we could it in his plan to bring everything under The true prophet of God today will only see with our eyes and hear with our subjection to his Son. This may not be likewise emphasize God's unchanging ears and know with our heart! too appealing at first glance yet the way condition of righteousness. He is holy 3. God announces the deadline for God uses a nation is always best for it. and he will not long tolerate or a lack of repentance when it passes. At first, Fred Wood, in his book. Fire in my holiness on ou·r part without sincere people will ignore it and at l.east they will Bones, mentions three distinct phases in repentance. also, because they will have gone so far the spiritual decline of a nation or an God will never let anyone defeat an as to be insensitive to God's Spirit. I do individual. First, there is a period when Ameri.ca who recognizes God's not believe the deadline has passed but the lights burn brightly. Second, there is leadership and shares her wealth in it seems to be getting very close. Many a time when .the lights begin to flicker. God's service. Indeed, the only reason are turning to God now and this is a sure Finally, there is a moment when the God calls any nation is to to be a si.gn that God is delaying judgment. lights go out. missionary to all the world. The question But how much longer, only God Opportunity wise, the lights are is, which gospel are we carrying to knows. burning brightly for America. We have mankind? · worldwide communication (via It will happen here! satellite), worldwfde missionaries ·- Following the recent California East German Baptists (soldiers stationed in nearly every area), earthquakes, many people moved away and worldwide readership (newspapers, to a "safer" area. Some settled in demand ,recognition books, and magazines everywhere). Has "tornado alley" or in places where SCHMIEDEBERG, East Germany there ever been a greater day than this drought or floods occur on a regular (BP)-Baptist leaders in East Germany for the spread of the gospel? basis. met with the government's minister for Influence wise, the lights are Other than scientific data, how do you religious affairs here, urging support .for flickering. "Christian" tourists have determine· the security of a nation the calling of a European Security exploited too many people. Our anyway? For example, our nation is such Conference and for official recognition inability to get along here causes a contrast in righteousness and evil. of the German DemocratiC Republic tremendous problems there. Many Popular books and magazines abound in (East Germany). nations still doubt the sincerity of our. suggestive language and pictures yet "We demand that our state receive its quest for peace. look at the number of gospel oriented rightful place in the fellowship of But have the lights gone out for periodicals available today. The airwaves nations and fully participate in the America? Some believe i.t has and they are filled with blasphemy against God solution of the problems facing all are leaving the country daily. Some and all that is decent and also the gospel humanity," the Baptist leaders said. think it will not be long so they get in of Christ. "We support the proposal that both one final fling. What would Jeremiah How much wrong is too much and German states (East and West say? What does God say? how much righteousness is enough? The Germanies) become full members of the It could never happen here! Bible does not say in so many words but United Nations and its constituent The religious leaders of Jeremiah's day it does reveal God's pattern in dealing groups," they continued. The group also assured the people that God would with evil. Here are some guidelines· as urged "equal rights for all nations of never go back on his promise. In that taken from Jeremiah 25. Europe," including official recognition. they were right. But they did not tell the 1. God gives ample time for whole truth. They did not mention the repentance. Jeremiah preached for 23 The meeting of the Baptist Executive fact that God's promise was conditioned years himself on the same subject! It is Board with the government minister of upon their absolute allegiance to him. not that God is weak in closing the religious affairs, Hans Siegewasser, took Thus the people were cheated by their books but that he is strong in keeping place at the new Martin Luther King own leaders because they did not really the books open as long as possible. House, a Baptist center here, according seek the truth. None can ever accuse God of acting too to reports in European Baptist Press When a business advertises an item hastily. He gives every nation plenty of Service and the East German Protestant you can usually rely upon what is said time. news service. about the item as being true. The 2. God sends many warnings before Siegewasser told the Baptist group of .Federal Trade Commission will see to acting. Who could tabulate the the development of the socialist society that. But what is not said is often most in East Germany, speaking of the significant. That is why the buyer must common humanjstic responsibility of explore for himself and determine if the This lesson treatment Is based on the Life and Work Christians and Marxists. He also told of Curriculum for Southern Baptist Churches, copyright price compensates for what is lacking. by The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist political tasks to maintain security in At first Jeremiah said the same thing as Convention. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Europe and peace in the world. Page 22 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Index The unseamly Attendance report A smile or two May9, 1971 0 Sunday Tralnlns Ch. :=~!J~~~~f:e'Z;I~~ ~~~~~:~~fo~ f~ p(I~SI} . 4; Burleson, Churc:h School Union Addns. James, to Kentucky p. 8; Barnes, David, to Arkaderphia, first p. 8; Alexander, First 66 19 1 Bodie, Mrs. Frances, OU FSA award p. 8; "Baptist beliefs," Paul Ralph Davis reports a happening from and Barnabas disagree p. 17; Bates, Carl, urges unity p. 12. Alicia 77 47 "one of the churches of Jacksonville." Arkadelphia, Second 235 213 ~-=-E~~~;~~~~~~h:~~~a~d~~:~e~f" ~Ps> p. 2; El Dorado, One Sunday night a preschooler had Banner, Mt. Zion 65 Park view, observes birthday p. 9. G-Giover, David M., views on church p. 6; Grant, Daniel, an "accident" and her teacher put Berryville article by p.11. First 133 40 M-Missions and prayer, p. 5. training pants on her. When her mother Freeman Heights 114 41 0-0uachita U., what Cooperative Program means top. 11. came for her, the li~tle girl said, "Oh, Rock Springs 94 61 3 5-Stewardshi£, higher commitment (E) p. 3; Stone-Van Blytheville, Calvary 234 93 2 Buren·Searcy ·Ass n to disband p. 5; Sanders, James H., to mother! My· teacher put Training Union Leachville p. 7; Smith, Robin, receives honor to OU p. 7; Swor, Booneville, First 232 180 1 Chester, urges harmony p. 16. pants on me/' · ' ' ~ Camden, First 437 79 T-Jhomas, Larry, ordained p. 8. Cherokee Village Mission 108 25 W-Wilson, Zane, honored at OU p. 7. "' "' "' "' Crossett Good supervision fs the art of getting First 500 125 Mt.Oiive 300 148 2 average people to do·superior work. Dumas, First 219 60 "' "' ~... . t El D0 r.ado I Booze health hazard, Caledonla 40 20 SociallnsecurityJ Ebenezer 125 4,. warns Michigan surgeon Boss: This is the end. You're fired. Temple 40 ' 26 Worker: FiredJ I thought slaves were Farmington, First 116 53 10 sold. Forrest City, First 504 142 NEW ORLEANS - Drinking may be ' Ft.Smlth Enterprise . 30 28 hazardous to your health, says a First 1212 479 1 Michigan surgeon, and such a warning rhe watch Grand Avenue 678 225 4 Moffett Mission 34 label should appear on bottles of Haven Heights 224 116 alcohol. - I bought a watch one day ~ -. Phoenix Village 131 58 2 Charles G. Child, head of the surgery The case, I thought, was gold. Gentry, First 167 92 Grandview 57 33 3 department at the University of The watch, it seemed to be Greenwood, First 220 86 Michigan Medical School, said in a The finest ever sold. ' Hampton, First 165 66 lecture here that overindulgence in Hardy, First 35 22 I carried it about -- Harrison, Eagle Heights 226 52 booze also affects more than the person Helena, First 232 79 that consumes it. In time, it lost its sheen. Hot Springs "After all, when a man smokes Exposed to dust and grime, Emmanuel 85 20 ·11 turned a sickly green. lakeshore Heights 113 43 excessively he hurts only himself," Dr. Mt. Valley 77 30 2 Child said. "But when a man is an Hope, First 423 123 4 I knew a man one time; Jacksonville alcoholic, he hurts himself, he hurts his I thought he was the best. Bayou Meto 142 61 fam il y, he hurts the entire community." When evil tempted him First 365 84 He said he cannot understand why Marshall Road 360 104 He didn't stand the test. Jonesboro people get upset over the injurious Central 411 137 effects of cigarette smoking yet fail to For us to look like gold, Nettleton 261 110 I know, is not enough, lake Hamilton 110 20 see the harmful effects of alcohol. little Rock "I approve of the all-out campaign For time may prove that we Geyer Springs 601 230 6 being staged these days to alert people Are made of cheaper stuff. life line 565 120 3 Carl Ferrell luxora, First 73 22 to the danger of smoking," he said. "But Magnolia, Central 601 175 I'd like to make a plea that equal Marked Tree, First 178 56 concern be accorded the problem of Melbourne A thank you note Belview · 155 79 16 alcoholism." First 167 73 • 2 to Mother Murfreesboro, Mt. Moriah 38 23 Monticello, Second 202 58 By Peggy Vining Norfork, First 105 80 Hobbs hospitalized (Dedicated to her mother, North little Rock Mrs. C. R. Caudle, Eudora Baring Cross 502 142 6 Southside Chapel 26 14 with blood clot Calvary 343 103 For words of wisdom Gravei.Ridge 180 75 And righting my wrongs ... levy 411 114 1 OKLAHOMA CITY, (BP)-Former For prayers at bedtime, Park Hill 715 113 7 Sixteenth Street 42 • 37 Southern Baptist Convention President And good night songs ... Herschel H. Hobbs, pastor of First Paragould, East Side 247 113 For a Christi~n home, Paris, First 345 62 Church here, has been hospitalized with With love and attention ... Pine Bluff a blood clot. Physicians have asked that Centennial 184 75 For proper punishment, East Side 171 116 he cancel all outside engagements until With proper intention. First 644 125 4 September, and that he not return to his Forteachingmehow to be a good wife ... Green Meadows 69 27 pulpit until about July 1. St. Charles 81 34 For all of the words which have Springdale · Although he is no longer in intensive Berry Street 105 48 care, officals at Baptist Hospital here said inspired my life ... First 509 191 For love and for watchcare, Strong, First 169 74 Hobbs could not have visitors or phone Texarkana, Beech Street 420 96 calls. They anticipate dismissal from the Through night and day, Van Buren, First 366 119 For teaching me right, Mission 59 hospital in mid-May. Vandervoort, First 49 29 Hobbs was president ofthe SBC 1961- And then showing the way .. . Warren 63. He was elected president at the 1961 For your good example .. . Immanuel 212 60 The very best kind. Westside 61 33 Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis West Memphis but will not be able to attend the SBC "Thank You", dear Mother ... Calvary 187 72 when it meets in St. Louis June 1-3. I am glad you are mine. Vanderbilt Avenue 89 57· May 20, 1971 Page 23 In the ~orld of religion~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6,000 decline in Study by a German physician British Baptists debunks theories on suicide LONDON (B:P)-;Baptist churches in ULM, West Germany (EP)-An Ulm there was "no connection" between Great Britain report a loss of 6,040 physician who has made a special ~tudy suicide rates and the phases of the members during·the last year, according of suicide has concluded that most 1deas moon, sun-spots, magnetic storms or to the n·ew. yearbook of the Baptist about suicide. are simply false, including other occurrences in the universe. Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Total a belief that Roman Catholics are less As for suicide being "particularly membershi·p in the Union was listed as likely to kill themselves than Protestants. common" among "the very rich," and 268,831 as of Jan. 1, 1970, compared to In an article published in a West "the very poor/' he said, "that is simply 274,871 on Jan. 1, 1969, according to the German medical journal, Deutsches not true." current yearbook. The membership list Arzteblatt, Hans Henseler said the belief includes four independent Baptist that Catholics are less prone to self­ Instead, Dr. Henseler blamed the unions and covers England, Wales, destruction than Protestants "does not "lack of social contacts" for many cases Scotland, both parts of Ireland, and stand up to close examination." of self-destruction, noting that "social isolation" is independent of income. coastal islands. It is true, he said, that s,.uch "Catholic Gains were noted in the Baptist Union countries" as Italy, Portugal and Ireland Another widespread belief, the doctor of Ireland and in the Channel Islands admittedly have "a very low suicide went on, is the belief that most people and Isle of Man. Irish Baptists, rate." But "in the equally Catholic decide to commit suicide "after taking continuing a 30-year trend, gained in countries" of Austria and HL,mgary, stock of their situation." This form of membership from 6,922 to 7,186, while ·"more p,eople commit suicide than in suicide may be common among the Island Baptists' membership 'Protestant' Sweden." "politicians, diplomats, officers and increased from 330 to 358 members. Dr. Henseler also debunked other agents," he observed, but the actual fact Most British Baptists, however, live in widespread beliefs which, he claimed, is "very rare." England and are members of the his investigation led him to conclude "Of our 250 attempted-suicide Baptist Union of Great Britain and were erroneous. patients only two considered suicide as a Ireland. English membership dropped Ruling out "mysterious cosmic deliberate way out of a hopeless from 176,222 to 173,350. . . influences," the physician stated that situation," he added. Wales, second largest m Baptist population, decreased from 74,681 fo --.-----.--~------72,097. Scotland Baptist membership Repres.entat1ves voted _t~at students The Methodist Church, with about dropped from 16,716 to 16,074. prep.anng for ,the mm1stry ~?uld 10,000 members, is the smallest of the · contmue to be exempt from the m1htary three. The Baptist Union numbers about draft. The House action over-rode a 27,000 and the Mission Covenant U.N. agency would recommendation from the House Church (Congregational) counts around decrease 'death penalty' Committee on Armed Services which 90,000 members. , would have made divinity students The joint statement issued by the UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (EP)- The subject to the Selective Service draft by three groups stated that "the delegates Social Committee of the U. N. Economic repealing their former exemption. still voice their conviction that the and Social Council (ECOSOC) has responsibility of the free churches approved a resolution affirming as a Merger discussions toward society demands that the main objective the progressive question of unity between free churches restriction of the number of offenses for dropped in Sweden in different ways be broadened and which capital punishment might be deepened." imposed. STOCKHOLM, Sweden (BP)-T~e The resolution stressed that this Baptist Union of Sweden and two other should be done with a view to the religious bodies in Sweden have broken desirability of abolishing this off discussions about uniting the three punishment in all countries. free church groups. . A vote in the 27-member committee All three groups, the Baptist Union, was 21 in favor, none against, with five the Mission Covenant Church of abstentions, including Hungary and the 'Sweden, and the Methodist Church of Soviet Union. Sweden, issued a statement recognizing "that merger talks may be considered dormant for a while" after the Draft still hovering Methodist Church reported its over some sen,inarians discussions and a majority action of its board. WASHINGTON, D. C. (EP)- Students The Methodist board had voted seven of divinity schools who do not go into to four, with two abstentions, not to the ministry following seminary days will pursue any longer the course toward be eligible for the military draft until closer cooperation with the other two. they are 35, if a proposal from the Senate The talks began in January 1969, Armed Services Committee is enacted according to a report in European into law. Baptist Press Service, and were aimed As far as is known, no opportunity was orginally at a single United Free Church. given to seminary representatives or In October, 1970, the discussions took a religious leaders to meet the Committee new direction, with plans only to before the decisions on the new bill coordinate certain aspects of their work were made. such as publishing, education, social Recently the House of work and missions.