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By Ralph A. Phelps Jr.
,. Three crosses stand on Calvary's hill Amid tumultuous shouts below. Three men die slowly on their trees In bitter anguish, sufferirut so. A robber hangs for crimes he's done And, unrepentant, makes no plea For mercy as he slowly dies, A sinner damned eternally. A second convict also dies But pleads for grace: "Remember me!" A wasted life and nothing more Than Jesus' love to set him free. A guiltless, blameless, perfect man- The third between the convicts stands. The cross of Jesus towers high And lifts the world with nail-pierced hands. Three crosses loom ,against the sky A sinner lost, a sinner saved, And one who died for sin (Praise God!) To free my soul which was enslaved.
~hoto by Louis C. · William,
Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST Arlansa~ Bapfisi--~-'------EniroRIALs ~ prove their point. · ' · The ministers-four )3aptists, one Nazarene .and one Methodist-went. together to verify re~ ports that there was g·ambling and liquor sell~ng Houston or Memphis? in certain private clubs in their county. Accordmg to a report in The Christ1.an Index, Atlanta, their efforts resulted in the confiscation of 16 slot ma THIS is the question, as the Executive Com chines and ''several cases of whiskey,'' in two mittee of the Southern Baptist Convention looks week-end raids they led. for a meeting place for the annual meeting of The action came after Dr. Stanley R. Hahn, SBC for 1969. Having eliminated consideration of pastor of Dublin's First Baptist Church, wrote in other possible sites, the Committee ~ must recom his weeklv church bulletin an article declaring that mend -either Houston o.r Memphis for the 1969 slot. machines, "filthy magazines,., and whisk~y , meeting, in time for approval b~ the Convention sales and ''dirty movies'' were flourishing in the at Atlantic City, N. J., this spnng. city. ( Meeting places and dates previously approved Circuit Court Judge Harold E. Ward re-con are: 1965, Dallas, June 1-4 (where, incidentally, vened the Laurens County grand jury to investi the seating capacity is only 10,000); 1966, Detroit, gate Dr. Hahn's charges. Following the raids he May 24-27; 1967, New Orleans, May 23-26; and led, Dr. Hahn said: "V.le are ready with the full 1968, Jacksonville, Fla., May 21-24. facts to back up our statements.'' Since Memphis expects to have a new and ade Although preachers are not primarily police quate auditorium at its fairgrounds by ~he time· of men-either spiritual or otherwise-it is refresh ·our 1969 meeting, and since Houston IS already ing to hear of these brethren who take seriously adequate, we'd say the Committee will not go their citizenship as well as their oo.ll to preach wrong either way it decides. the gospel. . Will this splendid example be worth anythmg
\ to us here in Arkansas, where the underworld con tinues to thumb its nose at law enforcement, with Two men honored its wide-open operations in Hot Springs T ·
TWO prominent Southern Baptist Convention • leaders will b.e given special recognition for long Lessons tn bombs and distinguished years of service, at a session of I ·the Southern Baptist Convention at Atlantic City, "DYNAMITE will not stop the cause of in May: right," declared Pastor J olui Cross, of the Negro Courts Redford, of Atlanta, who will retire at the end of 1964 as executive secretary of the Home Mission Board; and ,C. C . .Warren, of Charlotte, N. C., who this year completes a dual assignment Jrb,~ llpfilt ,E~:.· ·~:~::. ·;:::. .... as chairman of the committee,planning SBC ac;tivi Evangelical . Press Ass'n ties during the Baptist Jubilee Advance and chair March 19, 1964 Volume 63, Number 12 man of the movement to ·establish $0,000 new SBC churches and missions during this church extension Editor, ERWIN L. McDONALD, Litt. D. project ending this year. Associate Editor, MRS. E. F. STORES . Plaques will be presented to Dr. Redford and Managing Editor, MRS. TED WooDS Dr. Warren, in the re'cognition exercises. Field Representative, J. I. CossEY Secretary to Editor, MRS. HARRY GIBERSON Mail Clet·k, MRs. · WELDON TAYLOR· 401 West Capitol . Little Rock, Arkansas Published weekly except on July 4 and December 26. Preacher (policeman' Second-class postage paid at Little Rock, Arkansas. Individual subscription, $2.26 per year. Church Budget, 14 cents per month or $1.68 per year per church family. Club plan (10 or more paid annually in advance) $1.76 per year. Subscriptions to foreign address, $3.76 per year. Advertising rates on request. -BLASTING gambling and liquor selling in the Articles carrying the author's by-line do not nece8Sal'ily reflect the editorial policy of the paper. dry county of Laurens, Georgia, six Dublin, Ga., AbbJ>eviations used in crediting news Items: BP Baptist Presij; CB Church ministevs tecently assumed the roles of police to Bulletin ; DP Daily Press ; EP Evangelical Press.
MARCH 19, 1964 · ) Page Thre~e :Baptist church bombed in Birmingham, Ala., last ity that makes the irony and gives it its force. Did year-a bombing that took the lives of four girls no one smile as the story was told~ Did no one attending Sund~y School. see the irony with delight¥ Could any one, on the Speaking to the Aqvisory Council of Southern other hand, forget iU A modern teacher wo-q~d Baptists for Work with 1:-1 egroes, in Nashville, re have said, in our jargon, that the Pharisee had cently, Mr. Cross listed these other lessons as no sense of proportion-and no one would have learned from the bombing, still unsolved: thought the remark worth remembering.'' Laws of themselves do not eradicate hatred; Anyone who reads Matthew, Mark. and Luke
When the gospel is not made relevant, it ceases with a relative I freedom from presuppositions to be effective in the hearts and minds of people. might be expected to see that Christ laughed, and Gifts to the bombed church total over $186,- that, He expected others to laugh, says Dr. True 000, exclusive of insurance, and every cent re blood. Anyone reading this new Trueblood book ceived has .been receipted, the pastor said. He will be delighted with its new perspective. . thanked Southern Baptist churches and individu One point Dr, Trueblood makes that we should ais in Birmingham who responded to the tragedy. not overlook is that the humor of Christ is not an He said he continues to receive threatening let end in itself-even His "fun" fitting into the ters and insulting telephone calls. never-~ailing emphasis on the great plan of re· demption. Certainly the preacher who uses hi~ public speaking time, whether as preacher or after dinner speaker, merely to "be funny" without ever getting around to the message God has given him to deliver, is out of bounds.
~Humor of Christ' INCE I frequently attempt to make use of IN THIS ISSUE: humor in this column, it is encouraging to see aS new book by Elton Trueblood, the noted Quaker Bible scholar, entitled The HumQr of Christ, just , published by Harper and Row at $2.50. 'IT seems that it is ·a mutual love affail' be "To many readers," says Dr. True blood, "the tween Arkansas and the J. H. Streets. TQday as idea of Christ as humorous is sur-prising o.:r even Mrs. Street takes off f9r her new home on the mildly shocking." He shows that many of Christ's campus of New Orleans Seminary she bids fare teachings that are either incomprehensible or in well to her Arkansas home but not he'r Arkansas defensible if they are taken seriously, are bril friends (page 6). We are happy to report that Mrs. liantly clear if they are understood humorously. Street's column will continue to appear weekly in As just one example cited by Dr. Trueblood, the Arkansas· Baptist Newsmagazine. take what Christ said about the Pharisees ''strain * * * ing at a gnat and swallowing a camel.'' Dr. True Site for the i969 meeting will be a matter for blood thinks ''swallowing a c;amel is funny in any the SBC Executive Committee to recommend at language.'' He quotes from another writer, T. R. Atlantic City this spring. On page 3, the Editor Glover, who helps to bring out the humor as he looks at the matter of Houston or Memphis. pictures what would happen if a Pharisee actually * * * s:wallowed a camel: Our Sunday School lesson author takes the sub " ... he sets about straining what he is going ject of this week's study an:d composes a poem to drink-another elaborate process, and the series which you may want to clip and file. See ''Three of sensations, as the long hairy neck slid down the Crosses'' on page 2. throat of the Pharisee-all that amplitude of * * * loose-hung anatomy-the hump-two humps MAY 18 is the date, 9 :30 a.m. is the hour for both of them slid down-and he never noticed the opening of the annual Pastors' Conference at and the legs-all of them-with whole outfit of Atlantic City this year. You'll find the full pro knees and big padded feet. The Pharisee swal gram printed in this issue on page 5. lowed a c~mel and never noticed it. (Matt. 23-24- * * * \ 25). It is a mixture of sheer realism with absurd- Cover story, page 10
Page Four ARKANSAS BAPTIST ANNUAL MEETING WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION, SBC
\ May 18-19, 1964 Atlantic City, N.J. Convention Hall
· Mrs. IWbert C. Fling, Cleburne, Tex., president Miss Alma Hunt, Birmingham, exec.utive ;ecretary Claude H. Rhea, Jr., Houston, Tex., music director Theme: For L~berty and Light Scripture: The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5
Monday morning, 9 :30 Special Music, Russian and Polish Baptist .Band Meditation: The Baptist Story Elias L. Golonka, Home Mission Board r · Three Hundred Years Ago Baker James Cauthen, Executive Secretary, For Hymns of Praise and Thanksgiving . eign Mission Board, Richmond, Va. A Hymn of Long Ago-Claude H. Rhea, Jr. "The Lord's Prayer", Malotte,. Audience Organization Recognition of Hostess Committee And Thus It Was Written Tuesday morning, 9 Out of the Past-Eliza Moring Yates, China, Meditation: The Baptist Story 1S46 One Hundred Fifty Years Ago Into the Present-Mrs. Frank Baugh, East Hymns of Praise and Thanksgiving Pakistan A Hymn of Long Ago-Claude H. Rhea, Jr. Solo: Shirley Yang, Hong Kong And Thus It Was Written Keynote Address: The Shining Light, Porter Routh, Nashville Out of the Past-Nannie Bland David, Africa, Closing Meditation: For Liberty and Light 1880 Into the Present-Marjorie Stephens, Nigeria The WMU Story Monday afternoon, 2 The Treasured Ye.ars-Alma Hunt Meditation: The Baptist Story Solo: Shirley Yang Two Hundred Fifty Years Ago "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not Hymns of Praise and Thanksgiving overcome it." John 1 :5 , A Hymn of Long Ago-Claude H. Rhea, Jr. James D. Belote, Hong Kong And Thus It was Written Dan Kong, Honolulu, Hawaii Out of the Past-J. 0. Westrup, Mexico, 1880 Closing Meditation: For Liberty and Light Into the Present-Sistie Givens, Brazil Solo: Shirley Yang "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not Tuesday afternoon, 1 :45 overcome it." John 1:5 Meditation: The Baptist Story The Dick Mefford Family, Mississippi One Hundred Years Ago The Joe Mefford Family, Spain Hymns of Praise and Thanksgiving ·Closing Meditation: For Liberty and Light A Hymn of Long Ago-Claude H. Rhea, Jr. And Thus It Was Written Out of the Past-J. W. D. Creath, Texas, 1846 Monday night, 7 :30 Into the Present-Nathan Porter, Home Mis Meditation: The Baptist Story sion Board, Atlanta Two Hundred Years Ago Business Hymns of Praise and Thanksgiving Election if Officers A Hymn of Long Ago-Claude H. Rhea, Jr. Presentation of Honor Guests-Mrs. R. L. Mathis, Treasurer And Thus It Was Written Women's Department, Baptist World Alliance Out of the Past-Mrs. J. Wash Watts, Palestine, Representatives of the North American Baptist 1922 . Women's Union, Richmond, Va. Into the Present-John D. W. Watts, Switzerland Solo: Shirley Yang Solo: Shirley Yang "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not Appreciation of Courts Redford, Executive Secretary, Home overcome it." John 1:5 Mission Board, Atlanta Mrs. William McMurry, President, "The light shineth in the darkness and the darkness has not North American Baptist Women's Union overcome it." Closing Meditation, For Liberty and Light
MARCH 19, 1964 Page Five Courtship, Marriage and the Home Thankfulness to God for those who laid enduring foundations be fore us and those coming after us to add worthy structure to the London and having a bit of travel building begun- in western Europe as guests of our congregation; These are but a typical few of the man'Y reasons for our rejoic Cooperation of that same group ing that we came to Arkansas! of ,church people with their pas ARKANSAS tor's participation in the Scotland As we move now to Louisiana to Crusade and a subsequent visit to become a part of life at New Or the Holy Land ; leans Seminary, we go with a re- ' .1(/e curring refrain that will be a mel The radiant face of a teacher of ody in our hearts through all the Intermediate boys when one of his years to come: "Arkansas has been class members made a profession so good to us !" of faith, and the significance of his words: "You know, I have taught It is with special delight that I a Sunday-school class and served accept Dr. McDonald's invitation as a deacon in my church for sever to continue writing our column, al years, but this is _the first time I "Courtship, Marriage, and the ever consciously led a person to Home". Let me in turn invite you Christ. I didn't know what an ex to keep alive our lines of eommu IT was springtim_e, in 1954, perience like this would do for a nication, reminding you again when we moved from a neighbor man!" Satisfaction in seeing the that your questions and your re ing state into the commodious, same young man take some of his sponses are the life line of this freshly redecorated pastor's home boys with him week after week to page. provided by the Arkansas church visit a disinterested teenager.... It is my hope that the change whose call my husband had ac The joy of dedicating and oc in address will serve only to cepted. Warm expressions of strengthen the reader-writer rela neighborliness and welcome; trees cupying an educational building erected and equipped to reach, tionship. It is my further hope and flowers at their beautiful that the spirit on campus and as w~n, and train people for Christ; best; an atmosphere of ·culture; sociatiorts with the student body and the people's readiness to co Realization of a dream of many and faculty at New Orleans Semi operate in the work of the church people through many years in a nary will greatly · enhance the val made us from the very beginning Baptist Student ·Union building ue of our page. happy in the privilege of becom- designed to enlist and encourage ing Arkansans. · scores of college students to prac Just as it has' never been our tice the Christian way of life; purpose to be "in competition" Through the ten wonderful with other churches, so . it will years that have slipped away since never be our idea to have other we became transplants from our Opportunities to become serv ing parts of fruitful activities in than the finest appreciation for native state ! into Arkansas, we and good fellowship with all our have accumulated a priceless col the Arkansas Baptist State Con vention .... seminaries. But I do have a dream: lection of vignettes in memory, It is that some of th,e . interested like: Rewarding experiences on col and capable young people who Thirty people going out in an lege campuses where eager youth, read this column will answer God's average evening to visit in the in competent faculties and 'dedicated eall to fulltime, Christian voca terest of the church, then return administrators work toward mak tions and come to New Orleans for ing to sit in an informal circle, ing Arkansas ever a better land of their seminary t~aining! reporting visitation experiences greater opportunity; · I shall look forward to our week ly· visits together through the me and enjoying moments of fellow Under conviction of divine lead ship together; dium of Arkansas Baptisi. ing, the move from a church with Thank you, Arkansas! a long, rich history to a nearby We love you. Men walking down a church young church getting launched on aisle to ·kneel around their pastor the stream of Arkansas Baptist and pr~ with him for guidance life to. fulfill its destiny as a bea in decisiOns and problems to be con light for Christ; et by this particular "group of A veritable ache of gratitude [Mail should be addressed to b~ptized believers;" · for unmerited, concrete expres M11s. Street at New Orleans Bap Inexpressible thrill in the priv sions of Christian love and con tist Theological Seminary, 3939 "lege of representing our church cern on the part of congregations Gentilly Blvd., New Orleans, 26, t the Baptist World Alliance in and friends ; La.]
Page Six ARKANSAS BAPTIST Commends Baptist TV
WASHINGTON-A re,solution com· mending the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission was placed. in the Congressional Record by a South Carolina Congressman.
Rep. W. J. B:ryan Dorn (D., S. C.) inserted the resolution by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association. Dorn, BELIEVER'S baptism means baptism. The latter ( baptisma) a Baptist, said he took "great personal connotes the meaning of baptism pride" in the l'esolution. He stated that the baptism of a believer. Thus the Baptists "have traditionally fought for only person who is eligible for or that which is depicted in the freedom," citing Roger Williams "who ,New Testament act. This is the word which is al founded the State of Rhode Island while baptism is one ways used of Christian baptism. seeking religious ' freedom and indhi dual liberty." who has believed 1 Two scripture passages will suf in Christ as his fice to illustrate tHis. In Romal\s personal Saviour: Dorn said that freedom to broadcast 6:3-6 Paul says that in baptism is as essential .as freedom of speech, This implies that (baptisma) the subject pictures freedom .of assembly and freedom of such a persoh that in which he has believed for the press. The resolution of the South must be capable salvation, namely, the death, bur Carolina Broadcasters Association com· of making a decis mended the Radio and Television Com· ial, and resurr~ction of Christ. He mission for its position. ion of faith for further portrays that which has ' D!l. HOBBS himself. Hence . already happened to him because It further cited The Beam, monthly "infant baptism" is rejected. of his faith. He has d.ied to sin, publication of the commission, as "(1) There is no instance of such in has buried his old life, and has al speaking out on issues of -importance the New Testament. ready been raised to a new life in to free and unfettered use of electronic Furthermore, believer's baptism Christ. Note that "baptized into media, (2) continuing to emphasize the rejects the idea of baptismal .re Jesus Chr.ist ; .. into his death" great amount of good being done in broadcasting ... (3) presenting regular generation. In the New Testament may better read "baptized with features on stations anQ to individual~ only believers received Christian respect to Christ ... with respect who are doing new things ... especiallY'1 baptism (d. Acts 2:41; 8:12; 10:- to his death." We are not bap in th~ field of public service program• 43, 48, 16:31, 33). Acts 2:38 reads tized into Christ; we believe into ing." literally, "Repent, and be baptized Christ. In baptism (its mean . . because of the remission of ing) we symbolize that which has plished through our being in Him sins." Note that only those were already happened because of our through faith. So Peter expresses baptized who "gladly received [or faith. You do not bucy one in order the meaning of baptism both neg believed] his word" (Acts 2 :41). to kill him, but because he is al atively a.nd positively. Negatively, The New Testament teaches that ready dead. Hence baptism sym it is "not the putting away of the we are saved "by grace ... bolizes the burial of that which has filth of the flesh" or our sins. through faith" (Eph. 2 :8), not by already died and ·the resurrection Positively, it is "the answer of a faith plus rite or ceremony. If ·to a new life which one alreadr good conscience toward God." We salvation is by "grace" it cannot possesses. ·' are not baptized in order to be be by any "works" of man (E~h. The second passage is I Peter saved. But if we are saved we 2 :8-9). For the terms are self 3:20-21. Here Peter likens our will want to symbolize that salva contradictory. Works, including salvation to the saving of Noah tion in the• manner prescribed by baptism, are the fruit or the re and his family in the ark. Note the Lord. sult tof being saved not its root or that "wherein" refers to the ark This symbol is present only .in cause. not to the water. They were saved immersion. So New Testame That baptism is a symbol and from or through the water or flood baptism calls for a proper mean not a sacrament is evidenced from by bi:!ing in the ark. They were in ing and a proper mode. If you alte the meaning of the word used for the ark because they had believed the meaning the mode loses it Christian baptism. The Greek lan God's word. Furthermore, "the signifi-cance. If you changi:! th guage has two words rendered like figure" refers to the ark mode the meaning i~? lost. Henc "baptism" ( baptismos and baptis (Christ) not to the water. Like the widespread custom amon ma) . The former refers to the act wise, "baptism" ( baptisma) is the Baptists of rejecting as New Tes of · baptism. It is used only twice meaning not the act of being bap tament baptism that which in the New Testament (Heb. 6 :2; tized. The meaning is that we are changes either the 'mode or the 9:10; not genuine scripture in already in Christ through faith in meaning. For they understan Mark 7:4, 8). In both instances it His death; burial, and' resurrec New Test;:tment baptism to be th refers to Jewish ablutions or cer tion. Therefore, we symbolize also immersion in water and an emer emonial cleansings. It is never used our own death, burial, and resur sion from water of a believer, no in the New Testament of Chris_tian rection which have been accom- as a sacrament but as a symbol. MARCH 19, 1964 Page Seve Middle of the Road The Bookshelf
Dear ed: MISTAKE.S Shore do thank ye fer thet Noted American Duels and Hostile E. artical ye run last week on counters, by Hamilton Cochran, Chil BY J. I. COSSEY ton, 1963, $6.95 tithin in your paper. I ben .Although the outcome of battles hY -A MISTAKE is a fault in an lookin fer somthin on tithin usually affected the course of our lli· to give to Bro. an Sister tory, an ounce of lead has frequen • opinion or judgment. I have made done the same, e.s Mr. Cochran show;: many and serious mistakes and I Jostle fer quite a spell. in this interesting, if sometimes chill have regretted every one of them. They's retired an dont have ing book. I still make mistakes and I still re much mony comin in. They He gives a broad background of eacl ·affair and skillfully sketches the mo gret them. ben feelin sorta down in the mouth cause they couldnt tives tha t impelled the opponents One Sunday morning la·st year, £ace the possibility of killing or being I asked my congregation to turn give like some other folks. I killed. Many of the circumstances are to a certain chapter in the Bible ben tellin them thet the Lord amazing; so are the weapons used, which range from lances and swords to and follow along as I read. I made only specks them to give back only one dollar out of ever shotguns and bowie knives. the mistake of reading another The book is dedicated to "two distin· chapter. Another Sunday morn ten he gives them but some guished Americans whose brilliant ca· ing I preached the same sermon how i wernt doin no good in reers were cut short by untimely and I had preached the preceding Sun getin it throo to them. They unnecessary death on the 'field of hon red your artical an got it or'. . . Alexander Hamilton and Ste daY. No one complained about it. phen Decatur." The first time I ever preached !.n real fast an i never sen no to a brick church, in my nervousness people so happy sinse they lernt thet they is givin jest Yhe American Way of Death, by Jessica I said at the morning service, "We Mitford; Simon and Schuster, 1963, will now have the evening offer as much, in the Lords eys, as $4.95 ing." any body else is. Thank ye Here is an outsp.oken book that has One year I got confused and agin fer the help. created quite a furor across the coun· try, wi~h funeral directors 'being solid preached my Thanksgiving sermon ~])~ ly against it. a week early. If the. book is overdrawn in spots, as I was once entertained in a home The people who do not make mis many a mortician has declared, it none takes are dead people. The most . the less serves to alert the public to the and later the same week I intro possibilities of exploiting ' their . own duced myself to the man who en aggressive and successful people grief, or being exploited, in the sink· tertained me. make the most mistakes. Pastors, in,g of hundreds or thousands of dollars The following are some common denominational men and women, for no better purpose than a sacrifice editors [Be careful, Bro. J. C. to pagan gods. mistakes: The author makes it clear in the fore· A mother of twins heard one ELM] and missionaries make word that she is not dealing with scan crying and the other one laugh ~ mistakes. But, mistakes can be dals such as misuse by occasional under ing. She rushed into the room to stepping stones to outstanding suc takers of the coroner's office to secure cesses. business, or with bribery of hospital find that the laughing child had personnel to "steer" cases, or the ille not been bathed and the crying A doctor or a plumber may bury gal re-use of coffins, fraudulent double twin had been bathed tw~ce. his mistakes but most of us must charges in welfare cases, etc .. Rather, Another amusing case was that face our mistakes and overcome s·he is. dealing with what she regards 6f them. as the outlook and practices of the- "av a young lady on a bus who in erage undertaker, who does adhere to sisted that a man keep his seat, The Bible said, "Be not overcome the code of his callih:g." saying that she was young and did of evil,. but .overcome evil with good." not mind 'standing. The man said, Who Fired the First Shot? and Other "I am getting off at this stop." When you lose something, find Untold Stories of the Civil War, by Another case: "So your son had it. Ashley Halsey, Jr., Hawthorn 1963 $5 • • to leave school on account of poor When you make a mistake, cor rect it. True stories of men and emotions eye sight?" "Yes, he mistook the rather than statistics or battles con: dean of women for a coed." When you talk too loud, tone stitute the theme of this 'book ~n the The . owner of a cheap watch down. Civil War. Many of these were written said to the watch repairman, "I When you talk too low, speak by Mr. Halsey for the Saturday Evening louder. Post, as a part of a series commemor made the mistake of dropping my ating the centennial of the Civil War. atch." The repairman said, When you make a blunder don't The author's intimate knowledge of "Well, I don't suppose you could look back, look forward, victory weapons and military history, combined elp that-the mistake you made is ahead. with ·a fluent style, make this book one was picking it up." ' Preach the truth and you will of the very few to give .such a brilliant, never have' to apologize for it. three-dimensional view of the personal Swift said,"there are few 1 very combats, private emotions, human ' ew, that will own themselves in a "No one ever became great or strengths and human frailties of this is take." good except through many and bloody conflict. All living people make mistakes. great mistakes," said Gladstone. ARKANSAS BAPTIST age Eight ., Arkansas All Over------Tern pie, Cullen dale, observes anniversary Midwestern lectures A BRITISH Baptist preacher will de liver a series of lectures at Midwestern Seminary, Kansas City, March 19-20 and 24-25. He is Dr. G. Henton Davies, president of Reg ent's Park College (Baptist) of Oxford, England, who will be the speaker on the H. I. Hester L e c t u r e s h i p. on Preaching at the seminary. An Old Testament . scholar, Dr. Davies DR. DAVIES will deal with preach- ing the Old Testament. He will speak each morning at 9:30 in the seminary auditorium. His topics are : "Preaching Its Message;" "P.rea-ching lts1 God;" "Preaching Its Miseries;" "Preaching Its Messianism." The lectures will be open to the pub lic.-Reporter
Central Association - Ray to Ridgecrest E. S. RAY has accepted a call to the pastorate of Ridgecrest Church. Mr. Ray the father of J. C. Ray, pastor of Gi lead Church, has been making his home at Montrose.
ALFRED Duncan has resigned as pas tor of Leonard. Street Church to accept a call to Shorewood Hills Church.
RFV. LONNIE Lasater observed his bination, with three bedrooms and two LEONARD Street Church recently or eighth anniversary as pastor of Temple and a half bath faciliti'es. The den and dained as deacons Very! Cooley, Charles Church, Cullendale, March 15. kitchen combination is finished in natu- Davis and Robert Lambert. · Rev. and Mrs. Lonnie Lasater, and · ral mahogany paneling, with fully RECTOR Heights: Church, forme·rly daughter, Wynonne, moved to Camden electric furnishings. There i~ a pastor's from the First Church, Nashville. When study and a utility room co.nnected to Harmony, dedicated its new building they began their ministry here, Temple the double carport. Heating is by a cen recently. Among the speakers were Dr. Church was just siJr months old as a tral controlled heating plant. C. W. Caldwell, superintendent of Mis full-time Southern Baptist Church. sions for the Arkansas State Conven There was a total of 68 resident mem tion, S. A. Wiles, former Central Asso bers at the time'. ciation missionary, Tommy Robertson, Mrs. Wood publishes pastor of Antioch Church, Rev. L. C. D~ring the past eight years, the church ere'cted a new church sanctuary Ward, former interim pastor, and MRS. William H. Wood, active mem George Robinson, pastor. and educational building that is now ber of First Church, }i't. Smith, is the valued at $175,000. This structure con -Hugh Owen,. Missionary author of '"Blueprints for Building a ! sists of a buff brick building that houses Better Way of Life," published this week served as WMU president of her church a fully departmentalized Sunday School by Pioneer Press of Little Rock. and Concord Association. and Training Union organization, along Mrs. Wood has served as a teacher of The publishers describe the new book with the regular church offices and adult ladies for more than 30 years. as "religious, philosophic, sincere, inspi pastor's study. · She hOlds the Teacher''s Master Diploma rational and of cm:rent interest." They The sanctuary is finished in a limba from the S•unday School' Board of the suggest its use in all phases of church paneling with natural finish and can Southern Baptist Convention. She has activity and for personal meditation .. seat . 500 people. The Sunday School has a present enrollment of 230, and the Training Union enrollment is 117. 1The New Arkansas Baptist subscribers church membership is now 250. With the exception of the laying of the brick wall, this building was con Church Pastor Association structed by volunteer labour of the men New Budget after free trial: < of the church, Pastor Lasater reports. First, Williford Simon 0. Norris Black River A second major building project of Westvale, Jonesboro Leonard Bunch Mt. Zion the church was the constuction of a brick pastorium· valued at $26,000. The 3 months free new church: home has a living-dining room com- Silent Grove Dean Sharp Washington-Madison MARCH 19, 1964 Page Nine
~~--- The Palmers--retired, not tired Brown' to Runyan REV. Mel Brown has accepted a call ~ to become p·astor of the Runyan Chap.el at No. 8 Frostwood, North Little Rock, Ark., which was organized as a mis·sion of the First Church of G,ravel Ridge during a tent revival last September. Mr. Brown is a 1963 graduate of Ouachita College and is from Trumann. . While still a high school student he was pastor of McCormack Church, Trumann; in Trinity Association. While attending college he was pastor of Mt. Moriah Church near Murphrees boro, and later of the Sulphur Springs Church, near Big Fork. Since graduation from college he has been serving as interim pastor of East Side Church, Trumann, and working as sports editor for the Morrilton Demo crat. Mr. Brown plans to ·Study at South western Seminary, Fort Worth, Tex., beginning in September of this year. He will commute each week between North Little Rock and Fort Worth.
The Cover . REV. and Mrs. Palmer have coffee, backed by a display of Christmas cards which they enjoy until· the· ~GJBter season, bringing to mind for several montha the friends who remembered at the Yule season.
RETIRED but not tired wa·s the way miS'sionary, a position he held until his Rev. H. D. Palmer of Perryville des retirement. cribed .himself and- his wife in a recent. During his ' mission work Mr. Palmer interview with Editor Bonnie R. Holland organized seven churches, including one of the PERRY COUNT!' NEWS. of the most recent, the Stony Point Church northeast of Houston. Three of Portions of the printed· interview: the others were in the Conway-Perry Relaxing with wife "Babe" at his side Association. He has. pastored churches on the living room sofa. Brother Palmer in Oklahoma, West Virginia and Arkan pointedly remarked,"We are busier now sas and during his tenure numerous than we have ever been." Sunday Schools and Training Unions Ae a salesman, H. D. 'Palmer, came in were organized. contact with Miss Electa Lamkin who . The Palmers have specialized in Va at the time was a secretary for a firm cation Bible Schools and are still very which brought the two together. She ·active in this phase of church work. was ·a daughter of Dr. L. E. Lamkin, They were the first in the State of Ark a Tex~s evangelist who pastored First ansas out 'of 48 associations to attain Baptist Church at Hou~tton for seven the 100 per cent Bible School record. _years. For years· the Palmers lived atl Perry, moving to Perryville in November, 1960, )ir~ Palmer was born in Georgia some 74 years ago. His father was a member having purchased and remodeled a home of a Methodist Church which was organ they bought from the Harvey Brewers. He still performs wedd-ings, conducts ized by John Wesley and George Whit THIS scene from the table in field near Oconee ·and Savannah, Geor funerals, serves as sppply minister, and gia. His mother was a member of the works with all pastors and the current · the Upper' Room where the Lord's . Ohri.stian Church. missionary, George Fletcher: memorial supper was begun shows the two extremes among Jesus' Both Mr. and Mrs.. Palmer attended Blevins to Oklahoma Southwestern Seminary at Forth ·Worth disciples - Judas Iscariot, the be in 1929. He was ordained in 1933. REV. Dexter Blevins, pastor of Park trayer, and John, the "disciple On April 1, 1943, Mr. Palmer cal'l)e to Place Church, Hot Springs, since 1959,' whom Jesus loved." This unusual Arkansas from Barboursville, W. Va., has resigned to accept the pastorate of Easter drama in "The Answer" accepting the missionary position for Trinity Church, Norman, Okla. television series was filmed by Current River-Gainsville A-ssociation at Mr. Blevins, a native of Prescott, Corning. From there he went to Black is a graduate of Ouachita College and Southern Baptists' Radio-TV Com River Association at Kennett, Mo., and Southwestern Seminary. mission in }?ort Worth Qsing the then to Black River Association in Ar During his Hot Springs ministry, the famous Stubergh wax interpreta kansas and to Poplar Bluff, Mo. church membership has increased by 500, the building has been air-conditioned, a tion of da Vinci's painting of "The He was called to Perry County in Dec parking lot was purchased, the parson Last Supper.' ~ See this film on ember, 1947,. where he served as mis~ion age remodel~ and the auditorium car Easter Sunday o'ver KFSA-TV, Ft. ary . for Perry County Association for peted. Smith at 4:30 p.m., or KTHV, two years. When the Conway-Perry Mr. Blevins is married arid the fa Association was formed he became ther of three children. Little Rock, at 12:30 p.m. Page Ten ARKANSAS BAPTIST Revival's FIRST Church, Heber Springs, Feb. HOUSING FOR STATE CONVENTION 18-Mar. 1; Fred T. Cherry, Oklahoma City, evangelist; David Blaylock, Mem El Dorado. Arkansas Nov. 2-5 phis, singer; 8 by baptism; 4 by letter; Walter N. Hill, pastor. Hotels: NAME ADDRESS Rufus Garrett Hotel 114 S. Washington CRYSTAL HILL, North Little Rock, Randolph Hotel 200 S. W ashingtort Apr. 27-May 3; Gerald Jones, pa~tor, Motels: Immanuel Church, Forrest City, evan gelist; Kenneth Davis, Crystal Hill NAME & ADDRESS Single Double Twin ·Church, music director; Ralph Raines, Canary Court 4.00 5.00 6.00 pastor. · 1010 North West Ave. Flamingo Motel 7.50 AUSTIN Station Church, Feb. 23- 6.00 9.50 Mar. 1; Paul Pearson; pastor, evange 420 S. West Ave. ' list; Herbert "Red" 'Johnson, .singer; 4 H9liday Inn 6.50-8.50 8.50-10.00 10.00-12.50 for baptism ·and 1 by letter. 301 W. Hillsboro Melrose Court 3.75 5.00 6.50 Sixteenth Street Church, 2201 W. 16th, 1520 N. West Ave. North Little Rock, Mar. lo-""22; Mac Brown, Crystal Valley ·Church, evange Rose Haven Motel 4.00 6.00 7.00 list; Mr. and Mrs. . Harry Evans, song Smackover Hywy. leader and pianist; E. 0. ·McElroy, pas Shankles Motel 4.00 5.00 7.00 tor. Junction City Hywy. Town House Motel 5.00 -7.00 8.00 MT. OLIVE Church, Crossett, Mar. 2-8; Jack Parchman, Mt. Pleasant, Tex., 421 S. West Ave. evangelist; Ray Shoop, church music Whitehall Courts 5.00-8.00 8.00-10.00 10.00' director, song leader; 20 saved (19 840 W. Hillsboro St. joined church); 2 by lett!lr; 25 rededi White Sands Motel 4.00 6.00 7.00 cations; 10 pledged to establish family altar; 50 young' people took a stand 1510 Junction City Hywy. against dancing and drinking; Carroll THE Arkansas Baptist State Convention will be meeting in Evans, pastor. El Dorado, Nov. 2-5, 1964. Listed here are available hotels and MOTELS. We woul~ suggest that you make y Briggs on faculty PHILIP H. Briggs, program director at Second Church, Little Rock, will serve on the Youth Conference faculty at Ridgecrest Assembly July 2-8, 1964. 'The invitation was extended by the Baptist Sunday School Board Training Union Department. MRS. Marie Foreman has joined the staff of Second Church, Little Rock, as church receptionist and youth coordi nator. Record aHendance THE RUBY JURY- FIVE WERE BAPTISTS: . THE jury that found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey OswOJld contained five Baptists. They ·uNION ·Church, El Dorado, had a re are, left to right, Luther Gene Dickerson, one of the Baptists; Mt·s. Mildred MC cord Sunday School and worship ser Collum; Max Causey, a Baptist; Mrs. Aileen B. ~heilds; R. J. Fletcher Jr.; Mrs. vice attendance on March 1. Gwen English, a Baptist; J. G. Holton; Douglas J. Sowell; James E. Cunningham; They were not in a revival, they were J. Waymon Rose; Mrs. Louis Malone, a Baptist; and Allen W. McCoy, a Baptist. not trying to win a banner, they were Ruby hOJs appealed the death Sf!ntence. (Dallas Times-Herald Photo by Eamon not in any kind of contest with another Kennedy via Baptist Press.)· church. Many members commented, "That's the was 150. They had only one motive: To see what first' time I ever saw the balcony full The people of Union Church will re one big visitation effort would do. It except for funeral!f." The previous re member this as an example of what resulted in 254 in Sunday School and cord in Sunday School was. 223, set in dedicated visitation can and will do. more than 300 in the worship service. 1958. Average attendmree for February Pastor Carter Tucker MARCH 19, 1964 · Page Eleven SBC News and Notes------BY the BJ\PTIST PRESS secretary, A. B. Cash. Cash assured them they could Vermont church begins could do mission work in Vermont. . through layman's work .Once established in the city, contact was made again with Cash, who relayed the newsI to Dav1d• Perkins, then pastoral missionary in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Thus was set in motion a chain of events which resulted in the first Southern Baptist church· in Ver mont, the last of the 50 states to report a· church affiliated with the SEC. . r In February, 1961, the first fellowship meeting .was held in the Anderson home. Perkins conducted services that included other Southern Baptists: some were married to Vermont natives, ~orne were· Ver monters who became Christians while attending Bap- ' tist churches in the south. A local radio station agreed to broadcast the "Baptist Hour"; summer missionaries came for sur vey and vacation Bible schools, even to preach at the mission. . Leaving the Anderson home, the meetings were held in the Grange Hall until a five-room house was purchased. Now a site has been bought and plans HERE'S WHY SBC NOW IN 50- Laymen hrove leading drawn for a building. roles in So ~them Baptistj/ accelerating 'pioneer missions thrust in the East, North and West. R. L. Anderson was transferred from Alab111ma to Burlington, Vt., by his em Perkins came as pastor of the mission in Jan ployers. Ultimate result: formation of the South Burlington uary, 1963, and in July the mission became. the Baptist Church, first fo?' the Convention in Vermont, and South Burlington Baptist Church. -since Vermont was then the only state without 111ny SBC "We made the mistake of emphasizing Southern a,ffiliated churc"'t--the report '()f Southern Baptists hlllving chU?·ches in every state in the U. S.-(BP) Photo Baptists at first," Anderson said. "Vermont has had little migration from other areas. It is mostly third and fourth generation Vermonters. After you have beep.· here 10 years, they decide maybe Y Page Twelve ARKANSAS BAPTIST Cooperative Program up SS Board says Reynold~ misquoted NASHVILLE- Cooperative Program receipts for Southern Baptist Conven tion agencies continue to run nearly 10 per cent higher than for the first· two NASHVILLE- Misquotation of a the "theology" statement, which he did months of 1963. Sunday School Board music authority not make. A rep.ort from SBC Treasurer Porter by a New York ·City-based news service "I told Mr. Woolsey that preachers Routh here shows $3,596,533 received in has puzzled Southern Baptists who ap were not preaching as 'many sermons January and February, 1964, from preciate the sound theological position on heaven today as they used to," states state Baptist convention offices through of the Board's church music ministry. Dr. Reynolds. "Since the well-planned the 'Cooperative Program. This is 9.5 William J . Reynolds, director of worship serviCe provides music to sup per cent ·above 'the $3,284,377 for the the Board's church music department port and illumine the serll)on topic, fewer first two months of the previous year . . editorial services, was interviewed .for sermons on 'heaven' reJ;ult in use of During February, the amount was the Feb. 11 "Louisville Times" by Bill fewer hymns on the subject." $1,768,375 compared with $l,S28,157 in Woolsey, . reporter for the newspaper. Sev.eral state papers have used the January and $1,656,3.77 the previous Woolsey, not a Baptist, quoted Dr. erroneous R.eligious News Service re February' Reynolds to the -effect that "We used lease without being aware of its in Lottie Moon Christmas Offering ~unds to sing a lot of 'Heaven' songs in accuracy. The Baptist Message of Louisi for foreign missions continued, too, to church." The interview then went on to ana paraphrased the story based on the pour in from the states. Ne~rly $5-% insert a statement. that was his own, published interview and came up with; million in designations during February, not Dr. Reynolds' . . "In the theology "He [Reynolds] charged that changes 1964, included only about $30,000 for taught today, Heaven is an abstraction, in wor~ meanings and modern theo agencies other than the Foreign Mission which makes these hymns naive by cur logy. are making some famous hymns Board. rent standards," stated Mr. Woolsey. ou:t-dated.". This paper called the inter Close to $7-% million in designations This was neither stated nor_ implied by view, "an RNS interview," which-it wa-s has been forwarded to the Foreign Mis Dr. Reynolds. not. sion Board in January and February, The Religious News Service, in a 1964-nearly all of that Lottie Moon release dated Feb. 14, q~oted Dr. Rey Baptist Standard of Texas had Reyn gifts. IlOlds incorrectly by attributing to him olds telling reporters that certain hymns Designations for the two months "are going out of date because heaven of 1964 total $7,768,834, compared with in today's theology is an -abstraction $7,653,226 for the like period of 1963, which makes ·these old hymns seem a gain of 1.51 p.er cent. Christians lukewarm? naive." The Texas paper, of course, had The Foreign Mission Board's funds for no way of knowing that Dr. Reynolds' February, 19:64, included $5,!213,622 WACO, Tex.-Christians don't care position' was misrepresented by RNS. through Lottie Moon and other de as passionately about their faith as do Other state papers, using the erro signations and $888,785 from the Co the Communists, said former Minnesota neous RNS report, left similarly mis- operative Program, according to the Congressman Walter H. Judd in a lec taken impressions. _ treasurer's report. ture• at Baylor University here. The Sunday School Board had staffed "Communism is a faith," Judd said, the music conference with five persons "The conflict between Christianity and Old Testament town from thE! office of denominational rela communism is a conflict between two tions, the official Board office for news has Baptist church sets of values, two philosophies of life, releases to state and secular papers. and two faiths." "The choice of_ the state paper editors ISRAEL-When Southern Baptist Mis Speaking at the W. R. White lecture sionary James W. Smith moved to Na to use the RNS material rather than s·eries, Judd chided Christians in Amer that supplied by the Sund-ay School zareth, Israel, in 1962, his first visitor ica because they - "are not trying to was Mousa Hanna, who came to insist Board is one that each editor .has per change the world, but just to enjoy it fect freedom to make, of course," said that Baptist work be started in his vil ... They don't really want peace, but 1 Gomer R. .Lesch, director of the office lage, Ramah. On February 15, this only to live in peace." . year, 13 Baptists in Ramah · organized of denominational relations. ''It is un A former Methodist medical mission fortunate, however, that such mis a church. ary to China, Judd said Christians in leading impressions can be given by Missionary Vf. Chandler Lanier des America need to recapture their faith cribes the· village: "Ramah abounds with material which is not factually accu and rediscover their principles .. rate."-Sunday School Board Release olive presses. An unforgetta):>le sight is "We are to 'seek ye first the kingdom the water used to wash the olives, mixed of God' and not seek first peace, pros with the black olive JUICe, flowing perity,. security or democracy," Judd Department consultant through the streets like a stream. said. "The latter things are by-products. Ramah is mentioned often in the Old We are to seek first God's right rela NASHVILLE-J. Elvin Reeves, recent Testament, especially in I Samuel, and tions," he said. ly appointed a consultant in the Church once in the New Testament, in Matthew Administration department of the Sun 2:18, in reference to the children slain Evangelists meeting· day School Board, in Bethlehem." began his new work THE conference of Southern Baptist March 2. Joint prayer meeting Evangelists has announced its ninth an Mr. Reeves will nual meeting, a breakfast, May 20 in have field engage WASHINGTON - A Catholic-Prot Atlantic City, N. J., prior to opening' ments, conduct re estant prayer service attended by 1000 of the Southern Baptist Convention. search, and develop persons in Bogota, Colombia has been Meeting place is the Holiday Room administrative pro p,raised by the country's largest daily of Midtown Motor Inn, 7 to 9:30 a.m. cesses and materials newspaper,, El Tiempo, according to a Robert G. Lee, Memphis, is president. for use by churches. news story from the Bureau of Infor Lee, former SB-C president, and Wayne For the past two mation 'of the National Catholic Wel Dehoney, pastor, First Church, Jackson, and a half years, he fare Conference here. Tenn., will speak. has served as a con- In a land where Catholics long have While the meeting is primarily for MR . REEVES s U 1 t a n t in the been accused of persecuting Protestants, those who are full-time in evangelistic Church Li'brary department. Before El Tiempo reported that "the bell of work as preachers or singers, the con coming to the Board in 1961, he was reconciliation has sounded also in Co ference has invited Baptist pastors I to assistant pastor of Daniel Memorial Bap lombia." attend. tist Church, Jackson, Miss. MARCH 19, 1964 P·rse Thirteen Departments------F mmda t?:on Before it's too late ... It's too late to lock the barn after the horse is stolen! But you. don't own a horse? Well, the principle still holds true. There are some things you can still wait too long to do. Such as writing your will. More and more, sensible people are taking time for estate planning. They know that death is inevitable, and that it plays no favorites. Death does not always wait for old age. Often it takes the young. And once death comes, it is too late to decide how your property is· to be divided. If you want to have a part in that decision, you must do it now-while you are well and of a sound mind1• "Treasures in Heaven" is a straight-from-the-shoulder film which begins with a visit of Joe and Mary Anderson to their lawyer, Will Watson. When he-suggests a will, they shrug their shoulders, with the old excuse, "We have plenty of time." · In reply, Lawyer Watson cites three incidents from his practice that il-. lusti·ate the need for wills on the part of everyone. This film is available free of charge upon request. You might use the follow- ing form to request the film for your church. ,Arkansas Baptist Foundation 401 West Capitol · We would like to have the film 1 LEE ROLLA WAY, Ouachita senior, "Treasures in Heaven" to show in is editor of the 1964 Baptist Student our church either date. Annual which will preview BSU work on seventeen Arkansas campuses. Lee 1st choice is president of Swte Student Govern ment Association and is the son of Mr. 2nd choice and Mrs. Ernest Lee Holloway, South ern Baptist missiona1·ies in Japan. -[om J. Logue, Direct·or Pastor Evangelism Church Tmining Union the six guides is the use of learning \ How long has it been? aid.s. Another guide is relating the pro gram to the unit of study each Sun- Learning improvement ' day night. By JACK STANTON Many associations will likely use DURING Feb. 10-14 the Training some regular associational meeting for HOW LONG has it been since you Union Department workers, state ap this clinic. The associational missionacy helped a lost person find Christ. as Sav proved workers, the eight district repre or associational Training Union direc ior and Lord? Every Christian is to be sentatives, and oth tor should contact the district Training a soul-winner. The lost wait for your ers attended the Union representative of you.r district. witness. No one, no matter how skilled Lear-ning Improve -Ralph W. Davis or trained, can take your place. ment C 1 i n i c at Witnessing is grounded in the very Tulsa, Okla. nature of the Christian life. A born The eight district Brothe-;·hood again believer walking daily with his representatives have Lord will tell what he has heard, seen condensed the mate and knows of the Word of Life. rial and information· State RA Congress Witnessing is sharing Christ. It is that they received confronting the lost with the "good in Tulsa and are INTERESTING PLANS are being ne'vs" of Jesus Christ. prepared to go to made for the State Royal Ambassador Congress scheduled to be held on May Many people cultivate the lost by es R DAVIS a!~~ assoc~ation ~e- tablishing friendly rel•ations, inviting M • ..- s1rmg their serviCe 1-2. The Cong.ress them to church, etc., but never confront for a one-night clinic of 1 'h hours some will meet with the them with the claims of Christ and ask night during Aprii or May. South H i g h 1 a n d for a decision. In these one-night clinics, a worker '" Church in Little Sometimes Christians attempt to ex would explain how to change "program" d-lilll• ..-!11&. Rock. cuse themselves from soril-wi.nning by to "learning experiences," and how to There will be three magnifying their inabilities and forget use the six guides in planning for sessions of the Con ting God's abilities. learning. Such a one-night clinic would gress. The fi~st ses Many resources are available for the be designed to help. all local Training sion will begin at 3 earnest witness. Christ has p.romised to Union workers esp.ecially from Junior p.m. on Friday aft go with us. The Holy Spirit will prepare departments up to improve the quality ernoon, the second the way, guide, empower, call things to of their programs. For example,. one of session will begin at our remembrance, bring conviction, re 6 :45; · and the final veal Christ, and cause the new birth. will help one become a more effective MR. SEATON session will open at Participation in the Sunday School witness. 1 9 a.m. and close at noon on Saturday. Witnessing Campaign ·and the Cultiva Tell someone of Christ today.-J esse Each of the three sessions will be tive Commitment •Witnessing program S. Reed, Director of Evangelism packed with interesting activities, mis- Page Four\~en ARKANSAS BAPIIIST sion information and messages, and in Annuity Board Sunday School spirational messages. Of course, there will be a time for fellowship with friends from over the state and an op Study Course A ward portunity to meet and make new No potato peelin' on friends. the back porch for him! EFFECTIVE NOW, the Sunday Rev. Clarence Allison, missionary to School Board has · available a new in East Africa and native of Arkansas, quiry service to churches and individ will be one of the mission speakers. Mr. By BETTY ENSMINGER uals desiring Church Allison and family are home on a fur Annuity Board Staff ·Writer Study ·Course record lough and are living in Little Rock. He information. T h i s has had many interesting experiences AFTER 48 years as pastor, Minor service will provide on the mission field that he will share Cole expected to rest and relax when he the complete record with us along with a great challenge retired, but this proved to be a mi'l of awards earned by to our · hearts. conception. individuals. A church There will be other speakers that we Now in his third interim pastorate, may request the rec will announce later. E\rery pastor, ~du Cole has stayed almost as busy as he ord of all its mem cational director, counselor, Royal Am did before he retired. He says he feels bers, or an individu bassador leader, and Brotherhood pres• he has rendered a definite service to al may request his ident should attend and urge every boy these churches by helping them get personal record. from Royal Ambassador chapters and ready for their pastors. A charge of 10 the church to attend. The men of the During his first year following his MR. HATFIELD cents for each indi- Royal Ambassador committee and the retirement in October, 1962, , Cole vidual's record will be made to churche~C' church should assist with the transp(>r preached 36 Sundays in eight different for this service. A charge of 25 cents tation and make it possible fQr the boys· churches, conducted one revival, preached for each individual's record will be to attend. The group working together nine funerals and performed five wed made to individuals requesting . this can.make this one of the best attended dings. service. Royal Ambassador and Baptist boys' But he and LaBerta, his wife for 36 Requests by churches should be made meetings ever held in the state. years, enjoy every- minute of his busy on postal cards. Print plainly the name At a later date more information re life. and address of the church. The church garding the Congress will be mailed di "lt would make anyone happy to feel is not required to list the names of rectly to each pastor and counselor. so wanted and useful," he said. the people. The records will .c·ome to you Let's work to get a large group of He and Mrs. Cole also managed to on a long sheet, a continuous listing. boys present for this mission emphasis take three weeks out of their busy sched A request from an individual must in and inspiration. It will make an impact ule to visit the two daughters and six clude his name, the name and address on their lives and they in turn will grandchildren in Lo.uisiana and Texas, of his church, and payment for the make a tremendoos impact on the. mem and another three weeks for a trip to service. Address requests to·: bers of their church and people of the Los Angeles and the West Coast. Church Study Course Awards Office community. We will be looking for you! · , The few hours they could sandwich in Baptist Sunday School Board -C. H. Seaton, Associate · ~ecretary between .were spent in equipping their 127 Ninth Avenue, North new home and beautifying the lawn. Nashville, Tennessee 3703 They bought the home in Pine Bluff -Lawson Hatfield, State Sunday Race Relations when he retired, in order to be near School Secretary friends. It's also near three ehurches ' where he had served a total of 32 years ity now is due to the fact that we pre Wanted! and Cole feels this is one of the reasons pared financially for this time," said he's been kept so busy. Cole, who receives a retirement check SOME one to live on the grounds of All this has left him very little time each month from the Annuity Board our Negro Baptist Camp now being de- _ for the two things he expected to do in Dallas, Texas. · veloped. This is the old RA Camp 18 most ·in retirement, hunting and fishing. "No real man ever wants to peel . or 20 miles out of He's loved these outdoor sports ever potatoes on his. &m-in-law's back porch, Little Rock * mile since he was a boy growing up on a and thanks to our check, my wife and off of 12th Street Louisiana sugar cane farm. I will never have ·to." Pike, (near Fern Reared in a devout Christian home (Continued on page 16) dale). near F·armersville, Cole was the last of This would be a · 10 children. The church was a mile away Baylor Sports-Recreation Camps good situation for a he said, but the Cole family waa always retired man or cou there. ' ple in good health. Boys " I helped provide for myself and the 8-16 It would not be sat family from the time I was in the lOth isfactory for some grade,'' Cole said. Fundamentals one in bad health or He believes most teen-agers today and Skills in with children of have it too easy. "There's no substitute Baseball-Basketball DR. IIAIT school age. A house for the school of hard knock's to build with lights and water will be provided a real man," he says. Football·Trac:k free. This couple could be either white Cole feels that if the energy of these by or Negro. young people could be directed into do Baylor University If interested please contact Clyde ing useful things it would solve a lot Coaches Hart, Baptist Building, Room 205 (ph. of problems. They need to be encouraged FR 6-2391) Little Rock.-Clyde Hart, to spend more time preparing for life, JUNE-JULY -AUGUST Director he said, and iess titne worrying about a car and a wife, or husband. Write: Atheist indoctrination He has some firm convictions about '.1 financial preparation for the future, too. Dept. of LONDON (E:P)-All unit of the "The foundation a man lays in the Physicai Education Polish armed forces are being deluged morning of life determines ~ his joys and "SPORTS" with massive anti-religious propaganda, usefulness in the noontime and evening Baylor University according to recent arrivals here from of life," he s-aid. . · · the Communist-ruled country. "Much of our happines·s and., secur- Waco, Texas M'fCH 19, 1964 lrt'qe Fifteen (Continu~ from page 15) He says he hopes every preacher and enominational work~r will take advan tage of the plan. "Those who do will . never be sorry, but those who do not may have years to regret it." Cole, who has served as pastor in Huttig, Warren, Forrest City and Dumas, .A-rkansas, as well as in ~u - ' isiana aJI,d Texas, has baptized about 5,000 .people. "But if I had my life to live over again, I would certainly want to better my record," he said. He would also put more emphasis on training o,thers to be soul winners. "That's where a preacher ·can multiply his effectiveness," he said. When asked to compare the preach ing of today with the days when h~t fil'St started preaching, h~ said he would not want to be critical of the many wonderful and faithful preachers today, but he has regretfully observed a ten dency to more intellectual and leas spir itual preaching. He admonishes young preachers to preach God's word ·and love the .people: "The world is hungry for love," he said, "and 'love never faileth.' " The preacher poet L.ooks and looks WHAT'S I A look to earth, a look to heaven, HIGH IN How many look~ to man is given! VALUE A look that stops one in his track; A look that means no turning YET LOW back, IN PRICE? A look that stabs a bleeding·heart; A. look to more than's said im part; A look no coldness can defy ; A loo~ that shuts the mouth's r,eply; A iook one never can forget E'en tho the sun of life ha.s let; A healing look that cures a wound; A look of sunshine, round on round; IT'S YOUR ELECTRIC SERVICE! A look accepted, multiplied, In spreading love is occupied; You're using many more electric servants these A look of fear, a look of grief; days, and living better in many ways. And while A smiling look of glad relief ; your electric bill might be bigger than it used to A look that brings :a deathly chill; be; you're getting much more electricity per dollar A look that breaks a stubborn than eve'r before. will; When you add up the full value of all the good · A look of joy, a look of peace; living electricity brings you, you'll find it's just A look, the inner man's release. about your family's biggest bargain! The whole round' world is filled with looks Of good, of bad, Of saints, or crooks. How great the power of face and eye To bring us joy or make us cry! -W. B. O'Neal Page Sixte~ n ( ARKANSAS BAPtiST Missions-Evangelism MISSIONS IN ARKANSAS Missions secretary report JANUARY AND February were very · Census at Big Flat busy and interesting months to this servant of yours. A great variety of THE BIG Flat Mission, sponsored by Church is sponsoring the mission. The things claimed my Eastside ·Church of Mountain Home, ·first service was held Sept. 8, with an time. desires a pastor and will need financial attendance of 35. On Sunday, Feb. 16, It wa-5 my delight help in securing one. The Mission is 54 your --superintendent of· State Missions to participate in five miles south of Mountain Home, 30 visited the ·mission unannounced and association Evange ·miles east of Calico Rock, 10 miles saw 75 present in Sunday School and lism clinic$. I could north of Kimbro and 21 miles east of about 85 in the worship service. Of detect a rising fervor Marshall. those attending the mission only 16 for evangelism. Our A census of the community .revealed came out of the Lake Hamilton church. Jubilee ~¥ivals will the following: Assembly of God 73; It is our prediction that the mission help to ·put us back Church of Christ 56; Baptists 41; un will average above 100 by the end of to the main task saved 173. All of these are within a this year. winning people to radius of 2% miles. The mission at Christ. present is reaching about 25. DR. CALD)YELL It has been my Conversion at State privilege .to present our State Sanatorium Mtssiqn Program to the Caroline Report from Tulip WMU Associational Meeting; to an CHAPLAIN BOYD Baker in giving associational youth rally in White River IT WAS at Tulip that our State Con his monthly report tells of an interest Association· and to First Church, Mari vention was organized. in 1848. For ing conversion as follows: anna. As ~ res.ult of these services, I some reason the Baptist ·Church died. "Witnessed three cqnversions-one heard ·the following comment over and Last September the Tulip Mission, was a death bed situation but very real. over again: "I didn't realize we we.re which was begun a few years ago, was The man had been here 15 or 18 doing so much." constituted as a church. Mrs: Frank months and was cold to aU approaches. Surveys claimed some of my time, Caughinan writes: " I am proud of all Sensing· that he was getting weaker that is, a look at areas where there that has been accomplished at Tulip, but rapidly, ·I want to his room about 6 might be needs for new work. With the. the thing I rejoice in most, is that I p. m. one Sunday. He was interested Missions Committee of Mt. Zion Asso have seen seven mature adults (includ and concerned. I explained the way of ciation we scouted Jonesboro and pin ing my husband) baptized on their salvation and· asked him to pray for pointed a few places. With the mission profession of faith into o'ur fellowship. himself as I ·prayed. His- breath was so ary an.d mission3 chairman of Faulkner Our possibilities of growing may not be short that he spoke in whispers and Association we looked over areas of great but I feel like Tulip Community with great difficulty, but he said, "I'll that county. I also made .quick surveys needs a Baptist church more than any do whatever you say." After prayer he in Hardy, Mountain Home and Little thing else and I hope we may be able said, "I did what you said and I feel Rock. . to continue." alright." After I left he had his nurse Church dedications 'have been another This church received $40 per month call the day supervisor who had gone interesting part of my work. I 'was with .Isupplement on pasto1.·'s salary. off duty at 3 p. m. When she came he the Rector Heights Church of Hot told her of his conversion. Then, when Springs for their dedication. This new Mprton has many prospects the 11 ' p. m. shift and the 7 a. m. church has built a beautiful building and shift came on he told them of his con the Lord is blessing their efforts. The version. He died sooner than expected Lakeshore Mission, Lake Hamilton, was A FEW years ago the Baptist Church at noon Wednesday but we all feel sure dedicated March 1, and I was honored was re-activated in Morton. The De- he had made peace with God even though to be the preacher fo.r the occasion. -pa.rtinent of Missions gave aid on the it was long delayed." A study is being made of the possibil purchase of a school building as a place ity of establishing a "rehabilitation" of w·orship. Recently they have under farm in Arkansas where men from 'res taken a building program and made Summit becomes church cue missions can go for a period of application for financial aid. To get aid, time to get back on their feet physically a church must survey its field and re THE SUMMIT Mission of Yellville and morally. It was my prviilege to port its possibilities. The pastor writes: was corwtituted into a church, Feb. 2. meet with J. T. McGill of the Rescue "We have finished our survey and, while There were 32 members in the constitu Mission in New Orleans; Clovis 'Brant it confirms what I had suspected, I was tion service and the charter was kept ley, Home Mission Board, Atlanta; As still taken back at the results. There open for the rest of the month during sociational Missionaries H. M. Dugger, are 109 lost men in close proximity of which time 13 additional members Everette Sneed and several pastors and phe church-and these men,.for the most joined, four of whom were for baptism. laymen to discuss the idea ·of such a part, are husbands of church members. The Yellville Church, Rev. Dale Bal:_ farm at Floral. We looked over some There are 225 children, ranging from nett, pastor, has been sponsoring the ---.... land owned by; J. T. McGill which he 3 to 10 years of age who al\e not at mission for several years,.and Roy Dunn is willing to lease to the Home Mission tending any Sunday School. There are has been tfle mission pastor. The Church Board. If the idea seems feasible, Ar a large number of un-enlisted teenagers. w~ organized in the old building where kansas Baptists will be asked to par-" This 'data embraces an area not exceed- . the Baptist Church ·had previously met ticipate. ing a two mile radius." but for some reason had died and for The Jubilee Revivals are ·now in The Missions Committee approved years no services were held in the ·progress. At this writing I am engaged $700 on their building. building. When the mission was opened with First Church, Strong. During the a few years ago. it was necessa.ry to second Jubilee Revival period I will be Lakeshore Mission, cut the briars, weeds and bushes away in Flint, Mich., where Baptists are from the doors in order to get into the really growing. The Dale Maddux fam THE DEPARTMENT of Missions has· building. The buildiJ1g has been improved ily, formerly of Corning are members given $5,750. on the purchase of land · and several Sunday School rooms added of the church where I will be preaching. and construction of building of Lake and the attendance is increasing week -C. W. Caldwell, Superintendent of shore Mission south of Hot Springs on by week. This is to be another good Missions Lake Hamilton. The Lake Hamilton church in White River Association. MAR!!"H 19, 1964 Page !i!c: .. venteen ARKANSAS WMU TO CELEBR TE 75th ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING April 13-15, 1964 First Baptist Church Little Rock Special features HISTORICAL PAGEANT Monday Evening, the 13th "I. PAUL SEND GREETINGS . " I Written and Directed by Richard L. Goodbar Baltimore, Md. Presenting Beginnings of Baptist Woman's Work in Arkansas and First Foreign Missionaries from the State 75 Voice Choir 100 Participants in Costume YOUTH BANQUET Monday Evening Preceding Pageant Dr. Robert S. Denney, Featured Speaker Send reservations and remittances of $1.25 per plate to Mary Hutson, 310 Baptist Bldg., Little Rock, by April 6th ANNIVERSARY LUNCHEON Closing Session, Wednesday Noon, the 15th A Time of Remembrance ... Recognition ... Rejoicing! Send reservations and remittances of $1.50 per plate to Nancy' Cooper, 310 Baptist Bldg., Little Rock, by April 6th Outstanding program personnel Dr. Robt. S. Denney Miss Alma Hunt Miss Edna Woofter' Miss Kathryn White Youth . Secretary Executive Secretary Missionary Missionary Baptist World Alliance WMU, SBC Washington, D. C. Hong Kong Page Eig,hteen ARKANSAS B.6PTIST Children's Nook ANCIENT CHARIOTS By Thelma C. Carter LONG ago many people rode in char iots. Perhaps you have seen pictures of chariots. They were usually two wheeled carts drawn by two or ·four horses, sometimes more. The driver stood in the basket or body of the chariot. By Enola Chamberlin r Chariots were generally used in war fare, racing, and hunting. The chariot was not a carriage of comfort. It was without springs of any kind. Usually it had no -seat. The chariot was entirely open at the back, so that the driver GOD made the world and everything in it. In doing so, he made ; it possible might leap to the ground and up again as was necessary in warfare or racing. for each plant to grow and to 1mature· its seeds, which become more plants in the future. He made it possible for each animal to live and grow. Each produces young What a great noise and din the cha of its kind and cares for these young until they are able to care for themselves. riots must have made as they raced over In some instances, like the colt, the calf, and the chick, the young can walk the crudely made highways! The wheels as soon as they are born. Then care is not too difficult. In many other c~ses, an and body of the chariots were usually egg must be hatched, and the young must have special care to live. These factors of wood made stronger in places with· are problems which the animals cannot solve for themselves. bronze and iron. The wheels were first Think of the emperor penguin. It lives where there is no material for the made solid. Later, they had from four to making of nests. The egg, if it lay on the frozen ground, even though the mother eight spokes and tires of bronze and or father were sitting on it, would stay too cold to hatch. The all-wise Creator has iron. prepared for this. On the top of the father penguin's right foot is a slight depression. Here the Ambitious kings had strong armies egg is deposited after the mother penguin has laid it. The father then sits on it, of spearmen and thousands of wa-r cha covering it with his warm body until it hatches. No, Papa Penguin cannot move riots drawn by strong horses. Wherever around, nor does he eat during these incubating days. Something inside him bas they went they destroyed everything in warned him of this fasting time. ILe has stored up enough fat to live· on. When their path. the baby is_ hatched, Papa is free. The mother takes over its care. Mammals are those animals which suckle their young. Among them, the mar In Rome, chariot races were an im supi-als give us some of the most striking examples of God's care. Marsupials are portant part of festivals. At the -sound anima1s that carry their young in pouches. • of the trumpet, 4(} chariots and · 160 horses dashed along the racing course. Think of a kangaroo mother. Sh~ may be as tall as a man and weigh two hundred pounds. Yet her baby is only an inch long at birth. Mother Kangaroo They must go twelve times around the would have difficulty caring for this tiny baby if God had not given her a pouch course. The ·turning places were the most for her joey to crawl into. There he is kept' warm, protected, and fed ·until he is dangerous, especially when one chario able to climb out on his own. teer tried to pass his rival. Many times The opossum, another pouched animal, is not so 'large, but the babies, six or the chariots were overturned, horses fell, seven of them, ·are about the size of bees. Like the joey, they stay in the 'warm wheels flew off, and the p.ersons in the pouch, Jlrotected, and fed, until they are too large for the pouch to contain them. chariots were hurled to the ground. When the time comes that they are forced out, they cling to their mother's back, Chariots a-re mentioned many times gripping their claws in her hair. In this way they continue to go with her in her in the Bible. "And Solomon gathered search for food. together chariots and horsemen: and We all know how helpless a human baby is. We also know that God has he had a thousand and four hundred given mothers and fathers, nurses -and doctors minds and intelligence to deal with chariots, and twelve thousand horse the problems of its care. This shows ho~ completely our Heavenly Father thought men, whom he bestowed -in the cities of everything when he made. the world and everything in it. for chariots, and with the king of Jer- Page Twenty ARKANSAS BAPTIST (continued from page twenty) ' g'~ ~'9M4 Lettc1'8 to the EdifoT killed. "FGr. he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew rto sin; that · we ol g'4ptUt ';ilu tH, T HE PEOPL'E SPEAK might be made the righteousness of God By BERNES K. SELPH, Th. D. . . in him" (2 Cor. 5:21). Pastor, 1st Baptist Church, Benton · THE spelling and sentence structure in thil · de!'~rtment are those of the writers. The only edJtm.g of letters to. the editor is the writing of The scene at Calvary was sickening: headhnes nnd, occasJonally, deletion of parts that as the execution proceeded. ·When Jesus' National ministers are not regarded as essential. cross was dropped into place, the. p.eopifil · - stood and ~tared while their rulers con What the doctor meant tinued to scoff, saying, "He saved others; let him saye himself, if he be GREAT effort is made in mod I HAVE just read Dr. 'Stagg's article Christ, the chosen of God." The soldiers ern missions to win, enlist, and concerning the term "church" in the also mocked him by coming up and say March 5, 1964 issue of our Arkansas ing, "If thou be the king of the Jews, train nationals as ministers to Baptist Newsmagazine. save thyself." Callously they gambled their people. One In his discussion of the word ECCLE for the garments off his back. religious periodi SIA (paragraph 6, lines 2 and 3, page Written in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew cal recently car 18) it reads, "Local usages are not as on a superscrip.tion above Jesus were ried on its front frequent but they are as significant." the words, THIS IS THE KING OF I am sure that it reads, "Non-local THE JEWS. Pilate had prepared this, :lll...fl•r •' page, "Witnessing usages are not as frequent but they much to the chagrin of the Jewish ' ; t h r o u1 g h native are as significant" in Dr. Stagg's orig leaders who petiti'imed him to change evangelists." This inal manuscript. No doubt your typist it to read that Jesus claimed to be king is the fulfilment or ,printer was in a hurry. I am not of the Jews. PHate, however,· refused, being critical for we "who live in glass probably desiring that this cross so pub of a prophetic ut , houses cannot afford to "'throw stones." licly displayed should serve as an object DR. SELPH . terance made by I have been in a hurry a few times lesson to Jews pushing a national cause. S. F. Smith writ myself. There is no way of telling what was in ing in his Missionary Sketches, I call your attention to this mistake Pilate's h·eart in aff:ixing this statement because, in our section of the state, to the cross, but wittingly or unwitting 1819. there is considerable ignorance and con ly he had stated a great truth. Jesus He tells of a Burman convert, fusion concerning the New Testament ·was indeed a king, although the cross Moung Ing of Maulmain, who vol meaning of the term "church." You and must have seemed a pathetic excuse untarily expressed his desire to I know that the term ECCLESIA in the for a throne. Even the use of the three Greek New Testament usually refers to major languages was signifiCant, for he make a missionary trip to Tavoy. a local body of baptized believers but, was a universal king. Thus began the successful labors there are many in our area who do not among the , Karens, a mountain know this. If for no other reason, this The compassionate love of Jesus is people. · little error in printing should be cor evidenced even during his last hours. For rected.-Charles Rosson, Pastor, Harv those who were murdering him he Mr. Smith said, "We hail this ard Avenue Church, Siloam Springs prayed, "Father, fo ~give them; for they event--having its inception in the know not what they do." · mind of a native convert-as pro Men had sp.ent their blind rage on the . phetic of the arrangement which, Ban peac.e iustices Son of God, but the Father who allowed we believe, is to be consummated him to die as an atonement for sin in the future-that the heathen MONTPELIER, VT. MARCH 19, 1964 Page Twenty-One Fundamentals of the faith (Editor's Note: This is the twelfth of 13 articles on "Funda mentals of Our Faith," to be used What we believe about the Christian life as supplemental material with the Training Union lessons during the first quarter of the year.) By Dr. Frank Stagg N'EW ORLEANS SEMINARY The epistle of James insists that genuine faith in God will prove itself in the life lived. If we trust God we will obey him. Since many of his commands have to do with our at titudes and conduct toward one another, it follows that our · feeling toward and treatment of one another show whether our · faith is genuine or phony. (See James 2:1-26, 5:1-6) . James · is not saying that we are saved by our good works but that' genuine faith will produce good works. To him faith and its fruits or works are inseparable. The Christian life as hope It has been said that "hope springs eternal in the hu- . man breast." It also dies there. Most of the world's hopes are·disappointed. One need not live by these hopes that mock. The hope which abides is that which is from God. We dare not confuse the world's hopes with Christian hope. The great "secret" which God makes known to us is this, "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Col. 1:17). Glory refers to God. The hope of glory is God.'s hope for the world. Christ is not the hope of the . world; he is God's hope offered to the world. This is not a hope which arose out of the world but the true hope which has come into the world. Our true hope, all we have and all we need, is this, "·Christ in you." The Greek p.ronoun for "you" is plural: "Christ in you all, the hope qf glory." The only hope for the healing and restoring of individual persons and for over coming the estrangements and hostilities of this broken, hu man race is "Christ in you all." Through one's faith Christ enter~;~ an individual, and in reconciling that one to. himself, he reconciles him to each other. He thus !flakes us one with himself, and with one another. This is God's one )lope for OUR subject, the Training Union topic for March 22, is the world. too broad for comprehensive treatment. It will be reduced to three basic limits: the Christian life as faith, the Christian The Christian life as love life as hope, and the Christian life as love. These three are present and abiding dimensions of the Christian iife (I" Cor. The Bible leaves no doubt about the primacy of love. God 13:13). is love (I John 4:8) and love is of God. God is ·more than love, but he is that. The whole law is summed up .in the com The Christian life as faith mand that one with his whole being love God, his neighbor, and himself (Mark 12:28-31). It is because God loves us that In lesson one of this series, it was suggested that faith he comes to save us (John 3:16) God's own love present' in is personal. Only a person has faith. It may be contageous, a human life is the highest mark of that life. but one person cannot catch it and have it for another, any No F;nglish word adequately translates the Greek word more than one can have measles for another. Faith cannot agape. "Charity," as in the King James Version, is too nar be by proxy. It must be awakene,si in each individual. row a term. On the other hand, "love" has been so abused Faith is trust. It is basically an attitude or disposition. that it is applied to everything and has lost its depth. One Faith is one's. openness to God, to receive what he offers and "loves" chocolate pie, a new hat, .or the British "Beetles". to yield what he demands. It is openness of mind and heart to Hollywood movies dep.ict s·elfish and moraHy bankrupt people God, to God's people, to truth, and to light. chasing one another, using one another, swapping off one Hebrews eleven is one of the great chapters on the mean another, ·and abandoning .one another in an orgy which they ing of faith. The writer calls it the substance of what we call "love". What the world calls love has nothing in common hope for, the proof of. things not seen (11:1)'. He does not with what the New Testament calls agape. mean that faith is mere wishful thinking or that it is blind. He Love (agap.e) in the New Testament desigpates some means that faith goes beyond sight, making real that which thing deeper than feeling, although it includes feeling. It de God gives us as hope. Faith is a form of sight by which men signates an attitude or disposition. lt is the disposition in like Abraham, Moses, G.ideon, and Samuel lived, walked, one .to relate himself to another for that one's good, what worked, endured, and conquered. ever the cost to .the one who loves. God's love agape contrasts Jesus set forth the proper relationship between faith and with the world's love (eros). The world's love is selfish. It sight in saying to Martha, "Did 11 not say to you that if you seeks to acquire, possess, and use that which it thinks to have faith you will see the glory of God?" (John 11:40). be good, beautiful and valuable. Basically it is desire. Sometimes it is said, "I'll believe it when I see it." There is It may turn to the sordid as lust, or it may look upward to important truth in this demand for evidence or validation God, but in a selfish way. God's love is ·Self-sacrificing, self for faith, for "blind faith" would be obscurantism or dog giving, recreative, concerned for the good of the beloved. The matism. But the . words of ;Jesus suggest this: "You will see world's love ,is attracted by what it thinks to be good, beauti it when you believe it".1 Faith is ·hasic in all knowledge, in ful, or valuable. God's love seeks to bring about what is good the scientific laboratory and in the knowledge of God. With and beautiful. God is love and he calls the Christian into a out faith ·no JYieaningful life is open to man. Page Twenty-Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST AHendance Report A Smile or Two INDEX Sunday Training Addi A--Arkansas State Convention housing pll :' Arkansas, we love you (CMH) p6 Church School Union tione Friction fiction B-Baptist beliefs: Believers' baptism (BB) · p7 ; • Barling, First 146 76 1 Christian life (FF) p22; Blevins, Dexter to Ok Berryville · 57 lahoma p10 : Bookshelf p8; Brown, Mel to Run Freeman Hgts. 164. CUSTOMER: "Have you a book called, yan Chapel plO First 164 49 C-Camden, Temple, Cullendale, observes anni Blytheville 'Man, the Master of Women'?" versary p9 ; Central Association p9 ; Children's First 669 209 6 Salesgirl: "Fiction counter to the left, Nook pl9; Christ, humor of (PS) p4; Cover Chapel 48 story p10; Crucifixion, Three Crosses (poem) p2; Gosnell 313 76 2 sir." 4 ( ss) pp20-21 Trinity 219 '1:9 D-Departments pp14-18 Camden E-El Dorado, Union Church record attend- Cullendale First 467 214 Dewtell ance pll Fh;!>t 614 184 G- Gambling, 'Preacher policemen' (E) p3 Conway, Pickles Gap 77 61 "HOW kind of you to bring me these H-Halsell, Thomas E. speaks pll Crossett l-In this issue p4 First 621 176 lovely flowers. They are ·so beautiful and L-Letters to editor p21 Mt. Olive 268 138 8 67 fresh. I believe there is some dew on M- Midwestern Seminary lectures p9 ; Missions Dumas, First 334 in Arkansas p17; Mistakes (MR) p8 El Dorado them yet." N-National Ministers (BL) i>21 East Main 291 131 3 "Yes," stammered the young map, F-Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. H . D. retired not First 862 227 1 tired plO; Preaclier poet p16 Northside Chapel 42 34 quite taken aback, ''but I am going to 4 R--Racial crisis: Lesson in. bombs (E) pp3-4; Forrest City. First 622 168 pa,y it off tomorrow." Revivals pl! Midway 67 64 S-SBC convention, Houston or Memphis. (E) Fort Smith p3; leaders, 'Fwo m en honored (E) p3; Vermont. Grand Avenue 763 276 Next? Church p12 Mission 26 U-Uncle Deak p8 Spradling 269 97 3 W-WMU state meeting p18; SBC program pi> Temple 263 124 6 DAD: "My, you certainly are one for Trinity 338 162 Harrison, _Eagle Hgts. 247 86 2 asking questions, son. I wonder what Key to listings: (BL) Beacon Lights of Bap Heber Springs, First 184 69 would have happened if I would have tist History; (CMH) Courtship, Marriage and Crossroads 17 asked all th<>se questions :when I was the Home; (E) Editorial ; (FF) Fundamental.! Jacksonville of the faith; (PS) Personal'ly Speaking; (SS) Berea 122 71 young?" Sunday School lesson ; (MR) Middle of the Roail-• Chapel Hill 48 18 Boy: "You probably would be able to (KYM) Know Your Missionaries. First 499 182 6 Marshall Road 144 67 answer some of mine." Second 227 109 Jonesboro Let's face it Central 576 ' 188 Expensive language Nettleton , 219 84 ' "THESE lines are for 'Phillip." Lavaca First 261 126 2 Little Rock AMONG the English language's many "Phillip who?" F-irs-t 991 370 puzzling- words is "economy" which "PhiHip Sp.a,ce." White Rock 24 11 Immanuel 1191 438 2 means the large size in soap flakes and Forest Tower 34 27 the small size in automobiles. Rosedale 268 77 3 Fifty lashes McGehee, First 468 194 3 Chapel 86 43 Min-ked Tree, First 189 68 1 Wel~, he tried THE two little boys who were lost Monticello, Second 250 ' 160 1 in the woods were found just at dusk North Little Rock A ONE,·RING circus was visiting a Baring Cross 696 212 town in the hills. The folks recognized by a ranger who started to take them Southside 44 22 home. "Oh, please, Mr. Forest Ranger," Camp Robinson 49 26 all the instruments of the band except Calvary 434 189 2 the slide trombone. . pleaded the older, "don't take us home Forty-Seventh Street 188 68 3 until it's completely dark." GMvel Ridge First 206 103 ?ne old fel~ow watched the' player for Runyan Chapel 30 22 1 (Jutte some ttme, then said: There'-s a "~ut why, little one?" inqujred the Park Hill 789 216 3 Sylvan Hil-ls First 271' 79 trick to it>; he aiJ;t't really swallerin' it." adult. Pine Bluff "Because if you take us home now Centenni&l 228 120 we'll be punished for getting lost, but Southside 762 248 Forgery suspect Shannon Rd. 19 22 if we're not home when it's dark they'll Tucker 12 10 notify the police and announce it on the Siloam Springs, First 360 169 THE little boy peered over the edge Springdale First 487 186 of the stationery counter at the ten radio and then when we get home they'll Van Buren be so glad to see us that they'll give First 472 166 cent store and asked hopefully: "Have Second 80 22 you got any blank report cards?" us candy and won't even scold us." Vandervoort' First 56 ' 36 Warren, Immanuel 270 87 Westside Chapel 76 : 39 It's that time of year AN American and a Dutchman were People 50 to 80 Built-in baby sitter talking> . "What does your flag look like?" 'asked the American. A MOTHER, asked if she had yet "It has three stripes," said the Dutch TearOutlhisAd made the long trip across the country man, "red, white and blue. We say they have a connection with our taxes. We to ·visit her son and his new wife; re and mail it today to find plied: "No, I've been waiting until they see red when we talk about them, whit-e have their first baby." when we get out the bill and pay till out how you can still apply "You don't want to spend the money we're blue in the face." for a $2,000 life insurance for the trip until then?" "That's how it is here," said the policy. 09-ce your application "No," the wise lady explained. "It's American, '.'only we see stars, too." is approved, the policy can be just that I have a theory that grand carried the rest of your life. mas are more welcome than mothers Genius at work in-law. . " "WHO was Thomas Edison?" Handle entirely by mail ."He was the man who invented the with OLD AMERICAN, the Ftear Editor: phonograph to keep us awake, so we company that helped pioneer 1 would stay up all night using his elec- insurance for senior Amer "I'M enelosing a picture. Do you tric lights." ' icans. No one will call! think my hands show signs of toil?" Send name, .address and Louisa M. . ... ~UOTE OF THE WEEK, "There "Dear Louisa: Yes, the left one with aren't nearly enough crutches in the year of birth to Old Ameri the engagement rings shows you've world for aH the lame excuses."-The can, 4900 Oak, Dept. T307C been w<2rking." Survey Bulletin Kansas City 12, Mo~ MARCH 19, 1964 Page Twenty-Three In the world of religion .... EVANGELIST Billy Graham will receive the 15th Annual. Citation of The Upper Room, interdenominational daily devotional guide, distributed in 120 coun_tries. J . Manning Potts, editor of The Upper Room, said Dr. Graham was chos.en for "his many contributions to the cause of world Christian fellowship." Time and place of the presentation has. not been announced. Dr. Graham was described by an Upper Room spoltesman as having "preached to more .people face to face than any other person." .... Hungarian Lutheran Church authorities in Budapest have announced that Martin Luther's will, executed in 1542 and in the possession of the Ch~ch · since . Probe religious freedom tins. wilJ. be stored in the state archives. Lost during the Polish-Pr'ussian . War, ·the will later came into the possession · of a German family ·named Carpzow. In GENEVA (EP) - The Interna 1803 the Catholic collector, a Hungarian named Jankovich, bought the document tional Commission of Jurists announced wheit the Ca.rpzow estate was sold at auction. here that the government of Sudan has .... Henry H. Halley, author of the famous Halley's Bible . Handbook, of which not granted its request to investigate there are now more than one million and a quarter copies in print, will .celebrate human rights problems - particularly his 90th birthday on April 10. Dr. Halley has devoted' his life to the writing and religious freedom-in that country. distributing of this popular handbook, which is now the companion and guide for A worldwide agency representing more than one million Bible readers. many national bodies of jurists and law .... The Presbyterian Ministers' Fund il\creased its net worth by nearly $4,700,- yers, the commission has consultative 000 in 1963 and now has assets of $90,724,000 and a record amount of insurance status with the United Nations. in force- $300,301,000. Founded in 1717, the fund is the oldest life insurance com It charged previously that the Su pany in Ameriea.-The Survey Bulletin danese government has followed a policy I of forcing Christian missionaries out of the country, a charge that has also Protestants assert rights Olympics evangelism been made by Vatican authorities. According to the commission, the Su SOME (Ef) - Representatives of TOKYO (EP)-With thousands of danese government "felt that the mission Greater Europe Mission here report that athletes and tens of thousands of for sho~ld not be undertaken fbr the ·mo Italian evangelicals have begun · to test ment. eign visitors converging on what is al the benign attitude now being expressed ready the world's largest city, the Olym Tax aid churches toward Protestants in Vatican cir pic Games to be held here in mid-Oct cles. For more than a year students of ober are being viewed as an unparal PHILADELPHIA (EP) - Methodist Rome's Italian Bible Institute have been leled Gospel opportunity. Bishop Fred Pierce Corson has issued a preaching weekly witho't~t difficulty in Far-reaching evangelistic plans are statement here calling upon mem):>ers of the main squares of that city. Except already crystallizing. Two major ·citY, all faiths to "carefully and prayerfully for the Salvation Army, and occasional wide crusades are taking shape, one 1 consider how best" to use the money Pentecostal groups, street meetings in September with Japanese evangelist they will receive through the federal were almost an unheard of occurenc.e· Kiji Honda, and the other in early Oct tax cut. in Italy until cases won before the ·con ober with Chinese evangelist Timothy President of the World Methodist stitutional Court in the last two years Dzao. · Council and head of the Philadelp.hia convinced Protestants that they had been One night rallies featuring Christian Area of The Methodist Church, Bishop granted unlimited freedom. athletes and a "witnessing bearing re Corson said: "The nation could be about During February, however, authori ception" for athletes and visitors ate to embark on a wild and perhaps short also in the offing. lived spending spree with disastrous con ties in the Adriatic city of Foggia (pop ulation 150,000) looked askance on Pro Millions of Gospel tracts and Gospel sequences. This is possible because mil portions are being prepared, and plans lions of individual tax savings aggre testant efforts to take their message into the public squares. Members of are being laid for systematic coverage gate into an enormous economic force of this giant metropolis. · for evil or good . . . J<:oggia's Plymouth Brethren Assembly "Urgent needs to relieve suffering of had advised the police that the students body and soul lie on all sides. Sev of the Italian Bible Ins.titute would be .eral -agencies everywhere operate under preaching in several squares qn three severe financial handicaps. In the midst afternoons during an evangelistic cam stands the church of the Living God paign to be conducted in their hall by this is the greatest force for good of the visitors from Rome. "Although no all mankind. permission is needed," reports one ob "Let faith and conscience guide our server, "the police blandly denied them their constitutional rights and warned spending decisions. Let us demonstrate 1 a new desire ,to share witq others. I that such .attempts would end in arrest. Two meetings were called off." challenge all Methodists to tithe their I tax cut and appelj.l to members of all ~ faiths to put giving and service above Joins Graham team self as they contemplate their economic gain." MINNEAPOLIS {EP)- W. Stanley MooneYham of Wheaton, Ill. will join 'Open housing' pledge_ the Billy Graham Evangelisti~ Team in j WOODBRIDGE, N. J. (EP)~An ef mid-April as a special assistant to Dr. fort among six Protestant . churches il\ Graha·m. this area to obtain signatures on a "cov From 1949 to 1953, he was pastor enant" against racial discrimination in if the First Free Will Baptist Church, housing has had disappointing results, Sulphur, Okla., and for the next six -a Methodist. clergyman announced. years was executive secretary Qf the The Rev. Theodore Seamins of Wood National Association of Free Will Bap bridge Methodist ·Church said that only tists, with headquarters in Nashville, 333 of some 1,500 members of the si~ Tenn. He is presently moderator of that congregations signed the covenant. association.