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Digital Commons @ George Fox University Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church Northwest Friend (Quakers) 9-1959 Northwest Friend, September 1959 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_nwfriend Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "Northwest Friend, September 1959" (1959). Northwest Friend. 186. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_nwfriend/186 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church (Quakers) at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Northwest Friend by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Left to right: Dean Gregory, General Superintendent of Oregon Yearly Meeting; Keith Sarver, General Superintendent of California Yearly Meeting and recent guest speaker for our yearly meeting sessions; Dorwin E. Smith, presiding clerk. //i ^ .The^ Irish Quakers used a verb in their letter of greeting to the e«E^ngelical Friends Conference that could be useful in Oregon Yearly COUNT down... ^ Meeting: "May your meetings be presenced by the Spirit of the Lord." a travelogue of Gerald Dillon's trip yWhen this happens it is an impressive and fearful thing. The first announcement of God's redemptive intention toward mankind was made "We're off . it's just 11:40 p.m.," ob to a man and a woman hiding in mortal fear from the presence of the Lord. The Law of God was given to a man trembling in terror amid fire served Everett Heacock, as together we started a journey around the world. Almost and smoke, and quaking at the voice of thunder and the sound of the divine trumpet. When Zacharias'tongue was loosened by the mysterious too soon, we left the lights of Portland, New- berg, then Newport, with nothing but black ?^operation of God, "fear came on all that dwelt round about." ness below with now and then a glimpse of ■•*^ '.^No lasting good can come from our recent Yearly Meeting sessions moon-lit clouds. The four motored DC7 was or from our multiplying religious activities that do not root in this blowing far too much fire for my inexper quality of fear and reverence. Until we are constantly gripped by that ienced ways, but seemed determined to get "^nameless terror which results when an unholy creature is suddenly us across the ocean quickly. confronted by that One who is the holiest of all, we are not likely to be much affected by the doctrine of love and grace, nor by programs and The long days of planning and preparation were over. From the moment Everett had promotion. What we Quakers need most is to "quake" again! phoned on a rainy February day asking rather Let us not be guilty of presenting only the soft side of religion, for unceremoniously, "Do you want to go around this line ignores the very reason for our alienation from God in the first the world?" my mind had been spinning fast place. The love of God affects a carnal heart not at all; or if at all, with plans. Conferences began with the local Gerald Dillon and. Everett Heacock leaving Portland then adversely, for the knowledge that God loves us may simply confirm us in our self-righteousness. Until a man has gotten into trouble with Ministry and Oversight, after all, a three We want to sit down with these and talk r month absence during the busiest part of the his own heart, he is no good as a Christian or as a Quaker. Another about the Lord's work and about the Lord ' j/' extreme, that of inducing threats made in the name of the Lord, also year is a serious matter. And, preachers do Himself. And beyond this fellowship with get itchy feet sometimes, and who would do destroys the dignity of our message. Hell and judgement are realities, the preaching, calling, counseling, etc.? But missionaries will be the Church itself made but the fear of the Lord when He "presences" our meetings and our there was a unanimous sense that this was of up of people from every race and nationality. lives is a supernatural thing, having no relation to threats of punish The language barrier looms large but we" t f ment. The felt presence of the living God is an acute experience, an the Lord. The Monthly Meeting also rallied want to find that unspoken fellowship of to a new sense of personal support of t h e awesome thing; it is a feeling rather than an idea; it is the deep reaction "kindred hearts and minds," as together we VP of our very being as our hearts are stunned in knowing God. Flashes work. My wife, Alice, is doing the calling and share in the grace of our Savior. Dean Gregory fills the pulpit. Liberating our of this awareness came during our Yearly Meeting at different times, General Superintendent for this work by the Our hearts have already been quickened in different meetings, conversations and high moments—and these are Yearly Meeting Executive Council has brought as Everett Cattell at the Evangelical Friends the memories that bring me home with a great zeal for Christian obed a joy to me I cannot express. Conference commissioned us to represent the ience and church loyalty. CONTINUED TO PAGE ij As I am chairman of the Association of Because the presence of God and holy fear is a supernatural thing, it Evangelical Friends, we wanted, from the cannot be manufactured in music or in frightening people into the church first, to go representing them. Charles Ball, by threatening them with guided missiles or Communism. By shooting NORTHWEST FRIEND off firecrackers in the face of a flock of goats you could conceivably vice chairman, kindly arranged this and again Publl.Khed muiilhly. exrepl Au^u-st, by Ort'nou Yi'.uiy Mi'otiuK . Friend.^ Church, at Portland. Orcnoii. Copy df.ut lino: >Miih i succeed in herding them into a sheepfold; but all the natural fear in the there was a unanimous feeling that this was each month. an of the Lord. world cannot make a sheep out of a goat. And by offering delectable Sub.scrlptlon Price $2.00 |M>r vi'>tr in adv.itu- prizes to the little kids, they might be promoted into the same fold, but Then preparation began in earnest and most assuredly will never become little lambs. It just does not work THt STAFF there was much to do. Shots. (1 dislike the J a c k L . W l l l c u t s t d i t o r aiaagm that way. 1611 S.E. 21.sf Ave., PnrHand 14. Oivnon sight of a needle/1 Travel agencies, letters Phone: Newberg, JEfferaon 8-5452; Portland, BElniont 5-0144 Something needs to happen that will throw the Friends of the North to missionaries, acquiring passports, visas, Phyllis George Christian Endeavor Society Editor. 345 1/2 Winter St. S.E.. Salem. Ore west into a new dependency upon the resources of God's presence and pictures ... and waiting, waiting and waiting. Roger M. Mlnthorne Trrasvirei- 17891 S.W. Kelok Rd., Lake Grove, Oregon power—and this alone I Our congregations need to feel again the But added to these was the anticipation of (©retting mysterious terror of God when the minister and the elders and the YEARLY MEETING BOARD OF PUBLICATION the trip. Yes, we would see the sights of A r t h u r O . R o b e r t s P r e s i d e n t overseers are filled with the Spirit. When this happens the knowledge Hawaii, Japan, Formosa, India, Palestine, Herman H. Macy Secndary of our own sinfulness and the sense of the presence of God will be more Dean Gregory, Jack L. Wlllcuts Meml>ers ex-ofllelo Egjrpt, Africa and South America. But far Earl Barker, Joseph Reece, Harvey Campbell. Frank Hasklns than we can stand. We will strip ourselves of the weights which now so deeper than all this is the anticipation of easily beset us and fling ourselves into the opportune channels in Chris Address all literary contributions to the Editor, "Editorial seeing Friends missionaries face to face on tian service begging for consecrated. Spirit-filled Quaker men and Address all sub.scrlptlons and changes of address to the Northwest their mission fields. Charles DeVol at For Friend, 1611 S.E. 21st Avenue, Portland Oregon women today. mosa, Anna Nixon and Clifton Robinson in Address all check.H and money orders jwyable to the Barclay Pre.ss, 1611 S.E. 2lBt Ave., Portland 14, Oregon This is the inspiration which came to those of us at Yearly Meeting, India, Ralph Choate in Africa, and our own and the report we hope all of you may share. beloved missionaries In Bolivia. This was Entered as second-class mutter, April 10. 1040, at the Post •7/U Office at Portland, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, IH70. what we really look forward to more keenly than all else. Board Of Evangelism Challenge Few of us can give a thousand dollars in church pastorate, had literally gone into con one offering. Few of our churches can raise tracting business in order to pour every cent BY RUTH CORBIN. DIRECTOR OF MUSIC. $1200 in one meeting for the Lord's work. above living expenses into this new church. FIRST FRIENDS CHURCH. PORTLAND. But the Sunday evening attenders at Yearly This is the quality of vision and consecration Meeting gave more than this for the new out which has made the momentum of Friends If George Fox had been a hymn writer as With the modern flood of religious music post at Quincy, Washington, and they had al outpost work what it has become in the North Luther was, the Quaker movement might have coming from Hollywood, from the popular ready given as much the same afternoon for west today.