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8-21-1969 August 21, 1969 Arkansas Baptist State Convention
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"Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.'' Perso nally_ He really is able ! speaking .IN THIS ISSUE: CHEROKEE VILLAGE Church was '.treed·' in its early stages by Arkansas missionary, page ~He 10, when he found great promise for establishing is ahle' a church.
In a Sunday School class recently, the discus ) _sion centered on that part of the Sermon on the PINE GROVE Church, Sweet Hoine, will ob Mount in which the Lord warns his followers ·serve its 10oth anniversary f?unday, Aug. 24, with against being too much concerned at laying up former pastor Roy Hilton as guest speaker, treasures on earth (Mt. 6:19-34). ·page 5. Some one suggested that if every person in the world would do what is called for in Matthew 6 :33, UNIVERSITY A VENUE site is selected, page that the earth would become a part of heaven it 6, for Arkansas Baptist Medical Center, to be self. erected at a cost of $18 million. No, said some one else, not quite! The world would be a much better place in which . to live if 'FIND OUT what God is doing .and help,' everybody would seek first the kingdom of God urges Dr. Charles H. Ashcraft, page 9, in an ad the reign of God within us-"thy will, not my dress to students. at Ouachita commel}cement. will.'' But even then life would not be perfect this side of heaven. The imperfectio1!,_1aowever, would GENESIS BOOK written by 0. M. Stallings, be on the part of man, not of God. page 8, of Conway, deals with every one of the This brings us to our main co~siderati.on here, fifty chapt~rs. the ability of God to meet the needs of our lives.. , Consider these wonderful assurances from the C. E. AUTREY to join staff of New Orleans Apostle Paul: Seminary, page 14, as he retires four months ''He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise early as top evangelism leader for The Southern of God through unbelief; but was strong in .faith, Baptist Convention, director of the SBC Home giving glory to God; Mission Board's division of evangelism. ''And being fully persuaded that, what he had pr.omis~d, he was able also to perform (Ro:m. COVER story, page 5. 4:20-21).
Speaking of God's severity upon the Jews, the chosen people, because of_their waywardness, Paul Arlailsa~ Baptist warns the Gentiles: ~ August 21, 1969 "Behold therefore the goodness and 'severity · Volume 68, No. 33 of God: on tliem which fell, severity; but toward Editor, ERWIN L. McDONALD, Litt. D. thee, goodness·, if thou continue in his goodness : Associate Editor, MRS. E. F.- STOKES otherwise thou a:lso shalt be cut off. Managing Editor, FRANKLIN I. PRESSON "And ~hey also [the Jews who had fallen Secretary to Editor, MRs. HARRY GIBERSON away], if they abide not still in, unbelief, shall be .. Mail Clerk, MRS. WELDON TAYLOR graffed in: for Goq is able to graff them in again 525 \{eot Capitol Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201. Published weekly except on July 4 · and December 2'5. - Second-class posta&'e (Rolfl. , 11 :22-23). paid at Little Ro~k. Arkansas. Individual subscription, $2.75 per year. Church budget, 16 ce11ts J.)er month or $1.92 per. year per church family. Club plan (10. or more In Ephesians 3 :20, Paul ''puts on the side paid annually ln advance), $2.26 per yeal'. Sub.scriptions to foreign boards,.'' as we used to say of our equipping the address, $4.75 per ye&F. Advertising rates on request. Opinions expressed In editor ials and signed a rticles are those of th. farm wagon to hold the biggest possible load, as writer. Member of Southern Baptist Press Association, Associated he declares : . Church Press, Evangelical Press Association. Abbreviations used In cr editing news· Items: BP Baptist Press; ·CB. "Now unto him that is able to do exoeedmg Church Bulletin; DP Dally Pnoes ; EP Evangelical Press ; LC Local . abundp;ntly above all that we ask o.r think, accord Correspondent ; AB Assoelational Bulletin ; EBPS European Baptlat Preaa Service. • ing to the power that worketh in us. Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Showing out faith by our works
Washington papers last week carried the heart benefit of persons on the :state welfare rolls. rending story of the murder of .a young mother Texas· voters, who ni:rie months previously had and the' death from starvation of her 18-months voted against the proposal, with greater enlight old son. ment on the proposition voted nearly two to one The badly deteriorated body, of Mrs. Claudia to adopt the amendment. E .. Weintraub, of Bethesda, Md., and the remains There are many ways ordinary Christians can of her son, Jeffrey, were found in the \V eintraub help destitue people. Texas Baptists, we believe, home Aug. 5, about a week after the mother had have shown one very effective way-through been stabbed to death. Officers said that the in Christians concerning themselves in government · fant, whose body was f9und in his crib, apparent and political affairs. · ly had died of starvation and dehydration about Christians who say by their actions that the three days after the slaying of his mother. The crying needs of people-men, women, and children air-conditioner in a window of the residence had -all around them is none of their business or con · apparently drowned the cries of the child so that cern are practicing heresy at its worst. even the people ne~t door had not heard him. Nothing can be done now for Mrs. Wintraub o.e (J,I ti-e /J-44-t and little Jeffrey. And now they are beyond the inhumanities of the criminally insane such as the If the Baptist pastor's habitat be somewhat thorny in Arkansas·, please let the pastor be pa p~rson or persons who killed them. But the sad news of what had happened to them should cause tient and let the brethren be very kind. Let pas us to be more concerned about doh_1g whatever we tors and churches seek to avoid irritating one an can to keep things like this from happening again. other. If the pastor's resignation would heal the Cases such as that of the W eintraubs, fortu bigg·est wound or two or three of the smaller nately,,.. are still rare. But this should remind us wounds, would not a lj.ttle more pious wisdom ~nd that untold numbers of others are slowly dying brotherly for}?earance heal all the wounds without for lack of proper housing, adequate food, cloth a resignation T-Baptist Advance, Jan. 25, '902 ·ing,. medical attention and opportunities for phys- Man-H st ~f God's Creation ' • ical, mental, and spiritual growth and develop ment for purposeful and abundant living. We Christians must be concerned about the needs of people-not just their spiritual needs, but also their physical and mental needs. Church people and church agencies · in Tex as recently joined forces with leaders from civic, community,-and legislative 'circles to persuade the voters of the state to reverse themselves and vote for a higher ceiling for welfare grants. . Among the church leaders from many different denominations who .actively campaigned £or the increase was W. A. Criswell, pastor of First Church, Dallas, and president of the Southern Baptist Convention. "lt'.s not. being 'liberal' to minister to the needs of1 the hungry, the disabled, and the sick," Criswell said, at a meeting. ahead of the election. "It's just simply being Christian." Two agencies of the Baptist General Conven tion of Texas- The Christian Life Commis.sion and the Texas Baptist Human Welfare Commis sion- along with the convention's weekly paper, "WHEN J' La:;IK/N7l' THE #/Qo
Pine Grove _Church, Sweet Home, Jo;; The cover: Before the turn of the century, records seph A. Hogan, pastor, will observe its show· that members n~t giving an ac lOOth anniversary at the morning wor ceptable excuse for their absence from ship sei-vice Sunday (Aug. 24). 1 Roy business meeting or worship services Hilton, a former pastor of the church were suspended from the roll of mem and now pastor of Immanuel Church, beJi.ship. Pr.esent resident membership is .El Dorado, will be the guest speaker for 330 and, as is the case with most older the occasion. churches, there is a long list of non resident members, totaling 180. Pine Grove Church was organized Aug. 14, 18~9, with fourteen charter Some interelliting facts about the members: Martha Brown, Daniel A. church lead up to the present day. For Thomas, Marth,a Thomas, Mr. Patter- • mer ..Governor Eagle's wife was the son, D. W. Beard, Kiziah Scruggs, Liz first president o.f Woman's Missionary zie A. Aus~on, Lizzie A. Cobb, Virginia ' Union of Arkansas, and the present Hill, Sarah Samples, W. S. Cockman, pastor's wife serves in that poSiition Mary Elizabeth Caroline, James Kelly presently. and J. W. Kelly. • , During the past ten years, m1sswn gifts have increased from $1,839 in The church was called Millennia! 1959 t6 $4,81~ in 1968 and a total for Church, or Milinial, found both ways that period of $32,987. in records. Pine Grove Church established a mis /':.ion in February, 1965, known as Pine The congregation met in· a school Pl'NE GROVE . CHURCH: Present Grove Chapel, at . West Hensley. building until ,1884, when the first . building, with Clyde Sory, chairman of building was constructed at a cost of Deacons, J, J. Thomas, Rosa Thomas, The church paid off the debt on the $83.35, built o~ property given by Mr. and J, A. Hogan pastor. building in 1965 and made a loan to and Mrs. Dame! A. Thomas. The lum" build the pastor's home and double pay ber for the 30 x 40-foot building was-- Many are in full-time Christian work ments are being made on the loan. Re cut from logs off the church property, who have been members of Pine Grove: cently the church purchased three acres with the membership donating the Ia- Bruce Price, W. H. Berry, W. ·c. Hall of land joining the property to the bor. With this property the cemetery sell and his sons Aubrey Tommy and south, for future expansion, parking plot was also given. Howard; Roe Beard, wh~ went from and recreation. The exterior of the In later years, 13 Sunday School Pine 'Grove 'to Indian Mission work in church building has been painted re rooms were added. In the early 1950's, Oklahoma; Eugene Ryan,. Winnie Doss cently, getting ready to observe the under the leadership of Roy Hilton, and Brown Reed, W. A. Wadley, Christy centennial. , ' Powers Harris, and Nelson Anderson. with a small building fund begun by The older members tell of the strug Henry Ryan, the church voted to move Some of the early pastors were paid gles through the years. Among these and build a complete church plant. In $3 per month for their month)y ser are J. J. Thomas, who has had a· place the fall of 1954 the building was com mons. One of these to earn this salary of leadership more than 50 years; Bed pleted, which is the present property rode a mule nearly thirty miles from ford Brown and his wife, Iva; Mrs. on Dixon Road, formerly known as Sheridan. Ro~a Thomas.-Reporter. Sweet Home , Cutoff. During World War II, Harold · White led the church in the construction of a pastor's home which was used until November 1965, when the present pas tor moved iiJto the new home near the church buildmg. · One of the notable former pastors was Former Governor J. P. Eagle, who served 21 years in all as president of the State COJ\Vention and three /years as president of the Southern Baptist CQnvention, departing this life in 1904. Others were: L. M. . Patterson, S. Stepherson, James Wa)ls, Joes Rush ing, William Nail, B. F. Rutherford, William Dale, J. B. Engl·ish, Frank Da vis, G. W. McCarty, T. D. Boors, T. F. Landreth, W. P . . Kine, A. P. Blaylock, Roe Beard, W. H. Berry, J. R. Wood, W. A. Lewis, J. B. Crockett, C. G. Da vis, Guy Jenkins, Henry Ryan (the first full-time pastor, in 1942), Harold White, I;Iarold Presley, Harold O'Bryan, R. T. Ware and the present pastor, Mr. Hogan. First building, constructed in 1884 AUGUST 21, 1969 Page Five -~--~""- University Avenue site is selected · for Arkansas Baptist Medical Center I The new $18 -million Arkansas Bap the· practice of medicine and result in proposed park location would have tist Medical Center will be built at a benefit to the community and the created at West Markham Street and Evergreen. Street and University Ave state." University Avenue, and at the East West Expressway in .the vicinity when nue, Little Rock, R. A. Lile, its Board The Board agreed, he said, to make 1 president, said last week. The announce · a comprehensive study of the proposal. the Expressway is ~uilt. ment ended the Medical Center's ef 1 The study disclosed that there would He also said there was an implica fort to obtain a site in War Memdrial be "cons.iclerable benefits," Lile told tion in the fund-raising campaign that Park. newsmen. the hospital would be built at the Uni The Medical Center already owns the· "However, there was obviously sub versity-Eve'!rgreen site and that the 5·3-acre site on University, where it stantial opposition from people in Lit Board felt an obligation to comply. plans to build a 500-bed complex. The tle Rock and the state1 to the plan; "Because of the many obstacles in Board already has raised $2 million in second, the ·Center's Board feels that connection with the proposed move, re local contributions, is acquiring about the City Manage.r Board c,ould not af vealed by our study," Lile said, "the $4 million in federal Hill-Burton Act foJ;d to sell part of the Park in the funds and is making arrangements to Board of Trustees has decided not to face of such opposition; and finally, ask the. City Manager Board to sell finance the remaining $12 million. there is a legal question concerning part of the park. Instead, our survey A committee of the Board was to 'clear title' to the proposed . property indicates that the land we own at Uni have met Aug. 12 to decide whether to which would require !itigati<>n lasting versity and Evergreen is the lbest site a minimum of six months, and we can approach the City Manager Board availB~ble. Our plans are drawn to fit about buying the War Memorial Park not postpone starting construction for the terrain and they are complete. land. that long." Therefore, we are. happy to announce He said the Board also would run today that construction will be on the Lile said tpe Board had been ap site originalLy planned, by the Center." proached about two months ago by "a the risk of injunctive proceedings that group interested in community health'' might cause "interminable delay." Opposition to a sale of part of the and was told that a grouping o.f health Lile said the Board also had con park was swift and extensive when the agencies in the Park would "enhance .sid~red the traffic problems that the proposed plan was first disclosed. The City Beautiful Commissio:nz the Little Beacon lights of Baptist history Rock Garden Club, the Board of the Little Rock PTA ·Council and the Ex ecutive Committee of the Greater Lit Fortitude ~nd ·forgiveness tlE\ Rock Council of· Garden Clubs, rep resenting 800 women, expressed op- BY BERNES K. SELPH, TH.D. position. ·I PASTOR, FIRST CHURCH, BENTON Lile ·said architects of the new hos If William Carey and those associated with him in Serampore had turned pital had been advised to prepare- plans aside to answer all the charges a~ainst them, they would not have ha~ time to for the upper floo~ of the building work. These men were held in contempt by many governmental officers in Eng first, while the site issue was being land ·as well as in the Orient. settll!d. The London Times carried the story that Carey stood on a barrel in the Camden church begins streets of Calcutta and preached, haranguing th!l nativ.es. A, mob gathered an~ new building phase the preacher was saved by the police. Neither story was ·true. At home ministers of ·state churches. argued long over the merits of trying to win ~-atives to religious Second Church, Camden, unanimous troths before enlightening and refining ·them in general Jmowledge and manners. ly voted Aug. 6 to enter the second 'However, they were reminded by others of their fold that Paul had preached to phase of a three phase building pro "barbarians" and they showed him much kindness. gram. ) Claims were made that the writings of these men were inflamatory· and The' first phase, the erec_tion of a revolutionary. But further investigation would have shown that to 11revent such $75,000 s~nctuary was' begun_ in 1964 results all copies for publication were sent to the Governor of Serampore before under the leadership of W. R. -Rogers, hand. In turn, he could transmit these to the Governor-General of India. former pastor. The sanctuary seats 350. Since that time the former sanctuary In the face of such calumny, Carey continued preaching, t11anslating, and has been used for educational space. publishing. Their work wrought good to the natives as well as to the English. Because of rapid growth during the But this v:as overlooked. Wh,en the subject of toleration was being discussed by past 15 months the church enters this the Counctl of Calcutta, one member wag, very bitter against the Baptists. He phase of the building · progrB~m some 3- argued, "If these men had belonged to any of the more respectable sects of 5 years' ahead of schedule. Dissenters, they might have been tolerated;, but to think of tolerating Baptists, the smallest of sects, and the straitest; that is not to be borne.'' Yet a Con IThe new building will contain . 3,632 gregational missionary at Calcutta, Rev. Dr. Boaz, said that a son of this same square feet and will have a value of ' $37,500. Furnishings for the building member of the coun~i~ was converted ·by means of a newspaper containing an will bring the total cost to $40,000 and extract f~om the wrtttngs of Baxter of Doddridge, which had been printed by the Baptist Press. He had· read it at one of the governmental stations ' in the will give the church property a value of some $150,00.0. The building will hills of India. He came down from his solitary station, received further religious contain six department rooms, 12 claSIS instruction, and was admitted into one of the Baptist churches. rooms, a kitchen and fellowship hall •G. Winfred Hervey, The Story of Baptist Missions in Foreign Landa (St. Louis, Chancy R. Barn&, area, a church office and rest )'OOm fa 1886) p. 26 ff cilities. It will be of block and brick Page Six ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE construction and will be centrally heat Baptist beliefs ed and air conditioned. It will form an "L" with the sanctuary. Serving on the building committee A tragic contrast are: Marshall .Sumners, chairman, Ted Wilsol)., secretary, Thomas Beasley, BY HERSCHEL H. HOBBS treasurer, C. ·C. Stinnett, and E. N. Pastor, First Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Faulkner. The" finance committee con past president, Southern Baptist Convention sists of W. E. Summers, chairman, "And he released unto them him that for seditiol\ and murder was cast into J. M. Beasley, and Marshall Sumners. , prison, whom they desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will"-Luke 23:25 Since May 14, 1968, Jimmie L. Taylor has served as pastor of the church. Pilate had repeatedly avowed that Jesus was innoc~nt of any crime against Rome worthy of dea·th: Yet he finally sentenced him to be crucified (v.24). The Ground breaking ceremonies for the Jewish rulers had the governor in a tight place. They insinuated that they would new buildinif will be announced at a report to Caesar about Pilate's own misdoings in government. later time, In a desperate attempt to squirm out of1 this predicament he offered the Bakers Creek Church Jews a choice. He would release to them either Jesus or Barabbas. It was cus licenses Kyle Cox tomary•-at the passover season to release a prisoner of the people's own choosing. Barabbas had been a:trested for sedition and murder. Perhaps he had been a Kyle Cox, 17,, sort of Mr. and Mrs. faTse messiah who sought to lead a revolution against Rome. Failing .to do so, he George X. Cox, Russellville, received his may have become an outlaw and had murdered in · his banditry. . certificate of license to the Gospel min istry from Bakers Creek Church re This role o.f sedition Jesus had refused . . Because he refused .to be . a political cently. military Messiah the people largely had rejected him. In all of his actions and teachings Jesus had submitted to ~oman rule. Yet Rome was about to crucify The certificate was presented by him on the basis of false accusations to the cont.rary. J W. E. Jerry Ridgon, pastor. , The tragic irony is ~hat Barabbas, who was worthy of death, was to be set Kyle is, a senior at ),tussellville High free. While Jesus, who did not deserve to be executed, was to be crucified. It School and plans to attend Ouachita was likely that Barabbas was scheduled to be crucified that very day along with University. He is an Eagle Scout and two other thieves. a junio~; leader in the 4-H Club.- Re- I porter - Tra·gic though it was, in truth Jesus died in the place of Barabbas. He was _his substitute on the cross. In this tragic contrast is seen the substitutionary atone mfilnt. Jesus died for or as a substitute for man's sin. The sinlees for the sin- . ff l, the innocent for the guilty. · In Bara2,bas we see ourselves-worthy of death. In Jesus we see the Saviour of all who believe in him. And. as we see Jesus on the cross we can say, "Except for the grace of God there hang I."
I First Church, Rogers, will permit From the churches- use of six classrooms by the North First Church, Star City, had a fare side School, while the burned-out school well reception Aug. 17 for Tony La is being rebuilt. Twelve members of tham, summer worker with youth and the church volunteered to help in the music. He will return to Southwestern Headstart program held in Westside MR. COX DR. MORRIS Seminary for his second year of study. School. Gil bert L. Morris Dr. John R. Maddox, pastor of First South Side Church, Pine Bluff, re receives doctorate Church, Camden, recently r completed cently voted on a new mission at Op eight years of service in Camden. pelo, Ark., near Morrilton. Results o! Gilbert L. Morris, Ouachita Univer the vote were not available at press North · Crossett First Church, in sity faculty member, has completed his time. Crossett, has called James A. .Overton doctoral w rk in English at the Uni- . 0 to serve as interim pastor. ' versity of Arkansas. First Church, Ft. Smith, has held 'its Leroy W~ Eaton will Dr. Morris has been on the Ouachita Vacation Bible School. Dr. Ken Lilly speak in' .Little Rock faculty since 1962 and will assume the has been selected as 1970 budget di duties of Chairman of the English De rector. The Third Street Mission of LeRoy Eaton will be the gue!lt partment at the University next fall. First Church was burglarized recently speaker of the Central :Chapter of the He, did his undergraduate. and post on three different occasions. Items Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship graduate work at Arkansas State Uni stofen included an air conditioner re~ International, Aug.. 29, ·7 p.in., at the versity. mdved from a window. Lafayette Hotel, Little Rock. For his thesis, Dr. Morris wrote on Herbert Hodges, pastor of South Mr. Eaton is president of ~he Dallas "Imagery in the Hymns of Charles Highland Church, Little Rock, has de Chapter of the FGBMFI, and is a pro Wesley." clined a call to First Chl,uch, A_rka fessional engineer in Texas. He is a delphia, stating that he "has not had Southern Baptist al\d a member of' Before coming to OBU, he taught at a clear leading of the Holy Spirit." First Church, Dallas, Tex. He is em Neelyville and Biggers high schoo\s anti ployed by General Electric Company in held a pastorate at Calvary Church, First Church, Hot Springs, is ob sales and technical liaison with ·aero serving Youth Week, Aug. 1'1-24, fea Corning. I nautics and astronautics firms. turing the new Christian folk musical He and his wife, Johnnie, have three "Tell It Like It Is." Vacation Bible The meeting on Aug. 29 will be open children. School continues from Aug, 18-27. to ministers and laymen. ' · \
AUGUST 21, 1969 Page Seven 0. M. Stallings ---Your state convention at work writes Genesis book 0. M. Stallings, beloved and retired Arkansas student serves- pastor of Conway, whose first book, The Commissim,ted Churches in the Cur rent Crises, found a in Kansas.:Nebraska area - ready market upon The · following letter was · received our teachers. Susan was the life guard its publication, in from.Laurie 'Jlompkins. Laurie is a stu· and I was the song leader. We even had , 1965, has now come dent at Ouachita University and is a choir. We sang "Do You Really Care", out with a most in· serving in the Kansas-Nebraska area "He's Everything' to Me'', and other , teresting and helP as a BSU Summer Missionary. good songs we all enjoyed. ' ' ful 1 paperback, The Grace of God in Gen Greetings from the Flatlands! The twins we met at out firs•t camp esis, $2. The latest My partner from Georgia, Susan who have won nine of their .friends to book, states. Author Rechsteiner, and myself have just com the Lord at school still continue to in Stallings in the pre pleted seven weeks for summer mis spire us. face, is the out sions. This includes j growth of a sylla- Miss Dorothy Milam, a home mis two weeks of church INGS bus he worked out survey, .two weeks sionary who runs the Good Neighbor for use in teaching a ·course on the of Vacation Bible Center here, is a.. great person. She is book of Genesis. It was the request of Schools, and three really a disciplinarian (didn't think I members of his· Bil;.>le class for copies glorious weeks of could S•pell it Huh?) but the kids know of his notes that turned Mr. Stallings camp. The next two she loves them too. Ove-r 200 kids are to writing the new book. weeks "'e'IJ be in enrolled in the week day clubs of the Center. There was one saved in our •Genesis is regarded by Mr. Stallings IV a c a t i o n l3 i b I e School; then our last VBS theJ;"e. There were two saved in as his favorite book of the Bible, and our other. VBS. this is reflec.ted in the. enthusiasm with we'll do visita which he deals with this treasure house Cam.{>S have of God's revelation, in a careful look een great, we've We've heard so many great preach at each and every one of the fifty had such wonderful ers·, but there are some who are very chapters. experiences as corn flakes in our beds, discouraged because in some a'reas of frogs in our candy boxes, ' special Kansas people just don't respond to the Many of us who cannot .agree with '!flags" on the flagpole, giggling and churches' ministry, especially· Southern Mr: Stallings that each of the days of screaming after "lights out", and Baptist Churches. One · preacher said, .God's great creative week was a 24- phrases in the middle of the night such "We act like we've done God a favor hour day as we count time will agree as, "Miss Laurie, is there anything in when w~ read the Bible five minutes with him that God certainly could have this cabin that can hurt: me?" and a day." Some of these church people c.ompleted his creative efforts in six of ''-Miss Laurie, I've got to vomit", etc. have to sacrifice so much up here to our days, if he had so desired. be what we call regu1ar church people. This past week in Jr. GA Camp, we In many of the small churches the pas Copies of this book inay be had from had 51 girls. One was saved, 11 sur tors have to work full time at SIOme Mr. Stallings at his home address, rendered for full time .Christian work, thing besides the pastorate in order to 1931 Duncan Street, Conway, Ark., and 18 rededicated their lives. Susan make endugh money. And the Kansas 72032. He also states that he has a and I led conferences on how to witness Nebraska Convention has much trouble few copies of his first book still avail in one's school life. We talked about getting enough money. able.-ELM, being friendly to the kids who have no friends, about not cheating, and about Continue to pray for us.-Laurie Gravel Ridge plans how being honest is a good witness to Tompkins · Aug. 24 homecoming Church offerings doiible A homecoming and roll-call service is being planned by First Church, Grav el Ridge, North Little Rock, for Sun on 'lith~ to Tell' plan ( day, Aug. 24, at 2 p.m. All members, l former members, former pastors, Dear Dr. Rucker: year, along with a . 1% percent increase friends and all other interested parties Due to our stewardship emphasis to tlie Cooperative Program. are invited to attend.· last fall (Sept., 1968), our bud~et has This program has w,orked every time The morning worship hollr will be nearly doubled, to 'date. I've tried it. I'm sold on it, and want to see our churches use it. God blesses! followed by pot-luqk dinner at the Our 1968-69 budget was $17,000 plus; church. At 2 p.m. the homecoming when the final figures are i'n we ex Dorsey L. Crow, Pastor service will begin and will inf!lude some pect the budget to double or more. We First Baptist Church of the history of the church, a roll-call have received to date $31,000 plus in to P. 0. Box 327 of chartet members and present mt!rn tal receipts. Total receipts last y~ar Marshall, Ark. 72~50 bers and a guest spea~er from the were $17,009. mother church, first, Little Rock. The This is a wonderful testimony of a program will be followed by a period Our income jumped from $20 plus fine ,pastor leading his church in stew 'of fellowship in Fellowship Hall.- B. per week to $500 plus per week im ardship development. Use our steward mediately after our "Tithe to Tell" em Shipman, Church Secretary ship materials and lead out in faith to phasis, and it has continued to show greater days ahead in your church. If a constant growth. We plan to have Those who are delinquent in we can be of help to any of you in another month-long ·program in Sep stewardship development in your teaching the young the duties of tember. good citizenship are as guilty as church or association, pleaae call on us. the juvenile delinquent. As a result of this program our mis: -T. K. Rucker, Annuity-Stewtlrd&hip. sion giving also has doubled over last Secretary.
Page Eight ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Find out wh~t God. is doing For church secretaries Cliff Elkins, Church Administrator of Second Church, Houston, Tex., will and help; Ashcraft urges conduct the workshop for church sec "Find out what God is doing and then He indicated pleasure that some retaries at the State Workshop, Oct. help him." ' ' progress had been made in race rela 30. This will be held in connection with This was the·charge delivered to the tions, counselling the graduates to "en thirteen other workshops to be con summer graduating class of Ouachita la.rge the labors of the living as you ducted at ImmaJ!Uel Church, Little University · last Friday afternoon 'by seek to give dignity to the vote of the Rock, Thursday, Oct. 30, 10 a.m.-3:30 Charles H. Ashcraft, new executive dead." p.m. . secret.ary of the Arkansas Baptist "True greatness can never be This will be another "first" for our State Convention, in a commencement achieved apart from attachment to and state. A large number of church sec address. identity with a great and noble cause," retaries are expected to attend. Some Taking note of American lives being concluded Dr. Ashcraft. "This has been .important matters to be discussed are: sacrificed in the Vietnam conflict, Dr. true of all the great people of all gen Public relations; Is your church paper Ashcraft challenged the graduates to erations." saying anything?; financial records; "live for the things for which others Reminding the graduates that Cyrus and helping your church prepare for are· required to die." McCormack, William Gladstone, Edgar the 70's. Calling on the graduates to "equate Allen Poe, Felix Mendelssohn, ~nd the ministries of the heroic dead," D'r. Abraham Lincoln were all born in a Immanuel Church, Little Rock, will Ashcraft urged them to "allow the · single year-1809-Dr. Ashcraft said furnish lunch for. the first 125 who dead a silent vote on current issues. that "the creative genius of God is nev make reservations. Send $1.25 to the Give fpll appraisal for the things for er exhausted in any generation." Church Training Department for lUnch which they made the supreme sacri- reservations. Deadline-Oct. 24.-Ralph fice." · Dr. Ashcraft was speaking in First W. Davis · The graduates were encouraged to Church, Arkadelphia, where the grad uation exercises were held at 5 p.m. He "make the most of new frontiers now Fayetteville pastor open, such as race relations, apprecia recalled that it was just 30 years ago to the day, on Aug. 15, 1939, that he tion of world cultures, social ministries, is essay winner implementation pf the Christian way was a member himself of. a Ouachita graduating class. Andrew M. Hall, who celebrated of life, and following ,the htgh calling his sixteenth anniversary as pas of God.'' · Dr. Ashcraft, a native of Arkansas, tor of First Church, Fayetteville Dr. Ashcraft pointed out that much .ncently res~gned as executive-secretary on August 17, was notified re progress had been ~ade by previous of the Utah-Idaho Southern Baptist cently that he had been named generations, including the casting aside Convention, Salt Lake City, to accept first prize winner in a ·contest of the practice of duelling, torture the executive-secretaryship of the Ar ·sponsored by Rotary Internation- chambers, ·child labor, penal abuses, kansas Baptist State Convention. Fri al. slavery, and, in some cases, capital day was his first day in the new posi punishment. tion. He was awarded a prize of $100 for a brief essay he wrote OIJ "What Rotary Means to My Com Dr. McBeth speaker at munity." The essay first appeared in t]le Evangelism Conferences , official club bulletin, at Fayette Dr. J. P. McBeth of Dallas, Tex., for 'awhile in Hardin-Simmons Univer- ville, Fayrotales. author, evangelist and Bible teacher, sity. Dr, Hall is a past president of will be the main speaker for the area- Dr. McBeth is the author of a com- the Fay~tteville club. · w i d e Evangelism mentary on Romans and several sermon Conferences in our booklets. His commentary is taught in High school yearbook state, Sept. 14-19· many of our colleges and seminaries, Dr. McBeth is a a11d is acclaimed by scholars to be the workshop at Ouachita graduate of Hardin- best commentary written on Romans. Simmons University; . More than 200 students from 43 high Southwestern Semi The purpose of the Area Evangelism schools throughout Arkansas registered nary, and Philadel Conferences is to motivate and inspire for a high school yearbook workshop phia University. He our members in personal-witnessing. The 'held at Ouachita University -Aug. 18- holds the degrees of conferences will be held at the following 20. A.B., Th.M. and Ph.D. places: M c B e t h began •Guest lecturers for the workshop in preaching when he Monday night, Sept. 15, Harrison, First cluded Miss Hazel Presson, publications DR. McBETH was a youth. After Church. adviser for the Northside (Fort spending 28 years in the pastorate, he , Smith) High School, and a nationally entered the field of evangelism. It is ~uesday night, Sept. 16, .. Ft. ·Smith, recognized author, lecturer and teach said that Dr. McBeth holds more revi- Grand A venue Church er; and Jerry Dickson, a npted year book authority with Taylor Publishing r vals than any other man in the nation. Wednesday night, Sept. 17, Arkadel- . He stays booked up three years in ad· phia, Second Church Company in Dallas, Tex. vance in Bible conferences, encamp ' The students heard lectures on all ments and revival meetings. Thursday night, Sept. 18, Pine Bluff, phases of yearbook production and Imma~uel Church. While pastor of First Church, Dumas, participated in work labs, applying Tex., he led his church in a tithing move- Friday night, Sept. 19, Walnut Ridge, what they had learned. mept, which was the second in Texas. Southern Baptist College The income of the church increased more , If draft cards wer~ issued for than ten times. While pastor of First -Jesse S. Reed, Secretary of Evange- the War on Poverty, would, these Church, · Anson, Tex., he tau,ht Bible lism Dept. also be burned ?
AUGUST 21, 1969 Page Nine . . Church 'treed' by Arkansas missionary dedicates Cherokee Village building /
By the EDITOR ·"I've got something treed, and it's pel" (Mk. 1:15), Dr. South declared ·chiiect of the Southern Baptist Sunday ' not a chipmunk." that "it is high time for the, church to School Board; and to the membership !>e vital and relevant in l!very situation, of the mission, who "have supported the That is the way woodsman-preacher: including beautiful resort communities work with liberal investment of time, Hugh Cooper reported "finding" the such as Cherokee Village." money, and talent." makings of a Baptist congregation at Cherokee Village, the fabulous resort At the afternoon service, Dr. South ·Cooper also expressed appreciation development near Ash· Flat, in North spoke on "The Church Militant," on for help from Spring R~ver Church, Central Arkansas. Luke 22:'36. Hardy, for assistance in taking a church census. The survey indicated 1,- Cooper was reporting to J. T. Elliff, Taking note of the fact that "the day 700 families living in the Cherokee director of missions for the Arkansas of the church being a popular institu Village community, with about a third Baptist State Convention, two years tion has passed," Dr. South said that of them prospects for membership in ago. the church had no choice but to con the Baptist church. tinue its ministry for Christ. The Cher~ •Last Sunday, just '16 months from the okee Village Baptist Church, he said, An open meeting to discuss the pos time the mission was organized, the "is called to last as long as these beau sibilities of. organizing the ll).ission was m1ss1ori dedicated a new, modern-de tiful hills and to be as pure as the held in the lounge of the Sitting Bull signed, brick-and-stone buildi.ng, the· water that flows from the cprings hete. Restaurant, in Cherokee Village, on first' of an eventual three-umt plant, We are to labor here until Christ re March 15, · 1968. That ·Cooper had not The building has a much higher value turns." been mistaken in his evaluation of the than the $75,000 that went into its con· prospects was attested by the fact that struction, for the Cherokee Village 48 person11 attended. From these came Company and many other firms ·and in· Pastor Cooper, expressing gratitude to· persons and organizations that have the nucle1,1s for the organization, not dividuals in the area contributed serv many weeks later. ·ices free and materials at wholesale worked together to make the mission prices. possible, described the mission's growth On May 10, 1968, a portable church l1'S being "like a river . that originates< building which had been ordered to The· new building has an auditorium from a sprin~ and increases in size as constitute a temporary, first meeting that will seat 200, and offices, kitchen various tributaries flow into it." place, arriv'ed. The first service, in this and dining area, space for a library, . building, was held on May, 2·6. and Sunday 'School and ·Training Union Cooper paid tribute to the boards of educational space, the Rocky Bayou and Big Creek Asso A group from Park Hill Church vis ciations, which provided his salary for ited the mission on June 9 and assisted Rhe~bin L. South, pastor of. Park llill the first six monthS! as mission pastor; in orgamzmg a Sunday School. Forty Church, North Little Rocl<, mother of to Park Hill' Church and the Missions eight persons enrolled. the mission, was the principal speaker ' department of ABGC, co-sponsors of the Sunday at morning and afternoon serv .mission; to John: A. C?oper a]ld the Cooper was officially called as p~stor ices. Speaking at the morn:iiig service Cherokee Village Development Company, on Oct. 2, 1968, on the text, ". • • The time is· ful for; the donation of tha site for the In the ensuing months, the member-· filled, and· the kingdom of God is at church, at the main entrance to the ship has grown to 85, including five hand: repent ye, and believe the gos· community;, to Lee Anderson, head ar- (Continued on page 12)
.!::!:! Due to ra-in, "groundbreaking" for the new Cherokee Vil· 1 la,ge misBion building had to be held indoors, in the tem porary building first used by the mission. Participating were Open meeting in Sitting Bull Restaurant, where fo'tVnfng thd Missions co-mmittee of Paq·k Hill Church, left to right: of Cher(lkee Villa,ge Baptist Church first was C0718idered. · Alan Sloan, Mrs. Will Adams, Leander Muncy,· Will ,lidwms, .Photo by J. T. Elliff and Iwn Jackson.--Photo by J .T. Elliff
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Top: New first unit .of Cherokee Village Church, left, and interior view of auditorium, featuring cross back of pulpit. Center: Pastor Hugh Cooper, left, in front of Cooper home, which he says he and his bank built; right, Deacon William Tilghman puts finishing touch to cabinets he built for church kitchen. Bottom: Portable church, now folded to one-third its maximum size, for transportation to a new site. ( ABN Photos)
~ .. AUGUST 21, 1969 Page Eleven I Baptist Convention. His pastorates . Cherokee VIllage have included Eagle Heights Church, Governor's smut fight (Continued from.page 10) Harrison;, First Church, Salem; and commended by youth First ,Church, Melbourne. by baptism, and the Sunday School en Those who know Cooper best regard TALLADEGA, Ala.-More than 200 rollment now totals 118, with an aver• him as "tailor made" for the sort of Baptist youth signed a letter here com age attendance of close to 100. Preach ministry he has at the Cherokee Village mending Alabama ·Governor Geol'ge ing attendance. is considerably higher, church, describing him as "a good Brewer for his "aggressive effort to for many in the resort area do not get preacher, · a good organizer, and one stop the distribution of pornographic m.a.terial in our state." up in ti~e to go to 1 Sunday School. able to get along v.ith people." The youth signed the petition during A Training Union was organized last In the co~paratively short time he Jan. 20, and a Woman's Missionary So ·has been at his present loclltion, Cooyer the first Alabama Baptist Coed Mis ciety, last Feb. 6. has become well acquainted in the sions Conference. at Shocco Springs Baptist, Assembly here. "We are thrilled with our new build ;Cherokee Village community. He was ing and with the prospects for growth," the speaker for a community sunrise They also commended. the governor, Cooper said, in an interview. Easter service last spring, a service a Baptist laymen, for halting the show- · held at the Village's recreational cen ing of "X-rated" movies at seven the Although nearly half the member ter and which attracted an attendance aters in Alabama. ship of the mission come from outside of 250 • . the Cherokee Village development, the The conference was sponsored ·by the mission attracts numerous visitors from Unlike many of his f~llow Baptist Alabama Baptist Woman's Missionary the Village each week. On a recent preachers, Cooper has no qualms Union and the Alabama Baptist Broth Sunday there were 60 visitors, repre against participating iii services with erhood department, and combin•)d the senting a wide spread of businesses and Christians of denominations other than summer Young Woman's Auxiliary .professdons and many sectior.s of the Baptist. In a Good Friday service at (YWA) and Baptist Young Men's c<>n~ nation. the Cherokee Village Episcopal Church ferences. this year, he spoke on "The Three "This keeps me on my toes, in ser Crosses," and "stayed close to the During the final session led by South mon preparation," Cooper grinned. cross i>f redemption." ern Baptist Foreign Mission Board Ex "Not knowing how :many doctors, law ecutive Secretary Baker James Cauthen yers, college professors, .etc., will be in He told his Episcopal friends: "Any of Richmond, Va., 63 young people the congregation gives me .the incen one who acceptSI the Lord Jesus Christ made decisions to enter missions serv tive I need to study and pray, in pre as Savior is my brother or sister." ice. (BP) paring for the· services." • ·Mrs. ·Cooper, a great asset to' the Cooper is "an OXford man"-Oxford -preacher in his work, is the former Charles Hirt featured Ark., that i&-and MS spent the most Miss Pauline Lamb of Calico Rock. The of his 59 years in the Ark~nsas hills Coopers have four children: Kathy, wl}o in music institute he loves so . well. Largely self-educated, is now Mrs. Marion Williams of .he does not hesitate to "borrow" ser Bartlesville; Okla.; Gary, a recent grad LOUISVILLE; Ky.-Dr. . Charles C. mons and sermon outlines wherever he uate of ArkanSJas State University, who Hirt, founder and chairman of the de finds them. He especially likeS' the ex will teach agriculture, starting in Sep pal'tment of church music at the Uni positions of Adam Clark and Charles tember, at Brinkley High School; and versity of Southern California, heads H. Spurgeon, of a few generation.s back Paula Sue, 16, and ·Eddie Lynn, 15, the list of program personnel for the and draws on them heavily. . · ' students at the nearby Highland High ninth annual Church Music Institute at School, between Hardl' and Ash Flat. the Southern Baptist Seminary 'here He feels-as Benjamin Franklin did Oct! 20 to 23. -th~t it is much better for a preacher The Coopers live in a new and spa to take his. sermons from more able ~:,ious brick home which Pastor Cooper Dr. Hirt will be the seminary's 1969 ' preachers and ha.ve something to say "and my bank" built last year, a mile Gheens lecturer in church music. He is when he Sipeaks than to be original or two south of the church, toward Ash· professor ·o:f music and director of chor and flop. . Flat. Their address is Rou~e 1, Ash al org.anizations at the university, and , Flat, and their telephone exchange is has led the department of church music The six-foot-plus mountaineer skipped _Ash Flat. since its founding in 1946. high school to work on his father's farm. As a. mature adult already a "The Lord has been good to us," .Since 1941, Dr. Hirt has been m1ms preacher, he gained admission_;__"by the Preacher Cooper says, sitting in the ter of. music at the First Presbyterian skin of my teeth!'-to Ouachita CollegP. pleasant surroundings of his new home. Church of Hollywood, Calif. where his (Mw Ouachita University) as a spe "I don't have much patience with music :program involves 400 persons. cial student, back in the early 1940s. preachers that go around talking about Also. be featured in church how much they gave up to preach." to th~ There his natural gifts as a public mtJsic program are "Iarald Rohlig, head speaker stood him in good stead. Hugh Cooper definitely gives the im of the music department at Hunting "I don't want to brag," he says, with pression that he not only is grateful don ·College in Montgomery, Ala., Mrs. a twinkle in his eye, "but I made good but that he wants . to use all that he Nancy Poore Tufts, organist-choir di grades in my speech class at Ouach- has for the glory of the Lord. rector at Good Shepherd Lutheran ita." · Church, Alexandria, Va., and Dr. G. Maurice Hinson of the Southern Sem Due to his father's serious illneRs In Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin inary music school faculW. and subsequent death, Cooper hall to College Presddent Rob Roger W. drop out of Ouachita after 1% . years The 'first · session of the institute will Howell, Jr., delivered a one-sen begin at 6::30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 20, to help with the family farm, and h~ tence "state of the college;' report never went back. · and the final session will close at 3 at Bowdoin's annual commence p.m. on Thursday,. Oct. 23. Hou~>ing and Much of his ministerial career has ment dinner. "I think the fact registration information can be ob been spent as an associational mission th'at th~ college is still hete is tained by writing D'r. McElrath, South ary, including three years in Kansas comment enough on its state;" he ern Baptist Theological Semina,ry, 2825 with the Northern (now 'American) said. Lexington Road,. Louisville, Ky. 40206 . Page Twelve ----ARKANSAS · BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE ern Baptists of Arizona: either accept the challenge and meet the needs of the college, or "hand the keys to someone Ariz~na college seeks else and let them run the school." Under plans approved by the con vention board for the fund drive, the $1~5,000 to avoid closure $140,000 goal was to also include a previously _scheduled $25,000 annual state missions offering that benefit the PHOENIX,, Ariz.-Grand Canyon tion Execut'ive Secretary Charles L. college, the convention, its children's College, owned and operated by the McKay pointed out that the convention home, and Paradise Valley Baptist Arizona Southern Baptist Convention, was in a position to borrow the funds Ranch. must raise $125,000 in the next 90 days on a short-term basis and could do so or face possible closure, a joint meet at a more favorable rate than that The action called for a guarantee of ing of the college's trustees and Execu quoted to the collegq. the portions already scheduled in the tive Board of the Arizona convention annual ·offering for the home, ranch was told here. Both actions, to conduct the fund drive and to loan the college $50,000, and convention to be paid from the first ' In response, the convention's Execu were approved without oppo~itfon by monies received in the drive, with the tive Board approved 'an immediate the board. remainder going to the college. Eacll $140,000 fund campaign among South of the three are . to get $5,600. During the joint board meeting, ern Baptist churches in Arizona to try Writing in the Baptist Beacon, offi· to save the school. Richard . Jackson, pastor of North Phoenix Baptist Church, was named to cial Baptist state paper for Arizona, Grand Canyon College PresideJlt Ar coordinate the $140,000 fund raising McKay said that what Grand Canyon thur K. Tyson outlined to the board the campaign for the college. He indicated College really needs is $1 million to be college's financial plight, caused by a his church was willing to relieve him of debt free. "A million doll~rs would pay lack of operating funds. major church duties to free him to lead off alllthe college land. It would pay the fund drive. off the debt on evecy building. E;very 'The school needs $50,000 immediate bill could 'be paid; every note and ·ly to meet faculty payrolls due between Jackson told the ,boards he could not mortgage burned and the colle~re could now and Sept. 5; $11,000 to pay for dp the job alone, and stated that at live within its income," McK~W wrote. utilities already owed (in some cases least 50 laymen from his church would r as much as six months i~ arrears); $15,- go at their own ex.p~nse to sell the state McKay said the problem basically 000 , to pay book. supphers of . the col- _,on Grand Canyon College and raise the was caused because no one has been leges bookstore m overdue bills; and needed funds. Jackson said his church able to really sell Southern Baptists in at least another $50,000 to pay miscel- would give at least $10 000 of the $140 • Arizona on the value and contribution laneous back bills owed to scores of 000 goal. · ' ' of the college. He ~aid if the conven· suppliers, ?-CCording to Tyson1 tion could catch the spirit and enthusi Jackson declared that there are only asm of · North Phoenix Baptist Church, The college president added that two choices in the matter for the South- they could do the job in 10 days. (BP) many of the creditors have refused to make additional !!hipments of .supplies until outstanding accounts are brought current. Tyson said that the school did not operate in the black for the first 15 years of its 20 year history. He also cited a limited endowment, and said that the support from Arizona church es was relatively small because of the size of the convention. Tyson added, however, that he felt the convention h'ad gone the limit of its ability to support the college and said college, support ·ranks near the. top on a percentage basis of support from the convention. • In addition to approving the $140,- 000 fund campaign among Arizona Southern Baptist churches to help save the c.ollege, the convention Executive Bi>ard also voted' to loan the college $50,000 to meet' its payroll. The board hopes to repay the $50,000 from funds received in the special fund drive. CRISWELL SUPPORTS welfare amendment: Southern Baptist Convention Pres The action to 1'oan the colleg~ $50,- ident W. A. Criswell, left, confers with Zan Holmes, a Texas legislator from 000 for 90 d~ys came on a substitute Dallas, during a legislative briefing for Negro and white Bapf.ist pastors on a motion to a proposal that the conven proposed amendment to raise Texas's welfare ceiling. tion co-sign a note with a Phoenix bank for $225,000 to cover an existing re Criswell, pastor of the 15,000-member First Chu?·ch of·Dallas, and Holme..,s, a volving loan of $17·5,000 plus the $50,· Methodist ministe1·, were among many Texans who spoke out for increased wel 000 in payroll needs. fare payments f01· the aged, blind, handicapped, and poverty-strjcken children. I I The amendment; which drew support from all levels of Texas secular and..religious Arizona Southern Baptist Convert- life, passed by an overwhelming margin. (BP Photo by Bryan Price)
AUGUST 21, 1969 Pag~ Thirteen Baptists rebuked for silence on national moral pro~lems · • BY BETH HAYWORTH ' WASHINGTON-The 13th annual Religious Liberty Con The responsibility of thE\ church to worlt to safeguard ference concluded its t\lree-day study here with reports and the rights of the conscientious objector received strong en debates that rebuked Baptists for being silent on such things dorsement from the group studying the defense establish as changing abortion laws, the need for responsible dissent ment and the rights of citizens. and the right of a citizen to object to a particular war on "Baptists' historic appreciation for the role of conscience grounds of conscience. in social and personal decisions should be reaffirmed in ac The participants, coming from seven BaP.tist bodies, urged knowledging the right of dissent of those who object to all Baptists to do a better job with programs on family plan wars and those opposed to a particular war," they agreed. ning and sex education, to inform constituents on the alter The group urged that denominational agencies frame re native to military service and to study the various impli solutions and distribute them widely to legislators expres cations invoived in guaranteeing an annual income to all sing O)>pOsition to the harshness of the. present treatment families. of s·elective objectors, support a provision for alternative One section of the conference also called on Baptists to military service, and call for abolition of the peace-time work for educational reforms in both public and private draft. schools, especially giving more aid to the disadvantaged and Other recommendations included: providing equality of educational opportunity for all stu dents. *"Church groups and denomin·ational agencies should in form their people through every available channel concern The findings of the conference are advisory cmly. The ing the political, social, and econom·ic problems leading to opinions and recommendations will be presented to the Bap ward Christian citiz.enship responsi·bility, such as war, the tist Joint Committee on Public Affairs at its semi-annual free conscience of the objector, political dialogue, and par meeting in October. Any action taken then will be referred ti A_UGUST 21, 1969 Page Fifteen Conference ur·ges Baptists J to support school reforms W ASHINGTQN-Baptist leaders from seven denomina *"Provide opportunities for adult education, and support tions concluded a three-day conference hearing a report that programs of retraining for job skills by both public and pri hit hard on the reluctance of Baptists and other Christian vate institutions." bodies to work for educational reforms in both public and private schools. •"Directly urge" elected officials to· re-examine national priorities in order to provide larger sums for- education. The criticism and specific recommendations for the de~ nomination's role in improving education were in a report *"Provide education of the highest quality, second to made on the final day of the 13th annual Religious Liberty none," in Baptist colleges. Conference. The members of the education study·group also said that The report on "improvement of education, the nation's private, church-related colleges should be free to use pub crucial problem," was one of five made to the conference. lic funds, since they are "no lQnger, in the main, strictly The others related to conscientious objection, family plan sectarian, but provide a public function in education." Ac ning dissent, and assuring families of a minimum income. . ' ceptint public funds should be done when "the provisions The section report on education stated' that "it is past of the· First Amendment to the donstitution are preserved time" for Baptists "to join hands with progressive force to inviolate," they said. lead the way to educational reform." The last suggestions, approved by a 10 to 3 vote in the "Baptists, along with other Christian bodies, have too small group's discussion, drew a spirited debate in the ple frequently reacted violently against any attempt by govern nary session when the repo~ was made • . During the ple mental or private organizations to reverse the cycle of so nary sessions, however, no votes were taken. cial decline which our communities and our citizenry face, John Tubbs, secretary of the Sunday· School and church particularly minority-group citizens," the education study building department of the Maryland 1Baptist Convention, group charged. dissented strongly and suggested that Baptists should "cut "We have allied ourselves too frequently with the reac their schools loose" ·rather than receive public funds. tionary elements and have thereby reneged on our oppor L. D. Johnson, chaplain of students at Furman Uni tunity to provide Christian leadership .•-;;" they continued. versity, in Greenville, S. C., Said it was "not only right but The following recommendations were urged by the Bap absolutely imperative" for colleges to be free to accept pub tist leaders as ways the denominations can help cope with lic funds, within the limitation of the First Amendment. the "disgrace resulting from the mass of uneducated and In additiQn to cutting the schools loose, Johnson said Bap undereducated persons in our society:" tists faced three other alternatives: (1) reducing our col *"Openly an 1 AJ,IGUST21,1969 Pagq Seventeen Children's nook------ A butterfly for Mother BY SHIRLEY THULIN "David was right," she said. "'That scarf is silky and thin. It isn't really good for anything. It won't even keep Mother's ears warm." Sally looked about he:J:". The little brook was laughing as it tumbled over the rocks and down under the • bridge. ~ "You'll get lost," said David. "You're stop. She clutched her purse tightly so If only she could give her mother the only eight. That's too. little to go to as not to lose her money. She had saved happy little brook, she thought. If she town by yourself." a long time to buy her mother some could snip off a piece of the beautiful ' thing v'r'/ nice. blue sky and wrap· it for . a gift, her ·But Sally knew the way very well. Soon Sally .could see the store build mother would like that, Sally felt sure. She had gone along the path many tiines ings and the big signs just ahead. She Sally watched a big butterfly as it with her mother and her older brother was so excited that she ran the rest of David. darted in and out among the flowers. the way. She wished the stores sold butterflies "I'll be careful," she told. him. ·Sally went in one store after anoth . for pets. She knew her mother would "You'll buy something silly and waste er. She looked at all the beautiful love a bright yellow butterfly. Anything your money," he said. blouses, the necklaces, and the purses. would have made a nicer -gift than an Nothing looked special enough for her ordinary scarf. "No, I won't," ~aid Sally. "I'll go mother. The more she looked the more · The next morning Sally didn't feel early so that I'll have all morning to confused she became. look through the stores." · like giving her mother the present, but She knew it was getting late and that it was all she had. A big lump was in "You should have gone with me last she wopld have to start back home soon. her throat as she watched her mother week. You're sure to do something But she couldn't seem to find just what unwrap the tissue and hold up the wrong," David insisted. 4 she was looking for. As she went past scarf. ".She'll be all right,'; said Father. one counter, she saw some filmy head "Oh, Sally, this is a beautiful scarf. scarves hanging on a rack. They weren't It has a little brook and a beautiful • Sally put on her spring coat ·.and what she really wanted either, bUt her blue sky painted on it,'' said !Mother. started to town. She was glad her .father feet were so tired and she was getting had let her come by herself to choose so hungry that she bought one and Sally looked. She had been too upset her mother an extra special gift for started for home. to notice in the store, but sure enough, Mother's Day tomorrow. there on the scarf were all the things ' When .Sally came to the little brook, she had been wanting to give her moth The walk was long but Sally didn't she had to sit down to rest. She was er, even the bright yellow butterfly! mind for it took her through the, mea sorry now that she had bought the . dow and across the. brook; Sally loved scarf. She felt that she had not made (Sunday School Board S~dica.te, all the beautiful outdoors, but she didn't a wise choice. rights reserved) ' Page Eighteen ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Mr. Weldon C'ox, Tennessee's deputy commissioner of correc- tions, recently called the death D Se f 1 penalty "the most dramatic sym- ove'season opens p . hoi of barbarism" in the nation's domestic life. "To remove it would be to sound a resounding stroke for civilization," Mr. Cox told a civic club. "Taking a life is im- moral and criminal any way you look at it.'' He also cited some figures for those who believe the death penalty is a deterrent to violent crime. Wisconsin and Min- nesota, two states which no long- ./" . er use · capital punishment, had . . ___:_ ..---'~-==-====--- murder rates of 1.9 and 1.6 per 100,000 population in 1967. De spite the threat of the electric ' chair, Tennessee had· a murder rate of 8.9 per 100,000 population in the same year. And Tennessee had almost four times as many aggravated assaults as either of the statek. (Editorial, Nashville Tennessean) Mrs. William Idelson lives in what she describes as a "com fortable, suburban neighborhood" in the Los Angeles area. Her hus band is a television writer. They have four "privileged and in dulged" children. The Idelson fam ily has decided to go on welfare for a week. Instead of ham, steak, and milk, they will sdt down to meals of pigs' feet, neck bones, and Kool-Aid. Where Mrs. ldelson normally spends $75-$80 a week for groceries, she will spend $25.80. "My kids already are ask ing why we have to do it. They say they're going to stuff them selves Sunday night so they 'fon't DOVE shooting is usually best near feeding. be hungry all week," she said. Their family and an estimated Arkansas' hunting starts on Sept. 1 with the opening of the dove season. 100 others in the Los Angeles Many thousands of hunters will turn. out that day to try their shooting skill area will be participating in "Wel ·on these small fast birds. fare Budget Week," sponsore.d by the ·Los Angeles ·County Welfare Doves are only eleven inches long-from tip to tail-and can fly rbout 60 Rights Organization. She ·said, miles per hour. Combine these two factors with an exotic flight and tlie result "Living on welfare is not an easy . is a very difficult target. A good marksman will · average about two to three thing" and ·added that although shots for each bird bagged. the welfare budget week will not This year the limit on doves is 10. It was 12 last year. The states east and duplicate all the COI\ditions of life for a welfare family, it will south of Arkansas will have a limit of 18 doves. Our lower limit and their higher "reach middle-income concerned limits are a part of a study to learn what effect, if any, the hunting pressure citizens and help them to under has on the year to year dove populatigp.s. stand the realities of the public· '' . ·I welfare system and all its inade quacies." (By William Endicott, GIVE TO HELP YOUR. CHURCH ti.--~- PROCLAMATION Los Angeles Times-Washington rUL-FILL ITS MISSION """'"Y' AND WITNESS Post Service) AUGUST 21,- 1969 Page Nineteen BUD GET -1970 Salaries .. .. Pastor .... Minister . ~· of MUSIC. Minister --or TH~.___ of. Edu IAYNAit.D f. fOX SOifTllfRNI B~PTisr CONVft-h'ION · D.utt:C1'0jt Ql" -0..01'10-. " : "uo..,•cto.,,rcUnvtn~-.: ~, .. , .. , Q~E~OP.iA, f" OIVI.I()If I 511 Nbi=JTH AIVt"tD !IUiLDINO DALLAs, TEXAS 78201 August ZO, 1969 Mr. Average Baptist: Yoo, oho>oh budgo< lo> 1970 io doo oooOJ l'hlo bodgo<, llko Yoo> own personal budget, Will have to be increased just to break even, spiralingNo doubt, inflation.the budget committee is already facing this re.!!ult of Yoo, """" io lookiog •• hio bodg" loo, Ho olio woodou how ho Will tnake ends meet next year, Because of inflation, he Will be worse off next year than this year unless, of course, .ydur church p_r~ovides at least a cost of living raise to keep him even. Bo< "'"' P•"•• b., o Yoor Old Age - Disability - Death, with benefits for retireme·nt, ' Plus Widow and chilctrens benefits and education funds. I Now io Diooooo Cordially yours, Page Twenty BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE ------Sunday School lessons The disciple's test Life and Work August 24, 1969 By C. W. BROCKWELL JR., Education Director Matthew 7:13-27 • .Calvary Baptist Church, North Little Rock This lesson treatment Is based on the Lile and I grew' up at a crossroads. There Work Curriculum for Southe•n Baptist Church es, copyright by The Sunday School Board ol Th~e foundation test were four roads, each leading to a the Southern Baptist Convention, All rights re. special place for me. One led to the served. Used by permission, How a person's life turns out de general store, grandfather of today's pends on how it turns up-on sand 'or supermarket which sells food and a lit What is the chance of finding the on rock. tle of everything else. I thought of it narrow way? It is very easy to miss. then ·as a candy store. 1 Millions more are serving the Devil Jesus struck a blow to those who pro· • \ than Christ. . But, you can recognize the fess and never practice. When either Another of these four roads led to narrow gate by the twin pillars of re profession or practice stands alone, it my home, about a quarter of a mile pentance and faith. When you pass is not enough. They must stand to from the crossroads, and to some 'of through these, you have entered the gether. Jesus has no fellowship with my relatives fltrther on down the road. narrow way. half-way Christians and on that final day his declaration of fellowship with Still another led to school, with not Perhaps knowing what lies at the us is most important. .too pleasant memories at that young end of these roads will help you choose. age. I never knew where tbe fourth The broad way leads to destruction, a The final emphasis of Jesus in the road went. It was the "mystery" road. chucking of all that is precious to ex Sermon on the Mount is the same as istence. Like a submarine diving into in the beginning-character, He started Life is a bit like a crossroads, We deeper water, the pressure will in· out witb a description of the Kingdom choose between. the ~ay of discipline crease · until you will be completely character and he ends with an illus (school) and the way of pleasure (can, crushed with no escape to the top. tration of the Kingdom character. dy store), We decide whether to take security (home) or adventure into the Contrast this with the narrow way Every man 's building today. Some unknown. But in the final analysis, it which leads to freedom and life-life put the chief emphasis on the one do is a choice of good and evil. in all its glorious fullness, in which ing the building ("i do the right thing" men realize the end of their being. sort of thing). This · is important but The world doesn't agree. It divides "' not decisive. A person may erect a people into three classes-good, bad, But Phariseeism was a narrow way. beautiful buildi-ng yet be corrupt with neutral or undecided. However, the Bi· What is t,he difference? It is submis in, Neither is the use of good ma ble only recQgnizes two-sinners and sion to Christ. "Christ is both the way terials the most important considera saved sbmers; in Christ or without over which we must travel as well as tion. The foundation is really the de Christ; trlwelers to Heaven or to Hell, the gate through which we enter. cisive factor for everythin~ must rest ·we need to know where we are going. Through him and in him is eternal upon it. ·But do we? life." We choose either the world or • Chri~t for a companion. We have all had good teachers in "Hear, then, the imperial claim of our life. They taught us the alphabet, The teacher test Christ. He says: Take these sayings of how to put letters together to make mine and build on them; and no storm words, how to reac;l, the meaning of fig The world of today is brim.ming full can destroy your building. Hear· these sayings of mine and -disobey them-and ures, how to draw, or play a musical of religion and religions. Is God an ab instrument. · Yet as one professor said, sentee landlord, the face of humanity, remember that this has nothing to do "In all my years of teaching no one OJ,' is he just deceased? Does he speak with the man who . has never heard has asked me how · to live?" today, care about his people or can we them; he .ia not here in view at all. really know him? How do we know This word ~s not to the heathen; it is It is a question we actually ask which religion is true? Whom can we to the man who hears and disobeys, every day, Who has the answer? Who trust? the man who has seen a vision and · is the answer ? dreamed a dream, the man who has You certainly cannot trust everyone heard the infinite music and •· will set Jesus? We begin with him and we because there would be mass confusion. his instruments to catch the tune. You end with him. .Everything else is just Jesus said you must examine a per can go on bu:Uding, and -we may look background. son's deeds or fruit to know his char at the structure and say: What is the acter. You walk on dangerous ground The· gate test use of Christianity? That house is as If you decide on the basis of one's beautiful as this. This man's char We must choose between the wide words. You have to look at what he acter is as beautiful as -the other's. But and narrow gate. Choose the broad is trying to get you to do. To whom observe it; \Wait, wait! PresenUx there gate and you choose Self, your own is he leading you and for what pur will come the storms of ,SOlTOW,. of desires, righteousness and sins. There pose? bereavement and of temptations. Then, is no sacrifice and no surrender and no presently..,..-'that day'; and unless there controls either. Later on there will be The worst thing about a false religion ·be rock foundation, the fair super llQ brakes. is that it keeps you from true religion. structure will be spoiled by the sw'eep One good way of .judging religious doc ing storm" (G. Campbell Morgan). Choose the narrow way and you trine and practice is on the . basis · of ' choose Christ. "Christ trusted, to the where Jesus Christ fits into the pic When Jesus finished, the people were neglect and humiliation and crucifiX' ture. Is he de-emphasized and re amazed, astonished. In time they would ion of self; Christ sought with re placed by. another? Is he central or he angered by his' righteous life. The pentance and godly sorrow; Ghrist only a small part of the system: Any test of any man 'is when he comes face followed at any hazard and to any way, the world is going to judge your to face with Jesus Christ. What ·he martyrdom-no honor and no friend religion · by the way your life turns does then determines what he will ever but Christ." out. be in this life and the life to come. AUGUST 21, 1969 Page Twenty-One Intemati()nal Possessing the promised land August ·24, 1969 J()shua 1 :1-6; BY DR. VESTER E. WOLBER Religion Department 24:1-2, Ouachita Baptist University 14-18 The Outlines of the International Bible Les sons for ·Christian Teaching, Vniform Series, are copyrighted by the Intcrlllational Cou!'cil of Rell&"ious Education. Used by permission. The people of God must ever be turn and Nahor served beyond the 1 Eu ing away from their past and facing Faith and courage go together. '!'rue phrates and to put away all desh'es to forward to their future, but there come faith gives rise to courage, ·and to lose worship the gods of Egypt, He called times and circumstances which call for courage is to deny faith. If the people on them, instead, oo .fear and serve the a resolute effort to do so ..Such was the of God arc to claim ' the promises of Lord. situation in Israel after the death of God, they will have to exercise faith Moses. and show courage. 3. Demand f()r N ati()nal Choiee The passing of Moses brought the 3. Y()tir ()ppositi()n will erumble. (24:15). end of an era. More than any other The challenge called for a forced man in Old Testament history, Moses If you hear the Word of God, believe the promises of God, and obey the com choice. God never forces men to choose was a charismatic lead&-. The final to serve him, but he does force man to evaluation of the. great lawgiver, writ mands of God, you can count on the fall of the opposition. But do not count choose. Joshua drew up the issue quite ten by some unknown historian cen clearly when he Said: "If ye be unwill turies later perhaps, stands unchal on an easy victory, nor a quick one; just count on victory. ing to serve the Lord, choose this day lenged: "There has not arisen a prophet whom you will serve." They might since· in Israel like Moses, whom the Joshua was assured of victory be ehoose the heathen gods beyond the riv Lord knew face to face, none like him cause he was assured of the presence er or the gods of the Amorites in the 1 for all the signs and wonders which of God who said, "I will not fail you or · land; or they might choose to serve the the Lord sent him to do" (Deut. 84:10- __ fors·ake you." He was assured of vic- true Lord God. 11). tor)r -before- he started and challenged t() "be strong and of good courage." Modern men are forced to make that Challenge (J()sh. 1 :1·6) choice between such gods as material l. Arise and G(), Viet()ry and a new challenge ism, humanism,. pleasure, and political power, or the ~d and Father of our Past victories cannot substitute for I'n this life one has just enough se Lord Jesus Christ. It is a choice that present courage. God said to Joshua, curity to enable him to accept new chal one must make and re-make !Jlany "Moses . . . is dead; therefore arise lenges. He never gets into a position in times over; but he cannot escape: he is and go." Human leaders arise and fall, which he can say, "I have gained the forced to choose. but the peopl.e of God must go on. victory, and now I rest secure." There are always new Jordana to be Joshua did two things which distin · Moses 'ted his people out of Egypt but guish him as a genuine religious" lead crossed, new territories to possess, and could not lead them into the land of new planets to explore. . er: he clarified the issues--serving the rest. Joshua led them into the promised Lord or serving the heathen gods- A Ii:ey word in any language is ex land but could not give them rest (Heb. and challenged his people to choose the pansion, because it gathers up in 4:1-9). In this life one can gain just Lord; he also made a firm and public thought a basic reality of all existence. about the degree of rest which he neeas stand for the Lord. Even the universe is expanding as all to keep him longing for the full rest of heaven, and he has just ·about the tl\.e .star clusters seem to be moving 4. The Choice Made (24:16-18). away from a creative center. We must degree,_ of restlessness needed to keep not try to halt scientific exploration him struggling after that eternal rest. Under the dynamic leadership of uritil we solve all our social problems Joshua, the people made a clear choice 1. Review ()f N ati()nal Hist()ry to serve the Lord; but in making the at home. A nation, as an individual, (24:1-13). can concentrate its attention on its own choice they based their decisi()n on the problems and never solve them UI).til it Joshua assembled all Israel and re deeds of God in redeeming them. Be looks away from itself to . something viewed with them the history of God's cause God res'cued them from Egypt, outside itself. The discovery of America dealings with his chosen people from preserved them through the wildernesos revolutionized Europe, and the explora the call of Abraham to the entrance journeys, and drove out their enemies, tion of the moon and other planets may into the promised land, just completed. they would serve him. a}S() llelp America and the world. God called Abraham out of the land ' Christian people, out of gratitude and 2. 'l'he land is y()urs. beyond the river (the Euphrates:) and love, must serve Christ because he cre later led his descendants out of Egypt. ated and made us, died to redeem us, The Lord , told his people that the He led them through the wilderness a:nd and' lives to intercede for us, land was given to them just as it had int() the promised land. been .f)romised to Moses; therefore, they 2. Appeal f()r Nati()nal Faith Ir the people of God are to claim and were oo move in and possess it. Israel (24:14). possess the promiSies of God, they will could not have taken the land unless have to show faith, gratitude, love, and God had given it to them; neither could Joshua put it to them straight: he obedience: 'they 'must believe what God they have come into possession of the called on them to put away any lin has promised, thank him for what he land without courageous effort on their gering· temptations to worship the has done, adore him for. what he is~ and part. heathen gods which Terah, Abraham serve him because he is .Lora. Page Twenty-Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE INDEX A Smile or Two Attendance Report Aua-ust 10, 1969 ' < Sunday Training Ch. A-Above standard (L) p4; Arkansas atudent Church School Union Addns. serves p8; Ashcraft, Charles H. speaks Ji9 ; Au Alicia 73 66 trey; D1·. C. E. retires p14 1 Auston, Lizzie A. A•·kadelphia, Shiloh 23 8 Pine Grove p6; Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Will photo Benyville p'lO First 152 67 2 B-Brown, Martha ' and Beard, D. W, Pine Freeman Heights 116 31 Grove p6 ; B'aptists rebuked pHi Rock Springs 64 45 C-Crisis in nation demands ~evival (L) p4; Booneville, First 251 206 Camden church 'builds p6: Cox, Kyle licensed Camden, First 866 77 p7; Church offerings double p8; , Cherokee Vil Cherokee Village 97 36 lage dedication p10; Cobb, Lizzie A., Cockman, Crossett W. S. and Caroline, M'ary E.-Pine Grove p5; First 501 167 Crow, Dorsey L. church offerings p8; Cooper, Mt. Olive 21!6 125 Hu~rhJ Cherokee Village p10 El Dorado ' E-Eaton, Leroy W. speaker p7: Elkins, Cliff Caledonia 38 speaker p9 Ebenezer 158 67 -F~Faith, showing by works (E) p3: Fortitude Eudora, New Hope 167 and forgiveness (BL) p·6 ; Fri.end indeed (BBl p7 "A word with you about self-confidence, Miss Miller ..•" Forrest City, First 447 11'6 H-He is able (PS) p2 ; Hill, Virginia, Pine Ft. Smith, First 1,04'7 361 4 Grove p6; H'all, Dr. Andrew M. essay winner Gentry, First 139 60 p9 ; High school yearbook workshop P9 Green Forest, First 167 93 G-Gravel Ridge homecoming p8 'With an.ticipcition' Greenwood, First 2-63 77 J-Jackson , Samuel C. seeks cooperation p14: Harrison, Eagle Heights 243 78 Jackson, Ivan photo p10 A group of students presented a list Hope, First 427 ' 177 M-Morris, Gilbert L. doctorate p7 : Michigan Hot Springs field (L) p4; McBeth, Dr. J. P. speaker p9 of unnegotilllble demands to the Ward Gi·and Avenue 205 8-Stallings, 0. M. Genesis book p8; Sloan, ens and Fellows of Wadham College, Piney 172 66 Alan, photo piO Oxford, England. They received thi:; Jacksonville T-Tompklns, Laurie serves p8: Tilghman, Bayou Meto 142 86 1 William photo p1~ reply: First 403 94 V-Vocabulary difficulty (L) p4 Jonesboro "Dear Gentlemen: We note vour Central 368 100 1 Nettleton 266 89 2 threat to take what you call 'direct ac Little Rock co.,plex tion' unless your demands are immedi' ' Archview 161 60 ately met. Geyer Springs '509 176 A poodle and a c~ker spa~iel met Life Line 461 162 Marked Tree, NelsW'ander 93 '10 in the park. The poodle sa1d, "My "We feel that it is only sporting to Monticello, Second 247 87 name's Fifi. What's yours?" let you know that our governing body North Little Rock includes three experts in chemical war Baring Cross 676 161 it's South Side Chapel 41 18 1 Replied the spaniel: "I think fare-, two ex-commandos skilled with Calvary 391 116 1' Down Boy." Gravel Ridge, First 1&3 83 dynamite and torturing prisoners, four Highway • 178 91 2. qualified marksmen in both small arms Levy 890 124 Ill wind Park Hill 804 ' -· and rifles, two ex-artillerymen, one Sixteenth Street ,47 80 holder of the Victoria Cross, four ka· Paragould, East Side 304 166· Two old fellows in Pennsylvania were rate experts, and a chaplain. Par!'!,_ First 354 111 2 scanning the angry sky when one said Pine Bluff Centennial 204 96 to the other: "Reminds me of the "The- governing body has authorized East Side 164 82 8 clouds' back in South Carolina just be me to tell you that we look forward First 649 166 Green Meadows 4~ fore the hurricane struck last week." with confidence to what you call a 'con· Second 162 90 3 frontation,' and I may even say with Watson Chapel 164 81 "Bad, was it1" • Springdale anticipation."-'!'he Living Church Berry Street 68 28 "Well, I never had no intention of Caudle Avenue 98 24 Elmdale 364 100 2 visitin' Pennsylvania." First 376 106 . 6 Providence Van Buren First 388 146 7 A political war is one in which every "What do you want now, daughter? Jesse Turner Mission 12 Haven't I just set your husband up in Chap~ I 38 one shoots from the lip. Vandervoort, First 51 37 business?" ' Warren First 346 102 "Yes, Dad, sure-but now he wants Southside Mission S9 64 Westside 62. 86 Like a young tree, •friendship you to buy him out." West Memphis must be planted in rich soil, wa Calvary 205 86 tered properly to establish deep Ingram Boulevard 300 u. roots, and grow in the S'Unshine No doctor of time. Be calm! "Why did you leave your last job?" A woman driver whose parked · car asked the personnel man to. the man rolled into another car was questioned applying for a. job. by a policeman. "Why. didn't you s.et r~IIAPTIS!RIES-SPI~• ll/llt-Molded . Fiberglass "Illness, sir," was the reply. your emergency brake?" • Accessories ~· · ·.· .. "What illness?" "Emergency?" she asked. "SincE O)f~ dwiu4tu.6, dnc. when is mailing a letter an emergen- " BoJC 672 Dept. Jll, Muscatine, Iowa J "I don't rightly know, sir," was the cy?" man's answer. "They just said they were sick of mel" Down under For sale in Asked where he would like to be if - ~orthwest Arkansas Fall guy a- nuclear bomb went off, a farmer Hammond Organ B 3 Console replied, "Somewhere so I could say, Separate Tone Cabinet i'Who is the responsible man in this 'What was that? • " Suitable Cor church or home firm?" asked the salesman. Like new. Prlce $1800 "I don't know who's the responsible College is 'wonderful. 1t takes Contact Box A, Arkansas man, sir" said the office-boy, "but I al the children away from home just Baptist Newsmagazine ways get the blame.", as they reach the arguing stage. AUGUST 21 I 1969 Twenty-Three In the world of religion----'---:------ The pastor . and his people had tried to keep silent abo'!Jt the damages to Goldwater raising funds property, the graffiti and other pesky 'Violations, but said they could do so no for Grand Canyon Church longer and called the authorities. ' "Blackie go home," and "Whites are SAN MAITEO, Calif.-Senator Barry over the lodge lobby, the Protestants cool" was scribbled in the remains of Goldwater from Arizona is accepting would clean out the bar and hold serv fertilizer dumped on the church's front 'speaking engagements these days to: ices there, and other denominations steps. Worse property damage was re raise funds for a church in the Grand would hold services wherever they corded, including paint dumped through Canyon Park. could," the Senator was quoted in the broken windows of the chapel. (EP) San Mateo Times' Drew Pearson .column. Called the "Shrine of the Ages," the sanctuary will serve members of all Goldwater added: "We're building faiths. this church from my lecture fees. It's Free will Baptists non-denominational and will have sev change treatise "We found that on Sunday morning eral rooms for several churches."