1960 Southern Baptist Convcntion For Release: 9 P.M. Miami Beach, Fla. Friday, May 20 W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Somerkamp, Assistant

HOME MISSION BOARD Atlanta, Ga.

The first fruits of a re-organized Southern Baptist Rome Mission Board were report- ed this week to messengers here for the annual Southern Baptist Convention.

This is the first year that the board has operated under a reorganization that group- ed related departments into five divisions, with directors responsible to the executive secretary.

Reports show increases in most phases of home mission work, with strong emphasis on pioneer mission fields, language missions, National (Negro) Baptists, and mission centers.

Pioneer missions, work mostly in the western half of the United States, received about $1,312,000 (or 64.7 per cent) of mission funds. These funds were paid through 12 state conventions, including border states of New Mexico, Illinois, and Maryland.

Executive Secretary Courts Redford of Atlanta, Ga. announced a missionary force of 2096 worlccrs at the close of 1959, including 470 student summer missionaries. This was a gain in personnel of 344 over the previous year. This force is now reported at more than 2500.

The increase was attributed to an emphasis on co-operative agreements between state conventions and the Rome Mission Board. Working agreements with 16 states combined fin- zncial and personnel resources for a unified, evangelistic, and missionary program with- in the states, according to Redford.

The execiltive secretary said stronger states are encouraged to accept a larger financial share; churches and missions are encouraged to become self-supporting as rapidly as possible; and churches are encouraged to sponsor mission projects where possible.

Redford outlined seven programs of home mission work: evangelism, church loans, chaplaincy, pioneer and associational missions, city missions, National Baptists, and language group missions.

Factors which point to a growing service for the board were listed by Redford as 1) urgency of trends and opportunities that make the board's ministries needed and appreciated, 2) the close relationship between the board and states and other SBC bodies, 3) the re-organization of the board, 4) a called and trained staff, and 5) increased in- terest and concern of the denomination in home missions.

The board's church loans division has directed its efforts toward the pioneer areas due to increased demand for church buildings and the dependence of those churches upon home mission funds. Loans amounting to almost $2 million and totaling 155 were made during 1959, according to G. Frank Garrison, director of the division. The Southern Bap- tist Convention has made $4 million available to the board for loans for the five-year period 1959-63.

A11 boards and agencies of the Convention joined with five other North Amcrican Baptist groups to make 1959 a year of evangelism. Southern Baptists alone baptized 430,000 people, reported 1% million church members signing soul-winning commitment cards, and a record-breaking number taking soul-winning study courses. Evangelistic crusades were conducted in Canada and Alaska, and emphasis was given to evangelism in foreign lands. C. E. Autrey, Dallas, newly elected director of the division of evangelism, voic- ed plans for increased emphasis on personal soul-winning on the local church level. Autrey was formerly professor of evangelism at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary at Fort Worth, Tex.

Sixteen state conventions developed co-operative mission agreements with the Home Mission Board during 1959, according to Arthur B. Rutledge, Atlanta, director of the missions division---the largest of the board's five divisions. Increased opportunities precipitated the need for additional staff, Rutledge said. A former colleke professor of Corpus Christi, Tex,, Lewis Newman, was elected associate in the association- a1 missions department; and Gerald Palmer, former language missions co-ordinator in New Mexico, was elected associate in the department of language group ministries. 2- EUME MISS ION BOARD

"Services of the division of education and promotion are provided to implement !~uale mission programs," said L, 0, Griffith, director of that division. An annual sr2rLes of home mission study books, a monthly magazine, Home Missions, motion pictures, iiirnstrips, pictures for publication, tracts, exhibits, Schools of Missions and mission speakers are provided to inform Southern Baptist pastors and laity of home mission vork. The division operates a regional office of Baptist Press and produces special l-rograms for the Southern Baptist Convention and home mission weeks at Southern Baptist ssscmblies in North Carolina and New Mexico.

COURTS R3DFORD is executive secretary-treasurer of the Home Mission Board, 'lacatnd in Atlanta, Ga. He was born in Calhoun, Mo., Sept. 4, 1898. He served as professor at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Okla., and president of South- vesr Baptist College, Bolivar, Mo. He was assistant executive secretary of the Home Mission Board before being elected executive secretary. The Southern Baptist Convention For Release: 9:35 A.M. 1960-Miami Beach, Fla, Friday, May 20 W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Somerltamp, Ass is tant With Report Of Committee On Time And Place, 1965 (If Dallas is voted as 1965 site)

Here is a statistical summary of vital factors to be considered regarding the proposed Southern Baptist Convention's meeting in Dallas, Tcxas, in 1965,

1. MEETING PLACES A. Memorial Auditorium 1. Seating Capacity. 10,439. 2. Auxiliary auditorium seating capacity. 1,780 3. Location. 3 blocks from downtown all as' Baker Hotel, and Adulphus Hotel. 4% blocks from Statler I-Iilton Hotel .8 blocks from Sheraton-Dallas Hotel. 5 bloc lcs from Nieman-Marcus . 4. Exhibit Area, 110,000 sq. ft. available in two story exhibit building, 53,750 on first floor; 21,250 on second floor; 23,120 in auxiliary exhibit hall. 5. Meeting rooms. 4 conference rooms seating 250-1,000 6 conference rooms seating 40-250. 6. Facilities for press, radio, TV coverage, 7. Parlcing, parking lot with 1,100 auto capacity. 3,000 parking spaces within two blocks of auditorium (C of C figures).

B. Cobb Stadium 1. Seating Capacity. more than 23,000 2. Location. five minutes drive just off Stemmons Freeway (Highway 77) from down- town Dallas, in northeast Dallas.

11. HOTEL AND MOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS

1, More than 6,000 hotel and motel rooms i~ downtown hotels and nearby motels. 2. Nearby Fort Worth, 30 minutes drive by new 6-lane expressaay direct to auditorium, accommodates 5,000 in downtown hotels and nearby motels.

111. RESIDENT BAPTISTS IN METROPOLITAN DALLAS

1. More than 152,000 Baptists reside in Dallas Baptist Association, 2. Total of 205 Baptist churches in Dallas county. 3. Dallas Baptists comprise one-tenth of total Texas Baptist membership of 1% million, 4. New Dallas Baptist College. 5. Dallas offices for Baptist General Convention of Texas. 6. Dallas offices in new 15 story building for SBC Relief & Annuity Board. 7. Baptist Standard, with largest circulation in Texas, located in Dallas.

1V. OTHER BAPTIST MEETINGS IN DALLAS

1. Billy Graham, principal speaker at 1958 Texas Baptist Evangelism Conference. 2. More than 10,000 attended 1958 evangelism conference. 3. C. Wade Freeman, director of evangelism conference, said that hotels easily accommodate crowds, with no need for residential home services. 1960 Southern Baptist Convention FOR RELEASE: 11:55 AM Miami Beach, Fla. Friday, May 20 W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Somerknmp, Assistant

Baptist World Alliance Report Office: Washington, D. C.

Brazil, a nominally Catholic nation, will be the site this summer of one of the big- gest Baptist congresses in history.

Arnold T. Ohrn, Washington, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, said an attendance of 20,000 delegates or messengers is expected for the tenth Baptist: World Congress in Rio de Janeiro, June 26-July 3.

Aio Baptists h.ope, further, to fill the 155,000-scat Maracana Stadium with Brazilian visitors for the Congress' closing session Sunday afternoon, July 3, when Evangelist Billy Graham speaks. Southern Baptist Missionary Edgar Hallgck of Rio has said the occasion could be "another Pentecost"'--referring to a New Testament event when 3,000 people were converted to Christianity.

There awe about 175,000 Baptists in Brazil.

Ohrn announced that Baptist membership around the world has climed to 23 million in more than 100 countries, This compares with 6 million from 21 countries when the Alliance was organized in 1905.

Speaking at the annual sessions of the Southern Baptist Convehtion here, Ohrn re- minded Southern Baptists that their more than 9 million members constitute about 40 per cent of the world's Baptist population, and their convention is the largest single group in the Alliance.

Theodore F. Adams, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va., and president of the Alliance, and Robert S. Denny, director of the Alliance's world-wide youth program, also spoke on the Alliance's portion of the Convention program.

Attendance at the Rio meeting is expected to come from 60 or more countries on all continents. A 70-passenger Super Constellation plane has been chartered through Air I France to bring delegates from Europe. Its passenger list includes eight from Russia and still more from other Iron Curtain countries. I

Ohrn told Southern Baptists that "the Alliance is unique among Baptist organizations -- a channel through which fellow believers of many conventions and many nations help one another, through fellowship, service and cooperation, to fulfill the objectives of the Great Commission.''

Through cooperative study and work, the Alliance is encouraging Baptist advances around the world in evangelism, Bible study, missions, youth work, refugee relief, and understanding of the church's doctrines. The fellowship also aids all Baptists of the world -- regardless of the political ideology of their country -- to express themselves unitedly for full religious liberty and world peace.

ARNOLD T. OHRN has been general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance since July 1, 1948, He is a native of Raymond, Wis., although his father took the family back to Nor- way, where Ohrn grew up. There, he attended the University of Oslo. He served as a teacher in the Baptist theological seminary at Oslo for 30 years, also was general sec- retary of the Baptist Union of Norway and president of the seminary. He remained in Nor- way during the Nazi occupation of World War TI. In 1939, he preached the Bnptist World Congress sermon at the meeting in Atlanta.

Editor's Note: Ohrn retires this year. A new general secretary will be elected ! at ~io. 1960 Southern Bnptis t Convention For Release: 9:30 A.M. Miami Beach, Fla. Friday, May 20 W. C. Fields, Press Representative Thco Sommerlcamp, Assistant

Report of Committee on State Baptist Papers Louie D. Newton, Atlanta, Chairman

Twenty-eight Baptist state papers have a combined circulation of 1,413,454 sub- scribers, according to a report submitted to the Southern Baptist Convention at Miami Beach.

Louie D. Newton, Atlanta, chairman of the committee on state Baptist papers said the latest circulation figure was compiled Jan. 1.

iargest of these papers--most of which are published weekly---is the Baptist Stan- dard of Dallas, serving Texas Baptists. Its circulation is 357,767. Others above 200,000 are the Christian Index of Georgia (of which Newton was once editor) with 107,577 and tlze Alabama Baptist at Birmingham with 105,113 subscribers.

The papers serve the states in which they ars published.

Newton said circulation increased over 40,000 during the year since the commlt~ee's last report to the Convention.

The papers seek new subscribers chiefly through the "every family plan " in which they seek to have churches of their states place the subscriptions for every church Emily in the annual church budgets. The committee commended this plan as the "most effective" for getting Baptist state papers into all Baptist homes.

Papers reach from coast to coast---Virginia to Oregon--and Southern Bzptists in lIaw2ii and Alaska also are served by papers in these newest states.

Louie D. Newton has been pastor of Druid Hills Baptist Church, Atlanta, since 1929. Prior to that time he as editor of the Christian index, state weekly Baptist newspaper for Georgia. He was born in Screven Co,, Ga,, Apr. 27, 1892, He was educated at Mercer University, Macon, Ga., and at Columbia University. He is a former professor of history at Mercer, Newton served as president of the SBC in 1947 and 1948, and also has been an associate secretary and vice-president of the Baptist World Alliance. 1960 Southern Baptist Convention FOR RJXEAsE: 10:30 AM Miami Beach, Fla. Friday, May 20 1.7. G. Fields, Press Representative Theo Somerkamp, Assistant Report of Christian Life Commission (news summary)

The Christian Life Commission told the Southern Baptist Convention that it works in at least: five areas--combatting obscene literature, developing a ministry for aged, alcohol education, race relations, and world pcacc and the United Nations.

The convention agency also reported a change in administrative lenderahip. A. C. Miller retired Mar. 1 and will be succeeded by Foy D. Valentine, who has been serving as executive secretary of thc Christian life commission for the Baptist General Conven- tion'of Texas, with offices in Dallas.

Office of the Southern Baptist cormnission is in Nashville.

Literature published by the Christian Lifc Commission helps put its message on the five subject areas before Southern Baptists.

At the request of many laadcrs, the comission has led "in alerting Southern Baptists to the moral perils in the uncontrolled traffic in obscene literature and in thc enlist- rnentand training of workers to combat this evil," according to the report. The comission co-sponsored with Carver School of Missions and Social Work, another convention agency, a seminar on Southern Baptist ministry with the aged. The conference was held on the Carver campus in Louisville, Icy., April 11-13. The executive secretary will take part in the White House Conference on thc Aging when it meets in Washington next year. The commission has produced literature on alcohol education, and thia ltterature is in "cans tant demand by church and community leaders. I'

"Thc commission wishes to again reaffirm its historic emphasis upon the bibrical principle of the value of human personality as taught by our Lord," it said in the con- vention report.

"In the light of recent efforts on the part of Negro citizens in many areas in securing equal rights, especially the right to vote, the commission urges our Southern Baptist people to make use of every opportunity to help Negro citizens to secure these rights through peaceful and legal means and to thoughtfully oppose any customs which may tend to humiliate them in any way," it continued.

The 1959 convention comittcd to the commission responsibilities in the area of the United Nations and world peace. The comission noted that it had had observers at UN headquarters in New Yorlc City scveral brief times during 1959. "It proposes to sponsor an observer for longer periods in 1960 and to hold leadership seminars at the United Na- ions in Octtober of this year."

The report paid tribute to Dr. A. C. Miller who retired and now lives in Sedona, Ariz. There he is pastor of one of the churches established during the convention's present 30,000 Movement.

It termed his leadership "inspiringt'and called attention to progress made by the commission during his term as cxecutve secretary despite the fact hc was "working within scvcre budgetary restrictions . . .I I

Valentine will become executive secretary Junc 1. The commission said that its 1961 proposed budget of $35,000 (largcst ever allocated by ehc convention) is only half that which Valentine had to work with as leader of the Texas state Christian life corrmission,

no biographical data with this summary due to leadership change 1960 Southern Baptist Convention For Release: 11:20 A.M. Miami Beach, Fla. Friday, May 20 W, C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkamp, Assistant Report of Committee On Public Affairs Walter Pope Binns, Chairman

The practice of the principles of religious liberty in today's world is increasingly difficult, according to Walter Pope Binns, chairman of the Southern Baptist Public Affairs Committee in his report to the Convention in Miami Beach. Binns is president of William Jewel1 College, Liberty, Mo.

The SBC Committee merges with similar committees from six other Baptist fellowships in North America to form the Baptist: Joint Committee on Public Affairs, Washington, D. C., with C. Emanuel Carlson ns executive director.

Binns: report said that the overlapping of the services of the government and the ministry of the churches "call for concerted thought and careful stewardship of in- fluence ,"

Tho Baptist Joint Commiftee on Public Affairs is developing its approach to religious liberty along four lines.

1. The information program. The information service includes a regional office of the Baptist Press for Southern Baptisto; Baptist: Public,Affairs (BPA) for other Baptist: channe1s;R-eport from the Capital; which is a monthly newsletter, and special articles for denominational publications.

The Washington office keeps a close watch on developments in governmental circles, rcports church-state developments in Congress, and alerts Baptists to trends and move- ments affecting reli.glous liberty.

2. The study program. Annual religious liberty conferences stimulate the Baptist leadership throughout the nation. Regional or state consultations are being projected for tbe future,

A program of research and study involving the colleges and seminaries is temporarily slowed down because of lack of funds.

3. Public relations program. The Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs shares Baptist insights on religious liberty with non-Baptist leaders. This is done through inter-denominational and non-governmental organizations and conferences. In- creasing effectiveness is being made of the public press, Baptist articles in non-Baptist publications, and sharing the Baptist Public Affairs news service with non-Baptist magazines.

4. The co-ordLnation program. Plans for 1961 call for a major development in this field which will assist state organizations and agencies in projects of mutual interest, serve as a clearing house for state committees, and develop a concerted emphasis in the various states.

Approximately 38 state conventions and city mission organizations now have com- mittees carrying some responsibilities in the field of religious liberty, the report continued,

There are no recommendations in the report. 1960 Southern Baptist Convention FOR RELEASE : 10:50 AM Miami Beach, Fla. Firday, May 20 W. C. Fields, Press Representative Thea Somrnerknrnp, Assistant

Report of Southern Baptist Hospital T. Sloane Guy, Jr. New Orleans, Executive Secretary

The Southern Baptist Convention directly operates two hospitals, Southern Baptist Hospital at New Orleans, La., and Baptist Memorial Hospital at Jack~onville,Fla. The two are under supervision of the agency known as Southern Baptist Hospitals.

Executive Secretary T. Sloane Guy, Jr., told the 1960 session of the Southern Baptist Convention at Miami Beach that the hospitals "exist: to bring men into a saving relat~onshipwith God through faith in Jesus Christ." Thc means are through "direct personal witness as occasion presents, and by a pssirive Christian interpretation of the experiences of disease, disability, and death."

He said the hospitals

1) "Prolong human life within the scope of divine providence.

2) "Enlist and teach those called to the healing arts, encourage their maximum development in talent and skill.

3) "Provide the setting within which these may be performed as ministries of the highest order. 4) "Make available the full resources . . . to those people least able to pay, in such ways as to preserve human dignity and worth,"

According to Guy, nearly 34,000 patients received medical care at 'the two hospi- tals during 1959. Another 48,338 received out-patient care. The 437-bed hospital in New Orleans has an average occupancy of 91 per cent; the 331-bed Jacksonville hospital .- is fully occupied,

Expansion at both sites is needed, Guy reported--at New Orleans to meet the increas- ing number of patients asking admittance and to house nurses, internes, and doctors in residence; at Jacksonvi.lle to provide for a school of nursing and house the staff.

The hospital agency must dip into its operating income, he said, to provide its medical education program and its charity-free servicc. Funds so diverted "would nor- mally accrue to depreciation for capital replacement and capital development."

Both hospitals render service to Convention personnel.

T. SLOANE GUY JR. is executive secretary-superintendent of Southern Baptist Hospitals, the agency of the Convention which manages hospitals at New Orlcans, La,, and J~cksonville,Fla. He was pastor of First Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., before succeeding Frank Tripp as head of this agency. Office: Southern Baptist Hospital, New Orleans. For Release: 8 P.M. 1960 Southern Baptist Convention Friday, May 20 Miami Beach, Fla. W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkamp, Assistant Report of Baptist Jubilee Advance Committee C. C. Warren, Charlotte, N; C., Chairman for S B C

The Baptist Jubilee Advance Committee asked the Southern Baptist Convention to urge co-operating churches to participate in watch-night services Dec. 31 ushering in 1961--the year of stewardship and enlistment during the Advance.

C. C. Warren of Charlotte, N. C., former president of the Convention, is chairman of The S B C and six other Baptist in the S B C conunittee on Baptist Jubilee Advance. groups the United States and Canada are conducting the Advance, with each convention adapting the yearly theme to suit its own national group.

The Convention was asked to approve four men to fill committee vacancies: Arthur Rutledge, director, missions division, S B C Home Mission Board, Atlanta; Rabun L. Brantley, executive secretary, S B C Education Commission, Nashville; C. E. Autrey, director of evangelism, Home Mission ~oard;, Dallas; and W. C. Fields, Convention press representative, Nashville.

"The Baptist Jubilee Advance on the national or continental level is the program spon- sored by the Bsptis t Joint Committee (on the Advance), compose$ of representatives from seven participating bodies who list in their memberslzips approximately 20 million," the Committee reported.

Climax year of the Jubilee Advance will be 1964, 150 years following the organiza- tion of the "Triennial Convention," first national scale Baptist movement in North America. The 1814 Convention was called to meet an emergency in foreign missions. It was so named because it met every three years. - .- I ,_f'- Other Baptist groups taking part in the Baptist Jubilee Advance are American Baptist Convention; National Baptist Convention, U. S. A., Inc.; National Baptist Convention of America; North American Baptist General Conference; Baptist Federation of Canada, and Seven- th Day Baptist General Conference.

A group of Baptist historians, convened by Norman W. Cox, Mobile, Ala., is writing a I Baptist history. Cox is executive secretary emeritus of the S B C Historical Commission. Another effort is in music--the production of an oratorio to be presented in 1964 when the participating conventions meet simultaneously in Atlantic City, N. J. The "Triennial Convention" was first convened in nearby Philadelphia.

During 1960, the participating Baptist groups are observing a year of emphasis on teaeh- ing and training. Goals for the year include every church member reading through the Bible during the year, increased personal witnessing for Christ, two million study course awards, churches having the four educational organizations of the S B C---Sunday school, Training Union, Woman's Missionary Union, and Brotherhood; establishment of new churches and missions, . and more support of the denomination's world missions through its Cooperative Progrw.

A Southern Baptist objective during the period 1956-1964 as a part of its Advance participation is establishing 30,000 new churches or missions. As of Jan. 1, 1960, there had been 3206 new churches and 6395 missions organized during the period.

-30- I C. C. Warren is director of the movement to establish 30,000 new churches or missions with- in the Convention between 1958 and 1964. He is also permanent vice-chairman of the Inter; Convention Baptist Jubilee Advance Committee. A resident of Charlotfe, N. C., Warren was formerly pastor of First Baptist Church. He was president of the SBC in 1956 and 1957. He is a native of Sampson Co., N. C., born May 28, 1896. He is a graduate of Wake Forest College and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. CONVENTION BULLETIN Nineteen Sixty

PRINTED DAILY DURING SESSION BY ORDER OF THE CONVENTION For Free Distribution at Registration and Information Desks

THIRTY-SEVENTH VOLUME MIAMI REACH, FLORIDA, MAY 20, 1960 FOURTH DAY

Suggested Order of Business PROCEEDINGS' SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION Southern Baptist Convention MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA May 17-20 Miami Beach MAY 17-20, 1 960 FRIDAY MORNING WEDNESDAY NIGHT, MAY 18 86. Mrs. Ray Stedham (Fla.), sang 76. Tommy Lane (Tenn.) presented '' 'Tis the Blessed Hour of Prayer." "Found Faithful in Christian 86. President Pollard presented W. 0. Convictions" Southwestern Seminary Singers, directed by R. Paul G:yen (Texas), who sang Vaught, Jr. (Ark.), the newly-elected Bong Service "I Love Thee, "Come Thou Fount," first vice-president of the Convention. Scripture (2 Tim. 15-14) - Thomas V. 87. Clyde V. Hickerson (Va.), Dale wells, Tennessee "Deep River," "Holy, Holy, Holy." Prayer-Fred Tarpley, Miasissippi 77. Tommy Lane (Tenn.) led in sing- Cowling (Ark.), James Coggins (Texas), Committee on Denominational Papers- ing "Saviour, Like a Shepherd Lead Us," and Charles L. McKay (Ariz.), led the Mule D. Newton, Georgia, Chairman and "Teach Me, 0 Lord, I Pray." Convention in a season of prayer. Report of Time, Place, and Preacher 88. Bill Carle (Texas) sang "Does It Committee 78. Kennett Byrd (Tenn.) sang "I Talked to God Last Night." Make Any Difference to You?" Report of ReSOlUtiOns Committee 89. The sermon for this session was Miscellaneous Business 79. James A. Overton (N.M.) read Matthew 6:S-15 and A. B. Van Arsdale delivered by J. Ralph Grant (Texas) : Christian Life Commission Text, 2 Peter 3:ll; subject, "What Song Service (Ala.) led in prayer. Southern Baptist Hospitals-T. Sloane 80. Thomas T. Hollowzy (Texas), Christians Ought to Be." Uuy, Jr., Louisiana. Superintendent field secretary, American Bible Society, 90. The Convention closed with prayer Committee on Canadian Baptist Coop- presented the work of the society in a by Robert M. Hammons (Okla.). eration - Courts Redford, Georgia. brief motion picture. By common consent Chairman THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 19 Committee on Public Affair&. Em- it was agreed that a prepared statement manuel Carlson, District of Columbia, regarding the society would be printed 91. With Vice-President Bruce H. Executive Secretary in the Annual. A resolution ~~egardingPrice (Va.) presiding, Elmer F. Bailey Committee on Denominational Calendar -Baker J. Cauthen. Virginia, Chairman the usual special offering for the work led in singing ''He Leadeth Me! 0 Baptist World Alliance--Arnold T. Ohm. of the society was referred to the Com- Blessed Tho't!" "Jesus, Keep Me Near District of Columbia, Executive Sec- mittee on Resolutions. the Cross." and "When We Walk with retary 81. Rabun L. Brantley (Tenn.), ex- the &id.'' Bong Service ecutive secretary, presented the report 92. James 0. Mathenia (Ill.) read Sermon-Herschel H. Hobbs, Oklahoma Benediction-J. Truman Brown, Georgia of the Education Commission arid intro- Romans 12:l-15. and W. Landon Miller duced Ralph A. Phelps (Ark.), president (Ala.) led in prayer. FRIDAY NIGHT of the commission who spoke to the 93. R. Alton Reed (Texas), executive 'Found Faithful in Witnessing" report. The report was adopted. secretary, presented and discussed the 82. Shuichi Matsumura, secretary of report of the Relief and Annuity Board Sacred Concert-Belmont College Glee evangelism for the Japan Baptist Con- Club, Dee Wayne White, Director and introduced a new film, The Time Is Song Service vention, was introduced and brought a Now, dealing with the ministry of the Scripture (Acts 1:l-9)-U. W. Malcolm, brief message, which was interpreted board. The report was adopted. Florida by Missionary Morris J. Wright, Jr. 94. Davis C. Woolley (Tenn.), re- Prayer-W. J. Steahenson. North Caro- lina 83. E. C. Brown (,KC.), chairman of cently-elected executive secretary of the Presentation of Officers the Committee on Committees, recom- Historical Commission, introduced by Committee on Baptist Jubilee Advance mended the members of the Committee J. P. Edmunds, chairman of the com- -C. C. Warren, North Carolina, on Time, Place, and Preacher, and they mission, presented and discussed the re- Chairman were elected. (See P. 2 of this BULLE- Norman W. Cox Song Service port of the commission. Home Mission Board-Courts Redford, TIN for a list of committee members.) (Ala.), former secretary, was presented aeorgia, Executive Secretary 84. James L. Sullivan (Tenn.), execu- and spoke briefly. The report was Music-George Beverly Bhea, Minnesota tive secretary, presented the report of adopted. Message by Billy Graham Benediction - Warner Earle Fusselle, the Sunday School Board, which was 95. The second period for the election Georgia adopted. Dr. Sullivan presented mem- of officers having arrived, nominations bers of the board's organization, and for second vice-president were called for. the division heads introduced their 96. William Austin Roberts (S.C.) associates. After statements by Dr. nominated John L. Slaughter (S.C.) . IMPORTANT! Sullivan and Herman L. King, executive 97. J. M. Baldwin (Okla.) nominated assistant, a period of questions and Sterling L. Price (Mo.). MAIL FOR MESSENGERS answers followed. Statements regarding 98. R. Fon kin^ (S.C.) nominated the educational work of the board were A: Eeroi Parker (3.~~).' Please check the Convention Post presented by W. L. Howse and Clifton 99. J. T. Burdine (Ks.). .. nominated Office at north end of Exhibition J. Allen. The closing period, a dramatic Maurice L. Fain (Fla.). presentation of the work and spirit of 100. A motion to close nominations Hall for your mail before leaving the Sunday School Board, including spe- was adopted. for home!!! cial musical numbers and testimonies, 101. Nominations for senior secretary was directed by Kearnie Keegan, secre- were called for. tary of the Student Department. (Continued on Pa~e2) Page Two CONVENTION BULLETIN FOURTH DAY

Order of Business 116. Elmer F. Bailey led in singing "Breathe on Me." (Continued from Page 1) 117. Miss Jo Ann Shelton (Texas) CONVENTION BULLETIN 102. James W. Merritt (Ga.) was sang "Then Jesus Came." Published daily during nominated for ~e-election,and a motion 118. The sermon for this session was the Southern Baptist Convention to close nominations was adopted. delivered by Theodore F. Adams (Va.), The Convention Bulletin is published 103. A motion to request Secretary president of the Baptist World Alliance: Joe W. Burton to cast the unanimous under the direction of the executive secre- vote of the Convention for James W. Text, Mark 8:34-35; subject, "Found tary of the Executive Committee, Porter Merritt prevailed, and this was done. Faithful with Life." Routh. He is assisted in this work by Albert 104. Nominations for secretary were 119. The Convention closed with McClellan and Mrs. Ada Ruth Kelly. called for. prayer led by Warren M. Marshall, Jr. The action of the Convention authorizing 105. E. C. Brown (S.C.) nominated (Ga.) . the bulletin states: "Such report, or bulle- Joe W. Burton for re-election. tin, shall not include speeches or addreses 106. A motion to request Secreta~y THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 19 or any comment thereon, the photograph Merritt to cast the unanimous vote of 120. Campbell College Choir (N.C.) , or any personal reference to any messenger the Convention prevailed, and this was directed by Charles Worton (N.C.), of the Convention, but shall be only o done. presented a sacred concert dcpictlng the rbsumb of the business transacted during that day." 107. Nominations for treasurer were life of Christ in Scripture and spirituals. caii&ifor. The list of spirituals sung included "The Mr. McClellan or Mrs. Kelly moy be con- 108. Duke K. McCall (Ky.) nominated Creation," "Mary Had A Baby," "The tacted in the pressroom. Portcr Routh (Tenn.) for re-election, Blind Man Stood by the Road," "Let Us Break Bread Together," "Jesus Walked and he was unanimously elected by 129. Raymond Baker, assistant man- acclamation. This Lonesome Valley," "Were You There?" and "The Lord Bless You and ager of the Exhijbition Hall, was pre- 109. Wendell G. Davis. (N.C.) pre- Keep You." sented by Porter Routh, who expressed sented a resolution regarding the forth- thanks for the service which Mr. Baker coming presidential election, which was 121. Tommy Lane (Tenn.) led in sing- rendered to the Convention. automatically referred to the Committee ing "We've a Story to Tell to the 130. Earl Harding (Mo.) presented a on Resolutions. Nations." resolution regarding P.O.A.U., which was 110. Maurice L. Bates (Ky.) pre- 122. Mrs. Bette Stalnecker (Tenn.) automatically referred to the Committee sented a resolution regarding Convention sang "When Be Reached Down for Me." on Resolutions. publicity in the district associations, 123. Ernest R. Wells (Texas) read Isaiah 6 :1-8 and sang one stanza of "The 131. T. Sloane Guy, Jr. (La.), pre- which was automatically referrcd to the sented a resolution regarding grants by Committee on Resolutions. Love of God." John D. Hartley (Mo.) led the federal government to schools of 111. Harvey T. Whaley (Texas) pre- in prayer. nursing, which was automatically re- sented a resolution regarding the matter 124. G. Allen West, Jr. (Tenn.), ferred to the Committee on Resolutions. of press releases, which was automatic- assisted by other members of the com- 132. Greeings to the Convention were ally referred to the Committee on Resolu- mittee, presented the report of the Com- received from P. T. Ziemann, general tions. mittee on Boards, which was adoped, secretary of the Baptist Convention of 112. Paul M. Stevens (Texas), direc- with the exception of the American Ontario and Quebec and from Phil J. tor, presented and discussed the report Seminary Commission, action on which Hayes on behalf of an Australian Baptist of the Radio and Television Commission was deferred to Friday by request of touring party, now in New York City en and introduced Herschcl H. Hobbs Chairman West. route to the Baptist World Congress (Okla.), who also spoke to the report. 125. G. Allen West, Jr. (Tenn.), meeting in Brazil. Mr. Hayes' group With the use of audio-visual aids, testi- chairman of the Committee on Boards, asked that thanks be expressed "for all monies to the effectiveness of the minis- presented the following recommendation that Southern Baptists have done for try of Radio and Television were p~-e- on behalf of the committee, which was US." ~ented. The report was adopted. adupted : 133. L. S. Sedberry (Tenn.) , executive 118. Secretary Burton announced that That, because of the increasing size secretary, presented and discussed the a run-off ballot for second vice-president of the task, we recommend that fu- report of the Commission on the Ameri- between Maurice I,. Fain (Fla.) and John ture Committees on Boards have at can Baptist Theological Seminary. He L. Slaughter (S.C.) would be necessary least two called meetings prior to then presented Seminary President M. P. and is scheduled for 3:10 p.m. today the Southern Baptist Convention. Turner (Tenn.) for a message. Report (Thursday). This is in addition to any meeting adopted. 114. Elmer F. Bailey Icd in singing which may be held during the Con- 134. A1 and Ivy Walsh (Ga.) sang "Have Faith in God." vention. "Wondrous Jesus." 115. Under the direction of Millard J. We further recommend that the Ex- ecutive Committee be authorized to 136. The sermon for this session was Berquist (Mo.) , president of the Mid- delivered by Charles C. Bowles (Ala.) : western Baptist Theological Seminary take care of the added expenses Text, Acts 26:19; subjcct, "From Vision and chairman of the Inter-Seminary which may be incurred by the com- mittee. to Victory." Council, the reports on Southern Baptist 136. President Pollard announced that seminaries, Carver School, and the Semi- 126. E. C. Brown (S.C.), chairman the run-off balloting for second vice- nary Extension Department were pre- of the Committee on Committees, assisted president resulted in the election of John sented and the heads of these agencies by other members of the committee, pre- L. Slaughter (S.C.). were introduced. Brief discussions of the sented nominations for members of the committees on Baptist Jubilee Advance, 137. The closing prayer was led by reports were given by: Millard J. Ber- T. Earl Ogg (La.). quist (Mo.) , president of Midwestern Baptist State Papers, Canadian Baptist Seminary; Harold K. Graves (Calif .) , Co-operation, and Committee on Boards, president of Golden Gate Seminary; which were adopted. (See pp. 3&4 of this COMMITTEE ON TIME, H. Leo Eddleman (La.), president of New Bulletin for a list of these committees.) Orleans Seminary; Sydnor L. Stealey 127. The third period for balloting PLACE, AND PREACHER (N.C.), president of Southeastern Semi- having arrived, the run-off ballot for Charles Bowles, Alabama, Chnivrnaw nary; Duke K. McCall, president of second vice-president of the Convention C. R. Newcomb, Arkansas" Southern Seminary, who also presented was taken. Howard Halsell, Kansas" members of the faculty present; Robert 128. Secretary Porter Routh (Tenn.) Elroy Lamb, Kentucky E. Naylor, president of Southwestern led the Convention in a standing vote of Seminary; Nathan C. Brooks, Jr., (Ky.), appreciation of the excellent features of H. C. Abbott, Louisianay' president of Carver School; and Lee the Miami Beach Exhibition Hall and Roy Clifford, North Carolina Gallman (Miss.), director of Seminary then presented Thomas F. Smith, secre- Clyde Campbell, New Mexico Extension Department, who also pre- tary of the Miami Beach Chamber of Robert Scales, Oklahoma sented two of his associates. The period Commerce, who extended a cordial invi- Robert Deenen, South Carolina was closed with an address on theological tation to the Convention to return to education by Millard J. Berquist. Miami Beach for future meetings. "Laymen FOURTH DAY CONVENTION BULLETIN Page Three REPORT OF COMMITTEE 4. That we encourage other evangelical Resolution No. 5 - Public Affairs and denominations throughout the world to P, 0.A. U. ON RESOLUTIONS increased activity in winning the lost world to Christ. WHEREAS, current national and Resolution No. 1-Appreciation to Host world events have brought into sharp City Resolution No. 4-Christian Citizenship focus the wisdom of recognizing and re- 1. We hereby reaffirm our faith in the affirming the American principle of The Southern Baptist Convention in historic principle of the separation of separation of Church and State its 103rd session wishes to express ap- Church and State as expressed in the Bill THEREFORE, be it resolved that this preciation to the citizens of Miami and of Rights and the constitutional guaran- Convention go on record as commending Miami Beach for their gracious Christian tee that a man's personal faith shall not each organization working in this area hospitality. We wish to express our ap- be a test of his qualification for public of emphasizing our blood-bought heritage preciation to the local committees for off ice. of religious freedom and its corollary, the many services and accommodations-to 2. We reaffirm our conviction that a separation of Church and State: the press, ~adioand television facilities man must be free to choose his own 1. We commend our own Committee for fair and effective publicity. We church and that his personal religious on Public Affairs under the direction of commend the hotels, motels, public trans- faith shall not be a test of his qualifica- Dr. C. Emanuel Carlson for its signifi- portation and taxicab personnel for their tion for public office. Yet, the fact re- cant service in this field. courteous accommodations. mains that a public official is inescap- 2. We commend Protestants and Other We call grateful attention to the ably bound by the dogma and demands Americans United under the direction of marvelouslv adeauate Municival Audito- of his church and he cannot consistently Dr. Glenn L. Archer for their peat and &m with its comfortable seaiing, splen- separate himself from these. This is valuable service to the nation and to the did ~blicaddress system, and air-condi- especially true when that church main- world which supplements by legal action tioned comfort. We also call grateful tains a position in open conflict with our our own Committee on Public Affairs. appreciation to the work of the police- established and constituted American men in traffic supervision, and every pattern of life as specifically related to Resolution No. 6-Tax Aid for Churches courtesy extended by the citizens of religious liberty, separation of Church WHEREAS, legislation now pending Miami to our Convention. and State, the freedom of conscience in before the Congress of the United Stakes matters related to marriage and the fam- Resolution No. 2-American Bible Society will, if enacted, provide public tax funds ily, the perpetuation of free public schools to aid nursing education in the form of WHEREAS, this Convention recognizes, and the prohibition against use of public grants to sectarian schools of nursing- first, that widespread distribution of the monies for sectarian purposes. many of which are sectarian schools printed Word of God is a basic need in 3. Therefore, the implications of a within sectam'an institutions, and mission work around the world and, sec- candidate's affiliations, including his ond, that missionary advance calls for church, are of concern to the voters in WHEREAS, this type of federal aid even greater distribution of Bibles, New every election. In all cases a public to sectarian education is contrary to the Testaments, Gospels and other individual official should be free from sectarian constitutional principles of the separa- books of the Bible, and pressures that he may make independent tion of Church and State WHEREAS, we recognize that the decisions consistent with the rights and THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: American Bible Society renders an es- privileges of all citizens. That the Southern Baptist Convention sential, world-wide missionary service 4. We remind every member of every records its opposition to any program of through translating and publishing the church of his obligation to pray for pub- federal aid in the form of grants to sec- Scriptures without note or comment and lic officials, to participate in the full tarian schools of nursing, and through distributing them without profit democratic process, including the voting, That the Convention requests its Hos- and usually below cost, and and to seek divine leadership in the selec- pital Board and the Southern Baptist tion of those men who guide the destiny WHEREAS, we recognize that the Hospital Associaion to express this op- American Bible Society is rendering an of our land in such a time as thix. position by all appropriate means. additional special service through pro- viding, without charge, to the chaplains, SOUTHERN SEMINARY Scriptures for distribution to the men COMMITTEE ON BOARDS and women of the armed forces and to TRUSTEES Term Expiring 1961 S. C.-James H. Howard, Chairman patients in Veterans Hospitals; The following trustees have been A1a.-Herman W. Colbb, Jr. THEREFORE, BE: IT RESOL,VED: elected for Southern Seminary from those nominated by the Convention: Ariz.-M. N. Cooper That we fraternally urge all our Ark.-Rheubin L. South churches and our people to make worthy Term Expiring 1965 Calif .-Carol Nichols contributions to the work of the Ameri- Alva Lincoln Smith, D. C. D. C.-Menter P. German can Bible Society, in order to provide the Carvin C. Bryant, Ill. F1a.-Cecil Carol Scriptures needed for the missionary Joseph E. Stopher, Kentucky Ga.4.Robert Smith advance to which we are committed. Henry D. Ward, North Carolina 111.-A. R. Cagle T. T. Crabtree, Oklahoma Kans.-Howard Harrison Resolution No. 3-World Evangelism Buster Spence, Oklahoma Ky.-W. H. Jones We recommend that Abner V. McCall, Texas La.-H. A. Hunderup, Jr. In view of the exploding world popula- Term Expiring 1964 Md.-Francis A. Davis tion, the militant advance of atheistic George A. Ritchey, Louisiana Miss.-John G. McCall communism and the inescapable obliga- Tcrm Expiring 1961 Mo,-James Smith tion to us as Christians p "preach the Harry Chavanne, Texas N. C.-Gilmer H. Cross gospel to every creature, we resolve AT LIARGE MEMBERS N. M.--J. Samuel Phillips 1. That through every possible media Term Expiring 1965 Ok1a.-Max Stanfield our Baptist people be challenged to a W. T. Chapin, Kentucky Tenn.-H. Franklin Paschal1 greater stewardshin_ of time, talent and Ira J. Porter, Kentucky Tex.--J. H. Steger money to the cnd of proclaiming the George W. Norton, Kentucky Va.-L. G. Mosley gospel to every creature in this gener- ation, and 2. That our Convention boards and TAKE THE SBC HOME WITH YOU agencies be encouraged in their in- creasing emphasis on world evangelism, In other years an offering has been taken to help defray the and expenses of the Convention. This year the Bo R p rts will 3. That the specific programs of the ks f Baptist Jubilee Advance for spreading be sold for $1.00 each instead of the offering. This not only the gospel at home and abroad be com- helps defray th cost of the Convention, it will assure that all mended and that our people be called upon for a renewed dedication to imple- who want Books of Reports may have them. ment these programs, and Page Four b CONVENTION BULLETIN FOURTH DAY COMMI'ITEE ON BAPTIST CONVENTION REPORTERS STATE PAPERS These men and women have been sent to Miami Beach by their papers to cover Terms Expiring 1961 the Southern Baptist Convention : Louie D. Newton, Cha,irnvan Benq Belk News-Arius Goldsboro, N. C. Leon M. Macon Mrs. Louise Leyden News Miami, Fla. New Editor, Arixon:~Baptist Beacwn Herb McCusker Sun Miami Beach, Fla. Erwin L. McDonald Billy Swift Commercial Appeal Memphis, Tenn. Floyd Looney Miss Mary Jo Nelson Times Oklahoma City, Okla. J. Kelly Simmons Adon Taft Herald Miami, Fla. James 0.Duncan Tom McMahan State Columbia, S. C. W. G. Stracener Ed Willingham Tennessean Nashville, Tenn. John J. Hurt, Jr. John T. Stewart Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Mo. L. H. Moore 0.K. Armstrong Reader's Di~est Springfield, Mo. F. Paul Allison R. Dean Goodwin American Baptist News Serv. New York, N. Y. C. R. Daley John Wicblein Times New York, N. Y. James F. Cole Mike Rogers WPST-TV Miami, Fla. Gainer E. Bryan, Jr. Dolores McCahill Sun-Times Chicago, Ill. Truett Smith Frank Beatty UP1 Miami, Fla. Joe T. Odle Hugo Wessels UP1 Miami, Fla. H. H. McGinty Bill Lamkin Observer Charlotte, N. C. Horace F; Burns John W. Bradbury Watchman-Examiner New York City Marse Grant Earnard Collier News Miami Fla. R. G. Puckett Nina McCain News Dallas, Tex. Jack L. Gritz Don Cravens Life Atlanta, Ga. C. Ervin Boyle George Dewey American Mercury New York City S. H. Jones Purser Hewitt Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Miss. Richard N. Oiwen Ewing Stanford James Reuben E. Alley MISSIONARY APPOINTEES dor; Rev. and Mrs. Lewis E. Lee, Good- lettsville, Tenn., Peru; Dr. and Mrs. COMMITTEE ON BAPTIST The following new missionaries were Wilbur C. Lewis, Oklahoma City, Okla., presented to the Southern Baptist Con- Paraguay; Rev. and Mrs. Hubert N. JUBILEE ADVANCE vention at the night session, May 19: (Ted) Lindwall, Novato, Calif., Guate- Term Expiring 1961 AFRICA, EUROPE, AND THE NEAR mala; Miss Doris Penkert, Jacksonville, C. C. Warren EAST: Dr. and Mrs. Roy H. Fanoni, Fla., Brazil; Rev. and Mrs. Ernest C. Millard J. Berquist Dallas, Tex., Nigeria; Miss Delilah Jones, Pippin, Cordova, Tenn., Argentina; James L. Sullivan Mt. Vernon, Ill., Nigeria; Rev. and Mrs. Rev. and Mrs. Howard L. Stevens, Tal- Courts Redford Gene E. Kingsley, Utopia, Tex., Central mo, Ga., Peru; Rev. and Mrs. Paul W. Baker J. Cauthen Africa; Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Ruchti, Jr., Stouffer, Gasburg, Va., South Brazil; Paul M. Stevens Rome, Ga., Italy; Rev. and Mrs. Teddy and Rev. and Mrs. F. David Stull, Louis- W. L. Howse E. Savage, Comanche, Okla., Central ville, Ky., Peru. H. H. McGinty Africa; Rev. and Mrs. Ira P. Singleton, THE ORIENT: Rev. and Mrs. Dwight Joe Abrams Jr., Barlow, Ky., Central Africa; Miss N. Dudley, Waco, Tex., Japan; Rev. and A. Hamilton Reid Louise Sparkman, Columbus, Miss, Ni- Mrs. Charles H. Lawhon, Sr., New Or- Mrs. R. L. Mathis geria; and Rev. and Mrs. James N. West- leans, La., the Philippines; Rev. and Porter W. Routh moreland, Dyer, Tenn., Central Africa. Mrs. Lewis I. Myers, Jr., Sumner, Miss., Merrill D. Moore Vietnam; Rev. and Mrs. John E. Patten, Alma Hunt LATIN AMERICA: Rev. and Mrs. Columbus, Ga., Thailand; Rev. and Mrs. George W. Schroeder Robert E. Baker, Memphis, Tenn., South Ebbie C. Smith, Blum, Tex., Indonesia; Albert McClellan Brazil; Rev. and Mrs. R. Frank Coy, Dr. and Mrs. Willie E. Whelan, Valley Duke K. McCall Oklahoma City, Okla., Chile; Rev. and Station, Ky., Korea; Rev. and Mrs. R. Alton Reed Mrs. H. Dean Duke, Cambria, Va., Charles W. Wiggs, Winston-Salem, N. Spanish-speaking Latin America ; Rev. C., Korea; Dr. and Mrs. Harlan L. Wil- Chester L. Quarles and Mrs. Arthur R. Haylock, Gulf lis, Dallas, Tex., Thailand; and Rev. and A. V. Washburn Breeze, Fla., Honduras; Rev. and Mrs. Mrs. S. Kenneth Wood, Madison, N. C., Ewing Stanford James William R. Hintze, Elvins, Mo., Ecua- Japan. Fog Valentine C, E. Autrey Arthur Rutledge SUMMARY OF 1959 STATISTICS W. C. Fields Per Cent 1959 1958 Increase Increase Churches ...... 31,906 31,498 408 1.3 All members of the COMMITTEE ON Baptisms ...... 429,063 407,892 21,171 5.2 CANADIAN BAPTIST CO - OPERA- Membership ...... 9,485,276 9,206,758 278,518 3.0 TION were reelected. Sunday school enrolment .. 7,276,502 '7,096,175 180,327 2.6 Vacation Bible CONVENTION MUSIC school enrolment 2,910,258 2,908,157 2,101 .1 FRIDAY NIGHT, MAY 20 Training Union 8:30 Sacred Concert, Belmont College Glee Club, Dee Wayne White. Director enrolment ...... 2,608,110 2,503,920 104,190 4.2 8:05 Soloist, George Beverly Shea, Choir enrolment ...... 682,477 622,694 59,783 9.6 Minnesota W.M.U. enrolment .... 1,456,192 1,395,974 60,218 4.3 Total Brother- Southern Baptists are now looking hood enrolment .... 617,263 582,497 34,766 6.0 toward the Jubilee Celebration to be Total gifts...... $ 453,338,720 $ 419,619,438 $ 33,719,282 8.0 held in Atlantic City in May, 1964. The Missions and Executive Committee has asked its Pro- benevolences ...... $ 77,753,190 $ 74,760,699 $ 3,002,491 4.0 gram Committee to develop procedures Total value of for all Baptists joining together in church property..$2,009,254,164 $1,825,474,318 $183,779,846 10.1 reaching new goals and objectives in the years beyond 1964. We pray that God Research and Statistics Department will lift our eyes to new visions of serv- Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention ice in His name. SOUTHERNBAPTIST C'ONVEN*~ION a Miami Beach, Florida, 1960 [NEWS COPY] Office of Press Representative W. C. FIELDS FOR RELEASE: 12:30 P.M., Fri., May 20

H. H. HOBBS IS a native of Talladega Springs, Ala. He graduated purpose was mediated through the prophets who spoke to man for from Howard College, Birmingham, and Southern Baptist Theologl- cal Seminary, Louisville. Hobbs has been pastor of First Baptlst God (Isa. 6:8-9) and to God for man (Jer. 14:19-22). Through Church of Oklahoma City since 1949. He came to that church the kings of Israel and Judah, God, the sole King, mediated his will from pastorate of Dauphin Way Baptist Church, Mobile. He is a to his people. The offices of prophet, priest, and king merged in the member of the Execut~veCommittee of the Southern Baptist Con- role of the Suffering Servant. Man-ward he was God's messenger. vention and ha< served on many other state and S B C agencies. God-ward he was the Servant who suffered vicariously for the sins of the people. This concept is climaxed in Isaiah 53 where the Suffer- ing Servant becomes not only an "offering for sin" (v. lo), but he JESUS, THE ONE MEDIATOlR also "made intercession for the transgressors" (v.12). For our purpose it is also well to note the personification of divine Text: "For there is one God, and one mediator between God u~ld Wisdom is seen as eternal, as creator, and as redeemer. "For whoso men, tile tnan Clzrist Jesus; who gave I~iniself n ratzsonz for all. . . ." findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord. But he 1 Timothy 2:s-6. that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate The grandest Greek of them all, Socrates, once said that he did me love death" (vv. 35-36). not know how God would save man. Perhaps it would be by some The New Testament portrays Jesus Christ as the fulfilment of the god, or god-man. This is as near the divine revelation as the giant Old Testament offices of the mediator. A summary of this truth is intellect of Greece ever came. found in the epistle to the Hebrews. "God, who at sundry times and Thus through reason we are introduced to the doctrine of medi- in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the ation. It is the doctrine which more than any other pervades the proq?ets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his la1 %. entire Bible, finding its climax in the New Testament. Therefore, . . . (1: 1-2). The author then proceeds to show how Jesus fulftls we would speak of Jesus, the one Mediator. not only the prophetic office, but every other mediatorial office in The Greek word translated "mediator" is nzesiste~. It comes from the Old Testament. He is "so much better than the angels" (1:4) the word rnesos, which means "in the middle." It appears in the who gave the law through Moses. He was "counted as worthy of Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, only one more glory than Moses" (3:3). He is a greater high priest than time. In the New Testament it is used six times. Twice it refers to Aaron. As a priest after the order of Melchisedec, a king-priest, he Moses as the mediator of the covenant of law. Four times it speaks exceeds Aaron, both in office and in function (6:20-7:28). He of Jesus as the mediator of the Abrahamic covenant of grace. ministers in 3 greater tabernacle (8:2), and is himself the greater In its extra-biblical use this word is rich in meaning. In both sacrifice (9: 11-14). His blood seals a better covenant than that made Greek and Roman practice it is used to refer to an "arbiter." In with Moses (8:6-9:26). Athens those with disputes came to a group called the Forty, made In connection with the idea of the covenant, it is well to note up of four representatives of each of the ten tribes. In turn, they Hebrews 2: 16. "For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; appointed an arbiter to deal with the estranged parties. An arbiter but he took on him the seed of Abraham." The covenant with Abra- could not refuse to serve, if selected. At all costs he must settle ham is basic in God's purpose of grace. The Mosaic covenant of the dispute and effect a reconciliation. In Rome there was a body law grew out of this basic covenant. Given by angels it was mediated called the "arbitri." Matters involving purely legal matters were tried by Moses, Aaron, prophets, and kings. But the covenant with before a judex or judge. But cases of equity or damages were settled Abraham was given directly to Abraham by God himself. It had by an arbiter. no mediator between God and man, but was a direct dealing between Many fjmes in the Greek papyri n~esistEsor mediator is used of a the two. "sponsor, and of a "guarantor" or "surety" for a debt. A man who This is alfirmed by Paul in Galatians 3, where he compares the went bail for another was called a mesistEs. If a person wished to Abrahamic covenant of grace with the Mosaic covenant of law borrow money, he was required to have mt.~isrL?sto guarantee its (v, 19). Of the former Paul said, "Now a mediator is not a mediator repayment. Anyone standing good for another's debts was called of one, but God in one" (v. 20). So this basic covenant of grace, a mesistes. involving the direct relationship between God and man, needs no One significant feature of this office was that in all matters telat- created being, men nor angels, as mediator. ing to it, the mesistPs must perfectly represent both parties involved In this light our text becomes clear. There is one God who offers in the dispute or transaction. He could favor neither, but must bring his grace to sinful men. And in his offer, there is "one mediator them together in full agreement and satisfaction. All of the above between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a matters are significant in the Bible use of the word "mediator." ransom for all." "The man Christ Jesus." "Man" is in the emphatic Turning to the Bible we find that its teaching about mediation is position, without a definite article. Literally it reads "man himself not confined to those passages where the word "mediator" appears. Christ Jesus." "Christ" is God. "Jesus" is God become man. He is It is presented in many figures and practices. The author of the God-man, perfectly God, perfectly man. He is the answer to Hebrews calls them "a shadow of good things to come, and not the longing of the mind of Socrates and of the soul of Job. He 1s the very image of the things. . . ." (10:l; cf. Col. 2:ll). They are the one mediator between God and men! a "shadow of heavenly things" (8:5), "the figures of the true" (9:24). We are now ready to examine Jesus Christ's fulfilment of every The book of Job is said by some to be the oldest book in the Old means of mediation found in the Old Testament. Testament. If so, it is significant that we find in it the first Biblical Jesus Christ is divine Wisdom. Alongside the aforementioned He- use of the word "mediator." In the midst of his sufferings, which brew personification of divine Wisdom, is the Greek emphasis upon his misguided friends related to his personal sin, he sets forth fully the Logoq, the divine Word or Reason. Heraclitus used Logos to the idea of mediation as seen in the Greek and Roman practices. express the principle which controls the universe. The Stoic phi- Of God Job said, "For he is not a man, as I am, that 1 should losophers employcd it for the soul of the world. It was used of the answer him, and we should come together in judgment. Neither is generative principle in nature. Philo, the Jewish philosopher of there any daysman LrneristEb, umpire or mediator] between us, Alexandria, used Logos as the middle ground between the Hebrew that might lay his hand upon us both" (Job 9:32-33). Here is and Greek ideas, bit with no concept of personal pre-existence. estrangement between God and man. It is not purely a matter of Therefore, when John sought a title for Jesus Christ which would law, for the law had not been given, else they could come before a sound :t lamiliar note for both Jew and Greek, the word Logos judge for judgment. Thus he longs for a mediator who might lay was a happy choice. Thus he began his gospel, "In the beginning his hand upon both God and man, to bring them together in recon- was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was ciliation. Thus in the oldest account of divine revelation we see God" ( I : 1 ). Here he speaks of the eternity of Christ, his equality the haunting loneliness of the soul as it yearns for a right relation- with God, and the deity of Christ. In the last clause the word ship with God. "Theos" is in the emphatic position. "The Logos was God himself." But this yearning is also in the heart of God. This is seen in God's "The Word was with God" renders a phrase "pros ton Theon," approach to man upon the basis of external things which man could meaning "face to face with God." Tn that day, if two oriental mon- understand. It is evidenced in God's covenant with Abraham, in archs were entertained at dinner, they must be seated as equals. which God expresses his purpose of grace by which to reconcile all To do so their eyes must meet on a level. If one yas short he must men unto himself. It was present in the Mosaic covenant, which be seated on pillows so that they saw "eye to eye. They were face involved not only God's revelation through law mediated by angels to face or equal. So the Logos was "pros ton Thwn," he was equal through Moses, but also an elaborate system of sacrifice mediated with God. He was God himself. through the priesthood of Aaron and his family. God's redemptive More glorious are John's words, "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. full of erace ana th" (v. 141. The eternal said, "I thirst" (John 19:28). It was the Christ became J&US the man, That he might becdme thk one mediator word of our Champion. The battle is over, the victory has been between God and men in the covenant of grace. won. An athlete fornets his own need until the race 1s won. Then This truth is enlarged upon throughout the remainder of the New with victory achieved; he asks for a drink of water. It was so with Testament, He was Prophet as he spoke for God. He was Priest as, Jesus. But this word means more. Soon he shall give his cry of entering into the heavenly Holy Place, he removed the middle wall completion. That it may be clear and sure, Jesus would moisten of partition between God and man. He was King as he invited men his parched throat, tongue, and lips. to accept his reign in their hearts. But men would not hear him. Having received vinegar from a sympathetic soldier, Jesus cried, They would not allow him to lead them to God. They would not "It is finished!" (John 19:30). The Greek has but one word, have him to reign over them. "Be came unto his own, and his own TETELESTAI! It is a word meaning to bring a matter to its in- received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he tended end or purpose. In the perfect tense, as here, it expresses a nower to become the sons of God. even to them that believe on completed action with permanent result. In the Greek papyri this his name" (John 1:11-12). word had varied meanings. A father sends his son on a mlsslon, The mediatorship of Jesus Christ is central in Paul's gospel. He saytng, "Until you accomplish this for me." The son returns saying, sums it up in two brief verses. "For all have sinned, and come short "Tetelestai," it has been accomplished. So Jesus says to the Father, of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:23). Here is estrangement. "Being "It has been accomplished or brought to its intended end." justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ In legal transactions a deed to property might be issued, but it Jesus" (v. 24). Here is reconciliation. was not in effect until it was dated and signed. When this was done, In his mediatorial office Paul sees him as perfectly reprcsenting across the deed would be written, "Tetelestai." It has been dated and God and man. He is "man himself Christ Jesus" (I Tim. 2: 5). He signed! In eternity, in the name of every soul, a deed was issued for is the "Son of God" (I1 Cor. 1: 19), the "image of God" (I1 Cqr. a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. But until it 4:4). Before his incarnation he existed "ln the form of God" (Phil. was dated and signed in history, it was ineffective. So Jesus dated 2:6). the deeds, A.D. 33. He signed them in his indelible blood. "Teteles- Furthermore, Paul sees Jesus' mediatorial work as centered in his tai." It had been dated and signed. death and resurrection. He is the one "whom God hath set forth In commercial transactions one might sign a promissory note. to be a propitiation through faith in his blood" (Rom. 3:25). He When it was paid in full, across it was written, "tetelestai." The who knew no sin becomes sin for us (I1 Cor. 5:21). He is made a promissory has been paid in full. In eternity Christ signed a promis- "curse" for us (Gal. 3: 13). He is our "ransom" (I Tim. 2:5), as sory note for eternal life in the name of every soul. On the cross he we are "bought with a price" (I Cor. 6:20). And when he had cried, "Tetelestai." It has been paid in full! paid this price, he was "declared [to be] the Son of God with So the watchers about the cross were not only those seated at the power . . . by the resurrection from the dead" (Rom. 1:4). Thus base of Golgotha. Over the battlements of heaven the Father God effected reconciliation as he became both "just, and the justifier watched. The angels in quizzical mien watched. And that multitude of him which believeth in Jesus" (Rom. 3:26). of Old Testament saints which no man can number watched. In Since Paul, Jesus' greatest interpreter, centered his gospel of one hand they held their deeds, undated and unsigned; they held the mediatorship in the cross, and resurrection, we shall do well to promissory notes as the price of their redemption. The other hand examine certain facts of Jesus' death. In it we shall discover that he was cupped behind their ears, straining to hear the cry. If ever perfectly represented man, as he became sin for us. He also per- there was silence in heaven it was now. The only sound was the fectly represented God, as "God was in Christ, reconciling the almost silent, bated breath of the watching throngs. world unto himself" (I1 Cor. 5: 19). And then they heard it. "TETELESTAI!" It is finished! The re- In this light the office of the mediator as a surety or guarantor demptive mission has been brought to its intended end! The deeds for a debt comes into full view. Let us begin this examination with have been dated and signed! The promissory notes have been paid the transfiguration of Jesus. in full! And all heaven resounded with the cries of the redeemed Eight days prior to that event Jesus began plainly "to shew unto hosts. "TETELESTAI!" his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many And still this cry echoes down the corridors of time. It is the things . . . , and be killed, and be raised again the third day" (Matt. 16:21). Due to Peter's rebuke there followed a week of gospel which is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who estrangement between Jesus and the Twelve. They had failed to believes in Jesus Christ, to the Jew as well as to the Greek. understand, and the cross was only six months away. Jesus walked But one further word merits attention. Luke tells us that im- in a cloud of discouragement. Hence the transfiguration. mediately after the cry "It is finished," Jesus said, "Father, into thy When our Lord was transfigured "there appeared unto them Moses hands 1 commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the and Elias talking with him" (Matt. 17:3) about "his decease [exodus, ghost" (23:46). He breathed his last breath. Matthew said, literally, "He dismissed his spirit." No man took his life from h~m.He laid death, resurrection, ascension] which he should accomplish at Jeru- it down of himself. King all the way! salem" (Luke 9 :3 1) . Elsewhere when Jesus received heaven1y min- istry in times of trial, it was through angels. Why through Moses But the word "commend" calls for attention. In the papyri it has and Elias here? The answer lies in whom they represent more than varied uses. It means to file a report of deeds accomplished. So in who they were. As representing law and prophecy, they, in a Jesus filed his report with the Father. It means to file or record s sense, are suggestive of that host of righteous people who, under thc deed. So Jesus filed in the archives of heaven the deeds which he Old Testament dispensation, are in heaven because of their faith had just dated and signed. It means to hand over to another for in the mediatorial work of Christ. In a sense they are there on safe keeping and proper use toward its intended end. So Jesus credit. In eternity Chr~stassumed the role of surety or guarantor handed over the finished redemptive mission upon which the Father for their debt of sin (cf. Heb. 10: 1-9; Psalm 40:7-9). If his "exodus had sent him, that the Father might keep it and use it for the salva- is not accomplished according to divine plan, then heaven will be tion of lost men. emptied and hell filled. Angels could not comprehend this solemn Soon Jesus' body will be placed in it tomb. Three days later hc truth. Hence Moses and Elias. That Jesus received strength and will be declared the Son of God with power, by the resurrection from encouragement to fulfil his redemptive work is seen in that which the dead. Forty days later he will give his commission to herald the transpired on the cross. It is particularly seen in his four Inst say- tidings of salvation to a lost world. Then he will ascend to the right ings from the cross. hand of God, where today he sits, expecting. In the evidence of his After Jesus had prayed for the crucifiers, then and now, had redemptive work, he is before the Father holding intercession for seen to the welfare of his mother, and had answered the cry of the us. "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto penitent thief, he cried, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken them that look for him shall he appear the second time without me?" (Matt. 27:46). Here our Lord fully identified himself with [apart from] sin unto salvation [ultimate glorious, heavenly, salva- man as he suffered the agonies of the doomed in hell. Sin in its tion]" (Heb. 9:28). And when his mediatorial work shall have sub- beginning is to forsake God. In its end it is to be God-forsakened. dued all things [the universe] unto him, then he shall deliver up That Jesus might tread the winepress of God's wrath alone, God the kingdomto ~od,even the Father, "that God may be all in turned his face from the Son. Never was he more well-pleasing to all" (I Cor. J5:24-28). the Father. But in that moment he became sin for our sakes. It o or there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, was for only a moment. But it was the infinite suffering of the in- the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testi- finite God for our salvation. '. fied in due time." This is our gospel to all men! -bL- - - 0 1960 Southern Baptist Convention For Delivery Friday, May 20, Miami Beach, Florida 7:10 PM W. C, Fields, Press Representative For Release Friday Noon Theo Sommerkamp, Assistant

I WILL BE FAITHFUL Baptist Jubilee Advance, 1961 Stewardship and Enlistment

In ten hurried minutes, I would like to underscore both our oppor- tunity and responsibility to make 1961 our finest hour in Stewardshi and Enlistment. Never in the history of Southern ~aptistsTasas muzh planning and prayer gone hto this ph3se of our denominational life. Committees hzve been working for years looking ahead to 1961 , . , the year of Stewardship and- ~nlistment!Every area of our work is being co- ordinated in order to exploit to the fullest our spiritual Stewardship potential for Christ and^^ His Church in 1961. 1959 wa:: primarily a year of Evangelistic emphasis. 1960 we added our emphasis of Teaching and Training. In 1961 we expect to heighten our outreach and deepen our foundations in the area of Stewardship and Enlistment! It seems somewhat significant that the month of May (this month) will mark one hundred and sixty-eight years since Iiilliam Carey, the consecrated cobbler, preached his memorable sermon on "~x~ectingGreat Things f-rom God and Attempting Great Things for God. " This theme must echo dom the corridors of each of our hearts and samehow must become the magnificent obsession of every Southern 3,;~tist. You r?cl.icmbcr how ,_r. Thomss of BengaZ, India, pled for si:iritUc1 support for the Case of Christ in Ind12. JinL7.llythe s?.intly .i~Are~r131ller s:~id, Iti:r. Thoiilas tells us of a ~olli'iine in India, ai~dit szeias ,7 .l.iost as deep as the cciiter of the earth . . who vill exploit it?" Suddeiily 1Jillioi.l C-rey orose, tears r~l-~x~iiigdew;? his f?ce , embraced ilr. Thom~x. . , turi1ed to the brethren iil the I~Tottinghamsilire B?.ptist ~ssoci~tionto sayl IfI i~illgo do?m9 but you must hold the rope. It To hold the ropes for others, through feitlif~~l Ne~r Testz.r~ient stewcrdship , hpbs bee:1 the guiding force for Sou.L:~em Bcptists tkrough the years, aid is the heart and soul of our mission, Pe~vtrords cluite so adeouat el-? aad eloq~lent117 mirror Sout13ern Dr.pti st

as the ~rordsI-St&.~ardship and >ilist~ient.The r rord Ste~rardshipit self has 1ic.d a str?.n,oe and su~gcstlve---evolution. - ---- Ori:,inally the word Stetrz.rd carne from t~ro~iords st. -ward. It m,mt that :I S-LGVCPCIims rrard 02 tlic SAOX keeper of the ixigs*i7d~2117 the lrord ovolve~lto enbiTLce g--~&!zer barn or oi the entire fnnli. It then csiiie to msan overseer of the con ~l.@~r"~~ir-s_of-~~-gsJate. The lime ultii-lately iss imdeI ----*__ into 2 royal_1_- mlly rime, the Sterrart cl~nor^ fslnous Scot-tis:~1;iii;s. 'Ye use this s~me word to describe our Christian resgo:ls:ibility. Je hsve been saved lifted by the Grace or" God ,md entrus.ted to rtn3aage the interests of. an. . absent owner. It

Yon iiz--ve in your hand the pa il3hlet descrl bing -the specific objectives for our 1961 Stetr~.rdsilipZnlistment &lph,hnsis. It9 spiritual possibilities hag precariously upon the feithfulness of P;-stor and People to the com- i~sndsof our Christ. B few r~ioneiltsogo the irorlJ swept ia reviev before ~q frori~the doorsteps of our churches to the Te~notestcorner of our shrinking globe.

. . . bricks for schools, churches and orphz.nages, . . stet!loscopc!s anLl sczlpels for b~o'ren bodies, . . food and clothiilg Por hun;ry children, . . the Bead of Li12 for the l~stat houe 2nd abroad. Everything the New Test~iilei~ttecches is encol;;p,'ssed and embraced by the 11~0~ds.w-'Stermrdshi& - --- .-- ad Ib~listment_____--..* ! 2-1 Will Be Faithful, W. C. Hultgren One of our P~.storslzas lit;ened the Cooperr?tive Pro~ra"~to the tihs of the sea. 'hen the tide cones in, it lifts of tlze ships, large 2nd small, ot anchor in the harbor. of our rrorl: is st~engthenedand en- larzed . . , the Cause o;? Christ glorified throuzh our f~ithfulStevrardshil~ of self and substance! 1961, as a yecr of Stewardsl~ipand Jilistlaent enghasis, holds exciti~ spiritu?J possibilities. The cause is just, the need is pe?t , . , there 'erl?.ins now but for us to DO, 'lil.1 every P~~storin this I?uclitoriuun and iil 3ur Southern &I.:> -ist Convention joia iile in pledging him- self 2.111 his lec?.dership to rnyliing 1361 i? ye3.r in which TJe \rill see our greatest ~POTT~~~".ildblessing through dedicated Ste~ia~d- ship and Zi~list~nent, . . as for ue , , . I !Id 35 ~~-iITfi~UL. 1960 Southern Baptist Convention RELEASE AMS FRIDAY, MAY 20 Miami Beach, Florida W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkamp, Assistant :.>y

FOREIGN MISSION BOARD PRESENTATION MISSIONARY TESTIMONY

By W. Bryant Hicks, Missionary to the Philippines

In overseas missionary work, one is constantly overwhelmed with a sense of wonder at what God does, often in spite of weaknesses and shortcomings in the missionary himself.

Also, there is the agonizing awareness of what God might: have done if there had been more missiomries through whom to work. I want to tell you a story to illustrate both of these facets of the picture. The two main characters in this story are Pedro Villena and ~ablo

Saludarez .

Pedro working on buildings at Baptist Theological Seminary in Baguio, Faculty and students witnessed to him, but no response. Working on another job later. At noon break the men discussed religion one day. Pedro related what he had heard, though not himself a believer in it. Pablo there. Had left own church ten years previously out of disillusion ment and disgust. lJhat Pedro related pleased him. Wanted to know more.

Pedro introduced him to faculty. Sat in on Old Testament and New Testament classes. Also attended Aurora Hill Baptist: Church. In a few weeks, accepted Christ as Saviour. Thought of Pedro, who had first told him of this and who did not believe it himself. lalent to him and asked him to come stay with him each evening after work and study the Bible. Did so, and trusted Christ as Saviour in three days. At prayer meeting, could not wait until

Sunday to say publicly what Christ had done for him. Very happy, but thought of wife, living down in the Lowlands, who had never heard what he had heard. Went and got her'.

They stayed with P+blo and studied the Bible each night. After about four days, she, too, accepted Christ. Pablo now was concerned about his village, people who had not heard the gospel in all of their life. Finally, asked boss to give vacation early. Did so. Got tracts from church and went to San Isidro, his home village. Spent entire vacation going from thatched hut to the next, giving taacts and telling them what Christ had done for him.

They asked many questions he couldn't answer,. He told them only the missionaries in

Baguio could answer them, so they planned for Pedro to bring a missionary to them on

April 29, 1959.

Pedro, Pablo, and I, with several other young people from Aurora Hill, arrived at Sdn Isidro 30 minutes late. They were still seated there on the ground waiting.

Preached for two and one-half hours. Gave invitation and fifty-four adults took public stand, along with twenty to thirty young people. A month later, 42 adults, with 15 young people. page 2, Foreign Mission Presentation

Had to leave for furlough then with only two more unannounced visits. On last visit, they asked who wadid teach them the Bible duririg our furlough, In honesty had ta say that there was nolone,as far as I knew, for not enotigh mtssionaries. said they could wait; but I would return, wouldn't After the furlough? Again, had to say 1 did not know, because of lack of money for work. Here were several hundred persons eagerly de- sirous of hearing the gospel, about 150 of whom had already taken public stand for Christ.

They asked what was their hope. The answer was, "Your prayers and mine. Also, I vow to

God that I will present your desperate deed to every Southern Baptist group I can get before ."

Now I have shown you this terrible need. \,]hat are you going to do about it? The need is more more money and more missionaries. Not just for San Isidro, but for thousands of villages and cities just like it all over the world. Financially, it is through your

Cooperative Program that there needs must be met. Personnel-wise , it is through your personal response to God, saying, "Here am I, Lord; send me." 1ShO Soutr-c-;m3avtist Convt!rltion Miami Beach, Florida W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkmp, Assistant

\:lit11 pictures from Jones Cutlines to photos

C. Religious Education Conference officers are among the groups elected at meetings preliminary to the Southern Baptist Convention. Seated: S, C. Ray, minister of education, First Baptist Church, Greensboro, N. C. president; Gracie Knowlton, professor of religious education, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort dorth, Tex. secretary-treasurer, Standing: J. B. Nichols, associate professor of religious education, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, Calif., vice-president (for teachers); Frank L. Stubbs, minister of educasion, First Baptist Church, Atlanta, vice-president (for church workers), and Ray Gilliland, Training Union secretary, Kansas Convention of Southern Baptists, Wichita, vice- president (for field workers),

N, Presidents, Successors in Pulpit Nuch Southern Baptist history is represented in the meeting of Ramsey Pollard, left, and R. G. Lee. Pollard is president of the Southern Baptist

Convention this year. Lee is the only man to have served three years successively as Convention president in recent years. idhen Lee retired in April as pastor of Memphis1 Bellevue Baptist Church -- second largest in Southern Baptist Convention--he tsas succeeded in the pulpit by Pollard. They shared the platform at Miami Beach with their addresses.

53. Shuichi Matsumura, chairman of evangelism for Japan Baptist Convention, hands Evangelist Billy Graham a scroll inviting him to conduct a city-wide crusade in Tokyo in 1963. Although Graham can't read the Japanese figures, he understands the appeal. Graham agreed to seriously consider the request, making a final decision after conferring with associates. Matsumura c&une to Miami Beach from Tokyo to present the appeal in person to Graham, who spoke twice to groups of jouthern Baptists. --- J. Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention always have an opnort~n~ty to meet their missionaries. One of these occasions was the Foreiqn Mission

Board reception at Miami Beach. Pastor D. C. Applegate and Nrs. Apple;;ats, of Starkville, Miss., talk xith Missionary irlallace DuVall who serves in Nigeria. I. The world for Christ is foremost in the minds of these missionaries from all parts of the globe. They are Carl dhicley, Niyeria; Mrs. Bryant Hicks, Philippines; Dr. Ruth (~rs,John A.) Roper, Jordan; and John A,

Abernathy, Korea. The Convention offers a time for them to share their Christian experience thousands of miles apart.

I. The ministers! wives have their conference in connection with the Convention. At it, they make a distinsuished service ~lwardto an out- standing one of their number, In 1960, it was Mrs. R. G. Lee of Memphis,

who was first lady of the Convention for three years. Ilrs. Lee (left) is

being congratulated by the newly-elected officers, Mrs. C. DeWitt Matthews,

Kansas City, Mo., president; Mrs. Jess Tlioody, Owensboro, Ry., vice- president; Mrs. 3. '"Jinston Pearce, DeLand, Fla . , correspomdi.ng secretary, and Mrs. John Daly, Marks, Miss., secretary-trezsurer. --- 1960 Southern Baptist Convention RELEASE AMS FRIDAY, MAY 20 Miami Beach, Florida W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkamp, Assistant

FOREIGN MISSION BOARD PRESENTATION MISSIONARY TESTIMONY

Rev. W. C. Ruchti, Jr., pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, Rome, Ga,, was appointed a missionary to Italy at the May meeting of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. A native of Bryan, Tex,, he received tl.3 bachelor of arts degree from Baylor University and the bachelor of divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is married to the former Helen Holnes, native of Shreveport, La.

Missions Day was closing at Southern Seminary. Dr. Rankin, F. M. B. Executive

Secretary, had completed his address. T11e student body rose to sing the dedication hymn,

"Oh, Jesus, I have promised to serve thee to the end..." For the fifst time, I saw this was not only chronological, but geographical.

During seminary days, I was Associate in the Education at Deer Park Church in

Louisville. The pastor, Dr. Lucius M. Polhill, and the church highly valued the strength

in Cooperative Program. Deer Parlc was a "Fifty-fifty Church" and set an example for

Kentuclcy Baptists by leading them in per-capita giving to the Cooperative Program.

Later, as ministerial intern at Dauphin Way Baptist Church, Mobile, Alabama, missions increased in value as my wife, Helen, became program chairman for W. M. S. She was already deeply involved in a world wide approach to Christianity. While a student at

Carver School she volunteered for Foreign Mission service.

After we went to Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in Rome, Georgia, she became Mission

study chairman for our church, then in the association, and in 1956 in the state.

At the ,Clnut\~rnBg?tCfit C~vren.ti on in 7 956, ?.lsts~.f lrt Cca s inn,] erqp, ewec.ut--ve

Secretary for Georgia W. M. U. suggested we present a Japanese Festival for W. M. U. week at Camp Pinnacle, State W. M. U. camp in the hills of North Georgia. Driving home from

IYztnsas City, we became engrossed in plans for the Festival. For the next six weeks, our home bluged with Festival props.

In succeeding years, as we studied various world areas and needs, we began to

arrange permanent files for our materials about the world. We filled the attic with materials on Brazil, Alaska, Near E~st,Indian Americans, Africa, and Europe. There was

even a fifteen foot Buddha out in the garage. With all this stuff stashed around, you just

couldn't miss being influenced. Fifth Avenue was mission minded before we went there, but with Helen's interest and my feeling about Cooperative program as taught by Dr. Polhill, we were able to intensify our knowledge. When Helen's sister and her husband, the Duvalls, were appointed for Nigeria, the church began to feel a specific relation to the Foreign

Mission Enterprise, Consequently, we were able to increase Cooperative Program giving until last year our church was among the first seventy of Georgia church in total giving

and among the first thirty in per-capita giving. page 2, Foreign Mission Board Presentation

Last August, Helen entered a contest sponsored by a local department store. She won the contest and received a free trip to Europe for two. Bhen the store learned a minister's wife had won the contest, she was permitted to arrange her own itinerary. We spent 18 days visiting with Southern Baptist representatives in Spain, Switzerland, and

Italy.

Sitting in Dr. Roy Starmer's office at the Italian Publishing House in Rome, Italy

I was keenly interested in the results achieved by his organization, I commented on his almost impossible task as the only American in the Publishing house, Courteously, but with a trace of taunt, he questioned, "if you're so interested, why don't you come back and help?11

Almost involuntarily, I replied I1We&l,I will."

When we returned to the hotel, Helen noticed I was reserved and distant. Since this is not quite my normal style , she cut: through the reverie and starkly said, "Did you mean what you said to Dr. Starmer?"

I replied, "I did, and 1'm going to do something about it when I get home."

Last November, we initiated our request far appointment. In January, Helen told her parents, *Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Holmea, of our dream, Her mother grabbed her arm en- thu~laaticallya& ex~1aWd,"~'1 go 934 Sax you; Jf X could l'd get appQ&Gc#l to~r,'~

Uith encouragement: from the F. M. B., our church, and parents, we feel confident in the call of Gad from Rome, Georgia to Rome, Italy. Gle want to participate in the preacntatian of the etarnal &ape1 to the eternal city. 1960 Southern Baptist Coaventiop FOR RELEASE: 9:15 P.M. \Miami Beach, Fla. Friday, May 20 I I K. C. Fields, Fress Representative Theo Sommerksrrnp, Assistant . . ", ;

! 'GrahamExcerpts I

,(' ' I :lest: Amos 4:32

1 - ., ,It,bos.wasa shepherd in a barren, rdcky desert place called Tekoah. He was nbt an ordained,minister but was a layman. He felt a burden and compassion for the ~ed~leof his day, The people pf Idrael were enjoying the greatest period of peaci and pr$spgrity that they had known in several centuries. In the midst of peace and prosperity,Amos warns the people of coming judgment. The people responded by ridiculing, laughing and skepticism. But within fifty years Israel had been virtually destroyed. A few months ago I played golf with a man who looked and acted as though he enjoyed perfect health. Today he is dead. In spite of outward appearance, he had a virulent - form of cancer which within a short time took his life. Regprdless of the outward app.earance of prosperity, within the corporate life of Americ? today there is present a form of moral aad spiritual cancer which can ultimately lead to our destruction unless the disease is treated and the trend reversed. Many thoughtful.Americdns are warning us with the statements that are reminiscent of the flaming prophets of old who prophesied the doom of n~tionsof the past whorefused to change their moral course. Many American leaders that Z hpve talked to have serious doubts concerning the nation's moral and spgritual capnbility to match the challenge of a dedicated, disciplined Carnunism. Many agrpe with Berdyaev that man's problem and h3s predicament arise from the fact that he has not only lost the way, but he has lost the address. Today Americans do not even aecm to know there is an address. They seem unaware that there is a meaning and purpose to life beyond the immediate.

Firgt, Amos'hod a message of social justice.

I 'I ;(Ie warned against being at ease in Zion. America today enjoys the high&iti

Second1 , &nos,wa,rnedthe dictators who talk peace and plan for war. ~h"ilethis , great Conveniian is mgeting here on Miami Beach, the leaders of the wo;ihl s four most powerful nntionp are meeting in Paris. There is a gceat deal ,of talk about peace,! but we must remember the warning of the prophet who said, '{peace, peace" when there is no 'peace. Ne remember all too vividly in 1938 when the Premier of France, Germany and Britian met a Munich. When it was announced that there woulg be peace in our time as a result of that Summit meeting, the people of Britain danced in the streets and the French Premier was welcomed home by £lo~ers,~thrownin his way. Yet in less than a year Hitler had attacked.

Thirdly, ho$,y+grned against criminal elements within the country. Today, pngiter- ism rulea,in rnany of our metropolitan areas. It is go longer safe for a woman to walk: down even well lightadratreeta in some of our great cities. All of us are familiar with ancient acts of violence, the sacking and burning of cities in orgies of Lust and brutal- ity. Yet today drunken young barbarians are strippi~g,torturing and absuing helplesp victims that .is reminiscent of the Dark Ages. The atrocities taking place in many of our great cities by young hoodlums are as bad as anythiqg that Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun or Emperor Nexo could have thought up. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover says, '!America is facing an emergency, a crisis, which threatens the very future of our nation,'::

% .L.7.9 Fourthly, Amos warned gsahst racial discrimination and slavery. The ;ace prlob,l&q in.(I. the South llns reached the point of no return, The South is going through a per'ibd of torture, trial and torment. People are searching thcir conscience more deeply than at any other time since the Civil War. The South need leadership. This is the time for the church to provide that leadership. Southern Baptists, which almost out-number all other denominations put together in the South, have a peculiar responsibility to take a place 2.-- Graham Excerpts.

leadership in better racial understanding. If we fail to provide this leadership during this'period of,difficulty, the next gcneration could well turn against the church. ,

Second, Amos had a message against deteriorating morals. I .I I -- Amos warned against zexual immorality. Throughout the natiotl, civic and religious groups arc meeting to discuss ways and nieans of controlling obscene literature pouting through our post offices. Postmast~rGenexal Summerfield warns that if this matter is left unchecked, the filth factories may soon have more than 20 million teen-agers on their mailing lists. This year alone one million teen-agers will receive filth through the United States mail. This is one out of every thirty-five teenagers in the nation. Theyfilth factories, lvrcd hy fantastic profits running up to 500 per cent, are expand- ' fng and' doubling their llrazcn busiaes:; every month. Before long, millions of teen-agers

) '.rk-illbe kontaminated. This is almost ttnbeilevablc, but it is only one sympton in a, wholesale'moral revoLQtf oil r,ow tnk.;rz placz throu~houtthe world. ! Th& sex revolution t'r_?c has 'been taking place in America during the past twenty-five years is changing the ljvcs of men and women more radically rhan any other revolution

1:. in history. The revolc.tion drastically affects the lives of millions, deeply di~qurbs the community and dec;sivciy influences thc futurz 05 society. Some of our professors of psychology and sociolo~yare tcnching tht the sex drive is the vital mainsprin$,,of hilman~behavior. I11 PHc name of science its fuller satisfaction is urged as a nece+gary condit5on of manis health and happinesG, Sex inhibitions are viewed as the main soyrce of'frustration, mental and physical illness. Sexual .chastity is ridiculed as a prudish supet-stltiiwn ahd marriage loyalty is stigmatized as an antiquated hypocrisy. 1mrnorad.ity and impurity have penetrated almost every area of our ~mericariculture. When someone asked Hedda Hopper rccentiy what-waswrong with the movies, she said, "They are going to

a the dirt -add .the mud far their stories .I1 We should be ol.anned about the tcndency toward sex, filth, dirt, profatnit;, and'even perversian now on file screen in so& of our films and some of our TV pKograms, Nqwapapers , ia Dallas,~'T~laaand: Los' Angeles recently listed motion picture advertising (;hey would not accept. They should be congrat~lated. Even the church is suffering from a moral schizophrenia that is raging in the country. On Sundays Christinna pay.1ip service zg the Sermon on the Mount t~hicli=orbid- even n lustful look:-at a woman,' they pay lip ss- vice to the Ten Comnrldmcnts with its imperative "Thou sgalt not.-commit adultery"; yet I dnoweek days and evdn (on Sunday: many of these sane church 'people 'engage in promoting, 8wit'tringly1brunwittingly,'this crencl that is destroying the moral strength of this , - countryi JThe~Comn~aadments'ofGbd are obeyed by an ever-decreasing number while the , rethYc of sexual fzkedoru is eagerly lo-nr~leiland still more eagerly practiced by ever- in- creasing millions ~f men 2nd women within the church itself. If our young people are brought hp in thir se~--szt~~~atedatmosphere, then without deep moral and spiritual re- straint they wils'became rudderless ycuth controlled only, by the winds of theip envigon-

rnent:.' I --Amos warned nhoct integrity in business deals. The Nation has suddenly awakened to the fact that chiselins 2nd cheating arc accertable in our business lifebiMoral short-cuts are p.ermissibla. ?oral compromise and vqcillafion are the rule. Expedience is often practiced instead di c~oralprincxple .

Third, hmos also hdd a message 'against spirstual hypocrisy. i In this era cf pence1 hn3 pio~perity,the places of worship were filled. Bethel .rand GiJgrrl were jamrncd, with people worshipping. However, God rejected their vorship. The pebple a£ thnt dayehad become indiyferent to sins within the churches. They had forgotten ~od'sblessings of ihe past. Thcy had intimidated the prophets not to preach the Truth. They did not want their dull consciences to be distrubed. The Scriptures "teaah that God loat-tied their services. He had no use for their Eestivala and ric,h offerings. It was a mockcry. It was all fbreign to Him. ,. A recent religious sampling in Anerica indicated that 96 per cent of all adults claim some kind of ch~lrzhaf'iliation. It is sobering to ryalize how trivial the con+, nsction must be for rniliionz of them. Por a largc proportion there is no adequate eo&- rlnitment-to3the enuse of Christ, no regularity of attendance at public worship, no sacri-

rfbcinl gi+ihg, no persohal zeligio~~sdiscipline. In all ho&eaty we have to say,that ( there are many churches going along today with apparent success but with actual. fuilure. .:,Wsneeu za reach the present membership of our churches with a message of such vitoliriy that the individuals cxpe~iencea deeper commitment of their lives to Christ and the church. Christ w::rned, "No:: every one thnt saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall,qnt,aq into . . the kingdam tf heave? ." I >I . I r , J,

,I I I ' I I i, , '> > ,

Fifth, but Amos also had a message of mercy, grace and love.

In the latter part of the Book of Amos is a streak of sunshine. He warns the people to prepare to meet their God, indicating there is still a chance. He calls on the people to repent, Ha indicated that God was a God of love and mercy, not: willing that any should perish. The Southern Baptist Convention during the next twelve months at the present rate of increase will prohiably be the largest denomination in America. This gives added responsibility to help lead the nation in a crucial election year in a moral and spiritual revolution that could give this country the moral fiber and strength that is needed if we are to survive this next decade. We arc confronted with a disciplined and dedicated Communism. I warn you that they will overwhelm us unless we come to the Cross asking the forgiveness of God and changing our way of living individually and corporately. Thus, my challenge tonight is a deeper commitment to Christ within our church membership and a compassion for millions of lost people within the nation who need Christ. 1960 Southern Baptist Convention Miami Beach, Florida W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkmap, Assistant

FOR RELEASE : IMblZDIATELY

Dallas--(BP)--Major Zdgar C. Bundy, general manager of the Church League of America, charged that editors of Southern Baptist publications, Imany of whom are well-meaning and sincere,'' were unknowingly being duped into spreading.communist propaganda.

Bundy, spealcing before a group of 300 "interested citizens* at the Adolphus Hotel here, decried news editors who :'publish editorials without first checking documented evidence to back up their opinions.'

He criticised sentence by sentence an editorial in the April 4 issue of the Baptiat Standard, official publicatioa of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, entitled '~Commuaismand the Baptist Standard. -

The editorial, written by Editor E. S. James, denied charges reported in news stories stating that Bundy had accused the Southern Baptist Convention of being infiltrated 'church by church" hy the Communist party and that he had criticized the editorial policy of the publication.

Bundy denied that he had ever stated that the Southern Baptist Convention was being infiltrated church by church. He said that the news story originating from Lu&in,Tex., was entirely inaccurate.

Earlier in his address, Bundy lambasted the National Council of Churches as being headed by men with Communists from organtization affiliation.

'The Southern Baptist Convention, however, will never join the ~ationalCouncil 'of Churches and participate in its left-wing propaganda.

:'Southern Baptists,. he said, *'sendmessengers to their Conventions who can never commit the local church they represent to anything, and thus will never be a part of the National Council.;'

Defending his right to publish his own opinions on the editorial page , James said in the editorial ilComrnunisrn and the Baptist Standard.': **Weprovide 22 other pages for the opinions of others, but an this page we write our own convictions."

"If Texas Baptists do not agree with this policy, " James said, 'they can change it or discharge the editor and get another. Tile editor's judgment about what to write may not always be best, but so,long as we remain at this post, we will publish pur own convictions through the editorials and we will not compromise them with any person of ' this side- heaven. . . 1960 Southern Baptist Convention FOR RELEASE; 10:50 A.M. Miami Beach, Fla. Friday, May 20 IJ. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkamp, Assistant

With Hospital Report

"Agalknst the background of a recorded normal human heartbeat, the report to the Southern Baptist Convention by its Hoepitals agency will be present in a novel manner.

"The rhythmical heartbeat will be accompanied with other 'capital sounds of life' as they are heard from birth to death in the onv vent ion's hospitals at New Orleans and Jacksonville, Fla.

"The narration will be read by executive secretary T . Sloane Guy, Jr.

"Personnel of the hospital as well as of the schools of medicine at Tulane Univer- sity and at Louisiana State University co-operated in preparing the '6ounds of ~ife' program which is scheduled for presentation on.Friday morning at 10:35.

"This is a little off-beat type of presentation. It will utilize the public address system and the sound only, There will be no pictures projected."

--T. Sloane Guy, Jr., New Orleans, Executive Secretary 1960 Southern Baptist Convention Miami Beach, Fln. For Release: 11:OO A.M. W. C. Fields, Press Representative Friday, May 20 Thco Sommerkamp, Assistant

ANNUAL REPORT ON CANADIAN WORK Committee on Canadian Baptist Co-opcration

Your Committee on Canadian Baptist Cooperation met in joint session with the Canadian Baptist Conference Committee on September 17, 1959 to survey areas wf cooperation and to find channels through which cooperative efforts rnlght be better implemented. The joint committee on cooperation is composed of representatives from the Southern Baptist Conventiorr and the follotring representatives from Candad: Executive Secretary of the Baptist Federation of C~mda, President of the Federation of Canada, the Execu- tive Secretary of the Baptist Union of Western Canada, the Secretary of the Ontario- Quebec Convention, the Secretary of the Maritime Convention, a raprcsentative from the German Baptists, and a representative of the churchcs associated with the Washington- Oregon Convention. The Fellowship Baptists and REgular Baptists of Candds have been invited to send representatives but thus far havc not done so.

W. Bertram King, liaison worker supported by the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, has now been serving in this capacity for two years. During this time he has spoken in more than eighty-five churches in evcry section of Canada. He has sought to bring some of the resources of thc Southern Baptist Convention to help Canadian Baptists to establish indigenous Baptist churches and strengthen every phase of Baptist life in that area. For the most part he has been working in three types of Christian ministries. Firs&, he has assisted them in the field of evangelism. There have been four simul.taneous evangelistic campaigns in Canada conducted with the help of Southern Baptist workers. The first was in southern Saskatchewan, under the leadership of C. Y. Dossey. Thirteen of our state secretaries of evangelism preached in Canadian churches. This campaign resulted in 175 decisions and additions to the churches, There were 150 for baptism. The second campain was conducted in northern Saskatchewan, under the leadership of Eual Lawson. Southern Baptist pastors led revivals in sevcn churches, resulting in 50 additions. The third campaign was in St:. John, New Brunswick, with ten churches participating under the direction of Vernon Ycarby. Moat of the pastors participating in this crusade were from Virginia, Alabama and Georgia. They reported 324 decisions for baptism, plus 757 re-dedications. The fourth simultcneous meeting was in Edmonton, Alberta with twenty-two Baptist churches of various Baptist bodies participating. Lewis Stead, Secretary of Evangelism in Washington-Oregon Convention, led in this revival and thoseparticipating reported 200 additions plus many re-dedications. There was a Baptist rally in the city auditorium in in Edmonton on the closing Sunday with 2200 people present when the temperature was fifteen below zero. In addition to these simultcneous efforts there have been many other evangelistic services in Qhich Rev. King, or pastors from the Southern Baptist Convention, have assisted. There has been a growing interest and concern in soul-winning and in some areas more pcople were added to the churchcs during the simuitaneous efforts thanwerc added during the entire year of 1958. Canadian churches have sought, and have been given much beEp, from the Sunday School Board in the fields of Sunday School and Training Union promotion, Sunday School clinics, enlistment programs, and enlargement campaigns have been conducted. Upon request of the Canadian churches, the Sunday School Board sent A. V. Washburn, Crnwford Howell, and Ann Rutledge to help in enlargement campaigns. From the Training Union Department help was given by Harvey Gibson. These campaigns not only resulted in tremendous gains for the participating churches, but they served os demonstration projects that have helped to awaken interest in the educational program of the churches throughout the Dominion. In thc First Baptist Church of Sudbury, Ontario, a Sunday School enlargement cam- paign resulted in doubling their Sunday School attendance in six months. In Edmonton, Alberta there were seventeen Baptist churches participating in a Sunday School Clinic. Much interest has been manifested in their educational programs and it is anticipated that much progress will be made in this area of work within the next few years. Another phase of work that has been promoted is stewardship. Representative8 from the Stewardship Comlssion of the Southern Baptist Convention havc assisted some of the churches in the promotion of the Forward Proglam of Church Finance. The Canadian Baptist Conventions have used our liaison representative in many ways. He spoke at the Central Seminary of the Fellowship Bap~istConvention. He has participat- 2- Annual Report on Canadian ISork. ed in groups meetings, retreats, pastors conferences, and has served as a con~ultantin committee meetings. When this program of cooperation was first started there seemed to be some feeling of fear or suspicion on the part of the Canadian brethern, but it now appears that most of that has been dissipated and that confidence and Christian fcllow- ship has taken its place. Other leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have served in various capacities during the year. Duke McCall addressed the Baptist Federation of Canada. Findley Edgc2 conducted a workshop in Belleville, Ontario. R. G. Lee, W. A. Criswell, and Id. R. Petti- grew have spoken to the Convention of the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptists in Toronto. Some of their leaders are also being used by our Southern Baptist groups. Gerald Ward, President of the Baptist Federation of Canada, spoke to the Evangelistic Conference of Illinois. Some of their preachers have becn invited to hold revival meetings in Southern BapList churches. Freeman Fenerry, Pastor of tho First Baptist Church, St. John, Newfoundland, will serve on the program during the Home Mission Week at: Ridgecrest, N. C., this summer. His church has established a number of missions and it appears that there will soon be five Baptist churches in Newfoundland. Much has becn accomplished but there is much more to be done. 13. Alton Reed, Exe- cutive Secretary of the Relief & Annuity Board, has confe~redwith Canadian lenders with reference to a retirement program for the pnstors of Canada. Leaders of the Sunday School Board have conferred with the representatives of the Baptist Federation of Canadn with reference to the production and distribution of literature and promotional materials. Some of the leaders of Canada have manifested a special interest in the Brotherhood move- ment. Many of the leaders in Canada are taking seriously the challenge that is presented by the Baptist Jubilee Advance. Canadian Baptists have become an official part of this movement and have been represented at rhe recent meetings of the BJA Committees. Your committee on Canadian Baptist cooperation wishes to commend the leaders of Baptist work in Canada for the splendid progress that has been made during the past year, and for the awakened interest that has been manifested in evangelism, missions, and Christian Education throughout the Dominion. We should also like to express our gratitude to W. Bertram King for the splendid work he has done as a liaison representative in that area. Your committee is seeking to follow the policy that has heen adopted by the Conven- tion that we assist in the development of an indigenous Baptist work in Canadn on a basis of mutual confidence and cooperation. We express the hopc the Convention will continue to promote good will and provide such assistance as may be possible in the development of an aggressive, evangelistic, and misniorlary program through the existing conventions and churches throughout Canadn. We recommend that the Committee on Canadian Baptist Cooperation be continued and that its members serve with representatives from the Canadian Baptist groups as members of the Joint Southern Baptist-Canadian Baptist Conference Committee.

Respectfully submitted,

Courts Rcdford, Choirman

Porter Routh

James L. Sullivan

Ramaey Pollard

R. Alton Reed 1960 Southern Baptist Convention Miami Beach, Florida W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkarnp, Assistant

ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT BE RELEASED BEFORE 9:JO A.M. FRIDAY

Resolution No. l--Appreciation to Host City

The Southern Baptist Convention in its 103rd session wishes to express appre- ciation to the citizens of Miami and Miami Beach for their gracious Christian hospi- tality. IJe wish to express our appreciation to the local committees for many services and accornrnodations--to the press, radio, and television facilities for fair and effective publicity. We commend the hotels, motels, public transportation, and taxicab personnel for their courteous accommodations.

We call grateful attention to the marvelously adequate Municipal Auditorium with its comfortable seating, splendid Public Address System, and air conditioned comfort. We also call grateful appreciation to the work of the policemen in traffic supervision, and every courtesy extended by the Citizens of Miami to our Convention.

Resolution No. 2--American Bible Society

IJHEREAS, this Convention recognizes, first, that widespread distribution of the prirted Word of God is a basic need in mission work around the world, and second, that missionary advance calls for even greater distribution of Bibles, New Testaments,

~os~elsand other individual books of the Bible, and

WHEREAS, we recognize that the American Bible Society renders an essential, worldwide missionary service through translating and publishing the Scriptures with- out note or comment and through distributing them without profit and usually below cost, and

IJHEREAS, we recognize that the American Bible Society is rendering an additional special service through providing, withaut charge, to the Chaplains, Scriptures for distribution to the men and women of the Armed Forces and to patients in Veterans

Hospitals;

THEREFORE, BE IT 2ESOLVED: That we fraternally urge all our churches and our people to make worthy contributions to the work of the American Bible Society, in order to provide the Scriptures needed for the missionary advance to which we are committed. Resolution No. 3--World Evangelism

We recommend that

In view of the exploding world population, the militant advance of atheistic

communism and the inescapable obligation to us as Christians to "preach the Gospel

to every creature," we resolve

1. That through every possible media our Baptist people be challenged to a

greater stewardship of time, tallent and money to the end of proclaiming the Gospel

to every creature in this generation, and

2. That our Convention boards and agencies be encouraged in their increasing

emphasis on world evangelism, and

3. That the specific programs of the Baptist Jubilee Advance for spreading

the Gospel at home and abroad be commended and that our people be called upon for

a renewed dedication to impliment these programs, and

4. That we encourage other evangelical denominations throughout the world

to increased activity in winning the lost world to Christ.

Resolution No. 4--Christian Citizenship

1. rJe hereby reaffirm our faith in the historic principle of the separation of

Church and State as expressed in the Bill of Rights and the constitutional guarantee

that a man's personal faith shall not be a test of his qualification for public

off ice.

2. IJe reaffirm our conviction that a man must be free to choose his own church

and that his personal religious faith shall not be a test of his qualification for

public office. Yet, the fact remains that a public official is inescapably bound

by the dogma and demands of his church and he cannot consistently separate himself

from these. This is especially true when that church maintains a position in open

conflict with our established and constituted American pattern of life as specifi-

cally related to religious liberty, separation of Church and State, the freedom of

. conscience in matters related to marriage and the family, the perpetuation of free

public schools and the prohibition against use of public monies for sectarian purposes.

3. Therefore, the implications of a candidate's affiliations, including his

church, are of concern to the voters in every election. In all cases a public

official should be free from sectarian pressures that he may make independent de-

cisions consistent with the rights and privileges of all citizens.

4. We remind every member of every church of his obligation to pray for

public officials, to participate in the full democratic process, including the voting, and to seek divide leadership in the selection of those men who guide the destiny of our land in such a time as this.

Resolution No. 5--Public Affairs and P.O.A.U.

Whereas current national and world events have brought into sharp focus the wisdom of recognizing and reaffirming the American principle of separation of church and state.

Therefore, be it resolved that this Convention go on record as commending each organization working in this area of emphasizing our blood-bought heritage of religious freedom and its corallary, the separation of church and state:

1. We commend our own Committee on Public Affairs under the direction of

Dr. C. Emanuel Carlson ofr its significant service in this field.

2. IJe commend Protestants and Other Americans United under the direction of

Dr. Glenn L. Archer for their great and valuable service to the nation and to the world which supplements by legal action our own Committee on Public Affairs.

Resolution No. 6--Tax Aid for Churches

Whereas, legislation now pending before the Congress of the United States will, if enacted, provide public tax funds to aid nursing education in the form of grants to sectarian schools of nursing.

Whereas, this type of federal aid to sectarian education is contrary to the constitutional principles of the separation of church and state.

Therefore be it resolved--

That the Southern Baptist Convention records its opposition to such a program of federal aid in the form of grants to sectarian schools of nursing, and

That the Convention requests its Hospital Board and the Southern Baptist

Hospital Association to express this opposition by all appropriate means. -. 1960 Southern Baptist Convention Hiani Beach, Florida W. C. Fields, Prees Repre~entative Theo Somerlcanp, Assistant

Idmediate release

Resolution No. 4--Christian Citizenship (amendnent to Section 2 a*@ voted)

Sec. 2. We reaf firn our conviction that: a nan r.lust: be free to chooae his &vt~ church and that hio personal religious faith shall not be a test of his qualificati~n for public office, When a public official is enescapably bound by the dog- and denmds of hio church, he cannot consistently separate himself from these. This is espeuia~l~ true when that church tlaintains a position in open conflict with our established arid conarituted Ar~ericanpattern of life as specifically related to religious liberty,

Beparation of Church and State, the freedon of conscience in natters related to narrigge and tbe-~Eagtl&k, @empetaat.Qnpf free b&bEic schools and the prohibition against use of public nonieo for sectarian purpooes, . k

1960 .* lathern Baptist Miami Beach, Florida W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkamp, Assistant

GENERAL RELEASE FOR FRIDAY AMS MAY 20

MIAMI BEACH, PLA., MAY 19--Southern Baptist messengers were urged here Thursday afternoon to take a stand against federal legislation which would provide aid to schools of nursing, including sectarian institutions.

The legislation, now pending before Cccgress, was described as contrary to Baptist principles and a possible threat to Baptist schools of nursing.

The request was made in a resolution presented by T. Sloane Guy Jr., superintendent of Southern Baptist Hospitals, New Orleans. The resolution was referred to a resolutions committee for a possible report Friday morning.

Guy asked the convention to "request its hospital board and Southern Baptist

Hospital Association to express this opposition by all appropriate means."

The messengers, numbering an estimated 13,679, a convention record, also were asked to endorse a resolution commending Protestants and Other Americans united, a national organization formed to combat violations of the princip-le of separation of church and state.

A third resolution offered earlier "reaffirmed ...faith in the historic Baptist principle of separation of church and state and the constitutional guarantee of our

land that no religious test shall be made as a qualification for public office."

A new slate of officers were completed with the s,clection of John L. Slaughter, pastor of First Baptist Church, Spartanburg, S. C., as second vice president. Pollard was re-elected president Wednesday, and W. 0. Vaught, pastor of Zmmanuel Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark., first vice president. In other action, top "Southern Baptist educators emphatically denied that any

instructors in their institutions are teaching doctrines contrary to Baptist beliefs.

The denials were issued during a special press conference following public

statements in newspapers and from the convention platform urging strict adherence to

Baptist beliefs by seminary teachers,

Convention President Ramsey Pollard, who said Wednesday that he wanted no seminary teacher "who doesn't believe in the miracles in the word:! of God," insisted yesterday his remarks were not aimed at any of the seminaries.

"Any idea that any of us is making an attack on our seminaries "is far-fetched and in er or ."

A Baptist editor asked Pollard what his statement was designed to accomplish, and Pollard retorted: "I was merely emphasizing the need for us to maintain our guard."

A Miami Baptist pastor, who had been quoted in a Miami newspaper as saying a study of all denominational schools was contemplated on the question of infiltration of

theological modernism, denied he made such a statement.

esident of Southern.Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville,

demands that instructors must teach the theory of modernism but

they must teach it as a theory, not as fact,

By Roy Jennings, Brotherhood Commission, Memphis.

By Lloyd Wright, Public Relations Director, Texas Baptists 1960 Southern Baptist Convention Mi ami Beach, Florida \i, C, Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerlcamp, Aqsistant Immediate Release

Plake the following changes In the report of the Committee on Boards

Southern Baptist Hospital:

Add Terrn Expiring 1962 Horrard L. Dawl.~ins North Carolha

Christian Life Commission

Add Term Expiring 1962

Charles C. Maples Tennessee

American Seminary Cormission

Add Tern Expirinq 1962 Troy Woodbury Tennessee

Carver School of Missions Replace Marie McIntosh (Term Expiring 1965) Arizona With Florene Dunstan (Term Expiring 1965) Georgia 1960 Southern Baptist Convention Miami Beach, Fla, W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Somerkamp, Assistant

W. Convention Officers, W. Ramsey Pollard (center) of Bellevue Baptist Church,

Memphis, was re-elected to his second successive term as president of the Southern

Baptist Convention, His vice-president associates, elected at Miami Beach, are W. 0.

Vaught, Jr,, of Immanuel Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark,, (left) and John L. Slaughter of First Bapt 1st Church, Spartanburg, S. C. Vaught is first vice-president, Slaughter second v-p. 1960 Southern Baptist Convention P4iam-l Beach, Florida W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sonmerkamp, Assistant Release AE:S Friday, May 20

By William I!. Dyal, Jr. Missionary to Costa Rlca

FOREIGN MI 3 ;ION BOARD PRI~S~.~~\TT~TION PII3SIIOTJARY TL.ST 11110NY

Seven years ago just after our appointment ss foreign missionaries, I stood before a shilar Convention session in Houston. That night I

shared the conviction that was taking us out of our homeland. Taniyht, a~ainsta backdrop of remembered problenis and crises as well as joys, my wife and 1 still say: We would not trade places with anyone. With James

Stewart I can affirm: It is not just a matter of "Thou shalt gat'--- but rather, "Thank God, I mag." These years in Latin Amsrica have been a pil(;rimage --a.schoo1 in world discipleship. bJe have seen God in Christ at work an one of this century~sspiritual frontiers. The overwhelming masses of people have pressed us almost to the wall of despair, 'le are 1,400 rni.ssionaries overwhelmed in millions. But statistics of the vast Lostness of this world have been translated into faces, names, huny;ry minds, and ill-fed

souls of people we know, Abstract concern ! as been trans-laterd into the sharing of the Redeemer with men and women -- ~rstha rnan like Rodrigo Jimenez, whom we've seen redeemed from vice and mediocrity to be a disciple of the Christ. We did not 80 to be representatives of a society or a way of life,

but to be ambassadors of Jesus Chfist. bJe did not go to be bosses nor

bishops, but to be brothers and bridges of love. This revolutionary age

rejects any semblance of religious colon5 ali-sm, The churches built round

the world rnust be more than pale and anemic imitations of churchss here.

The growth of responsible national le~~dershipin every country is our hope And this -- only God can do: Teach us to shed our superiorj-ty com- plex in the Christliks ident-i.fication with the physical and spiritual needs

of men. Foodg land, freedom, knowled~e,&~nd God are their battle cry.

Cost us t.rhat it may, as a nation and as a denomination, We best heed that cry.

'de have shared freely with them in dollar-aid, and in a gospel of

goods and gadgets until they know wEth fami1iar;ty even in remote places of Coca Cola, '[Jrigley chewing gum, pnd Standard Oil -- when the name of Jesus Christ is unknown and unspoken. He is not n character in American history. fle is not our special tribal. deity, He 18 the Redeemer 02' the world 3nd Re said tssenty centuries ago, "Ye shall be my tsitnessea unto the uttermost parts of the earth," Thank God I may share Bim with my world. I pray my life shall be molded more like bridce of love to span chasms of misunderstanding and lead men to the Saviour.

But ostrlch-like isolationalism ~ndself-insulation against their needs can squelch real identification. Self-p;lorification which stifles self-criticism ce.n blind us to our failure to identify. Hacial inequality and strife at the home base can sl~mdoors to the proclamation of Cllrist abroad. AntE-communist preachments wl+l;ch do not offer Christ as the true ~piritu~lrevolution are barren.

Jesus' prayer, "As the Father hath sent me, so send I you," came home with meaning l~styear, Yrlor to our return homeon furlou~~hI talked one day with a Costa dican st~zdeiltat tPe i7n;-versi.tg in San Jose, He had not been a Christian lonq, but his capable mind w:ls restless to find answers to life. In his brief spiritual pilgrimage with Christ, he was alr2ady coming to grips wFth basic issues many of us nevor face in a lifetfme. Re threw me off-balance with his searching frankness when he asked me point-blank, "Why did you come? Why are you a missionary?" And then -- with a sur,~icalprobing, "couldlnt you be pestor or a church in the U,'j.? Couldlnt you teach tihere? Are you running away from sometbiny;?

Or are you payin!; a, debt to society and $!en youlve gotten this out of your system, you can go home wfth peace of mind? I don't understand,

You've learned my lanrr,uage so that you can speak to me in my own tonrye.

You've even said my homeland shall be your adopted homeland. :hy you come?"

You know, triteness almost overruled. I almost answered vaguely "- that 1 !,ad come to preach ~.ndteach and share my Chrlst-centered heritage.

1 -.I But God stayed my lips and llelped me to say it in a better way. T~Pt day, in Spanish, I said to him: "Fly God in Christ began a, while ago to stretch the walls of my township mind mid my Americanized heart big enbugh to "row", a whole world there, tSith e love so pure, He began in a long pillgrfmage stfll not ended, to tsar down ~sallswhich had been building in me since the day of my birth -- walls gtven to me by my ancestors and my environ- ment -- walls of race, nation, creed, and politics. These He has been tearing down so that T could say tc you face to face, 11 love you, but my

God fn Christ loves you even more. He would save you.'" There was a lonq p8.use. II[>ar his answer -- it echoes round this

$lobe toni ;ht. "1'm qlad," 178 said, "that love has brought you, for if you had come for any ather reason, I'd say to you, 'You're not welcome here. Go home. "

*Tow desperately we need you, many of you here ~t home, more of you to go abroad -- to let God build of you a bridge. This God is doing in a tl?ousand places over the world. This only He can do.

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Correction to above matarial :

In parar,raph ,% - Line 5 - should read; That day, iii Spanish, I said to him: "My God in Christ becan a while ago to stretch the walls of my township mind and my Americanized heart blg enou,.;h to begin to yrow 8 whole world there. Inserting word "begin", 1960 Southern Baptist convention Information For Cutlines Miami Beach, Fla. W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkamp, Assistant

(At FMB reception)

1. Rev. and Mrs. D. C. Applegate, Starkville, Miss., talk with Wallace Du Vall, missionary to Nigeria.

2. Carl Whirley, Nigeria; Mrs. Bryant Hicks, Philippines; Dr. Ruth (Mrs. John A,) Roper, Jordan; and John A. Abernathy, Korea talking. (RE Conf . Officers)

3. Seated: S. C. ~ay,minister of education, FBC, Greensboro, N. C. (president) ; Gracie Knowlton, professor of religious education, SWBTS, Ft. Worth, (secretary-treasurer).

Standing: J. B. Nichols, associate professor of religious education Golden Gate BTS, Mill Valley, Calif. (vice president far teachers); Frank L. Stubbs, minister of education, FBC, Atlanta (vice pres. for church workers); Ray Gilliland, Training Union Secretary, Kansas Convention of Southern Bap- tists, Wichita (vice president for field workers)

4. (Es kimoe s)

L. A. Watson, executive secretary-treasurer, Alaska Baptist Convention, Anchorage; Mrs. Willie (Martha) Johnson, and Willie Johnson, Selawik, Alaska, missionaries of HMB to the Eskimoes. (They were the first Eskimoes to attend SBC, and the first Eskimoes appointed by HMB, first graduates of Native Baptist Training School, Anchorage)

5. (Ministers Wives Group)

Left to right: Mrs. R. G. Lee, Memphis, winner of the 1960 distinguished service award being congratulated by the newly elected officers, Mrs. E. Dewitt Matthews, Kansas City, Mo. (president); Mrs. Jess Moody, Owensboro, Icy. (vice pres.); Mrs. J. Winston Pierce, DeLand, Fla. (Corresponding sec- retary) ; and Mrs. John Daly, Marks, Miss. (sec. -tress.) . 1960 Southern Baptist Convention For Information Miami Beach, Florida W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkamp , Assistant

Florida Baptists Pick New Training Leader

Miami Beach, F1a.--(BP)--Florida Baptists (May 13) picked a new state secr~taryof Training Union work-- Clifford J. Smyly. He will assume his new duties June 15, succeeding the late 0. K. Radford.

Smyly, already connected with the Florida Baptist Convention staff at

Jacksonville, was elected at a special meeting of the convention's state mission board here.

For the past seven years, Smyly has been associate in the Sunday School department of the convention board. He is a native of Mississippi, and a graduate of Mississippi College and of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

During 22 years as a pastor, he served churches in several cities including

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NEW ORLEANS SEMINARY ALUMNI

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. May 19--The Rev. Howard Aultman, pastor of the First Baptist

Church, Columbia, Mississippi, was reelected president of the New Orleans Seminary

Alumni Thursday Morning at its annual meeting.

Over 500 alumni, the largest group to attend an Alumni meeting in the history of the Seminary, were present for the breakfast held in the Hotel Seville.

The Rev. Aultman, who graduated from the Seminary in 1954, has initiated a campaign among the New Orleans Seminary Alumni to raise funds to erect the 185-foot spire on the new Seminary chapel.

The spire will be a replica of the one atop the old Baptist Meeting House in

Providence Rhode Island, the old Baptist Church in America.

Officers elected were Thomas J. Draper, Minister of education of the First

Baptist Church, Tallahassee, Fla.; Vice-President, and Mrs. Walter Draughon, Grace- vi?lg, Fla., secretary. Southern Baptist Convention -1960 For Baptist Press Editors Miami Beach, Florida IJ. C* Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkamp, Assistant

More Cutlines

Left to Righr: Mrs. Martin Pratt Martin Pratt D. 0. Morgan Courts Redford Victor Kaneubbe Mrs. Morgan Vicki ICaneubbe Mrs. Kaneubbe Eddie Sanchez Mr. Eddie Sanchez Mrs. Sanchez Mr. Willie Johnson Mrs. Johnson 1960 Southern Baptist Convention Miami Beach, Florida W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkamp, Assistant FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dr. Arnold T. Ohrn, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, ~as~iif~toa

D. C., will become Visiting Professor in Baptist Principles this fall at Golden Gate

Baptist Theological Seminary, ,:Mill Valley, California, according to Dr. Harold 1:. Graves president. The seminary's board of trustees elected Dr. Ohrn during their session at the 'Southern Baptist Convention in Miami Beach, Fla.

Dr. Ohrn will retire from official duties with the Baptist World Alliance in July.

He will move to Berkeley and will become associated with both Golden Gate Seminary,

(Southern Baptist) and Berkeley Baptist Divinity School (American Baptist) which conjunctively have sought and engaged his services.

In other business, the trustees reaffirmed their action electing Carl M. Halvarson assistant to the president of the seminary. Mr. Halvarson has been a missionary to

Japan for eight years and for the past two years has been with the Jordan Press in

Tokyo. He will join the staff June 1.

Seven new trustees were elected to the seminary'!b board by the Convention.

These are: Harry a McKnight, District of Columbia; James Id. Middleton, Louisiana;

Jacob H. Gamble, Maryland; J. C. Segler, Oklahoma; and from California- John Koonce, Robert

N. Stapp, and L. L. Hughes.

Golden Gate Seminary Alumni Association elected John B. Hines, Garden Grove, Calif. president, succeeding E. W. Hunke, Jf. R. Edward Townsend, St. Augustine, Fla., was maned vice-president, and Carl H. Halvarson, Mill Valley, Calif., secretary-treasurer.

The alumni election was held during the association{s annual meeting at the Southern

Baptist Convention. Zrogram of the meeting featured Dr. Ramsey Pollard, SBC president,

Dr. J. W. Storer,esecutive secretary of the Southern Baptist Foundation, Dr. E. H.

Westmoreland, pastor of Houston, Tcxas and chairman of the trustees of Golden Gate, and

President Graves.

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John M. Tubbs, church rklated vocatians counselor, Baptist Sunday School Board,

Nashville, Tenn, , has accepted a position with the Maryland Baptist convent ion,

Baltimore, as secretary of the Sunday school department and church building c~ngultant.

Announcement was made during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Conventiah here this week.

Tubbs will assume his new position July 15. Be succeeds L. 3. Newton, who resigned recently to accept a position with the Sunday School Board in its Church

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Southern Seminary Trustees

D. C. - Alva Lincoln Smith 1965

Ill. - Carvin C. Bryant 1965

Ky. - Joseph E. Stopher 1965

N. C. - Henry D. Ward 1965

Gkla. - T. T. Crabtree 1965

Okla. - Buster Spence 1965

Texas - Abner V. McCall 1965

La. - George Ritchey 1964

Texas - Harry Chavanne 1961

At Large - W. T. Chapin 1965

At Large - Ira J. Porter 1965

At Large - Geo. IJ. Norton 1965 1960 Southern Baptist Convention Miami Beach, Florida W. C. Fields, Press Representative Theo Sommerkamp, Assistant

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MIAMI BEACH, FLA., MAY 18--Meeting in connection with their seminary's Annual

Alumni Luncheon Wednesday trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary,

Fort Worth, Tex., elected one new professor and promoted two faculty members in their individual fields.

Cecil M. Roper, minister of music at Parlcway Baptist Church, Jackson, Miss., was elected to assistant professor of church music education specializing in graded choir work.

Roper is a graduate of Southwestern with the bachelor of sacred music degree in 1953 and the masters degree in 1954. He did his undergraduate work at Howard

College, Birmingham, Ala,

In other trustee action Robert Burton, who has been serving as chairman of the church music education department, was named professor of conducting and chairman of the conducting department.

Dr. Leon Marsh was chosen chairman of the committee on graduate studies in the

School of Religious Education. He has been teaching at Southwestern since 1956.

BY Billy Keith, Publicity Department, Southwestern Seminary, Ft . Worth, Texas.