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VOLUMN 48 LITTLE ROCK. ARKANSAS. APRIL 7. 1949 NUMBER 14
The Second Coming of Chrh;t - page 8 PAGE TWO ARKANSAS BAPTIST Remember the Baptist Cause in Your Will The Love of God ByJ.G.COTHRAN quire any help. This is a wrong conception. Legal help may save the very things that you A Devotion by the Editor The Arkansas Baptist Foundation has been would like to safeguard. Others hold to the The love of God serves the same purpose in created as a service agency. ·More and more idea that wills are to be made by old people our spiritual natures that vitamins serve in people will be drawn to consider Baptist In who are facing death. Many people of wealth our physical natures. That is, the love of God stitutions in the light of their Christian stew who die never reach old age, and records makes available to our spiritual nature for ardship. Far too many people leave their es reveal that a great many of them die sud its assimilation, to nourish and sustain it, to tates without making proper provisipn for a denly. cause it to grow and develop, all the great wise distribution of the same. There are those who feel that only the rich attributes of God. Whereas, without the love People often· fail to make their wills. We are to make wills. People of moderate means of God, we are unable to use the other attri should make our wills when everything is go should have a say as to how their estate will butes of God, such as His justice and His ing well with us. We should make .them on a be divided and to whom it will go at their power and His wisdom. day when we feel at our best. We should death. Those of moderate wealth are held ac It is the love of God that enables the jus make them when we have the will to say how countable just as the rich. tice of God to work for the justification of we would like for our wealth to be used after Every Christian should be faithful in the the unrighteous. Without love, justice would we have departed from this life. We do not accumulation of wealth and in the wise use forever condemn the unrighteous and consign die any sooner by making our wills when we of it. The way you handle what you have will them to e'ternal woe. Justice without love is are in good health. We have known people be a witness to others . · justice without mercy and without grace. And who planned to make their wills but death without mercy and grace there can be no for came unexpectedly. Others planned to make W. E. Gladstone on one occasion said, their wills and were paralyzed, while others "When you know what a man does with his giveness and freedom from the blight of sin. were injured in accidents and were declared money, how he gets it, how he spends it, what We would not dare approach the court of di he thinks about it, you can know something vine justice if we did not know that love pre incompetent. · of the most important things about that sides there; we could not ask the forgiveness Christian people should give God a place man." of our sins if we did not know that love is for in their wills. There are so many Baptist in giving; we could not stand in the light of stitutions and agencies to which we ~aiJ._leave ------0001------God's holiness except that holiness shines 'money and other material wealth. ThlS wealth upon us in love. can be left in trust with the Foundation and N o Baptist Bible For Him It is the love of God that makes His power designated to be used for the work ~f some The following letter received by Nelson help.t:ul to unrighteous men. Power unrestrain Baptist institution or cause. Our Baptist peo ed by love might crush and destroy us, power ple should be encouraged. to remember our Tull, Brotherhood Secretary, speaks for it undirected by love might be heedless of our Baptist institutions, agencies, and causes in self.-EDITOR. needs, and power that was not personalized their wills. Murfreesboro, Arkansas by love would surely be indifferent toward our hopes and aspirations. We would be left weak March 21, 1949 · Worthy Causes Remembered and helpless amid forces and circumstances You can leave money, stocks, bonds, and Dear Brother Tull: with which we could not cope in our own real e s t a t e to one of our colleges. These I know you are very busy, and I am grate strength. . schools are ouachita, Central, and Southern ful for that, because you are working for the But how different with the power of God Baptist Colleges. The Baptist Hospital could Lord. But I want just a few minutes of your impregnated with His love, a power that use the income from an endowment fund left time, for this is so rich I have to tell you stoops in tenderness to lift the weak, a power in trust with the Foundation. You can also about it. that casts about one a shield of protection in give part of your estate or all of it to the stead of striking with vengeance, a power that Baptist Orphanage, which could be used to A man who works with me is a member of nournishes and sustains life, a power that is construct buildings or for other purposes. and teaches a Sunday School class in the friendly and available to all. Scholarships can be given to help worthy Church of Christ. One day last week he said Once more, it is the love of God that makes young people through college. Funds. may be to me, "W. 0., I ordered a Bible from a man His wisdom watchful over us. It is that loving left in trust for the purpose of erectmg stu that came by selling them. Boy, it is a honey, wisdom that surrounds us with an ever vigi dent .Center Buildings when and where need a blue ribbon Bible, cost $27.00. I gave the lent providence w h i c h protects us from a man a check as part payment. When it came ed. A chair of Bible could be endowed by yo~ thousand dangers daily, the majority of which gift. This could be done in one of the denomi it was a "Baptist Bible, so I just sent it back. we never realize are threatening us. There national schools or in a state school center. I opened it, and right before my eyes it said, are occasions every day, if we will but take 'For by grace are ye saved through faith; and If one would like to do so, he coul~ leave thought of them, when we are made to realize money to State missions where the mcome that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: that an all-wise and loving providence is pro would be used to promote the whole State not of works, lest any man should boast.' tecting us from both physical and spiritual mission program or any part of it. That is Baptist doctrine, and I don't want it, dangers that threaten our lives. for I know better than that. I just sent that "For God so loved the world, that he gave Wrong Ideas About Wills Baptist Bible back." his only begotten son, that whosoever believ Your friend, some hold to the idea that wills are. to be eth in him should not perish, but have ever made just before you think you are ~omg to W. 0. Eason. lasting life" (John ~: 16). die. Not many wills made just before death ------00~------stand up in court. Usually the one mak~g ARKANSAS B.APTIST such a will is proven to be of unsound mmd Protestant Seminary to Be Established in 206 BAPTIST BUILDING, Ll'I'TLB ROOJ!t and the will is broken. Yugoslavia: A P:t;otestant theological semi otflcial Publication of the Arkansas Baptlat B. H. DUNCAN EDITOR others hold to the idea that it does not nar yWill be established in Yugoslavia for the MRS. LESLIE W. BUCHANAN ED. ASST. matter what happens when I am gone. That first time, according to information received Publlcatlon Committee: W H. Hicks, Little Rock, by the National Lutheran Council, New York. Chairman; 0. C. Harvey, Arkadelphia; Wyley Elliott, is not a sensible attitude for a Christian to Parts; 0. L. Bayless, Hot Springs; R. M. Abell, Jasper; subscribe to in the light of what he professes Franjo! Sostarec, superinten?ent of t~e Leroy Tedford, Corning. Hungarian Lutheran Church m Yugoslavia, Entered POI!It Office, Little Rock, Arkansas, as sec to believe. ond class man matter. Acce.ptance for ma1llng at Too many people feel that what they do notified the Council he will open the semi special rate of postage provided in Section 1198, with what they have is their business. This is . nary in August at Subotica in the District of October 1, 1913. , Backa in Vojvodina Province. Individual subscription $2.00 per year. Church Bud true in a sense. Unless you give direction to gets 11 cents per month or fl,32 per year per church your wealth in a will that will stand in court, Approval of the project followed a con family; Fam1ly Groups (10 or more paid annually in advance) $1.50 per year. Subscription to foreign ad then at your death what you have becomes sultation by Pastor Sostarec with government dress $2.50 per year. Advertising Rates on Request. another's or it may be wasted by those who officials in Belgrade. At the conference, Pas The cost of cuts cannot be borne by the paper are not entitled to any share of it. You can tor Sostarec stressed the need for more. pa~ except those it has made for its Individual use. Resolutions and obituaries publlahed at five cents work . after death through the right invest tors and lay workers to minister to the 150,- per word. One dollar minimum. ment of possessions. 000 Lutherans and 45,000 other Protestants Articles carrying the author's by-line do not necea sarlly rentct the editorial policy of the paper. Some have the idea that making a will is in the country. an easy matter, and therefore does not re- -Religious News Service. ~(!) RIL 7. 1949 PAGE THREE
Catholics Are Saying: America's parochial schools are "legitimate claimants for federal aid"; that "every child in a parochial school is an American citizen and entitled to justice, fair play, equity, and full democratic rights." Survey· of Baptist Sta:te Papers The truth of the second statement is ad Mr. John J. Hurt Jr., editor of the Christian three and one-half pages used by the Execu mitted without question, if taken by i..tself. dex, the Baptist "State paper of Georgia, tive Board and its departments each week, The hitch comes by connecting · it with the nducted a survey of the Baptist State pa whereas it actually costs the Arkansas Bap first statement and making it appear that rs of the Southern Baptist Convention on tist in contributing $162.50 to the Executive Catholic children in parochial schools are not e basis of circulation, staff, cost of produc:. Board each week in free space for promo accorded "justice, fair play, equity, and full m, and .financial backing of the State Con tional purposes. democratic rights," unless these parochial ntions. We confidently believe that if the Arkansas schools which Catholic children attend receive grants from federal tax funds. II'his survey reveals b o t h similarities and Baptist should receive f r o m the Executive Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and ntrasts. There are nine papers with a larger Board and its department production costs others do not feel that their children attend :culation t h a n the Arkansas Baptist, two for the spac€' used for promotional purposes, ing private or church schools are discriminat •proximately the same, and six with a no allocation would be needed. With this con ed against, if these schools do not receive fed 1aller circulation. The Arkansas Baptist had sideration the Arkansas Baptist would be in eral grants. All children, Catholic and Prot net gain of eight per cent in circulation in a position to promote its circulation, and by estant alike, are accorded "justice, fair play, 48. Two others had the same percentage increasing its circulation the paper would equity, and full democratic rights" in the pub Lin, while six had a greater gain and six have a greater promotional v a 1 u e for all lic schools of America. II below. A few of the papers didn't list their phases of the denominational work through If the public schools are not good enough liDS. out the state. It should be pointed out that when the for the Catholic children, then let the cath Many factors entered into the variation in olics bear the expense of their own schools .e cost of production, such as differences in Executive Board reduced the all~c-ation to the paper for 1949 to $5,000, authorization was and not ask every tax-paying citizen of the .e cost of different qualities of paper, differ country to support their schools for the pur tt types of presses used for printing, and in given to draw upon the limited reserve which the paper has. We are compelled to draw on pose of teaching the Catholic religion. 1me instances, different wage scales of print 1 this reserve in the amount of $250 per month. Every religious g r o u p or denomination ·s. The Baptist New Mexican cost $2.50 per should have enough self-respect and common tbscription, and the Biblical Recorder of We wish to make it clear that the manage ment of the Arkansas Baptist will g 1 a d 1 y honor to support the promotion of its distinc orth Carolina $2.22 per subscription. All tive teachings without calling on the tax ;hers were below the $2.00 mark, with Ar abide by the decisions and follow the instruc tions of the Executive Board and the State paying public to finance its promotion with tnsas Baptist at $1.86 per subscription. Six grants of public funds to church schools. ;hers ranged from $1.85 down to $1.60 per Convention. But we also feel under obligation to make this factual report to the constitu -----0001- - - - tbscription. ency of the paper. The Arkansas Baptist is Satan's Needle Regarding allocations from the State Con tJ;:e organ of the Baptist denomination in Ar Of all the, current tactics used by Satan, we mtions, Arkansas Baptist is at the bottom kansas, its purpose is to serve the denomina should place at the head of the list, the Chris • the list with $5,000 with no other allowance tion, and this it will do to the utmost limits tian's supine acceptance of the Devil's pro •r the space used for promotional purposes under conditions prescribed by the Conven gram to have the statement, "Times have r the Executive Board and its departments. tion. changed," considered as true. Before deciding he Florida Baptist Witness receives $12,733; -----0001--- that this is far-fetched, think of some recent te Christian ..Index of Georgia $10,000; the events you have actually heard yourself. Testern Recorder of Kentucky $10,000; the Take a Relief Offering Some parents, with strong convictions have aptist Message of Louisiana $10,000; the Se~ting up the calendar of denominational been weakening in their God-given duties to aptist Messenger of Oklahoma $15,000; the activities, the Southern Baptist Convention their "teen age" children in matters of world Tord and Way of Missouri $15,000. designates April as the month for taking an liness-because "Times have changed." The Tennessee Convention pays the deficit offering for the relief of aged ministers. Some professors in colleges tagged Chris 1 the Baptist and Reflector which amounted tian, have unhappily shrugged away their un The aged ministers and widows of ministers 1 $46,079 in 1948. North Carolina pays fifty easiness and disappointment at conditions ex who are cared for by the Relief Department mts on each church budget subscription and isting in which cheapening of social activities of the Relief and Annuity Board are not in 1 additional sum of $120 per week for the is accepted- because--"Times have changed." the Annuity plan of the Board. Their needs >ace used by the Executive Board depart Some young brides have tacitl:V agreed for must be met by the contributions of Southern lents; South Carolina pays 35 cents for each their high ideals in the face of what some Baptists. mrch budget subscription and. an additional times overwhelming public opinion that God's 1m of $400 per month for the space used by In 1948 the Board distributed to needy min Ministers need not be any different from the 1e Executive Board departments. The Ten isters and ministers' widows in Arkansas $3,- "man of the street" because-"Times have essee paper received $92 per page for the 184.95 more than the Board received from changed." >ace used by the· departments of the Execu Arkansas. This means that other states con Some young brides have tactily agreed for ve Board. tributed $3,184.95 to the aid of Arkansas' their lovers to "take a social drink," consider Many of these state papers, by reason of the needy old ministers. ing such a man no danger as a matrimonial iequate financial support of the State Con Every Baptist church in Arkansas should risk,-because "Times have changed." mtions, have been able to increase their cir either put an item in the church budget for This attitude is the result of the deadening llation greatly by promotional campaigns. this purpose or take · an offering in April or effect of Satan's Needle- which has been in Juth Carolina with about 100,000 more Bap at some other time during the year for the jected into the Christia-n's life, and lulled to sts than Arkansas has 65,000 subscribers to relief of the aged ministers who have given sleep his higher self. te Baptist Courier, the Western Recorder of their. lives to the gospel ministry and the ser "Times have changed"-Yes, but God has entucky has 55,000; the Christian Index of vice of the churches and have come to old age not. Right is the same. Purity remains as in eorgia has 44,000, the Biblical Recorder of without any means of subsistance. the days when God made His first human orth Carolina has 44,000; the Baptist and Brethren, take an offering for these veter family. The pi~ is, that it seems that "Times eflecto.r of Tennessee has 44,000; the Bap ans of the Cross, and send it to Dr. ,B. L. have changed" in that too many Christians, - st Messenger of Oklahoma has 46,000. Bridges, Baptist Building, Little Rock, desig so-called, are namby-pamby when courage The $5,000 allocation to the Arkansas Bap nated to the Relief and Annuity Board for the and bravery are required! st for 1949 allows only $100 per week for the relief of aged ministers. - The Baptist Record. ARKANSAS BAPTI PAGE FOUR
Osceola Empharsizes .... CHRISTIAN HOME BUILDIN(J By JoE W. BURTON KingdOm Progress EditOT, Home Life On my r~turn from the recent Trainin Beech Street Anniversary Evangelist Bob Randall, son of former Ar Union Convention in Little Rock, I stoppe kansas State Missionary C. L. Randall, and at Osceola for a series of special services E Pastor James G. Harris and the Beech Singer Raymond Jones, assisted in a revival the First Baptist Church in the interest c street Church, Texarkana, are observing the campaign at First Church, Stamps, recently. Christian home building. forty-fifth anniversary of the organization of There were 24 additions by baptism, ten by By previous arrangement Pastor Russe the church April3-ll, by a program of thanks letter, and 16 other conversions. In one ser J . Clubb had planned a Saturday night Chri~ giving and re~dedication. vice 65 young people dedicated their lives to tian home service and five engagements o outstanding speakers haye been engaged Christ. In another service Mr. Randall told Sunday. · These included a Young People for this occasion, including Dr. James H. of his experiences in Europe as aq evangelist. forum Sunday afternoon, a discussion wit Lands, Wichita Falls, Texas; Dr. Edgar God; Pastor Waif Hamilton says, "It thrilled our parents at the Training Union period, a devo bold, Pineville, Louisiana; Dr. H. Guy Moore, hearts to hear of the thousands of people that tiona! experience in the -Adult Departmen Fort Worth, Texas; Dr. Willis E. Howard, La accepted Christ as Savior during those evan at Sunday School and the two Sunday wm Grange, Georgia; Dr. R. G. Lee, Memphis, gelistic meetings." ship services. Tennessee, who will speak M o n d a y night, The entire community felt the impact c April 11. First Church, Star City, Luther F. Dorsey, this emphasis through the publicity that ha Of special interest to Pastor Harris and the pastor, ordained R. V. Haygood Jr. to the been given to the meetings. The respons Beech Street Church is the appearance on full gospel ministry February 27. Mr. Hay at every service was encouraging. Climax t this program of the pastor's father, J. Gor good is a senior in high school and plans to the week end series came on Sunday nigb don Harris, Pineville, Louisiana. He is a na enter Ouachita College this fall. He is serv when parents and their cfiildren came to tive of Nevada County, Arkansas, and a graq ing a chl)rch field near Star City composed meaningful period of dedication of thei uate of, ouachita College. For more than a of the Hickory Grove, Yorktown, and Crigler homes to God. quarter of a century he served Arkansas Bap Churches. · It seems to me that this type of emphasi tists as missionary and evangelist. on Christian home building is needed i. Mrs. J , Gordon Harris is the daughter of every community. Pastors will be able t the late Dr. A. G. McManaway, former pastor FACTS OF INTEREST arrange such a brief intensive program eithe of First Church, Little Rock, once professor with or without outside help. Neighborin of Bible and Greek at 6uachita College. The U. S. population including armed pastors can be enlisted just as they are fo Four of the five children of Mr. and Mrs. forces overseas was about 148,000,000 on revival meetings. Indeed an emphasis 01 J. Gordon Harris are engaged in full time January 1, 1949, according to the Census Bu Christian home building can become as i Christian work, two under the Foreign Mis reau. In the. eight and three-forths year should be a genuine spiritual revival, just a sion Board, one the wife of a pastor, and the period since the 1940 census, the population it was on the week end in Osceola. increased over 16 billion persons. During fourth, James G. Harris, pastor of Beech - ---000'------Street Church. this period 91 per cent of the growth has Mr. and Mrs. Harris were featured recently been excess of births over deaths, the balance Dr. Chester Swor led the First Bapti~ in the Baptist Message, the Louisiana paper, from net immigration. Church, Columbus, Mississippi, S. R. Wood for their monumental work in rural churches The number of marriage licenses issued in son, pastor, in a Spiritual Emphasis Weel in Louisiana during the past 15 years. J. F. major cities for 1948 was 8.8 per cent below March 13-20. During the week scores cam McLelland, superintendent of evangelism in 1947. forward re-dedicating their lives to the wor Louisiana, praises the Harrises for their work The total consumption of alcoholic bever of the Lord; 55 united with the church, 32 fc in building and enlarging rural churches and ages has increased from 10.25 per person in baptism and 23 by letter; nine surrendered t leading many of them to full time work. 1934 By CLARENCE EnwARD MACARTNEY able coming, like the coming of the bride test of examination or experience. Man groom, who came when. five of the virgins carries with him not only weapons of con were asleep. It is to be a glorious coming; The emphasis which the second advent of struction, but weapons of destruction. There with his angels, in the clouds, and with great is not only a path of progress to be noted our Lord receives in the Christian symbols glory. It is to be a coming with judgment among men and nations, but also a path of and sacraments and creeds is based upon the emphasis which it and punishment, "in flaming fire taking deterioration and decline. Certainly, no one vengeance on them that know not God, and would claim that the Germany which the r e c e i v e s _ in the that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus teachings of Jesus world encountered in the great war just Christ." But, to the faithful and believing, and the New Testa come to a close marked an advance and a ment. That Christ the coming of Christ will bring reward and progress over the Germany of the past that blessing. will come a second had done so much for science and art and time is said more religion. With all the advance of science and Misinterpretations and Evasions knowledge, there is no evidence that the frequently than Some have claimed that these statements anything else that principle of evil, as evil, is any weaker today about Jesus coming again refer to the de than it was ages ago. Science and knowledge is spoken concern truction of Jerusalem. The destruction of ing our Lord. His will accomplish great things in the future; Jerusalem was, indeed, an appearing of Christ but can they ever establish a perfect world? coming is mention in judgment, and it is true that in his last ed as many as five Will science eve) stop men from sinning? great discourse, on the Mount of Olives, Will knowledge ever stop men from dying? hundred times in Christ spoke of the destruction of Jerusalem the N e w Testa Will progress ever heal the broken heart or at the same time that he was speaking of wipe away all tears from the eyes of men? ment. One out of his coming the second time. But what could every thirteen ver Others say we shall reach the end, the be plainer than that the words of Jesus and great goal, not by any law of development ses refers to it, and the New Testament writers about the second in the Epistles one or progress, but by the expansion of the advent cannot refer to such an event as the Christian church. The gospel will overcome of eve1y ten speaks destruction of Jerusalem? of it. In fourteen the evil that · is in the world, and, as in Again, it has been said that all that is Christ's parable, will leaven the whole lump of the twenty-one_ meant is the spiritual presence of Christ with Epistles, there is no of a lost and fallen world. We must not be this church and with his believers. This is, impatient with slow progress, but must re mention of bap indeed a great and precious truth. H!=l said tism. In twenty out of the twenty-one, there member that with the Lord, a thousand years that wherever two or three of his followers are as one day and one day as a thousand is no mention of the Lord's Supper; but on are met together, there he will be in the almost every page there is a mention of the years. But here again there are grim facts midst of them. "Lo, I am with you alway, which challenge such an expectation. The coming again of C~ist. even unto the end of the world." But surely chw·ch is always confronted, as it was at the In his last address to his disciples, Jesus that cannot be the meaning of all these de beginning, by a host i 1 e and unbelieving said "I will come again." On other occas clarations about a futw·e coming of Christ. world. There is no reason to expect that ions': "The Son of man shall come in the A third evasion and misinterpretation of the chw·ch of the future will differ in any glory of his Father with his angels." "Here the coming of Christ is that which identifies great respect from the chw·ch of the past. after shall ye see the Son of man sitting on it with the coming of death to a believer. So far as th'at is concerned, all that we can the right hand of power, and coming in the · Christ, we are told, comes to the believer in expect is that Zion will be still struggling clouds of heaven." "Watch therefore, for ye death. If that is what is meant, then how with Babylon. Certainly, Christ dfd not know neither the d:h nor the hour wherein can we explain the fact that death is never foresee or predict that the world was going to the Son of man cometh." spoken of in the New Testament as a friend ripen into millennia! peace and righteousness The Book of the Acts commences with the and a blessing, but as a curse, as a foe. without another great act of divine interven words of the angels at the Mount 0f Olives Significance of the Truth tion, for he says that his coming will find after the disappearance of Jesus, and words the world a sinning and unbelieving, world, which it is impossible to misunderstand: This is the doctrine which, assures us that just as it was in the day of Noah. And he "This same Jesus, which is taken up from the end will come and that Christ and his asks that solemn and arresting question, you into heaven, shall so come in like man kingdom will be triumphant. "When the Son of man cometh, shall he find ner as ye have seen him in heaven." Peter, An end is just as logical and necessary as a faith on the earth ?" John, Paul, James, Jude, and the author of beginning. Divine revelation is swnmed up The Bible's philosophy of history and the letter to the Hebrews all decla:re that in these two sentences, "In the beginning God Christ will come again, and they base solemn created the heaven and the earth," and that Christ's outline of the future is sketched for us in the brief, but profound, parable of the warnings and high hopes on that coming. other sentence, "Then cometh the end." The Great events in the jurisprudence of mankind alternate to an end is the perpetual recur wheat and the tares. When the servants of the husbandman wanted to root out the tares are linked with it. Through it the wo~k of rence of what we now see, the ceaseless ebb redemption which was begun on the cross is and flow of good and evil, light and darkness which were springing up with the wheat, and to be consummated, the kingdom of Satan ever contending with one another in a per which had been sown there by an enemy, he said, "No; let them grow together until the overthrown, and the day of everlasting peace petual conflict. But this is unthinkable. and joy to dawn upon the world. To that Neither can· the end be the annihilation of harvest." Then will come the separation. Here Christ teaches not only a growth and mankind. The world may be destroyed, cer event we are summoned ever to look forward. development of the good, but also of the evil. So the Apostle Paul said when he recorded tainly will be destroyed, at least renovated; but not mankind. The expectation of the They grow together until the harvest, when the words of Jesus at the institution of the the angels separate the wheat from the tares. - Lord's Supper, and then added his own great and glorious consummation to human words "For as often as ye eat this bread, history is firmly fixed in the mind of man. Not by natural development and not by the and drink this cup; ye do show the Lord's But how will this goal of peace and right expansion of the church and the spread of death till he comes." . eousness and justice be reached? How will the gospel will the great day of peace and From these repeated declarations and the great end be attained? Some say'it will righteousness come, but by the coming of promises that Christ will come again, we · come through invincible evolution and pro Christ, who shall bring human history to a learn that it is to be a visible and a personal gress. They point to the progress that the conclusion and redemption to its climax, and local coming, for, "every eye shall see world has always made, to the broken chains when the kingdoms of this world shall' be him," It is to be a sudden coming, like the and dead systems of iniquity which strew come the kingdoms of our Lord and of his lightning which cometh out of the east and man's upward path. Slowly the ape and tiger Christ. Then he who cried out amid the shineth even unto the west. It is to be an in man will die and he will again regain his darkness and agony of Calvary, "It is finish unexuected coming; that is, in spite of men's lost empire. ed!" shall cry from the throne of a redeemed unbelief in it, just as the flood in the days of But this theory of invincible progress, bor universe, "It is done; I am Alpha and Noah, Jesus said, came upon the believers and rowed from the seductive romance of evolu Omega, the beginning and the end!" sinners of that age. It is to be an unpredict- tion in the physical world, will not stand the -The W atchma.n Examiner PAGE NINE lPRIL 7. 1949 radiant and expectant attitude that keeps Young People from Iran central one's objective, keeps balanced one's doctrine and keeps pure one's living. The "pre" is not looking for signs, but looking Students at Central College for the Son; not concerned so much with a By VmGINIA WEBSTER program, but enamoured of a Person; not Mary and Martin Pearah, Central College striving for a kingdom, but waiting for a ;tudents from Ramadan, Iran, are finding it King; not trying to Christianize the natiorts, !asy to become accustomed to the Americs.::J. but evangelize the world. vay of life because everyone is so kind and The editorial declares that the most un 1elpful. The brother and sister, who have Baptistic thing imaginable is for an indivi >een in the United States only a few weeks, dual or a group to oppose another individual or group on the millennial question. To this ~re visiting on students' visas which will al .ow them to stay until they have completed we agree . ;heir education. Dr. Gwaltney affirms that nowhere in Bap Marvin Bankston, dean of the college, has tist history has the millennial question ever Jeen working with their uncle, Dr. Norman been made a test of fellowship in any of our ?earah, Crossett, to get the needed invita local churches or our Convention. In Chat ;ions from schools to allow the American con tanooga last September several hundred men ;ul in Teheran to make out their visas. It took and women from eight or ten states came to nore than a year to accomplish their purpose. gether to fellowship about Christ and the Martin, when asked what impressed him blessed hope. They were all co-operating nost about our country replied that it is be Southern Baptists. Fellowship means "to mg able to say anything that he pleases with-. share." They met to share in a like precious out fear. In his native country, Christians are faith. Conditions that made plausible such limited in every sphere of activity, just be a meeting grew out of the current tendency ~ause they are Christians. · to stifle Pre-Millennia! teachings and to os Martin and Mary are Presbyterians. In Iran, tracize those who consistently hold and prac this denomination ranks first a m on g the tice such views. We make no charge that Christian groups; Baptists are · third. The there is any organized effort to accomplish Baptist mission work in Iran is sponsored by this opposition, but it is effective none-the Northern and English Baptists. They are less. making such rapid progress in Northern Iran Instead of trying to answer the question as that three villages have been settled by Bap to why the Southern Baptist Pre-Millennia! tists who have a desire to live in a Christian Fellowship was organized, we quote from an community, Martin said. editorial the writer prepared for the Day When asked for more information concern Mary and Martin break, which followed the meeting at Chat ing the Baptists in his country Martin said, tanooga setting forth the purpose and· intent "Rezaieh alone has more Baptists than all of The Millennia! Question- The of such meeting. "In order to join the Fel the other cities of Iran together. Almost all lowship one must be a member of a co-oper of the :Baptists are Assyrians who are having Answer ating Southern Baptist church. If this writer a hard life, since in World War II most of By CHARLES H. STEVENS comprehends the intent, the purpose of such, them lost their children and property. These it is in part as follows: to disseminate the people are the most active Baptists in all of From the pen of one of Southern Baptists' truth of our Lord's return in an ever-widen Iran, and even though they have no facilities most capable and beloved editors, L. L. ing circle; to bring together for fellowship for travel and little money, they arrange for Gwaltney, an editorial appeared in a recent and instruction a group who share the com their preachers to go thr.oughout Iran on their issue of the Alabama Baptist under the cap mon hooe and cherish the truth associated own expenses and to preach in the name of tion "The Millennial Question." This ques with such position; to fight the encroachment Jesus Christ. tion was discussed in the light of the recently of modernism in our Baptist schools and de "The Christians of Iran are the only people organized Southern Baptist Pre-Millennia! nominational life; to attempt to counteract who, under the hard conditions have kept Fellowship at Chattanooga. Several Baptist the misapplied Kingdom teaching and so-call their religion as a real Christian should. They State papers quickly picked up the editorial ed program for building a better world, which enjoy their Easter and Christmas very much and reprinted it. This in itself is a proof is not only unscriptural but unattainable in even though it is against the will of the ma- of the genuine concern in the minds of some this age. It was organized as a fellowship, pure jority group, the Moslems." • over the meeting at Chattanooga. and simple. • The cards signed by those join Martin, who speaks six languages fluently, The editor says in speaking of the Millen ing specifically stated that they must be had much of his early English training as he ia! question: "The Baptist faith is broad members of co-operating Southern Baptist grew up associating with the children of mis enough to embrace both t h e m and those churches. No church could join; only in sionaries. He studied English in a British with whom they do not agree." If Baptist dividuals who believe the whole Bible and school, but has no trace of a British accent. history has taught us anything, it has taught cherish the blessed hope of our Lord's return. Mary, who also speaks six languages, has us that Baptist doctrine is just as broad as Dr. Gwaltney says, while "pres" organize more of a school-book variety of English, but the Bible itself and not one whit broader. about one doctrine, "all other Baptists stress she makes up for any lack of vocabulary by We were not aware that Baptists ever prided her flashing smile and ready laugh which the complete Bible." There are no people in themselves in their broadness, but rather in the world who preach, teach, and love the have made her a favorite among the students. their strict adherence to "thus saith the Martin, who has already attended a boy's whole Bible as the Pre-Millennialists. As a Lord." matter of fact, the charge is often brought high school and a technical school in Abadan, Then Dr. Gwaltney is sure that Southern will study engineering in this country. He ex against them that they are guilty of Bibliola Baptists are not going modernistic. We hope try. pressed a desire to stay in the U. S. because and pray that he is right, but there are of the limited opportunities for Christians in alarming trends in that direction. It may ------'0001------his country. be that Southern Baptists are not now Mary wants to become a teacher. She is modernistic but are sleeping while the enemy "While the people retain their virtue and adeqt at crochetil).g and explained that Pers approaches and will awaken with too little vigilence, no administration, by any extreme ian girls are taUght to become homemakers of wickedness or folly, can seriously injure too late. and are skilled in needlework. Time has no the government in the short space of four value over there, Martin said, you will see The statement was made that the millen years." nia! question is non-essential. Is any doc thousands of people sitting around weaving, -Abraham Lincoln stitching, and sewing. All of their work is trine non-essential? In the Bible there is done by hand. twenty times more said a b o u t the second Both like America very much, especially coming of Christ than the first advent. The Arkansas and Central College; and it isn't true "pre" seeks to re-emphasize the neglect "Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in one-sided. Central likes them and both fac ed doctrine of our Lord's imminent return other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise ulty and students are proud to have them as so consistently taught and earnestly com in majesty to meet thine own." members of the student body. mended in Scripture. It is a question of a -lames Russell Lowell PAGE ·TEN ARKANSAS BAPTIS EAST TEXAS BAPTIST COLLEGE Marshall, Texas SUMMER SCHOOL-TWO SIX-WEEKS TERMS June 7-July 15-July 18-Aug. 26, 1949 APRIL FALL SEM:f:.STER-SEPTEMBER 12, 1949 Room and Service Scholarship Applications Must be Made Early. For information contact: WALLER M. ETHRIDGE, Vice President w. GLADDEN MARYTON H. P. 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In peace that only Thou canst give, With Thee, 0 Master, let me' live. NOW IS ' 'HE TIME- The theme, Walking With God, might be substituted for the title of this tender hymn of meditation based on a passage of Scripture to order materials and supplies for found in Phillippians 2:5-8. the biggest and best Vacation Bible The hymn reflects not only the conflicts of Dr. Gladden's day,- but school your church has ever had. is equally typical of the yearnings of present day Christians for guid SCIIOOI. ance through the maze of worldly activity and strain. Great care must Posters, tags, buttons, certificates, be exercised in selecting this hymn for use. It is in no sense suitable C.<\ T ']l.o(; record cards, and other supplies for days and hours of rejoicing or victorious challenge, but should be are listed in the 1949 Vacation reserved for those rare services in which congregations, large or small, wish to find surcease in reflective meditation and humble prayer. When Bible School catalog. 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SAMS & SONS 905 South 5th Street, Waco, Texas APRIL 7, 1949 PAGE .ELEVEN IJIIIJITIJIIITIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRniUIRIIIIRillDIIInnuutnntUIIUJIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIl lllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUIUUUIIIIJUlDIIUIIIIJUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIWUIIIIIIniiUIIIIIIUIRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIn Including Mission -·- 412 Texarkana, Beech Street ______378 116 Hot Springs, Park Place 375 118 Conway, First ·-·-···--- 372 5 ~eligittiJ ~duc4tith · Siloam Springs, First 365 187 3 Smackover, First ---·-- 365 135 1 R<>gers, First ___ 363 94 3 EDGAR WILLIAMSON, DIRECTOR Searcy, First ..L. ______361 109 West Helena, ··-··---·- 360 200 EDGAR WILLIAMSON T. D. McCULLOCH Cullendale · ····-···-· ···· ··-·~ 347 179 2 Sunday School Superintentknf Student Union Secretary Hot Springs, First , ___ 335 72 2 Nashvllle, First - ······- 312 109 2 RALPH w. DAVIS MRS. B: w. NININGER Lake City, First --·- 310 232 3 Training Union Director Church Music Director · Little Rock, South Highland --·-- ····- 306 140 1 Baptist Building, Little Rock Gentry, First ___ 305 129 3 Pine Bluff, Second _ 303 109 1() lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUUUIIII Norphlet, First ·--- 299 215 2 Hamburg, First ···-·- ·· 292 137 Bentonvllle, First ··-· 284 71 4 Figures to Inspire Harrison, First --·-·-'-- 283 100 2 Angell Is Man Sunday, March 27, 1949 Including Missions _ 373 130 Little Rock, Calvary .... 281 102 3 Dr. Warren Angell, dean of the s. s. T. U. Add. El Dorado, West Side 277 107 1 Ft. Smith, First ____1276 . 489 8 Greenwood, First ··-·· 263 96 1 School of Fine Arts at Okhhoma Little Rock, Immanuel 1112 418 7 N. Little Rock, Baptist University will direct /the Including Missions _1380 656 15 Park Hill --··-·-··-· 255 60 4 Little Rock, First __ 840 358 8 Men_a, First --···-·----· 253 95 1 Youth and Junior Choir Festivals Pine Bluff, South Jacksonville, First -··- 250 123 3 again this year. This news will be El Dorado, First ___ 806 242 Stamps, First ······-- -·-- 236 93 Pine Bluff, South Alma, First _____ 235 98 welcomed by the h1.r.dreds of Side ···---·-- -- 776 348 60 Ft. SJD.ith, Trinity --·- 235 98 young people who have svng with Including Mission _ 823 395 Texarkana, Calvary .... 226 115 6 Hot Springs, Second .... 773 212 3 Ft. Smith, Bailey Dr. Angell in the festivals for the N. Little Rock, Baring H!ll -····· 225 111 2 two previous years. His happy Cross -----~--- 756 396 5 Little Rock, Hebron ___ f93 105 Including Missions .. 790 426 Little Rock, High spirit of comradeship and his in Fordyce, First - ·-- 576 330 6 Street -----·------·--· 193 spiring approach to music have El Dorado, Second - -'-· 573 236 1 Little Rock, Reynolds f!enton, First ·--- 571 142 Memorial ______175 50 endeared him to the Baptists of Including Mission - · 607 Truman, First ------172 4 Arkansas. Forrest City, First _ _ 549 229 4 Including Mission _ 204 Fayettevllle, First - ~ "526 182 Mt. Ida, First ------164 106 The Youth Choirs assemble on Including Missions .. 580 214 Pine Bluff, Matthews Hope, First -·--·--·- - 521 114 Memorial ------154 165 16 the campus of Ouachita College Including Mission _ 546 Warren, Immanuel ____ 153 113 5 at 9:00 o'clock Friday morning, P ine Bluff, Immanuel 507 213 26 Dyess, First ------148 87 5 Crossett, First -~-- 503 233 Hoxie, First ___ • -----~ - 146 52 April 15. Registration and indivi Springdale, First ·--- 490 235 16 N. Little Rock, Forty- dual al}.ditions will take place in Including Missions _ 640 Seventh Street -·- 140 78 12 Little Rock, Tabernacle 487 203 Grannis ~------133 85 Mitchell Hall immediately follow Arkadelphia, First __ 474 219 1 Kensett ------·----- . 128 84 ing arrival. One check to cover Magnolia, Central -·- 470 156 3 Levy, First ...... 126 68 Including Missions .. 592 Douglassv1lle, First _____ 124 54 registration fee of all singers, Hot Springs, Central .. 468 144 2 Fountain Hill, First ___ 116 100 listeners, and directors should be Including Mission _ 538 189 Eureka Springs, First .. 116 31 vresented at the desk. Festival Camden, First - - - 464 149 6 Strong. First --·------115 48 2 Dr. Warren Angen Including Missions _ 656 272 Wilmar ------··------112 68 badges, entitling the holder to eat Warren, First _ _ _ 446 110 Mena, Dallas Avenue _ 111 43 4 Helena, First - ·---- 438 64 5 N. Little Rock, Grace .. 106 34 1 the noon and evening ~eal in the Every church sending represen Including Mission ._ 477 115 Malvern, Shorewood college dining hall will be given Ft. Smith, Calvary ...... 434 110 Hills __...... ______102 48 tatives to these festivals will be Paris, First 434 124 Melbourne, First ------99 87 1 to all who are properly registered. richly blessed. It is hoped that Ft. Smith, Temple _ 434 64 Dardanelle, First 98 39 1 The same instructions apply to many people will drive to Arka Paragould, First ~ 428 199 El Dorado, Joyce City 92 70 Including Missions _ 576 273 Geyer Springs 86 73 2 the Junior Choirs who will as delphia to hear the festival pro Ft. Smith, Grand Ft. Smith, North Side 80 24 semble for their festival on Sat Avenue ·- ---- 428 99 4 Monte Ne ------79 61 gram on the evenings of April 15 Russellvllle, First __ 423 191 Texark3 cers in army and navy are given Mrs. Medlock Claims Oul' ~etniHill'ieJ every opportunity and facility for Her Eternal Reward thorough training. By J. E. DILLARD Southern Baptists were a bit By NANcY CooPER There was a time when it was run for congress or the presi slow in providing colleges and On March 12 Mrs. J. L. Med thought unnecessary and maybe dency. seminaries, but a beginning has lock, life member of the State a bit dangerous for a preacher been made. We believe that where Executive Board of Woman's But times have changed: We possible our young, preachers to go to college or seminary. He require our doctors to have both Missionary Union, heeded the could just read his Bible at home should go through college taking Master's call to "come up a little college and medical training plus courses in the liberal arts and or study under the guidance of a couple of years interneship be higher." Death came unexpect some good pastor and then go out sciences, and then go on to the edly as she was preparing refresh- _ fore being permitted to write pre seminary for professional train and exercise his gifts. scriptions. We expect our lawyers ments for her W. M. S. Circle At this same time many men ing. scheduled to meet with her on the to have a liberal education, fol Our present survey reveals the read m~dicine in the office of lowed by highly technical train following Monday. some successful doctor and then fact that our colleges and semi ing and the passing of a rigid ex naries are working together try No "daughter of the King" ever proceeded to make pills and dose amination before they hang out served more faithfully than she. out quinine and calomel. Also ing to provide the best possible their shin_gles. training for our people especially For many years she was Superin many a successful lawyer got his And so if our pastors are to tendent of Woman's Missionary training by reading in some at our preachers. do their best and have the respect Our survey shows over 2,500 Union of Pulaski County Associa torney's library and doing odd of their churches and communi tion; also she was treasurer of her jobs till he could pass a rather resident students enrolled in our ties, and enjoy the approval of a three Southern seminaries; that own local society; and she served elementary examination, then he good conscience they must make as Counselor of Young Woman's could go out and practice law and 81 per cent of them have had col an honest, long-continued effort lege training while only 19 per Auxiliary and later as Adviser of to prepare themselves. cent of them have not. the Business Woman's Circle into We do not mean by this that The survey also shows that which that Y. W. A. group grew. no one can do good I without col more than one-half of our semi Many were her duties and great lege and seminary training, but nary students came from seven was her ministry. Her quiet loy teen of our Southern Baptist col alty to all phases of Kingdom FOR EVERY NEED AND BUDGET we do believe the preacher ought Pulpit and communion sets and lec to make every effort to adequate leges, whereas only four per cent work promoted by her denomil;la terns available for early delivery. of them came from the nineteen tion served as an inspiration to all Chancel furniture, carvings, Bodi ly prepare himself, and the de form Pews, folding chairs, tables and nomination ought to help preach state universities in the South. who knew her. · Sunday School furniture available. 1 ers prepare themselves. The Unit The other college students in ------000------Write Department 115 seminary came from 248 other Live a~ if Christ died yesterday, AMERICAN SEATING COMPANY ed States government spares no 2930 Canton St., Dallas 1, Texas means to see that the men who schools. rose this morning,..-and is coming are to be her high ranking offi- THINK ON tHESE THINGS! back tomorrow. I ' IF THIS MAN WERE WELL In every form of benevolences, the cause of the sick man should come first. Dependent upon him for bread and shelter are his wife and children. To prov~de a bed for the sick man and drive the fever from his brow is the responsibility of your Arkansas Baptist Hospital To relieve his anxiety and help restore him to his job and familY can be your peace of mind on Mother's Day. Remember, most men want-not charity, but a chance! CONTRIBUTE TO THE- MOTHER'S DAY HOSPITAL FUND PAGE THIRTEEN APRIL 7. 1949 sit on a platform at the front of The Southern Bapti!~t the room facing the congregation News of Interest while a pastor from a nearby vil Program of Baptist Press lage preached. We did stand at Evangelism the door and speak to the people By c. E. MATIHEWS Take Your Tent and Pitch Camp tists to t h e annual Convention as they left. Oklahoma. City Is Gonna Be meeting of the denomination in 'The next day we were told that Home Mission Board- $1.00 Crowded May. the whole village was angry be J . v. Lincoln of the Aero Travel cause visitors had come all the Reviewed by C. W. Caldwell · Housing accommodations at the Club of America said that his way from the States and had been It is off the press ! The book 1949 session of the Southern Bap company is prepared to provide air forbidden to speak. During the tist Convention are likely to be pastors have been anxiously wait transportation round trip for morning the pastor was told to ing for the · "Southern Baptist comparable m o r e to a camping groups from any point in the na come to the office of the presi trip than a luxury vacation. Program of Evangelism.'' Dr. C. E. tion to the meeting of the Con dimt. or to say it another way, the Matthews, director of Evangelism vention in Oklahoma City. He "After he left his wife told us under the Home Mission Board, is 10,000 messengers expected at the said his flights give luxury trans that last time he had been called session will necessarily be more in the editor, but the manuscript was portation at a discount over reg to the president he had not re thoroughly studied by the general terested in carrying on the Lord's ular airlines rates plus the added turned, that is, not for fifty-four business than in · relaxing in a secretaries and directors of evan convenience of schedules and trav days. When he did return at the choice hotel suite. I gelism in all the Southern states. eling companions particularly fit end of that time he was almost Dr. Duke K. McCall, just back This b o o k is practical in its ted to the customer. starved from having received only in his office from a hurried trip to teachings as it gives detailed plans Mr. Lincoln invited prospective a half glass of water and a very Oklahoma City, host to the 1949 for evangelism in the local church, flight organizers to write him at small piece of bread each day. Can Convention sessions, had lots of the association, the state, and the Aero Travel Club, 6031 Good you imagine the state of our praise to members of the enter throughout the entire Southern win Ave., tainment committee. They're do- Dallas 6. minds? I was certainly fearful for Baptist Convention. Any pastor ourselves, but I thought that if ing marvelously, he said. But the ·and church who follows the sug anything happened to the pastor truth remains that there'll be a gested plans of the book cannot Baptist Relief Packages I did not see how I would be able tremendous shortage of hetel help but experience larger results Reach Yugoslavia to stand it. - rooms. in evangelism. · "After what seemed an unend On one side of th.e ledger is a Information reaching Baptist re The most important feature of ing period of time the pastor re stack of reservation requests. They lief agencies in the United States the book, especially at this partic stand, pressed down, two feet. and reveals that relief packages ad turned from his questioning by the ular time in Arkansas, is the em seven inches tall. They ask for 6,- dressed to Anton Balog in Yugo police. His poor little wife was phasis it gives to Associational 200 rooms. slavia have been reaching needy practically shattered. Simultaneous Revivals. The type On the other side of the ledger families within the Russian area "It was with relief, for them of organization and the plan of is the fact that Oklahoma City is of Europe. and us too, that we started on our promotion and publicity are out not overly blessed with hotels, and After many indications had way to the next place that after lined and explained in detail. it will be a marvel if hotel mana- come that American parcels sent noon. we traveled by wagon and Those who will be participating in , gers are able to find as many as behind the Iron Curtain endan some distance f r o m the village Associational Simultaneous Reviv 1,000 rooms for Baptist messen gered the lives of addressees, this were to cross the river by ferry. als would do well to secure this gers. information was welcomed. The Here we had an unanticipated book at once and master it thor parcels should be sent to Anto~ difficulty. Two detectives asked to oughly. It would be well for the Little Rock Church Sends Balog, Brace Ribnikara 41, Nov: see our passports and then told us Monthly Workers Conference pro Collection To Missions ~ad Yugoslavia. They should be that they had been ordered by the gram to be built around the con village president to make us stay A check for $40,000 for foreign ma;ked "Gift-Pavlon-G. L. V.," tents of this book. there until further word from missions has been received in and no remark should be made Next to the Bible, this book is him. By then it was right on the Nashville f r om the Executive about need or requests for help. destined to become the most valu verge of darkness. Board of the Arkansas Baptist able asset to every pastor 'in the "We seated ourselves on a log Convention- the result of a spec evangelistic program. Missionary "Behind the Iron to wait; we didn't know how long ial offering at First Church, Lit Order from the Baptist Book Curtain" Testifies That ,God or for what. The lay preacher with tle Rock. store, 303 -305 West Capitol Ave Answers Prayer il~ kept saying over and over again News of the church's marvelous nue, Little Rock. one-day ingathering of $50,000 in A Southern Baptist missionary that we surely would be put in prison. I kept praying and whist cash and pledges already has couple behind the Iron Curtain in sister, Mrs. E. L. Harling, in De ling- as I had during the morn swept the nation. It was a superb Europe is grateful for answered catur. Dr. James W. Middleton, ing wait. I can't account for the demonstration of what a single prayer. pastor of the First Baptist Church, tune, which both times was 'Ring congregation can do. Officials at the Baptist Foreign Atlanta, will officiate. The check for $40,000 gave con Mission Board h e r e declined to the Bells of Heaven.' The ferry crete demonstration of the gifts, give names or location because of made its last usual trip of the and Pastor R. C. Campbell ex possible dangers to Baptist work day. After an hour and a half we The Place Where Arkansas plained that another $10,000 will described, but they did make public were told that we could go ahead People Meet be forthcoming as soon as pledges the basic content of the letter and cross, and that the ferry was ROSS AVENUE are paid. ·telling the story. to make a special trip to carry us BAPTIST CHURCH as we had missed it through no Sending the check to the South "When The Commission arrived, Ross and Moser fault of our own. ern Baptist Convention Executive we noticed t h a t you had been "And so, although * * * did not HOMER B. REYNOLDS, Pastor Committee for forwarding to the praying for us and we recall that Foreign Mission Board, Dr. B. L. get to speak in the village, we feel on that designated day we had your prayers saved a pastor from Bridges, Arkansas Baptists' mis been saved from the greatest dan sion secretary and himself a mem possible imprisonment and made Mary Haroin-Baylor ger that came on our· recent tour," possible for us a boat trip across ber of the contributing church, wrote the~ woman, speaking of her a river which separated us from Accredited Senior Liberal Arts Col said: "Our church is a better husband ai;J.d herself. lege for Girls. Provides a program of an ignorant and unscrupulous of educational, cultural, physical, and church, we are all better members, "The president Department of The Ouachita Million Dollar Campaign Goes On MISSIONS These Churches Have Caused the C. W. CaJ!;lweU, Superintendent Mercury to Rise March 10-25 (inclusive) 300 Church Association Rogers, First ______Benton County SUPERINTENDENT WRITES TO PASTORS Harrison, First ______Boone-Carroll Daniels Chapel ______:______Delta Dear Brother Pastor: Piney ______Central I Dardanelle ______Dardanelle-Russell ville 270 We are approaching the golden harvest time fo r evan gelism in our state. Six more months and we will write up our record as to the number of people won to Christ and Pine~:!~e: Bluff -=-~~=~~, Second·--=--- -~______---~~-==-__~~_~_~______~~~-~~--~--=-~~ Ha-~~~~~~rmony baptized in the churches during this associational year. Fort Smith, First ______Concord What that record will be ·will largely depend upon the soul West Batesville ------~------Independence winning efforts put forth during these weeks and m~nt h s van Buren ______Clear Creek 240 Hot Springs, First ______Central just ahead. Of course the pastors cannot do this task a lone. You England ------~------Caroline south Side ______Harmony cannot contact every person and do all the soul winning, Bentonville ______c_ ____.Benton County but you can and should kindle the evangelistic flames. If Mexican Mission ------Hope lost souls are not being saved in your church, let me ask, Ashdown ______Little River 210 Have you prayed about it ? Prayed all night? A pastor Arkadelphia, Second ______Red River told recently about having six conversions one Sunday Forrest City ______Tri-County night, but stated that he had prayed m,ost all of Saturday White Oak ______Boone-Carroll night. Hot Springs, Second ______central Do you have a list of the lost people in your town or Monticello, First ______B artholomew community for whom you pray daily? Have you gone to searcy ------White County 180 Beech Street, Gurdon ______Red River them face to face and pled with them to become Christians? Have you laid the cause of lost souls on t he h,earts of Osceola ------Mississippi County Bauxite ______..______Central your church leaders and helped them to become soul w in Knoxville ______Dardanelle-Russell ville ners? Do they have the names of lost people ? Have you taught them how to present the plan of salvation and lead Beirne ------Red River 150 (Expenses are pretty severe in this stepped people to an acceptance of Christ ? Does your church have up, high-pressure push in the Campaign. Ex a regular day each week for visitation in the interest of penses are to be deducted from the figures-> soul winning ? An affirmative answer to the above questions means Monticello, First Church, enlarges its that you and your church are reaching unsaved people. But quota. Dr. Whitington and his staff had 120 there are other ways in which you and your church can asked all churches for certain amounts. help reap the white harvest fields in Arkansas. Pastor Washington writes that they have Have you thought about the possibilities in extension increased their quota by $1,000. Glorious, revivals ? Yes, you will have your regular revivals, but thank you, Brother Washington. why not plan some extra meetings- tent or open-air re First Church, North Little Rock, paid vivals in neglected areas of the town, or down the highway in full and erected a much needed audi 90 or maybe far out in the country in a school house ? Make torium. If First, North Little Rock, could plans now for several such revivals during the summer. do that, couldn't other churches do the Most likely you will reach more people for Christ through . s ~ame? such mission revivals than those conducted in your church The First Church, Corning, paid its full house. Harness your workers up for such a task and lead quota and erected a building from the them in several extra revivals. They will get a thrill out ground ana ashes. If it could do this, of it! couldn't- other churches also? Another place for evangelism is. in the weak, strug Second Baptist, Little Rock, is paying gling rural churches. Pastors, missionaries, and Associa its full quota and has erected the most tional Boards should see to it that every church has t he commodious Sunday School building we privilege of a revival during the year. Some of the churches ever saw. If. it could pay its quota 'and are pastorless and practically dead. They will not call for ' build, couldn't your church also? help. Unless someone goes to t hem in the right spirit t hey will not have a revival. Somehow they must be heped. A HAVE YOU CAUGHT THE revival will bring them to life. Plan together in your as sociation to have a rev1ival in every church and pray earn VISION ? 00 estly for conversions in all of them. Reports are already coming in of great sweeping re -Send all money to: vivals in all sections of Arkansas. This will be another -record year. Then in 1950. when all our churches join in B. L. BRIDGES, Director simultaneous revivals. we will see the beginning of a great Ouachita Campaign spiritual awakening for which we have prayed and longed for. 403 West Capitol C W. CALDWELL. LITTLE ltOCK, UKANSAS MONEY ON HAND I \PRIL 7. 1949 PAGE FIFTEEN order that this powerful teacher Jesus asks of those who will have Jesus' Pe,rean Ministry and healer might touch them even · life in His name. as He had touched so many in By MRs. RoLAND LEATII Jesus and True Greatness Sunday School Lesson for need of His help and blessing. You will not find "Perea" or This is a beautiful picture of our In the· episode of the coming of 'Perean" in the Bible material, April 10, 1949 Lord, surrounded by boys and the rich young man we find that mt this latter portion of our girls. All parents should earnest Jesus teaches the" strange doc :..ord's ministry is _called the Per nfark 10:1-16; 35-40 ly desire that their children might trine that "many that are first shall be last; and the last first." ~an ministry because it was car be in touch with Jesus. :ied on "in the coasts of Judea Almyra, Centennial Association, has paid al it agreed to pay. This is a heroic church witl Should the testimonies of thirty-eight men for a limited way by planning ·for a reduced a progressive pastor, D. 0. Stuckey. We hav be convincing that it is wise to prepare for the annuity upon retiring. The amount of reduc a feeling that they will take a new start an before the year is out pay all that Dr. Whit closing years of a minister's life by providing tion remains for her use in case of the mem ington requested. for regular monthly payments to be mailed to ber's death. The Widow's Supplemental An you in the form of annuity checks? Among nuity Plan is the answer to the plea of many these men you will find stalwart soldiers of of our Southern Baptist pastors and is really the cross, men who have been faithful in term insurance, being operative for one year Dr. Ramsey Says It Should Be preaching the word of God and shepherding at a time-January to January. Completed the different flocks entrusted to their care during the active years of their ministry. There are many reasons why the milliOI dollar campaign for Ouachita College shoul< When you rea