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Vera Lovins Sarali Covington w.c.u.N.r. Baptist Hospital Devotional VMce-President Baptist Student Prompter

Dewey Hobbs Wake Forest President

Ed Smith Julian Motley Campbell College N. C. State Enlistment Vice-President Music Leader

Frances Thompson Don Shropshire Anne Shearin Meredith College U.N.C. E.C.T.C. Social Vice-PriBsident Publicity Director Secretary-Ti-easurer

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TO WHOM WILL YOU GIVE ALL? TO THE FRESHMEN FROM THE By R. T. HowEKTON, Jr. STATE B.S.U. PRESIDENT Former State Student Secretary Deae New Sttjdent : More thau a casual glance at your o\Yn Here it is—the beginning of another school to you, if have eyes to life will disclose you year again and thus time to think seriously see, that there is some central loyalty in about those bui'dens which students gener- life that determines your decisions and your ally call books. You are probably quite ex- it is "the identify actions. Maybe gang" you cited over beginning college work, and your your.self with, "our crowd." Maybe, in war- dreams of the day when you could be in- time, it is America, or the American Way, cluded under the esteemed title of "college that to you. per- whatever may mean Or student" have come true. You have been it is just self, with chance your your own put through programs intended to orient you emotional pleasure rated as the thing most to college life, but you probably have found to be desired. Plenty of variet.v in the idol that with all this you must learn it the hard market, plenty of gods, and all of us seem to way. ^lave either a god, or God. To what or to You have heard B.S.U. mentioned, and whom are you devoting everything? perhaps it is just another part of the gen- Nazi youth were tripped into worshipping eral confusion. But we who have been iu the god of race supremacy in a totalitarian Baptist Student Union work feel that its state. This god of race, powerful though he aims and purposes are very clear ; and if you while demanding all, cannot give all. He fs, will but stop a moment and think with us, t-annot give peace of conscience, or the good you, too, will see them just as clearly. will of God and man. Ultimately, he de- Miss Virginia Overman stroys his worshippers, for example, Ger- The term, "B.S.U.," is new to you but the many. Japan, Rome. activities included in it are not. We simply give opportunity continue American youth are asked, especially in you an to in FORMER CAMPBELL STUDENT Christian work. We attempt through B.S.U. time of war. to worship the great god, Free- SECRETARY AT NEW POST to form that link between you and your local doin. Freedom also demands all, is a better church. It won't take you long to become Miss Virginia Overman, former Baptist god than the Nazi god, but even Freedom is inadequate. For, after bestowing the boons adjusted to your new surroundings and dif- Student Secretary at Campbell, is now serv- ferent schedule, and as you do pray that of liberty, he lacks the power to tell you what we ing as Director of Education at the First Christ will be supreme in your life. you are free for. He is self-interested, hence Baptist Church of Raleigh. Miss Overman self-centered, hence doomed. Wishing for you the very best in your col- assumed her present duties in early summer, lege career, I am There is another God, the God of Christ. and when asked by The Reveille for a state- Sincerely yours, Like the others. He demands all, even self- ment, she responded sacrifice. Unlilve all, Dewey Hobbs. the others, He can give "When I left Campbell last spring I was fis well. "The poor iu spirit, theirs is the reasonably certain that I was not leaving Kingdom . . . the meek . . . they shall inherit FRESHMEN-TRANSFER PARTY student work. Now, after four months in tb*?-J earth . . . I came that je might have Raleigh's First Baptist Church, I am posi- Boisterous laughter, polite chuckles, and |u.fe' . . . abundantly." more Here is a cause tive that I am a Student Secretary in a silly giggles rolled forth from the basement ;for which to live, die. is a cause and Here church which is home for many college stu- of PuUen Memorial Baptist Church Friday that goes bej'ond "our crowd," "our nation," dents. evening, October 11. The freshmen "our race." Here is the cause of all men and transfer students of State and Meredith col- "My ofiicial title is that of Young People's Ijecause it is the cause of God. To whom leges party. Billie Director, and so most of my work is with will you give your all? were having a While Miss groups below the adult departments. In the Reprinted from "B Seeing V." Meredith Ruth Currin and Miss Elizabeth Murray summer I enjoyed learning and working College B.S.U. publication. worked frantically in the kitchen to get ready something that would wash down the pea- with our local people home from college, the local group who have graduated and are MARS HILL RETREAT SUCCES nuts and cookies, a program of let's-let-our- hair-down-and-get-acquainted proceeded employed here, and with the young people The members of the B.S.U. Council, headed under the direction of Alton Wilson and Miss from all over the country who are living by Pat Murphy, did a thorough job during Fran Thompson. here after finishing school. Our highlight the hectic opening days of the school term First on the program was a Mixer-Upper, was the Sunday night discussion group, pre- in assisting incoming students, in the ori- which thoroughly confused everyone and ceded by a light meal prepared by our girls. entation program, and in making every one kept them running frantically from one per- "With the fall came more than two hun- happy in general. son to another. This was followed by a two- dred college people for our Sunday school The group came to the campus on August second period in which every one introduced and nearly 150 for our B.T.U. 29 for a three-day retreat. time, During this himself to everyone else. The central por- "One week's memorandum, though not ac- plans for that first and for important week tion of the program was the soul-stirring complishments, could include visits to the the entire year were formulated. ideas New tragedy of frustrated love, "The Fatal hospitals to see and enroll the new babies for the enlistment work given and a were Quest," by Anonymous, presented by talented or to visit other patients, the helping to plan plan for visitation explained. In the work- actors and actresses called from the audi- a B.T.U. oi>ening assembly program, the con- shop period afternoon, posters, informa- each ence. Miss Fran Thompson lightened the tacting of mothers who help to plan and Ition for the students, orientation mate- new mood of the audience with a spirited song serve our light refreshments on Sunday 'rials, and identification tags for all students fest. nights for our Junior and Intermediate and for organization representatives were Finally came the refreshments. Misses Cur- B.T.U. 'ers. preparations for a student made. Inspirational speeches testi- and rin and Murray having finished their con- party on the social hour after church on monies were wisely scattered throughout the coction. Everyone gorged himself on punch, Sunday night, a speech in a W.M.S. Circle retreat. peanuts, cookies and sandwiches and then or a Sunday school opening worship pro- welcoming and assisting of stu- The new trudged slowly home to books and the more gram, letters and/or visits to prospective dents went off much more smoothly this year mundane things of life. members. Y.W.A. meeting, leadership con- at Mars Hill, and credit is given here to the ferences, etc.. etc. careful and inclusive planning done at the izing the students with Mars Hill. One "Some of our immediate plans in my field retreat and to the general willingness of all period was set aside in which the visit or- are the establishing in B.T.U. of a forum to be of help. Freshmen were met in Ashe- ganizations were explained to the new stu- once each month to be led by outstanding ville at the bus and train stations, brought dents. people in our city in their particular field. to the campus, registered for B.S.U., directed On two nights of the first week, informal In October our younger people in the W.M.U. or shown to their rooms, and made to feel social hours were sponsored by the B.S.U. organizations presented a Stewardship Night welcome after they arrived there. A com- for the entertainment of all. The climax of program, and in November we are planning mittee of boys performed a much-needed the week's program was the bi-annual Get- a Coronation Service. In the spring will duty in taking care of baggage as it arrived. Acquainted Reception on Saturday '"g. The Council had a part also in familiar- Blanche "" (See Page 3, Col. 1) s; : —

u., November, 1946 THE REVEILLE Page Three ALL OUT FOR THE CONVENTION

N. C. STATE PRESCHOOL RIDGECREST SUMMER PLANNING BIG EVENT—NOVEMBER 1-3, FIRST RETREAT CONFERENCE HELD CHURCH, DURHAM

September 23-24 the Baptist Student On August 26. at Ridgecrest, the Carolina Welcome to the B.S.U. Convention. Union Council held a Pre-school Retreat at joined hands for a four-day planning confer- We know you are expecting greater results ence of B.S.U. presidents, council repi-e- Crabtree Creek State Park for the purpose this year than ever before. We can't tell sentatives, and state officers from the two of planning the year's ' activities at State you everything awaiting you at the Conven- sister states. John Ryberg, South Carolina College. The theme of the meeting was tion, but we can promise that what there State President, and Ed. Smith, North Caro- "Workers Together With Him." Those at- is to offer will meet your expectations. lina State Vice-President, presided over the tending the Retreat were Tommy Garrison, At 2 :30 o'clock, on the afternoon of No- Conference which consisted of a program of Smith, vember 1st, Baptist students from all over John Martin, Alton Wilson, Ed. Leon instruction, inspiration, and fellowship. the state will meet in the E^irst Baptist Coulter. Bill Garrett, Bruce Stinson, Leon- The meeting was opened by The Rev. R. Church of Durham, where Rev. J. Winston ard Morgan, Jr., Craig Stone. Dick Duncan, T. Howerton, our State Student Secretary, Pearce is pastor. Registration will then take and Bob Lasater, the new Baptist Student who led the group in "Re-Thinking the Pur- place. Coffee and doughnuts will be served Secretary for State College. The B.S.U. poses of B.S.U." Each state held separate to perk up those tired travelers. Following Council of Carolina was also holding a sep- meetings for planning, and Miss Jenny Lind registration a program "chock full" of spirit- Gatlin, Southwide Associate B.S.U. Secre- arate Retreat at Cral)tree Creek at tlie same uality will be climaxed by the keynote ad- tary, guided the total group in thinking time, and so joint fellowships were planned. dress, "To Live is Christ," by Rev. Charles about "The President's Enlistment Oppor- The Retreat program began with a devo- A. Maddry, pastor of the First Baptist tunities. tion by This followed by a Church of Wilmington. Forums will be con- Ed. Smith. was Worship services were in charge of Miss ducted on the following subjects by able and discussion of problems facing the B.S.U. Sara Moses, W.C.U.N.C, and Wheeler Chap- consecrated leaders Council at State. After lunch the organi- man, The Citadel, with Rev. Harold Cole, How to Think About the Bible—Dr. Claude zation with which the Council could best Clemson, South Carolina, and Rev. W. C. U. Broach. meet the needs of the Baptist students of Link, Jr., Maiden, North Carolina, bringing State was discussed. The middle of the the inspirational messages. Living an Effective Witness—Rev. W. C. Link, afternoon was reserved for swimming in the Two interstate parties were given under Jr. lake. In a session before supijer several of the direction of the social vice-president from Baptist Principles and History—Dr. San- each state. Another social function was the Blanton. the officers presented their plans for the key Lee baseball game Wednesday afternoon when ye,ir"s activities. The Need of the World for Missionaries the strong team of Palmettoes defeated by Dr. George W. Sadler. ' X picnic supper with representatives of one run the small but determined group of The Answer to Racial Problems—Dr. Wen- K.ileigh Baptist churches initiated the eve- Tar Heels. dell C. Somerville. ning i)rogram, during which these represen- Othei' Conference highlights were the dis- It's to easy to defeide wh"!tTi tative.s related the plans their churches had cussions of the Rev. Maxie Collins, Pied- not going be forum you will want to attend, is it? Other made to insure adequate religious activities mont, South Carolina, on "The Application outstanding personalities appearing on the fur State students. Following these i-eports of Christian Principles," and the messages program are Rev. Roy Clifford and Rev. War- a song fest was held. The evening program on "Christian Witnessing" by Dr. Carl M. ren Carr. was concluded with worship led by Ed. Townsend, Raleigh, North Carolina, and The In addition to our speakers, there will be Smith. Aev. Robert H. Ayers, South Carolina State Student Secretary. special music rendered by the Wake Forest Highlights of the late evening were a visit Virginia Highfill. Glee Club, under the direction of Mr. Thane with the Carolina B.S.U. Council and the McDonald, and by the Campbell College A capture of a flying squirrel found in one of Capella Chorus, directed by Mr. H. Caleb the cabins. The squirrel was placed in a N. C. STATE STUDENT SECRETARY Gushing. closet for safekeeping during the night, On August 19 Roberts C. Lasater assumed more to say, but space Is where unknowingly he avenged his imprison- There is much his duties as Student Secretary of State Col- limited. You will And out twice this much ment by keeping his captors awake most of lege, bringing to seven the number of full- there. Until then, see you at the night by scampering among coat-hangei's after you get time secretaries in North Carolina. the Convention! M. S. and trying to gnaw his way out. The next Bob is a native of Durham, although for morning the little i-ascal escaped from the nine years he lived in Gastonia, where in container in which he had been placed while 1936 he finished high school. For four years his captors were in swimming. then he labored (he says) in the American The second morning of the Retreat the Tobacco Company in Durham. Then he went Carolina Council State group was host to the to Wake Forest College. for breakfast. The morning program con- At Wake Forest, Bob was a member of sisted of a devotion and reports from other Eta Sigma Phi, honorary classical language officers on their plans for the year. fraternity ; president of Delta Kappa Alpha, At lunch the State Council was the guest honorary ministerial fraternity ; president of of the Carolina Council. The afternoon ses- Euzelian Literary Society ; columnist for sion began with a worship period and con- 016, Gold and Black, the weekly news sheet cluded with a discussion of special projects member of the Student Council and of the

for the immediate future. B.S.U. Council ; assistant in library work Dick Duncan. and assistant and instructor in the English Department. In his spare time he studied FORMER CAMPBELL STUDENT somewhat, and so in his senior year he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary (From Page 2, Col. 3) scholastic fraternity. In August, 1943, hav- come the redoubled evangelistic effort when ing rushed through college as rapidly as he we have special classes for our young people could after the war started, he graduated who desire church membership. with the Bachelor of Arts degree, sumnia laiide. "So closely akin is this delightful new cum field in our church to B.S.U. that I haven't Then followed five nice restful weeks in which he did nothing but catch up on his once ceased to plan to take in at least a >-^i*,*A^^ part of the B.S.U. Convention in Durham. sleeping: and courting. Remembering his B Seeing U there." (See Page 4, Col. 3) Bob Las.\ter !

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adopted "grandmothers" and "aunts !" Let- N. C. STATE STUDENT SECRETARY ters were exchanged also between the ladies ^^^ Keveille (From Page 3. Col. 2) and the girls, which made dusty mail boxes, calling in time, however, he set out for the Published monthly by the Student Division, both at Meredith and St. Luke's Home, much Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Baptist State Convention of Nortli Cai-olina. more interesting. three Ice cream likewise brings memories of the Louisville, where he spent the next years. the Bob worked party that B.S.U. sponsored for new stu- While at Seminary State Officers for Louisville of dents at the beginning of that period of the Council Churches. He Don Spiropsiiire, U.N.C. his to Christian laymen Editor warmer months. Everyone seemed to enjoy says job was get interested in working with public insti- Office Sccretari/ Mrs. Mildred Stuart the games as well as the ice cream to the and tutions, such as prisons, hospitals, and child 107% W. Hargett fullest. In other socials, as well as helping care agencies. spent one in a to maintain the game room, B.S.U. co-oper- He summer Publicity Directors ated with the Student Government Associa- special course in pastoral counseling under the direction of a regular hospital chapla:in. Sally Gwynn Meadows. Baptist Hospital tion, which proved to be extremely suc- In his senior year he himself served as Bap- Grace Tucker A.S.T.C., Boone cessful. tist Chaplain in the Louisville General Ho.s- -*^BRnE M'ACON Bridoe.s Campbell Of course, there were more serious activi- pital. In May of this year he was given ties sponsored by the B.S.U. These were Marjorie Thomas E.C.T.C. the Bachelor of Divinity degree. He was Vespers and Family Altar which, among Speedy Hollie E.M.I. ordained in Louisville in July. ngs;, brought the students into c u. t Gardner- DuPREE Lancaster Webb contact with several missionaries. Being a proper theological student, he went to Training Union his first Sunday in Louis- Blanche Willis Mars Hill Sunday school and church attendance was ville and kept going back until in Novem- Nancy Resch Meredith encouraged by post cards reminding stu- ber. 1944, during exam week, the girl mar- Josephine Burnett Pembroke dents of the times for service and of their ried him just to get rid of him. Her name welcome in any local church. Results of all Dick Duncan State was Harriet Ratcliffe. He says she earned this were clearly shown when it was ob- Wilhelmina Rish Wake Forest him a good living while he was in the Semi- served that church attendance was better nary. They have no children. Clara Jean Cook W.C.U.N.C. than in previous summer sessions. At present Bob is concentrating his activi- Robert (Jiles U.N.C. Students were given another opportunity ties at State College and with the other sec- to help others through the offering for World Local Student Secretaries retaries helping to carry on the work of the Relief. A box was placed in the "Bee Hive," Billie Currin. Meredith College State Student Department. In the future he Miss Ruth a popular meeting place on campus, to re- plans to expand his work to include the busi- Rev. J. C. Herrix U.N.C. mind all that in spite of abundance here, ness and nursing schools of Raleigh and Miss Sara Moses W.C.U.N.C. there are people starving in so many places some of the colleges which do not at present over this great world. Rev. Roberts C. Lasater N. C. State have B.S.LT. activities. In all of its activities the Baptist Student Miss Mary Livermore Pembroke Luck to you, Bob Union, as always, tried earnestly and hum- Miss Daphne Penny Baptist Hospital bly to include those things that lead to more abundant living. ACTIVE SUMMER B.S.U. Meredith B.S.U. Council.

"Be still and know that I am God." With this thonght the Mere(iith students left the Chapel Hill's B.S.U. has provided for stu- final Vesper service of the summer sessions. dents interned in the University Infirmary Plan NOW to Participate in "That service was certainly an inspiration." a table model radio which is being used in "Never have I been in a more reverent wor- the ward rooms. This gift was the first of ship servi<;e." were some of the comments its sort to be offered to the University iiy of the students. However, to some of us, any religious organization. Student Night at it meant that B.S.U. had once more tried to students grow into appre- help the a deeper Dr. E. McG. Hedgpeth. the official univer- Christmas ciation of the Spirit of Christ. sity ph.vsician, sent a letter of appreciation In other activities during the summer, such to the B.S.U. thanking them for their kind as the visits to Saint Luke's, a well-known consideration and thoughtfulness. The Dailii home for aged women in Raleigh, the Bap- Tar Hill also thanked the B.S.U. by publish- In Your Home Church! tist Student Union had attempted to help ing in the form of an editorial a "Note of other students find that same spirit. How Gratitude." much fun all the girls had as they sang old songs and ate ice cream and talked to their Kccj) iloiiuj unto others. «A 7^e l^cueUCe

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February, 1948 Vol. IX, No. 4 NORTH CAROLINA B.S.U. PUBLICATION

N. C. CHURCHES HOLD "STUDENT NIGHTS" Focus Week News Holds Spotlight For Coming Month Churches Observe "Sfudent * Night" Many of our churches observed "Student -t'. Night'* on December 28.

n.\j uiic j.Ai.00 v^Ait** v^i..., iji.^A*«^i ^^-. . ----. program was broadcast for an hour over Station WHKP, and there was a large atten- dance. The following students took part: Jim Hammond and Ted Reese, Wake Forest Col- lege; Hunter Heggie, Miss Ann Osborne, Uni- versity of N. C; Miss Nancy Walker, Meredith College; Miss Doris Edmundson, Berea Col- lege; Miss Louise Beck, Western Carolina Teachers College; Allen Brown, Mars Hill College; Miss Elizabeth Brown, School of Music, New York; Miss Dixie Hollowell. Fur- man University. .'^ College Park Church, Greensboro, had a program in which the following students took part: Lawrence Weaver, U.N.C.; Rebecca Pickard, Julliard School of Music, New York; Martha Talley, Lora Gallagher, W.C.U.N.C; John Boles, Guilford College; C. B. Talley, Wake Forest; Bert Bailey, N. C. State. Student Night was also observed at Garner DR. J. GLENN BLACKBURN REV. WARREN CARR Church with the following students ' on the Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn has recently come program: Miss Jane McDaniel and Miss Dor- Rev. Warren Carr, pastor of Watts Street to Wake Forest as pastor of the local church othy Helms, Meredith College; Miss Margaret Baptist Church in Durham, is one of the and chaplain of Wake Forest College. Perry, Duke University; Louis Lugo, N. C. most popular pastors in North Carolina for Dr. Blackburn received his B.A. Degree at State College; Wilbur Lee prince, U.N.C. Not Focus Week programs. Before Christmas, he Wake Forest in 1935; he received his Th.M. able to be present were four other students was on the program at A.S.T.C, and is now and Ph.D. degrees at our Southern Baptist from Garner: Miss Sarah Willie Collier, scheduled to be at Meredith and W.C. during Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, Watts Hospital School of Nursing; Miss the month of February. in 1938 and 1941, respectively. For three years Clevatis Jones, Rex Hospital School of Nurs- he was associated with the department of Stancil, N. C. State College; ing; Hadley Focus Week At Meredith Theology at Louisville and held various pas- Gerald Coats, Wake Forest College. Life" will be the torates in Kentucky whne a student at the Those who took part in the Student Night "Religion at Work in of Religious Focus Week which will Seminary. For the past nearly seven years service at Glen Alpine Church, W. L. Mc- theme Meredith College the week of Dr. Blackburn has served as pastor of the Swain, pastor, were: Thaburn L. McSwain, be held at 15-20. This theme will be carried First Baptist Church in Lumberton, North ministerial student and junior at Wake Forest February various speakers during chapel, Carolina. College; John Edward Giles, U.N.C; Ben out by the Vespers, evening worship We heartily welcome Dr. Blackburn to White, Jack Williams, and Howard Williams, classroom visitation. services, and seminars. The student chairman Wake Forest. all of Wake Forest; Glen Muncy, William Week is Marjorie Wilson. (She is a Jewell College; Leonard Morgan, Jr., student of Focus distinguished columnist for The Reveille). at N. C. State and publicity director of the Mars Hill News speakers who will become a part of the State B.S.U. and editor of the REVEILLE. The Meredith community for the week are Dr. Mars Hill. — As a result of the Baptist He told of the origin and work of the south- Heaton of the Meyers Park Baptist Training Union Study Courses taught at wide organization from its inception in 1922. George N. C; the Reverend Mars Hill College November 10-17, a total of (Selected from January 14 issue Church in Charlotte, of the Takoma Park Bap- 310 students will receive awards. Biblical Recorder) Herbert Baucom D. the Rever- The classes were conducted during the reg- tist Church in Washington, C; Street Baptist ular college chapel hour. Eight books were end Warren Carr of the Watts taught by the following faculty members: Interdenominational Church in Durham, N. C; the Reverend J. C. the Deepening the Spiritual Life by Gaines Dob- Herrin, Baptist Student Chaplain at Religious Emphasis Week Carolina; Mrs. R. H. bins, teacher, Dr. Ella J. Pierce; Vital Prob- University of North York, former Student lems in Christian Living by J. M. Price, An interdenominational Religious Emphasis Edwin Espy of New of Cham- teacher. Dean R. M. Lee; Alcohol the De- Week was held at Appalachian State Teach- Secretary here; Mrs. Avery Lee Ray, stroyer by Aubrey Hearn, teacher, L. M. Out- ers' College in Boone, North Carolina, Decem- paign, Illinois; the Reverend Jimmie Secretary; and ten; The March of Missions by Inabelle G. ber 8-12. Reverend Warren T. Carr, pastor North Carolina State Student of Coleman, teacher, Lucille Sawyer; Invest- of the Watts Street Baptist Church of Dur- Dr. Arnold Nash, head of the Department Religion at University of North Carolina. (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 2) Page Two THE REVEILLE February, 1948 B REVARD B.S.U. LEADERS COMMENTS

To begin with, I'd like to give some recogni- tion where it is very well deserved. Just before Christmas, both of the "back page" writers were honored on their individual campuses. Marjorie Wilson was one of the two girls elected to the Silver Shield from the Junior Class at Meredith. The Silver Shield is the honorary leadership society at Meredith and membership is one of the highest honors at Meredith. Marjorie is also in charge of the plans for the annual Focus Week for this year. Not to be outdone by Miss Wilson, Mr. Stapleton got himself elected to the com- panion organization at Wake Forest, namely, O.D.K. Tommy also put his name in lights by being elected to Who's Who in American Colleges. Congratulations to both of you, keep up the good work. While we are on the subject of what has been done by different people, we might say that in the secretary's meeting in Nashville, just before Christmas, The Reveille was pre- sented by Dr. Leavell as one of the two best State papers in the South. We can all take a bow on that. In traveling around the country during the The infant B.S.U. organization in the State is at Brevard College. After receiving some Christmas vacation, we found many cases needed nourishment at the State Convention, the organization is showing steady growth, where The Reveille has been distributed in a and hopes to be a full-grown youngster at least by the opening of school in September, 1948. very fine way. At the same time we found Directing the progress of the group is the council shown above. Front row, left to right, are some places where it is not being sent out at Inez Elledge, treasurer, of North Wilkesboro; Glenna Higgins, publicity director, also of all. To those that are doing such a fine job, North Wilkesboro; and Ramona Bagwell of Asheville, social vice-president. Back row. Gene you. To the others, how about try- we thank Naylor, of Dunn, president; Lyle McConnell, of Hayesville, devotional vice-president; ing a little harder to do better with the Everett Carr, of Dunn, membership vice-president; and Harold Spurrier of Gastonia, of the paper. distribution music director. Carolyn Hawkins of Brevard, recording secretary, and one who has been Under a new set-up, the deadline for any one of the guiding hands in the founding of the B.S.U. at Brevard, was unable to be the 15th of each month. news is going to be present when the picture was taken. How about having some news from your campus in next month's Reveille. The address Baptist- is 119 Hillsboro St., Raleigh, N. C. The Student Pastor's Night Banquet Thanks to Frances Alexander, Meredith, I have grown up in a Baptist home and in Every year around Christmas time, the for the article, "The Baptist Student." a Baptist church. I am the Baptist Student. B.S.U. Council of the Woman's College of the —L.L.M. I have been taught lessons of love and of University of North Carolina gives a banquet righteousness that will be guide stones for for the pastors of the council members. This my life through many years to come. Christ Pastor's Night Banquet is held not only for Religious Emphasis Week Jesus has been established as a firm founda- fun and fellowship, but also to acquaint the (Continued from page 1) tion for my life, and on his teachings have I home church pastor with our B.S.U. its ob- ham, was the guest speaker. built my faith. — jectives and accomplishments and with the The services were held each morning dur- With an eye toward the future I have left — student who represents his church her B.S.U. ing the chapel period, and each evening in behind my home and my home church to be- — activities and her ability to aid in the func- the college auditorium. Mr. Carr's theme for come a disciple, a learner, now seeking fur- tion of her home church, with the emphasis the morning services was "God's Will at a ther to strengthen my mind and spirit in being placed on the "Student Night at Time Like This," and his daily topics were preparation for whatever task the future Christmas" program. "If I Had But One Prayer," "The Intelligent holds for me. Use of Belligerence," "The Sin of Playing for I am the Baptist Student, and I have found Plans for this event are made far in ad- the Breaks," "What Force Can I Trust?" and in the course of my studying a need for vance to assure its success. At our fall retreat, "The Power of Pretense." His theme for the constant touch with God and my church. the plans for every phase of the evening are completed. evening services was "Looking at Personality." My life is busy, occupied with books, and Each year we select a different The subjects of each service were "What is laboratories, conferences, and friends. theme which is carried out in the invitations, Personality?" What Makes Us Fall Apart?" The Baptists have established a median progress, place-cards, table decorations, en- "Unattractiveness Is So Natural," and "The through which it is possible for me to link tertainment, and even in the menu; an ex- Christian Personality." my religion with my college life, that the one ample of this being a candle salad made of These services were sponsored by the re- might be a helpmeet for the other. lettuce, half of a banana standing in center of a slice of pineapple ligious groups of the campus: The Baptist This median is the Baptist Student Union. with a cherry on top, to carry out our Christmas theme. Student Union, the Wesley Fellowship, the It is through B.S.U. that my spiritual Westminster Fellowship, the Lutheran Young growth is directed. About fifty students, pastors, and advisors People Association, the Canterbury Club, It is through B.S.U. that I am able to de- attended the banquet this year which was the Young Women's Christian Association, velop those needs of Christian living that held on the night of December 4 in the First and the Young Men's Christian Association. you of my home church have already deeply Baptist Church of Greensboro. After an in- The services were well attended by the stu- embedded within me. teresting and informative program and open dents, faculty, and townspeople, and they I am eager to grow, eager to learn, eager discussion, all adjourned to the dining room, proved to be inspirational and uplifting to to become. I am the youth. where we enjoyed a banquet indeed, with a everyone who took the opportunity to attend. I am the Baptist Student, seeking a future musical background. This was followed by the This program, the first of its kind ever to be even more victorious than the past, seeking singing of Christmas carols, and afterwards held in Boone, was very successful and will to know the truth that my life be of the a short trip to the student house where the most likely become an annual event. greatest service to my world and my God. evening was ended. February, 1948 THE REVEILLE Page Three

Religious Focus Week Plans THE B.S.U. FROM THE MOUNTAINS WAKE FOREST.—Elwood Orr, president of the Baptist Student Union at Wake Forest College, and his committees have worked closely with the student body, the faculty, and %-^ Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn, the new pastor and student chaplain at Wake Forest, in form- ulating intricate plans for a very thorough Religious Focus Week to be held on Wake Forest Campus beginning Sunday morning February 1, and continuing through Sunday evening, February 8. They have selected as their theme, "Christ in Campus Living." The carefully chosen team is as follows: Dr. Sankley L. Blanton, Department of Religion, Wake Forest College. Miss Marjorie Moore, Editor of Commission, Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Ralph Herring, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N. C. Dr. C. C. Warren, pastor of First Baptist Church in Charlotte, N. C. Rev. Jack Neilson, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Greenville, N. C. Dr. Perry Crouch, pastor of First Baptist Church in Asheville, N. C. Mrs. E. L. Hillman, Market Street, Wil- mington, N. C. Dr. V. Ward Barr, pastor of First Baptist Church in Gastonia, N. C. Rev. James C. Cammack, pastor of First t'lioto by l'Brooks, pastor of Earl Street Baptist Left to right, back row: Colman Hanson, Editor of B.S.U. Paper; Laura Martin, Secretary; Church, Greenville, South Carolina. Jennie Lind Gatlin, Southwide Student Worker; Marjorie Toole, Student Secretary; Fay These team members will conduct chapel, Sides, Educational Director. Front row: Zola Grey Dixon, Devotional Vice-President; Jack classroom lectures, conferences, and open Sherwood, Extension Director; Doris Cline, President; Grace Joyce, Training Union forums in the dormitories each evening. Representative; Juanita Grant, Social Chairman; and Mr. Herman Eggers, Faculty Adviser.

WOMAN'S COLLEGE.—February 23-27 will services but had helped to arrange them. be observed as Focus Week on the campus at Saddie Hawkins Hamburger W.C.U.N.C., Greensboro. Reverend Warren Tonight he had ridden in from the University in the cold, dark rain on a bicycle to make Carr will be guest speaker for this week. The Feast a profession of faith and get peace in his theme to be followed throughout the week is, heart. after read God's word and Appalachian men-folks breathed a sigh of "The Sufficiency of Christ," with the subjects And we had relief after the would-be "Daisy-Mae's" of being "For the Individual," "For the Family," prayed asking for forgiveness and he had the B.S.U. had invited them to the Sadie "For the Community," "For the Nation," and taken Jesus as his Savious, he had peace. He went with to a meeting held for car- Hawkins Hamburger Feast. It was a unique "For the World." Informal discussions will us we our experience to the "Mountain Williams" to be be in the dormitories each night. penters and masons working on house and there testified to them of the peace that wall flowers until some bashful girl asked We solicit the earnest prayers of all you could be theirs." them to the party. As this was the outstand- students for all Focus Weeks over the South- ing social and cultural event of the season land. Reverend Hudson McMillan says: all wore their best plaid shirts and some even "The doors for the Gospel are wide open wore shoes. Friends of the Yokum family everywhere. The Chinese people had hoped Echoes About Chinese Baptist generously entertained the company. One of for rest and peace at the conclusion of the the most amusing features of the evening was Students World War; instead they are caught in a state the singing and reporting of Dogpatch gossip Letters from two Southern Baptist Mission- of civil war that is bankrupting the country by Minnie Pearl (Lou Davis). Juanita Grant, aries in China have been received in the last and throwing the minds of the people into a the social chairman, startled some of the few days. The following excerpts indicate the state of confusion and insecurity. This disillu- hidden talent of these hills into the limelight response which students there are giving to sionment is causing them to turn to Christ for as she called upon several to perform "Im- the appeals for Christian profession and hope and salvation. The students are turn- promtply." Mammy Yokum and the women- Christian living made by our Missionaries. ing to Christ by the hundreds. Nearly 400 folks served the vittles hamburgers and pre- Reverend Oz Quick says: students accepted Christ this fall from the — sarved turnips. "Our greatest opportunity for work since schools here on the compound. In the Sing coming here has been with students. There is Ming primary school a meeting was held re- The honor guest for the evening was Miss a Medical College in the city and Kwangsi cently and over 100 came to Christ. More Jenny Lind Gatlin, one of our Southwide University, which is divided into sections, is than 40 were baptized into this church last Student Workers from Nashville, Tennessee. near enough to be reached by bicycle and Sunday and others are to be baptized to- Jenny Lind spoke to the group in such a way bus. We have had opportunities to preach morrow. Eighteen were baptized in the Bing that she nor her message will soon be for- and teach Bible in the University and so far Hwo Jao church a few weeks ago without gotten. She reminded us of the students in have been able to enter two middle schools. any special meetings at all, two of whom the war-torn lands of the world and of how These are all either private or government were professors in a government school. I desperately they need to share in our abun- and this opportunity is one we did not have heard this morning of a Baptist church in dance. She challeneged us to give not only before nor can we be assured of having it the neighboring province where 95 were re- our castoff clothing but to give such as we later. We must use it now. ceived by baptism last Sunday. This is true ourselves would like to receive. Mr. Herman "In a mixture of English and Chinese all over China." Eggers, our Faculty Adviser, closed our Feast languages we have talked with many stud- Reverend Oz and Mary Quick are supported with a Prayer of Thanksgiving. ents. A few of them are really seeking God. entirely by the Hayes Barton Baptist Church, Tonight after starting this letter we heard a Raleigh, N. C. Their address is: 56 Lok Kwan supported entirely by the First Baptist knock at our door. It was a student from Road, Kweilin, Kwangsi, China. Church, Raleigh, N. C. Their address is: Bap- Kwangsi University. He not only had been to Reverend and Mrs. Hudson McMillan are tist Mission, Soochow, China. -

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7^e Common Sense For College Horse Sense For College Men '^c(AeCUe Girls BY TOMMY STAPLETON The editor of this paper has never told me BY MARJORIE WILSON exactly what he wants this column to Published monthly by the Student Division, be. Since I do have the liberty of making it what Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. The Lull Before the Storm!!! I choose, I would like to have a heart to First let me offer congratulations to those heart talk with any who read this section. Editor Leonard L. Morgan, Jr. people who are fortunate enough to go to I have become increasinly alarmed over State College school that run on the quarter system, be- people who take advantage of their Christ- Office Secretary Mrs. Clairene Keith cause your exams are over for a while. You ianity for selfish purposes. I have seen some 119 Hillsboro Street can enjoy life and basketball games and people absolve their duties by saying, "I skating parties while those of us who still haven't felt the Lord's guiding in doing it." Publicity Directors have those "things" to look forward to, stay He probably was not listening closely enough Juanita Grant A.S.T.C. at home and write term papers and study. to the Lord. I know of others who take the Jeanne Hollowell Baptist Hospital That's O.K., we have exams only twice a liberty of their Christian association to make Bob Williamson Catawba year. other people's business their own. Nothing is Edward Jenkins Campbell Congratulations are also in store for my obnoxious Lottie Murphy E.C.T.C. so to the average person as to have fellow columnist to the right. We girls would Newton R. N. Hardin Gardner Webb some "dear Christian friend" tell him how to like to take our hats off to a new member of Audrey Hanes Mars Hill live his life and solve his problems. Especially Forest. Would you ever Judy Powers Meredith the O.D.K. at Wake is this true when the "dear Christian friend" he could do it by reading his column? Avery Brock State guess is one who has made no appreciable amount gossip that Tommy Stapleton Wake Forest Nothing has happened to about of progress in the solution of his own prob- Marvin Owenby Lenoir-Rhyne Reveille. the editor would let me put in the lems. Some Christians do not realize that one Ann Parker W.C.U.N.C. The unexpected is always happening like it of Jesus' primary demands on an individual Ralph Williams Wingate usually does, so if the unexpected always Carlee M. Chavis Pembroke is common decency! It is an abomination is news, happens, then the unexpected not unto the Lord to hide our weaknesses under Student Secretaries so therefore, I will not mention the unex- a cloak of righteousness. How do you think I did that things were popping Miss Carolyn Moseley W.C.U.N.C. pected. hear it looks to a person who is not a Christian? Edith Baptist Hospital in the last week-end in De- Miss Arrington Roanoke, Va. Then, too, there is something else that we Miss Gloria Blanton E.C.T.C. getting cember. Seems that there was some in the Christian church need to learn. We Rev. John Chandler Duke University together to talk about old and new times store up resentments and hate toward other Miss BllUe Ruth Currin Meredith when Tommy Stapieton irom Wake i-'orest people and toward other attitudes in such a Rev. J. C. Herrin U.N.C. and Dub Lane former Mars Hillian, now at Rev. Robert C. Lasater State way as to crush our inner spirit. Get some the University of Richmond, spent a few days Miss Marjorie Toole A.S.T.C. things off your chest! Cuss a little if you Ellis, Hillian, Rev. Claude White Campbell with Neal also a former Mars have to! Just don't let it get away with you. College, now at Roanoke and Walton Con- This is far better than two people holding Presidents nelly, a graduate of Mars Hill and University grudges against each other because of differ- Doris Cline A.S.T.C. of Richmond now at the Seminary in Louis- ences. Bring these differences out and reveal Pauline Watts Baptist Hospital ville. Big time was had no doubt! the real answer. not Max Whitley Catawba Does Jesus compel one Warren Turner Campbell That reminds me that I heard of someone to be honest as well as forgiving? Grace Butler E.C.T.C. else who was roaming around during the Now let us stand and close with the Paul H. Comer Gardner-Webb vacation period. Our editor made a quick Eskimos' national anthem, "Freeze a Jolly Howard C. Knight Mars Hill trip to Washington, D. C. to see some of the Good Fellow." Meredith Gloria Mayer sights up there, but the most important thing Thomas R. Garrison State Elwood Orr Wake Forest that happened was that he found somebody Mars Hill News Minnie Taylor Lenoir-Rhyne up there who read the Reveille. He also in- (Continued from page 1) Mary Ruth Bodenheimer W.C.U.N.C. ments in Christian Living by William G. cluded in his round Charlotte, Asheville, and John Davis Wingate Rigell, teacher, Ramon De Shazo; The People Glen Alpine the town where they had a Earl Cummings Pembroke — Called Baptist by George W. McDanien, tea- Harry McGee Duke forest fire down Main Street! cher V. E. Wood; Building a Christian Home Vivian Parks U.N.C. My common sense is very limited, but need by Martha Leavell, teacher, J. A. McLeod; Sarah Humphrey Flora Macdonald Church Music by I. E. Reynolds, teacher, Lt. A. D. McArthur E.M.I. I say more than it's Leap Year ! I I You take Gene Naylor Brevard Edith Bugg. it from there—but be careful. Page Daniel Salem David Edens of Sumter, South Carolina, is P.S. tip to the girls kissed on the Forest L. Davidson A. & T. 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Vol. IX, No. 5 NORTH CAROLINA B.S.U. PUBLICATION March, 1948

STUDENT SECRETARIES HOLD MID-YEAR CONFERENCE FRANCIS BARBOUR TO ATTEND SPRING RETREAT

College Park Host- To Retreat Mid-Year Planning Conference

The College Park Baptist Church, Greens- On January 29 and 30 all Student Secre- boro, North Carolina, will entertain the taries and part of the State officers met at sessions of the Spring Retreat on April 23 the Student House at Woman's College, and 24. The session will open at the evening Greensboro, North Carolina, to make reports hour with a banquet for all in attendance. and formulate plans for Spring Retreat and The session will close early enough on Satur- the summer Assembly programs at Seaside day afternoon to enable students to return and Ridgecrest. The following suggestions to their campuses before closing hours. were made by way of recommendation to the Miss Frances Barbour, Associate Baptist State officers and will be passed upon at Student Union from the Nashville office, will Spring Retreat. be present and take part on the Spring Re- 1. That State officers be elected at the treat program. The following week she will Fall Convention rather than at Spring assist the State Secretary in making a survey These Student Secretaries and State officers Retreat. of Business schools and colleges in the in- attended Mid-Year Planning Conference. 2. Nominating committee to recommend terest of Baptist students. Roberts C. Lasater, State College; Edith Ar- State officers be composed of one repre- Attendance at the Spring Retreat is re- rington. Baptist Hospital; John Chandler, sentative from each campus, appointed jstricted to include all newly elected council Duke; Billie Ruth Currin, Meredith College; by the council, and the Student Secre- members, state officers. Student Secretaries, Gloria Blanton, E.C.T.C; Carolyn Moseley, taries. and a few retiring council members. This is Woman's College; Marjorie Toole, A.S.T.C; 3. That the policy of collecting state dues for discontinued done because of limited accommodations J. C. Herrin, U.N.C.; Louvene Jordan, State from B.S.U. councils be students and because the primary purpose officer, Meredith College; and Jimmie Ray, after this year. of the Retreat is to thoroughly train new State Secretary. The meeting was held in the Meals for all attending the Planning Con- council members for their positions. It is lounge of the newly redecorated Student ference were served by Miss Carolyn Moseley tremendously important that all newly elect- House at Woman's College. in the Student House. The Conference ad- ed Council members be present at this meet- journed at noon Friday. In winding their ing. Some important matters of business will ways home the Student Secretaries en- he transacted, including the election of state STUDENT CENTER AT U.N.C. countered many difficulties incident to ice, officers. snow, and slick roads. The bus schedules Each campus is requested to elect new Since the Baptist State Convention met at were cancelled, stranding Miss Marjorie council members after thorough study, care- Winston-Salem in November, plans have Toole, Secretary at A.S.T.C, at North Wilkes- ful consideration, and serious prayer. The been progressing to guarantee the building boro. Only thirty miles from home, she was State Office requests that a list of the new of an adequate Baptist Student Center at compelled to remain until Monday when council members be submitted as soon as the Chapel Hill. The State Convention appointed transportation schedules were restored. For .election has been held. a committee to work with Mr. J. C. Herrin, the same reasons Miss Gloria Blanton spent Student Chaplain, in securing a lot ideally the weekend in Kinston, only twenty-five located opposite the Baptist Church, at the miles from Greenville, where she serves as HAWAII IS CALLING cost of $35,000. A lease with option to buy Student Secretary at E.C.T.C. has been obtained. The building now on this Mr. William Hall Preston reports that the property yields a very handsome rental in- Baptist leaders of Hawaii are asking for come. CHRISTIAN YOUTH TEAMS seven young men and five young women to the through Tisit Hawaii and conduct Vacation Bible At a luncheon meeting of committee Beginning June 20 and running of Schools and assist the Missionaries in various appointed by the State Convention, which August 20, the State Student Department capacities during the summer months. A Mr. Grover Jones, High Point, is Chairman, will make available Youth Teams to churches number of students made a mission tour held at Carolina Inn on February 6, Mr. of North Carolina. A team is composed of responsibility them- into Hawaii during last summer. North Caro- Herrin was delegated with the college students who have surrendered sufficient funds to purchase the lot. Christian service. The lina is eligible to recommend one student of raising selves for full-time in will begin on to be included in the twelve who will make With considerable funds already hand the schedule for each engagement will the tour this summer. Missionary Volunteers Baptist alumni of the University of North Sunday and close on Friday night. It only are eligible for this appointment. North Carolina under the leadership of Mr. Herrin include such features as the worship and of the $35,000. The discussions, visita- 'Carolina's student applicant is ready to go. will raise the remainder preaching hours, group will not be requested to church inviting the $600.00 is required to pay travel expenses State Convention tion, and fellowship. The for the purpose of and travel .and maintenance of this student. It is nec- make an appropriation teams will furnish entertainment essary that these funds be raised by Baptist buying this site. expense while the Student Department will .students in North Carolina. The Hawaii The 2,000 Baptist students at Carolina pay an honorarium for the week. might mission tour was originated by students and covet the interest and prayers of all North If you think your pastor and church these teams, supported by students. In a few weeks per- Carolina students as they champion the cause be interested in inviting one of to select a haps the B.S.U. council on your campus will of B.S.U. and as they pioneer in the matter please contact them, asking them information at 'launch a campaign for raising funds to sup- of building a Student Center second to none date and inquire for further Hills- port our missionary student. Let us support in the Southern Baptist Convention in its this office. Baptist Student Union, 119 Carolina. this mission tour with our prayers and money. location, its adequacy, and its beauty. boro Street, Raleigh, North k Page Two THE REVEILLE March, 1948 c M COMMENTS o A

For several years the Student Department M Y of North Carolina has been publishing a E newspaper, the name of which is The Reveille. How it got its name seems to be a big puzzle 31 to everyone—even the editor. The name has no immediate connection with the contents T and should be changed. The Baptist Book Store publishes a booklet with the same name, O T adding more confusion to the picture. The time to change the name will be at the Spring O Retreat in Greensboro on April, 24th. All of S you put a little thought on the subject so it E can be discussed at that time. J Other schools in the South had better sit A up and take notice of things that are going U this year. The building on in North Carolina S program at Carolina is about tops in any N thing of its type. When they get to their goal, I they'll have something that all students in E North Carolina can point to with pride. State D College has been offered some land on a fu- lake site outside of Raleigh on which ture just E -j^ 6 they plan to build a place for retreats and other B.S.U. activities. State's B.S.U. also puts Aerial View of Seaside Assembly out one of the best campus papers in the South. With Seaside, Fruitland, and Ridge- SUMMER STUDENT ASSEMBLIES crest all in North Carolina we have one of the best summer programs of any state. Also the SEASIDE ASSEMBLY, MAY 31-JUNE 6 5. Any and all students particularly inter- Convention offers summer work in the Sun- North Carolina students will be the first ested in a B.S.U. week at the beach. day School, Training Union, Associational to enjoy the facilities of a new Baptist As- For rates and reservations write Reverend. Missions, and Student Department. Those sembly opening on May 31 at Fort Fisher, R. K. Redwine, Director, Seaside Baptist this type of work should write who want to do twenty-five miles from Wilmington. Assembly, Carolina Beach, North Carolina.. either Mr. M. A. Huggins at 119 Hillsboro St., The rates are approximately $15.00 per week. A program is being planned that will attract or the head of the department in which you Come one, come all, to the new Seaside Bap- and be most constructive to the three or four would like to work. tist Assembly! The number from any campus, hundred Baptist students in attendance. The Always ready to brag on our column writ- is unlimited. following groups of students will be especially ers, we would like to say one other word interested in availing themselves of this new RIDGECREST B.S.U. WEEK, 9-16 about Marjorie Wilson. Last Friday she was JUNE camp. elected president of the Meredith B.S.U. for North Carolina quota for student week at. next year. Student life in this state must be 1. Students employed by the departments Ridgecrest is 175. Effort is being made to plenty dull; at least that is what the mail of the State Convention. reserve a number of privately owned cottages would indicate. —L.L.M. 2. Students who have summer employment in order to increase accommodations for beginning early in June. North Carolina students. SEASIDE 3. Students expecting to enroll in the first Registration will be $1.50 with no "tipping" session of summer schools. the staff. Registration fee must accompany May 31 to June 6—B.S.U. Week 4. Students who cannot be admitted in the reservation. Reservations are acceptable be- Sunday School Conference North Carolina quota at Ridgecrest. ginning March 1 through May 15. June 7 to June 13—Pastor's Conference June 14 to June 20—Bible Conference Visual Aids Workshop RIDGECREST FRUITLAND June 21 to June 28—Women's Missionary June 1 to June 8—Home Mission Conference June 7 to June 13—Training Union Society Camp *June 9 to June 16—B.S.U. Week Conference Business Woman's Circle June 17 to June 23—Southwide YWA Camp June 14 to June 20—Brotherhood Week YWA Week-end June 24 to June 30—Sunday School June 21 to June 28—Junior R.A. Camp June 28 to July 4—Brotherhood Conference Conference June 28 to July 5—Intermediate R.A. Camp July 5 to July 11 —Evangelistic Conference July 1 to July 7—Sunday School Conference July 5 to July 12—Woman's Miss. Society July 12 to July 18—Christian Home Con- July 8 to July 14—Training Union Week Business Women's Circle ference July 15 to July 21 —Training Union Week YWA Week-end July 19 to July 26—Intermediate R.A. Camp July 22 to July 28—Training Union Week July 12 to July 19—Intermediate G.A. Camp July 26 to Aug. 2—Mission Week July 29 to Aug. 5—WMU Conference July 19 to July 26—Intermediate G.A. Camp Youngs Men's Missions Business Women's Circle July 26 to Aug. 1 —Evangelistic Conference Conference Aug. 5 to Aug. 11 —Foreign Mission Aug. 2 to Aug. 8—Sunday School Conference Aug. 2 to Aug. 8—Training Union Conference Conference Aug. 9 to Aug. 16—Mission Week Aug. 9 to Aug. 16—Intermediate G.A. Camp Brotherhood Conference Young Men's Miss. Confer.. Aug. 16 to Aug. 23—Intermediate G.A. Camp Young Men's Mission Aug. 16 to Aug. 22—Christian Home Week Aug. 23 to Aug. 29—Preaching Week Conference Aug. 23 to Aug. 29—Preaching Week Editorial Conference B.S.U. Pre-School Retreat. Rates and Reservations: Aug. 12 to Aug. 18—Leadership Conference Write Rev. R. K. Redwine, Director Aug. 10 to Aug. 29—Bible Conference Rates and Reservations: Seaside Baptist Assembly Write Rev. B. G. Henry, Director Carolina Beach, North Carolina Fruitland Baptist Assembly *Reservations for B.S.U. Week: Hendersonville, North Carolina Reservations: Write Mr. James W. Ray, State Secretary Reservations: Reserve space as early as possible. A regis- 119 Hillsboro Street Reserve space as early as possible. A regis- tration fee of $1.00 is required for each Raleigh, North Carolina tration fee of $1.00 is required for each per- person. (Enclose registration fee of $1.50 each.) son. March, 1948 THE REVEILLE Page Three NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST STUDENTS ATTEND FRONCON Three Colleges Represented some inspiration for achievements in the At Lawrence, Kansas future. The second was Rev. David Burgess, industrial chaplain in South Carolina. He Froncon -|- Rousing Pilgrimage ^ B.S.U. spoke on the opportunities and the challeng- Challenge -j- Hilarious Trip ing needs which exist among the industrial workers and reminded us of our We four vagabonds (Mary Ruth Boden- consistent failures in the field. Since we Baptists pre- lieimer and Ann Parker from W.C., and Ray dominate in North and South Carolina Gilbert and Bob Lasater from State) looked we felt keenly both his challenges and his cen- forward to a bleak and treacherous trip as sures. He was followed by a third speaker we slipped and slid out of the icy, snow- who captured the interest of the entire audi- bound South on Christmas Day in answer to ence. Rev. James Robinson, pastor of Har- the "call of the West." The "call" was for lem's Church of the Master. His caustic sa- participants for the North American Student tire, penetrating insights, excellent delivery Conference on Christian Frontiers, better Small groups of people got together just like and humble Christian spirit combined to known as Froncon. this at the Conference to have a good discus- send us from laughter at our absurdities to Our adventurous spirits rose with the ther- sion, or bull-session. They were called Mincon shame and guilt at our shortcomings. mometer, and our beginning anxiety was groups—an idea for Spring Retreat or the After a worship service we disbanded for transformed into gaiety and daring as we Convention. Fireside Chats, mission and vocational mo- slowed our pace (if 70 M.P.H. can be called vies, plays, social activities, or any one of a pace) in the middle of a Missouri highway The morning worship was followed by a several other programs which had been plan- to ask carload of Virginians if a they were "Panel of Experts" the leadership of under ned for us. The Fireside Chats proved by far Kansas bound, too. Our Froncon fellowship Dr. Roswell Barnes. This panel consisted of the most popular, and it became a common had its beginning our when they confirmed real in-the-flesh experts in the fields of mis- practice to sit in discussion of vital Christian guess. sions and vocations. It was in these periods matters until far into the night. On December 27 we pulled into balmy that learned most world missions. we about Along with this full program were all the Lawrence, Kansas. That evening we four short, short, in Next was a too period which other appealing features of a large student tired, sleepy forms flopped on the back row discussed "Biblical Mr. Fay Campbell the conference. We had our private bull sessions of the auditorium and slept blissfully through Basis for Missions." on individual problems, fellowship with those the welcome which was extended by Helen point The high of the day's activities was of other races, nationalities, and denomina- Philip Williams, Burton, Canada, and U.S.A., probably the Mincon discussions. The new tions. We made new friends, picked up new co-chairmen of the conference. We were told word comes from MINiature CONference. ideas, and shared new experiences. later that the first half of the opening ad- These groups were composed of about fifteen But, you ask, did the conference make any dress by Hon. Walter H. on "Giving the Judd students and a leader. The discussions for contribution to your thinking? The answer is Frontiers the Once-over," which slept we the most part were carried on by the students Yes. It made many. For one thing, it gave through also, was equally as good as the last while the leaders stood by to assist when us some new ideas about student conferences half, which we awoke and heard. they were needed. In these intimate groups as such. This conference was largely student- The next day we were rested and the we talked about things in which the group nearly conference controlled. In every instance the got into full motion. Also on the as whole interested, a was such as the leadership made an honest effort to meet the second day "Operations Arctic," a snowbound ecumenical movement. Communism, Christ- students train requests of the —and those requests from New York arrived. This group, ian responsibility, racism. and were many. It was well-organized and well- plus a few other late registrants, brought our The afternoon program was varied from planned. Information was easily and attrac- number to 1,836 persons, who were represent- day to day; however, there were three events tively distributed. It was interracial and ing 35 denominations from all over America which will stand out in our memory. On two inter-cultural. In the second place, it gave and from many foreign countries. of the afternoons the Northern and Southern us a greater confidence in the future, for in The theme of the conference, "Christian Baptists met together for fellowship and dis- almost every instance the students were Frontiers," was developed throughout the cussion. On one of these Dr. Kenneth Scott spiritually ahead of the leaders. They showed week. The primary emphasis was upon the Latourette, perhaps the world's foremost a vitality which had not been anticipated need of the world for the Christian gospel Baptist scholar, spoke to us about one of the even by those who had the finger on the and the many doors both in our country and characteristics which have distinguished pulse of this student generation. Finally, it abroad which are open for evangelization. Baptists through the centuries. That is, they gave us a new vision of the worldwide task The plan of the program was both com- have preached the gospel to the poor. He of Christianity and of the unity and coop- plicated and comprehensive, and it ran from feel made us very proud and very humble. eration which is characterizing the accom- early in the morning (7:45) until late at night On another afternoon we had vocational plishment of that task. We have hope for (between 11:00 and 1:00). There were two seminars on almost all the fields of interest the future and confidence that this college worship periods a day, morning and evening. represented at the conference. Since three generation can make it great. of our group were not planning for full-time —Bodie, Tug, Ray, Bob. Christian work, this period of work was of special interest to us. On yet a third after- noon we met in groups devoted to study of the various mission fields of the world. We were able to learn something of the work that is being done by the other denomina- tions and a little about the fields in which we Southern Baptists have no workers. The evening program opened with a song fest, and we traditional Southerners were able to learn some of the pep songs and choruses from Canada and other parts of America. Mary Ruth had a special interest in this field. Following this period would be These four people represented the B.S.U.'s of one or two addresses on various phases of State and W.C, in the Kansas meeting. Seat- Christian service. This is a meeting of the Baptists during the ed as usual, we have Ray Gilbert, Ann Parker Three speakers stand out in our minds. The Conference. Seated on the extreme left are (who took all these pictures i. Reverend Bob first was Dr. John R. Mott, for in him we Drs. Latourette and Marshall, and sitting Lasater, and last, but by all means not least, were able to see something of the achieve- with her back to the camera is Marjorie Mary Ruth Bodenheimer. ment of missions in the past and to gain Moore, Editor of the COMMISSION. — —

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BY MARJORIE WILSON SHE ASKED ME HOW I KNEW Published monthly by the Student Division, OUR TRUE LOVE WAS TRUE. February 14, 1948—St. Valentine's Day . . . Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. I, OF COURSE, REPLIED, Quite a significant day in some people's lives. SOMETHING HERE INSIDE— Roses, candy, cards all seem to indicate that Ooops ! Indigestion ! I Editor Leonard L. Morgan, Jr. it is quite a day. When I got to thinking about It's a funny thing, but there must be some State College it I got an inspiration to write about some- close connection between love and digestion. thing that I think needs to be written about. Secretary Mrs. Clairene Keith Every time that gal smiles at me, I can eat Office If I were to list the main reason why girls' it both- 119 Hillsboro Street grades take a drop, or why they don't get sauer kraut and frankfurters without ering let frown her lily- out of certain courses what they should, me. But just a crowd white brow, and I get violent pains from a heading the top of the list, and ranking glass of juice. they try to tell Publicity Directors high above any other reason, would be men! tomato And me this is a materialistic universe. And really, it is so foolish to waste precious Jeanne HoUowell Baptist Hospital Studying surely can have a bad effect on Glenna Higgins Brevard time when you could be learning all about Bob Williamson Catawba Educational Psychology or Chaucer, just try- people. One of the boys struggling through. Edward Jenkins Campbell ing to figure out the latest man you dated. Latin just remarked, "When the Lord calls Lottie Murphy E.C.T.C. The biggest objection is that he probably isn't me, I hope he calls in English!" Another sit- Pantha Bullock Flora Macdonald worth the time you spend thinking about ting nearby, struggling through a poetic Newton R. N. Hardin Gardner Webb him. translation of Geothe's FAUST, made the Audrey Hanes Mars Hill Can you take men with a grain of salt? Can further suggestion that He call in prose. Judy Powers Meredith you treat them as they treat you? The most Then a third, wading through the beauty of Carlee M. Chavis Pembroke Spenser's FAERIE QUEENE, insisted that it Avery Brock State dangerous man is the one who is smooth, in English. fools these mor- Bill Koehnline U.N.C. charming, unpredictable. His personality is be modern What Tommy Stapleton Wake Forest very captivating; he is fun to be with, fun tals be! Marvin Owenby Lenoir-Rhyne to talk to—but don't be fooled by the shiny I ought to thank my fellow columnist for Ann Parker W.C.U.N.C. coat of polish. Does he love to leave you at the publicity she gave me in the last issue Ralph Williams Wingate night feeling very uncertain as he says, "See of this scandal sheet, but I don't like pub- Annie Duke Wheless W.C.T.C. ya!" or "I'll call you." He does this deliberate- licity. It builds me up like something I ain't, ly so he can be sure you will wait anxiously try where Presidents and then I gotta to get up there to see if the phone is for you every time it everybody thinks I is. Please let me live with Doris Cline A.S.T.C. rings. And then he waits about two weeks to only my song, my Lawd, and my gal, and I'll Pauline Watts Baptist Hospital call you. You see, he keeps stepping back be happy. (P.S. Thanks, Marge. Your check Max Whitley Catawba and letting the girl come forward until in is its Warren Turner Campbell on way.) Grace Butler E.C.T.C. her eagerness, she falls! You fellows who read this column be sure Paul H. Comer Gardner-Webb Your man is terribly unpredictable. You to get your reservation in for Student Week Howard C. Knight Mars Hill never know what he'll do or say the next at Seaside. The new assembly grounds at Gloria Meredith Mayer time that he sees you, in fact, he may not Port Fisher below Carolina Beach will open Thomas R. Garrison State speak at all. He simply loves to be non- May 31 for a full summer schedule. Student Elwood Orr Wake Forest chalant about the whole matter. concensus is first the schedule: 31 to Minnie Taylor Lenoir-Rhyne A Week on May June Mary Ruth Bodenheimer W.C.U.N.C. on the matter agrees that all men are alike 6. Student Week at Ridgecrest: June 9-16. John Davis Wingate that they are the most impossible, the most One of the weeks is a must for your schedule. Virginia Gallimore W.C.T.C. peculiar humans in the world. I think any As I write this column, it is snowing out- Earl Cummings Pembroke girl is wise to leave them alone. (But who side, but I can't say anything about it, be- Harry McGee Duke wants to be wise?) SO cause by the time this paper goes to press, Vivian Parks U.N.C. What's the use of wonderin' it will be Spring, and all the snow will be Sarah Humphrey Flora Macdonald If he's good or if he's bad; gone, and you will think that I am way up Lt. A. D. McArthur E.M.L Gene Naylor Brevard You'll go ahead and take the fall North some where, where it snows all the Page Daniel Salem And even say you're glad! time, but I am really just here at Wake Forest L. Davidson A. & T. (This is "free verse"; anybody that wants it Forest, the Garden Spot of the South. Merry A. Filmore Shaw can have it.) You 'uns come, and bring the little 'uns. l^c 1^c

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Vol. IX, No. 6 NORTH CAROLINA B.S.U. PUBLICATION April, 1948

A.S.T.C. Honoring The MARS HILL HOLDS ANNUAL YOUTH REVIVAL Home Church Pastor "We are dedicating this issue of the TRAIL (our B.S.U. paper) to all of our home town pastors who have done such a good job of training and leading our students spiritually to cope with the ways of life when they first go into the world on their own." This is a portion of the editorial by Coleman Hanson as he and his staff at Appalachian slanted a paper to honor and interest the pastors back home. The pastor of the college church in Boone: Dr. W. G. Bond, was asked to write an article, and also the pastor of one of our active B.S.U.'ers, Reverend Joseph Folds of the Central Baptist Chiu-ch of Spruce Pines, was requested to write of the value of B.S.U. as he had seen it through his experience in a home church. We are hoping to hear from some of the pastors as they receive copies of our paper and trust that B.S.U. may be better understood as a result.

Scotty Cowan To Lead R.I.L. Week At State College The Protestant Religious Council has an- noimced that plans are rapidly being com- pleted for Religion in Life Week, which will campus from April 11 through be held on the The above picture was taken during the week of the youth revival at Mars Hill College, April 14. The leading speakers have been February 29 - March 7. The foreground shows Eugene Paden who led the singing, Reiji committees are now invited, and the various Hoshizaki who preached alternately vdth Charles Mashburn, and Howard Knight, pres- being formed. ident of the Baptist Student Union at the college. Leading the worship services will be Rev- erend T. B. Cowan of Lexington, Kentucky, who has led successful Religious Emphasis Seminary Team In Revival Religious Emphasis Week Weeks on State campus in previous years. youth revival held each spring AtW.C.U.N.C. Conducting Seminars for the various schools The annual at Mars Hill College was conducted February will be the following: for Agriculture, Mr. Religious Emphasis Week opened on the 29-March 7 by the students of the college Arthur Raper, U. S. Department of Agricul- Woman's College campus on the afternoon assisted by three students from the Southern ture, Washington, D. C; for Engineering, of February 23, with a tea in the Student Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. W. G. VanNote, Head of Engineering Re- House. At this informal gathering the stu- The visiting speakers, Reiji Hoshizaki of search, State College; for Textiles, Mr. Wil- dents and their speaker for the week. Re- Illinois, who is a mission volunteer to his liam McLaurin, former Secretary, Textiles verend Warren Carr of Watts Street Baptist home land, Japan, spoke alternately each Mani:ifacturing Association. In addition to Church, in Durham, had a chance to become evening with Charles Mashburn of Alabama. these Reverend Warren Carr, pastor of Watts acquainted. Eugene Paden of California, an experienced Street Baptist Church, Durham, North Caro- An evening worship service was held each song leader, had charge of the song services. lina, will lead a seminar on "The Christian night throughout the week, carrying out the The evangelistic team has conducted youth Faith," and Reverend Howard Wilkerson, theme "The Sufficiency of Christ" for the in- revivals in Kentucky and throughout the pastor of Haywood Street Methodist Church, dividual, for the family, for the community, South. Asheville, North Carolina, will deliver a series for the nation, and for the world. After the Dr. Hoyt Blackwell, president of the college, of messages in the Vetville "Y". worship service the council members met conducted the first revival service Sunday Dr. Roy Anderson, Director of Student Per- with Mr. Carr for a few minutes to talk over morning, February 29, at the regular preach- sonnel, will head the Faculty Discussion the happenings of the day and to make any ing hour in the Mars Hill Baptist Church. Committee. plans that seemed necessary. Two students, a girl and a boy, had charge Dorm devotions were held after the even- of the chapel services in the church and with a different dorm serving as University of North Carolina auditorium each day during the week. A ing service, host each night for two or three other dorms The Baptist Student Union of the Uni- youth choir composed of the students par- that were closest to it. On the afternoon fol- versity of North Carolina closed its winter ticipated in the services each evening. lowing each of these devotions the evening quarter's work with a very impressive mus- The theme for the week was "Christ for before, the same dorm groups met for open ical program on March 7, 1948. This program Me." The messages were well received and discussions of any subject the students wish- included the singing of many favorite Hymns will be of lasting benefit to the students. ed to bring up. and the giving of the history of these well- During the week, 99 students rededicated imtil 6:00 stu- loved Hymns. Taking part in the program their lives, 55 volunteered to do full time Every afternoon from 4:30 drop by the Student House to were Milton Bliss, Betsy Huggins, Riman religious work, and 14 made professions of dents would Muth, and Gertrude Osborne. faith. talk informally with Mr. Carr and the other were there. The B.S.U. Council at Carolina is in the Audrey Hanes students who midst of electing new officers for next year. Corresponding Secretary Ann Parker, Reporter Page Two THE REVEILLE April, 1948

B.S.U. Reorganized At W.C.T.C. B. S. U. COUNCIL AT W. C. T. C.

On February 1, the Baptist students at Western Carolina Teachers' College, Cullo- whee, North Carolina, reorganized, electing the following students to membership of the B.S.U. council: Virginia Gallimore, President Paul Monroe, First Vice-President Bonnie Stroupe, Second Vice-President Harry Duke, Third Vice-President Thelma Ramsey, Secretary Howard Barnwell, Treasurer Dukie Wheless, Publicity Director Kathleen Moss, Sunday School Representa- tive Nellie Runyan, Training Union Represent- ative and Y.W.A. Representative Most of these officers have been active in B.S.U. work on other campuses and are qualified to direct the work at W.C.T.C. in a marvelous way. Under the guidance of Reverend Mark Osborne, pastor advisor, and Miss Davis, faculty advisor, we shall expect great things from them.

The above are the members of the newly organized B.S.U. council at W.C.T.C. Left to right Meredith B.S.U. Entertains they are: Kathleen Moss, Hayesville; Ruth Hooper, CuUowhee; Annie Duke Wheless, Louisburg; Harry Duke, Andover, Massachusetts; Virginia Gallimore, Greenville, South Duke B.S.U. Carolina; Howard Barnwell, Black Mountain; Nellie Runyan, Shelby; Paul Monroe, The Meredith College B.S.U. Executive Eagle Springs; and Velma Ramsey, Hendersonville. Council entertained the Executive Council B.S.U. in the Hut on of Duke University's Salem Highlights Cullowhee Baptist Choir To Meredith Campus, Saturday night, March 13. In Among those who were invited were Mr. and On Tuesday, February 24, 1948, at the Appear Concert Mrs. Warren T. Carr of Watts Street Baptist morning chapel hour, the student body at The Cullowhee Baptist Choir made theii- Church in Durham. Salem College and the faculty had the priv- second public appearance of the year in a Following a chicken dinner prepared by ilege of hearing a very interesting and infor- concert of sacred music at Pendleton Street Misses Billie Ruth Currin, Gloria Mayer, mal talk delivered by Reverend James W. Baptist Church, Greenville, South Carolina, and Emma McPherson, the group discussed Ray, State Baptist Student Secretary. Sunday evening, March 14. informally the many difficulties and the ad- Following lunch Mr. Ray met in the Clug The choir has a membership of 50 mixed vantages they meet in their respective or- Dining Room with the Baptist students and voices from Cullowhee and Western Carolina ganizations as they try to serve as a link be- spoke on the activities of the B.S.U. and Teachers' College, representing six states and tween the students and the church. The what part the Salem unit might play in the twenty North Carolina counties. group also enjoyed very informal singing organization as a whole. The program of concert music consists of with Marjorie Wilson playing the piano. Mr. Later in the afternoon Mr. Ray returned to Hymns of the church, Gospel Hymns, Classic Carr made a special impression with his the campus to meet with the newly elected Anthems of the church, and Spirituals. The is of Dr. H. P. rendition of "The Dream Gal of II K A" officers of the B.S.U. to discuss their duties, choir under the direction accompanied by Mrs. Carr. offer suggestions, and answer the many ques- Smith, Professor of Social Science of the organist is Mrs. Zula Murray Both councils left feeling that we had de- tions asked by the girls. college. The are Chris- finitely established "a link" between our Anne T. McKenzie, Smith. Accompanists Mr. Clarence Virginia two councils. We also realize more clearly .__. _. Salem B.S.U. Reporter man, Mr. Clayton Curtis, and Miss Gallimore, B.S.U. President at W.C.T.C. how valuable it is to establish just such a connection when two groups are working out a similar problem on different campuses—the News From W.C.T.C. Sp ring Planning Conference problem of helping the church find the stu- The new B.S.U. Council of Western Caro- At Meredith dent and the student find the church. lina Teachers College in Cullowhee is mak- On the weekend of February 21-22, follow- Judy Powers ing great progress. Our first mass meeting ing Focus Week on the Meredith College was held March 1, 1948, with much success, campus, the Executive Council of the B.S.U. after which Jimmy Ray spoke to us about had its Spring Planning Conference. Less our summer vacation opportunities. interference and more intimacy were achiev- Crusaders Club At Wingate On March 2, 1948, the council, their faculty ed by spending the weekend in the "Cedar Miss Thelma Thurman was recently elect- advisor, Miss Kathleen Davis, and Jimmy Chest," a cedar cabin in the outskirts of ed president of the Wingate Crusaders for Ray were honored with a supper in the home Raleigh. The atmosphere and the informal- Christ at Wingate College. The organization of the Reverend and Mrs. Mark R. Osborne, ity of the Planning Conference were quite is composed of a volunteer band of Religious Jr. The group enjoyed singing hymns accom- conducive to fun, food, and fellowship; never- Education students. While this is not a new panied by Miss Virginia Gallimore and hear- theless, a great deal of constructive work was organization on the campus, it has been ing some humorous experiences told by Jim- accomplished. inactive for sometime. The group reorganized my Ray and Mr. Osborne. Then came the Since Fall Planning Conference is concern- with eighteen charter members and as a part treat of the evening: a delicious buffet sup- ed mostly with detailed plans for the year, of B.S.U. it seeks to achieve a high standard per served by Mrs. Osborne. Since our final in the Spring basic issues and problems are of Christian living both on and off the examinations were under way and Jimmy considered as we seek to be the student or- campus. had to leave, our splendid fellowship came ganization that meets the religious needs Other officers of the group are Miss Ruby to a close. of the students. The council as a whole was Dye, Vice-president, and Miss Jane Russell, We are looking forward to more experiences most interested in applying the ideas that Secretary. like that one in the spring. were brought out during Focus Week, the Ralph Williams Annie Duke Wheless theme of which was "Religion at Work in Publicity Director Reporter Life." April, 1948 THE REVEILLE Page Three B.S.U. EXTENSION DEPARTMENT AT WAKE FOREST COLLEGE

The above students from the Wake Forest B.S.U. Extension Department conducted a Weekend Youth Revival at the First Baptist Church in Roxboro, March 5-7. They are, left to right: WUhelmina Wallace, Rocky Mount; Miriam Smith, Lenoir; Elwood Orr. Rocky Mount, President of the B.S.U. at Wake Forest; Henry Pulliam, Roxboro; Charles Stevens, Smithfield; and Bill Lamb, Elizabeth City, Director of the Extension Department.

morning B.S.U. Extension Department Dr. L. F. Wood Speaks At and at seven o'clock each evening, and conducted conferences daily. At Forest College Wake Mars Hill College Some of his lectures were "What It Means The B.S.U. on Wake Forest college campus Dr. Leland Foster Wood of Flushing, New To Be Lovable" and "What It Means To Be has organized a very alert Extension Depart- York, secretary of the Committee on Mar- Marriageable." Being lovable involves mind, ment with William C. Lamb as Director. A riage and the Home of the Federal Council heart, soul, and personality more than ap- group of students from this department has of Churches of Christ in America, completed pearance. Charm is friendliness, self-respect, conducted Weekend Youth Revivals on sev- on Sunday evening a series of lectures on loyalty, cooperativeness, and unselfishness. eral occasions in different churches over the Love, Courtship and Marriage at Mars Hill Being marriageable means being emotionally state. On March 5-7 in the First Baptist College. mature. Being emotionally mature is being of the following able to keep in control, take respon- Church Roxboro students Dr. Wood is a graduate of the University temper participated in a Weekend Revival. of Rochester and received his Ph.D. from the sibilities, and enter enter marriage as a dedi- Henry Pullman of Roxoro, Bill Lamb of University of Chicago. He served as a mis- cation to creating a home and creating a Elizabeth City, Charles Stevens of Smith- sionary in the Belgium Congo, Africa. He shared happiness. field, Wilhelmina Wallace of Rocky Mount, was formally on the faculty of Rochester After the lecture each evening, Dr. Wood Miriam Smith of Lenoir, and Elwood Orr Theological Seminary and Hunter College. answered questions written by the students. of Rocky Mount. He is author of several books in his field His sane approach to this vital subject will On Sunday evening, March 7, at the New and is at present devoting his full time as be of lasting value to the students of the Hope Baptist Church, Dr. O. F. Herring, secretary of family relations on the Federal college. pastor, and the following students presented Council. He is brother of Vernon Wood, head the evening program: of the chemistry department at Mars Hill Dr. George D. Kelsey, Morehouse College, Jeanne Walker of Winston-Salem, Vivian College. has been elected associate executive secretary Harrington of Kannapolis, Manly Murphy of Dr. Wood spoke twice daily, during the in field administration by Federal Council Marshallberg, Walter Davis of Henderson- week of February 9-15, in the chapel each of Churches. ville, J. C. Mitchell of Morganton, and Myrt Davis of Beaufort. Other engagements are scheduled for clos- ing months of school.

News From Lenoir-Rhyne

The B.S.U. Council at Lenoir-Rhyne is sponsoring some valuable chapel programs as they plan all chapel services on alternate Wednesdays. These programs are given by members of the B.S.U. Council, members of the B.S.U. at large, and visiting pastors and speakers. James W. Ray, State Student Secretary, was guest speaker at one of the recent chapel programs at Lenoir-Rhyne which was spon- sored by the local B.S.U. Mr. Ray's subject for the chapel period was "The Apostle of Little Things." He emphasized the fact that httle things make up the large, and that the little things are the secrets of victory. Mr. Ray remained on campus the entire day to discuss with the B.S.U. group the summer activities of the Student Department; the summer assemblies at Seaside, Ridgecrest, and Fruitland; and the Spring Retreat at Greensboro, April 23-24. Our "Missionary for the Summer" is a great concern right now at Lenoir-Rhyne, Reverend Warren Carr of Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, with a group of with a well-planned fund-raising campaign W. C. U. N. C. students in an informal discussion during Religious Emphasis Week, getting under way. February 23-27.

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BY MARJORIE WILSON Well, it's about time for B.S.U. elections. Published monthly by the Student Division, This is not supposed to be an advertising night three feminine Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. From Sunday when column, but I suggest that I'm a pretty "angels" got locked in the dorm after having good man to manage somebody's campaign paid a late welcome visit to the team mem- for campus president or any other office. Editor Leonard L. Morgan, Jr. — bers, to late Friday night when Warren Carr The price depends on how bad one wants State College finally left. Religious Focus Week at Meredith the office. You'd better see me right away. said, "The sky's the limit." It was a week Office Secretary Mrs. Clairene Keith Speaking of elections, some of them have that in every way was beyond description. It 119 Hillsboro Street already been held. Meredith was quite for- did something to the campus religiously that timate in securing as their president Mar- made a definite and lasting impression. An Publicity Directors jorie Wilson, my fellow columnist. I know outsider could never have recognized Mere- James Coffee Duke lots of girls over there, and I do not think dith, especially at breakfast. Girls even wore Jeanne Hollowell Baptist Hospital they could have done better. Congratulations, make-up then because of the prospect of Glenna Higgins Brevard Marge. And she did it without my help in Bob Williamson Catawba eating with some of the team members. They, campaigning! Edward Jenkins Campbell incidentally, hold the key to Focus Week. It Our editor tells me that this is the next to Lottie Murphy E.C.T.C. seemed like a team that was made in Heaven, the last issue of this raw material for start- Pantha Bullock Flora Macdonald almost. We couldn't have gotten a better ing fires. He says that the public has been Newton R. N. Hardin Gardner Webb combination of rare personalities. With his Audrey Hanes Mars Hill complaining so much that he cannot stand slow easy manner, yet piercing insight we Judy Powers Meredith it any longer. I know just how they feel; I took away from Chapel Hill Julius Caesar Carlee M. Chavis Pembroke read my column once myself. But it (my State Herrin (Shall we say J. C.) who got so home- Avery Brock column, that is) is an improvement over Bill Koehnline U.N.C. sick one night that in the middle of a bull- "Today's North Carolina Poem" in a certain Tommy Stapleton Wake Forest session, about 12:00, he put on his shoes and daily paper. Marvin Owenby Lenoir-Rhyne went home. From Washington, D. C, Herbert Ann Parker W.C.U.N.C. Baucom proved that he could follow direc- All is not gold that glitters; some "is" Ralph Williams Wingate tions because after he was told to water the diamonds. Elwood Orr, president at Wake Annie Duke Wheless W.C.T.C. flowers in his room, he almost drowned them. Forest, has given one to Myrt Davis, thus Anne McKenzie Salem Jimmie Ray, who became Cowboy Ray be- acquiring a ball and chain. And we had put in him, Presidents fore the week was over, came out every day, so much faith too! practically walking in his sleep when he As to horse sense, fellows, I would say that Doris Cline A.S.T.C. his appearance at 8:00 in the morning. about the best way to pass an exam in May Pauline Watts Baptist Hospital made Max Whitley Catawba Carolina was well represented as Dr. Arnold is start studying the course in January. Why Warren Turner Campbell Nash, Head of the Department of Religion did I not listen to my elders! Grace Butler E.C.T.C. over there added his accent to things, and Time to close, but I can't resist this one: Paul H. Comer Gardner-Webb I mean other accents besides his very in- Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn: "Glenn, I see you Howard C. Knight Mars Hill teresting English one. Among other duties, Gloria Meredith have a cold." Mayer looking after the love life of the gals was

Thomas R. Garrison State Glenn, Jr. (after a long sniflf) : "You don't one of the important things Mrs. R. H. Edwin Elwood Orr Wake Forest see it now, do you?" Espy from New York City and Mrs. G. Avery Minnie Taylor Lenoir-Rhyne See you. Mary Ruth Bodenheimer W.C.U.N.C. Lee from Champaign, Illinois did. But there John Davis Wingate were two more, one from Lynchburg, Vir- Virginia Gallimore W.C.T.C. ginia, Dr. Wesley Shrader, who was forever Dr. Claude U. Broach, pastor St. John's Earl Cummings Pembroke getting lost and once it wasn't so good. He Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina, Harry McGee Duke also declared that because he came to Mere- was on the campus at E.C.T.C. on February Vivian Parks U.N.C. dith he would be so sweet that the people at 9-11. He was there at the invitation of the Sarah Humphrey Flora Macdonald college "Y". home wouldn't believe it. Imagine ! ! And the Lt. A. D. McArthur E.M.I. Gene Naylor Brevard other person, Dr. Shrader's protege, Warren Page Daniel Salem Carr from Durham, who let it be known far The entire Meredith campus recommends Forest L. Davidson A. & T. and wide the night that he got locked out of Focus Week as the most helpful and stim- Merry A. Filmore Shaw his dorm, was in the middle of everything. ulating week you can have. '7^^ ^eaecCCe

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Vol. IX, No. 7 NORTH CAROLINA B.S.U. PUBLICATION May, 1948 NEW STATE OFFICERS ELECTED AT RETREAT SEVEN COLLEGES REPRESENTED ON SLATE ELECTED IN GREENSBORO

From the uproar of registration and the box supper on Friday night through to the last drop of punch at the W.C. B.S.U. open house late Saturday afternoon those at the Baptist Student Union Spring Retreat rushed from one feature of the program to another and piled up experiences that will live long in their memories. The quality of the program was good. The level of interest was high throughout, and student participation was commendable. An innovation at Spring Retreats was the box supper—fried chicken, honey, and French-fried potatoes. The supper not only abundantly satisfied the hunger of the all- day travelers, but it set the tempo of the rest of the meeting. It was impossible to main- tain sophomoric dignity and at the same time balance a box on one knee, a cup of coffee on the other, and eat greasy chicken with the fingers. The spirit created by the box supper continued throughout the retreat. Highlighting the even program was the address by Miss Maxine Garner, a former BSU'er who is now Director of Religious Activities at Woman's College. Speaking on "B.S.U. working with other campus Christian groups," she reminded the B.S.U. of its mem- bership in the larger Christian movements and pointed to its responsibility as one of the best of these Christian groups to work for and with the whole Christian community. Her message was of particular interest to those who attend other than Baptist colleges. Louvene Jordan hit the ball again with her social period, which was built to please the tastes of the whole audience. Enter- tainment went from the ridiculous to the sub- lime, from the song "Temptation" as inter- preted by Don Shropshire and Leonard Mor- gan to the hymn sung by Milton Bliss. Clara Jean Cooke added her bit with the recitation of "Little Red Riding Hood." Frances Ann Esteridge ticked the keys to the tune of "Embracable You." Jimmy Ray closed the period with pictures of Seaside and Fruitland, Pictured above are the State B.S.U. Officers for the year of 1948-1949. They are, The Family Altar closed the evening pro- center front, Leonard L. Morgan, Jr., President from N. C. State College; Second gram as the worship period had opened it row, left to right, Milton Bliss, Music Chairman from U.N.C.; Juanita Grant, by directing attention to God. Second Vice-President from A.S.T.C; Ann Parker, Publicity Chairman from Saturday morning found almost the entire W.C.U.N.C.; and Grace Butler, Magazine Representative from E.C.T.C. Third row, group present for the worship period and left right, Horace Howington, Secretary and Treasurer from Pembroke State a busy day's activity. First on the program to College; Robert Winecoff, First Vice-President from Wake Forest; and Leonard were officers clinics, which according to Rollins, Third Vice-President from Wake Forest. These offiecrs were elected at reports were in the hands of capable leaders Spring Retreat in Greensboro, April 23-24, to serve next year. and were practical in nature. Fast on the heels of the clinic came reports from the campuses. College vied with college for an North Carolina is very much alive and grow- mittee was elected, with Leonard Morgan as opportunity to list the features of its pro- ing. president. In addition the name of The Re- gram which had been outstanding in the past In the business session the slate of nomi- veille was changed to The Nexus, a Latin year. According to these reports B.S.U. in nations presented by the nominating com- (Continued on page 3) SEASIDE AY 31 — lUNE 6 Page Two THE REVEILLE May, 1948

RETREAT SIDELIGHTS A.S.T.C. Installs Council COMMENTS The new B.S.U. Council of A.S.T.C. was installed in a very impressive candle light service at the Baptist Church in Boone. The new and old council marched slowly to the If the people that were at the Retreat will front of the church to the deply inspiring pardon me for repetition, I would like to tune of "Lead on King Eternal." thank all of the folks that have had even the O The Candlelight Installation Service began slightest thing to do with the Reveille. As when Doris Cline, the retiring president, pre- you know, this will be the last issue of the council the chal- Reveille because when Ann Parker takes over sented to the new members lenge to carry on in Christ's service and to next fall the name will be changed to Nexus. their light shine. This name was decided upon at the Greens- let The challenge was accepted by Coleman boro meeting and although it is not perfect, Hanson, who pledged himself wholeheartedly it is better than Reveille. Nexus means link to the task of acting as president of the new and since B.S.U. is the link between the B.S.U. council. Doris lighted his candle and church and school it is certainly suitable for blew out her own signifying that she was the state B.S.U. paper. Ann is going to put — extending to him the light to keep burning. out a good paper next year and I hope that of the other then had each publicity director will give her their Each new members their lighted the corresponding fullest support. L.L.M. candles by retiring officer, after which they formed a line in front of the retiring council. It was E.C.T.C. B.S.U. Creates New very impressive as well as beautiful scene with the retiring council dressed in black and the Council Office new council in white and only candles for light. As a background the rostrom was When the Nominating Committee met on covered in white and effectively bedecked with March 16th to nominating officers for the green vines and branches. coming year, it recommended that a new Coleman then challenged the new council council office be created. Visual Education to take the Light to other Baptist students Chairman. This recommendation was unan- which they did symbolically by lighting the imously accepted by the Council. candles of other B.S.U. members who had Several Council members have been carry- formed a line on either side of the church. ing on this work which we now feel demands The program was concluded with the sing- enough time to warrant electing an officer ing of the song "Have Thine Own Way" and who can give full time to the development of a benediction by H. R. Eggers, faculty ad- the visual education program. viser. The Summer B.S.U. Council decided to raise funds to buy a slide projector and screen. A dents. Next we see Don again along with All number of students who thought our program campus presidents as they meet in their would be improved by the use of such equip- clinic for training by Miss Frances Barbour. ment solicited contributions from Baptist fac- In the next shot try and figure out your own ulty, Baptist students, and local chiu-ch people mug among the group of innocent bystanders. who seemed interested. This equipment was (This ratio of girls did not exist throughout purchased through the State Secretary of If you were at the Retreat you will know what the meeting). In the bottom picture you see Visual Education (Mr. Fon H. Scofield) early these shots signify. If you were not there, we the group as everyone enjoyed the delicious in the fall and since that time a number of have the explanation! On top you see Don chicken supper served to us by the good slides and filmstrips have been added to our Shropshire, retiring State B.S.U. President, people of College Park Baptist Church in initial file. as he introduces the new campus B.S.U. presi- Greensboro.

the camp will LAST MARCH the State College B.S.U. getting it moved. They hope that by next fall Ann Parker. When completed people, 15 boys and bought the above mess hall from Camp But- they will be able to receive visitors at a new have facUities for thirty for 15 girls, to spend weekends in an atmosphere ner. Since then, the council members, mostly location just South of Raleigh. The land work, study and other necessities engineers and architects, have been applying the project was given by Mr. Frank Parker, conducive to of education. their minds, slide rules, and hands toward father of the new State Publicity Chairman, RIDGECREST — JUNE 9—16 May, 1948 THE REVEILLE Page Three THE ACTIVE B.S.U. IN THE BAPTIST HOSPITAL ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE

Miss Polly Watts

North Carolina Baptist Student Wins District Contest Polly Watts, Senior Student Nurse, Whose ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE of the Win- leigh, Riley Jordan of Raeford, and John home is in Morganton, has been selected to gate M. Johnson Student Organization. They Haywood of Chicago, (seated) Dr. W. K. represent North Carolina Baptist Hospital's are (standing left to right) Harold Spangler McGee, head of department of religion; C. School of Nursing in the "Miss Student Nurse of Shelby, Paul Garrison of Winston Salem, F. Clark of Nashville, Tennessee; and Miss of 1948" contests. She was district winner. The Bill Byrd of Angier, David Freeman of Ra- Edith Arrington, student secretary. winner of the state contest will visit high schools in a nurse recruiting tour before the Wingate M. Johnson Student OFFICERS ELECTED end of the school year. Miss Watts who will finish her training (Continued from page 1> Organization August is active in extra-professional activ- word meaning link. ities of the school. She served as secretary A group of medical students, which has Miss Frances Barbour, associate secretary of the student government body last year and been meeting informally since last summer from Nashville, laid down for the group some this year is president of hte Baptist Student recently elected officers selected the guiding principles has and for a wroking B.S.U. It Union. Those who attended the State Baptist name, "The Wingate M. Johnson was her first visit Student to North Carolina, and she Convention will remember that she spoke Organization." This group sponsored in Nov- piled up praise for herself by ending her as a part of the hospital program. At the ember the series of lectures by the Physicist, remark exactly on schedule and letting the last State Nurses' Association convention Dr. J. hungry lunch. Raymond Seeger, entitled, "A Scientific crowd go to she represented Baptist Hospital School of The afternoon Student's Religion." Two scientific-religious program was given over to Nursing, and was selected to represent her films, a review of the yearly "The God of Creation" and "The God calendar, a charing school at the Southwide Student Retreat at of of the Atom" shown recently in the amphi- experiences in Religious Focus Weeks, and Ridgecrest last summer. an of theatre were sponsored by this group. explanation the summer camps and The selection was made by students and a summer service. In addition The organization is named for Dr. Win- Bob Lasater ex- special committee on the basis of personal plained of the principles gate M. Johnson, professor of clinical medi- some which should appearance, nursing aptitude, spirit of ser- be observed in the relationship cine at Bowman Gray, member of the Board between the vice, personality, scholarship, and leadership. B.S.U. and the local church. of the American Medical Association, author Miss Watt's rating is high in all these points. Following the Retreat the B.S.U. of the recent book The Years After Fifty, and at Wo- Outstanding of all characteristics, and at the man's College held open house for all the esteemed by his students and colleagues for center of them all, is a contageous, glowing students. Those who attended will remember his genuine Christian character. Christlike spirit. Her nurses' training is one it as one of the highlights of the weekend. In co-operation with the Baptist Student step toward a career as a missionary- to But what else will be remembered with Union of the School of Nursing, this organi- China. Baptists throughout the state have pleasure as the work of the year unfolds? zation held a banquet at the First Baptist every right to be proud of the student elected Certainly the excellent worship service which to represent their hospital. Church February J. 20, with Dr. Glenn Black- were arranged by the groups working with burn, chaplain of Wake Forest College, as the Warren Turner. Also the addresses which ege of meeting new ones. And most of all, the inspirational speaker. nearest met ours needs. And the clinics which spirit of Christ, which in some mysterious made us of the seems always to be present our Members of the group are working now on aware magnitude and the way at B.S.U. difficulty of fulfilling our offices. Plus the meetings. plans for a series of forum meetings dealing camera bugs who covered the entire Retreat. It was a great Retreat. It should head us with the relation of medicine to community, The box supper and the Friday night social. in the right direction for an even greater social and religious problems. The joy of seeing old friends and the privil- ADVANCE. FRUITLAND — AUGUST 23 — 29 !

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7^e Common Sense For College Horse Sense For College Men ^ettecCCe Women BY TOMMY STAPLETON BY MARJORIE WILSON As self-appointed chairman of the com- Published monthly by the Student Division, mittee for thee Abolition of the Term "Word Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. After all these months of avoiding the of Prayer,,' I have somewhat to say unto you. subject of common sense, may be in my one Reaction against the use of this vile term has Editor Leonard L. Morgan, Jr. last column I should redeem myself. been boiling up within me for a long time, State College After our Spring Retreat and the exchang- and now it's boiling over unto this sheet. ing of ideas that went on which were very As one says when he starts any sort of Office Secretary Mrs. Clairene Keith helpful, I have been disturbed about what discussion, there are many reasons why the 119 Hillsboro Street really goes on back on the campuses. We use of this term should be abolished, but I can't hope to solve all of our difficulties in a will give you only a few. (He cannot think of Publicity Directors Spring Retreat. It is simply a short training any others, I can't either.) In the first place, James Coffee Duke period in the mechanics of our job on the it has no meaning. I have never seen nor Hollowell Baptist Hospital Jeanne council, and B.S.U. never ends there. heard of a prayer of only one word. In fact Glenna Higgins Brevard We talked a great deal about enlistment of most of the prayers I have heard have more Bob Williamson Catawba students in the program are sponsoring, than one word too many. Edward Jenkins Campbell we In the it is Lottie Murphy E.C.T.C. but before the enlistment can take place there second place, nothing but a Pantha Bullock Flora Macdonald must be something to offer them. We are not habit, and my mother always taught me that Newton R. N. Hardin Gardner Webb living in an irreligious age; rather people are habits were bad (or did she say that my ha- Audrey Hanes Mars Hill restless in their search for a meaning and bits were bad?) —Well, anyway, you know Judy Powers Meredith center of life. Consequently they are quick what I mean. When any one asks me to "Dis- Carlee M. Chavis Pembroke to respond to anything that will offer them miss us with a word of prayer," I want to Avery Brock State an answer, or an escape. I think that it is say "Amen." Bill Koehnline U.N.C. the place of the Baptist Student Union to But the worst thing about the expression is Tommy Stapleton Wake Forest Marvin Owenby Lenoir-Rhyne give to students something they will respect that it reveals a bad attitude toward prayer. Ann Parker W.C.U.N.C. and accept and see something in. They are Whenever any one uses the ex-term, it after cor''i''>te s*"ond q".e^.tior,- *-he feelir.g P"'r"- W-'^inms ... . Wir.gat- ideas that th? glv°F thr.t he feclc that a prayer Annie Duke Wheless W.C.T.C. and testing that comes from other people. ought to be thrown in the program some Anne McKenzie Salem They can see through superficial, meaning- place, but he is not just where it ought to Presidents less, external sort of pragram which is often be. The only thing he is sure of is that he a temptation to have. Students are Willing to does not want it to be long. He does not want Virginia Gallimore W.C.T.C. commit themselves to something they believe to bore the audience. After all, it is only a Doris Cline A.S.T.C. Pauline Watts Baptist Hospital is real, imperative and lasting. The tragedy form anyway Max Whitley Catawba is that we cannot affort to wait to begin, If this is the attitude we are to take to- Warren Turner Campbell This is one time when we must have the grace ward paryer, I say, "Throw it out!" It is an Grace Butler E.C.T.C. of impatience! And it must begin with insult to sensible people, to the Christian Paul H. Comer Gardner-Webb individuals who have a depth of personality, faith, and to God to use something we do Howard C. Knight Hill Mars and who are aware of the things going on not believe in anyway! How about joining Gloria Mayer Meredith around them. Try reading current books—two the ranks of the C.A.T.W.O.P.? Thomas R. Garrison State of the best ones are Trueblood's PREDICA- If I still have any readers after all this Elwood Orr Wake Forest Minnie Taylor Lenoir-Rhyne MENT OF MODERN MAN, and ALTERNA- time, Thanks for your longsufferings. I Mary Ruth Bodenheimer W.C.U.N.C. TIVE TO FUTILITY—and see if you can hope I get to see you some this summer. Be John Davis Wingate remain complacent and satisfied. The res- sure to stop in to see me if you get to Fruit- Virginia Gallimore W.C.T.C. ponsibility is ours and we dare not fail!!! land. And be sure to attend Seaside, too. Earl Cummings Pembroke I think the vision of those in places of Harry McGee Duke leadership in our convention assures us that Vivian Parks U.N.C. News From Wingote Campus we are moving in the right direction. It is Sarah Humphrey Flora Macdonald with a sense of gratitude we thank Don The Hendricks and Dozier Training Unions Lt. A. D. McArthur E.M.T. Gene Naylor Brevard Shropshire for the marvelous way he has had a study course the week of March 15-19. Page Daniel Salem led us, and we can think of no more capable Professor Fred Sandusky, head of the Bible Forest L. Davidson A. & T. person to give the responsibility of carrying Department taught "Baptist Young People's Merry A. Filmore Shaw on to than Leonard Morgan. Administration" by Arthur Flake. ^u

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Volume XI APRIL, 1949 Number 1

SOUTHWIDE B.S.U. WEEK—JUNE 8-15

CONFERENCES, LECTURES, SEMINARS, FUN, RECREATION, BIBLE STUDY

Make your reservations with the State B.S.U. office if you are being accommodated in private colleges. June 1 is the deadline. Registration fee, $2.00.

PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA B.S.U. ^^e ^ctAeiiic pwio lomd

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A Journal of Baptist Student Life

Volume XI APRIL, 1949 Number 1 Ml

EDITOR

Ann Pahker Woman's College, Greensboro

STATE OFFICE HEADQUARTERS 119 Hillsboro Street Raleigh, N. C. James W. Ray, State Secretary Mrs. Clairene Keith, Office Secretary

STATE OFFICERS

L. L. Morgan, Jr., President State College, Raleigh Bob Winecoff, First Vice President Wake Forest College JuANiTA Grant, Second Vice President Appalachian Leonard Rollins, Third Vice President Wake Forest College Ann Parker, Publicity Director Woman's College Horace Howington, Secretary-Treasurer Pembroke Betsy Ann Morgan, Literature Chairman Meredith College Milton Bliss, Music Director University of North Carolina

STUDENT SECRETARIES

Edith Arrington, Baptist Hospital Roberts C. Lasater, State College Gloria Blanton, E.C.T.C. Charles McConnell, W.C.T.C. Harvey Brewington, Pembroke Carolyn Moseley, W.C.U.N.C. BiLLiE Ruth Currin, Meredith Klein E. Parkes, Duke Eli Gallowtay, Wake Forest Texie Sowers, Campbell

J. C. Herrin, U.N.C. Marjorie Toole, A.S.T.C.

CONTRIBUTORS

Marjorie E. Moore is Associate Editor of Commission . . . Clara Jean Cooke is President

of the B.S.U. at Woman's College . . . Bob Winecoff is President of the B.S.U. Council

at Wake Forest . . . Edlyn Freerks is B.S.U. Devotional Leader on U.N.C. Council . . . J. Glenn Blackburn is Pastor of Baptist Church and Chaplain of Wake Forest College

. . . Glenn W. Fisher is a student at U.N.C. . . . Warren Turner is 1948 Third Vice

President from Campbell College . . . Marjorie Toole is Student Secretary at Appalachian

. . . Robert H. Ayers is State B.S.U. Secretary of South Carolina . . . J. C. Herrin is

Student Secretary at U.N.C. . . . Leonard Morgan, Jr. is North Carolina B.S.U. President. EDITORIALS

EXPERIMENTAL ISSUE accommodations through the office at Ridgecrest. Those campuses planning In making a critical analysis of the to stay in the North Carolina cottages previous issues of the REVEILLE, we should send in their list of persons go- found that a change in its size and ing and their registration fees ($2.00 content might result in a better paper per person) as soon as possible to the at a comparatively lower cost. In order State B.S.U. Office.—A.P. to get your reaction to what we hope will be a beneficial change, we have BAPTIST STUDENTS AT WORK printed this issue in the new form. More than two hundred Baptist stu- We have in mind securing student and dents of North Carolina will be em- adult contributors to give Christian ex- ployed during the summer months by pression to current issues of student the several agencies of our denomina- life. tion. They will serve in one of the fol- filled with The old REVEILLE was lowing capacities: Enlargement Cam- only old articles that were not too to paign directors with the Sunday School be "news," but were generally of in- and Training Union Departments, only the which was terest to campus assistants to associational missionaries, represented in the article. Also, by staff members at Seaside, Fruitland, printing four issues a year in this new and Ridgecrest Assemblies, Christian form, we have more space at a lower Youth Revival Teams, Educational and cost. Secretarial staff members in many local This issue will serve its purpose, how- churches, associates with the Home only if find reaction ever, we out yoiu^ Mission Board, and student mission to it. After all, this is your paper, so it tours to Hawaii or San Sandres Island. must answer your needs. Please fill out Not everyone who applies can be the enclosed card and send it to us. Be accepted because already more applica- free in expressing your opinion be- tions have been submitted than there cause it will determine the policies used are openings in North Carolina for in the next issues. such student employment this sum- SPRING RETREAT mer. However, the student who wishes to invest himself in a Christian enter- This year the old as well as the new prise for the summer is not limited to council members will be attending the work offered by the Baptist State Spring Retreat at Durham. Through Convention of North Carolina. Here their previous experiences in B.S.U. it are some other sources of information is felt that the old members have a about summer work for college stu- great deal to contribute in the training dents. of the new council members. The Northern Baptist Convention, One of the main functions of Spring the American Friends Committee, the Retreat is the election of the State Methodist, Presbyterian and many Officers for the coming year. The other Christian bodies offer to college nominating committee will be com- students each summer an opportunity posed of one representative from each to work in many different capacities. campus, preferably one who is acquaint- This work is primarily for lay students ed with other councils as well as his who do not feel led to become ministers, own. missionaries, church staff members, or RIDGECREST any other denominational worker. It is designed to lead Christian students into Our quota for attending Ridgecrest a better understanding of the conditions this year from June 8 through 15 is that prevail in various industries and two hundred. We have accommodations commimities all over the United States in private cottages for one hundred and in other coimtries. These students fifty, and a number of campuses have actually work at some job and in some expressed the desire to secure their own cases earn a living salary. These "Work The Reveille April, 1949

Camps" or "Caravans" are organized article "Siunmer Opportunities" by and directed by a competent Christian issue.) person who lives and works with the For further information concerning students and conducts seminars, giving these opportunities write the Baptist Christian expression on the issues con- Student Office, 119 Hillsboro Street, fronted in the communities and in- Raleigh, or refer to the March issue of dustries where the students work. (For MOTIVE, the Methodist student maga- a first-hand account of a student's ex- zine, and INTERCOLLEGIAN. perience in such a Work Camp see the J.W.R.

What Shall We Do About Ecumenicity?

By Marjorie E. Moore

NOT even its best friends like the in New York City ninety-four years ago. name but ecumenicity is a term In London similar conferences were literate Christians of this generation held in 1860, 1878, and 1888, and then ought to be able to pronounce. It is the in New York in 1900 a meeting was word for a movement which cannot, called of leaders in missionary activities no matter how much it may be desired and they termed it the Ecumenical in some circles, be "ignored out of Conference. existence." But it was in Edinburgh in 1910 that the beginnings of the modern ecumen- With the same number of syllables ical movement can be detected. By that as "spirituality" and a similar meaning, time the missionary work launched by ecumenicity is direct from the Greek. William Carey in 1792 had extended to As a graduate student of journalism I have been impressed with the rather many parts of the world, and these young churches missionaries intelligent and very extensive propa- which had helped develop sent representatives to ganda campaign its advocates have the world Christian gathering. sponsored. As a Southern Baptist I That have devoutly wished that somebody in inspired the first big conference of the our church family had taken the trouble International Missionary Coimcil at Jerusalem in 1928, and the second at to define and interpret it for me. Bap- Madras in 1938. tist churches expect the individual member to be well-informed and artic- The same year, Christians from many ulate about church matters. parts of the earth met at Edinburgh and What I know I got from Dr. W. O. Oxford to consider "faith and order" Carver, former missions professor of and "life and works," and to study Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, bases of genuine Christian fellowship and from Dr. Kenneth Scott Latourette across national lines. The World Council of Yale University, the world's authority of Churches got its start there; in on Christian missions and church his- August and September last year, after tory, both Baptists. ten years "Iri process of formation, it was officially esta'ilished. The Origin of the Movement Merely one evi'Jence of the almost universal desire for Christian fellow- The ecumenical movement, they agree, ship on an international scale, and for roots in Jesus' prayer "that they all some means of making Christianity might be one" in spirit and in truth. actually the religion of mankind, the The first Interdenominational Christian World Council consists of 140 different conference In modern times was held church bodies in thirty-nine countries April, 1949 The Reveille

as charter members, and accepts new Southern Baptists, whom I have known members when they apply. from birth and whom I have belonged to by actual membership for two de- Objective of World CouncU cades. By definition, if one of the presidents As a journalist I have been trained of its Provisional Committee is an ade- to ask "Why?" as well as "Who?" quate spokesman, "The primary objec- "What?" "When?" "Where?" and tive of the World Council of Churches "How?" Why would a group which is to serve as an instrument of fellow- stresses spiritual unity as the only legi- ship, through which Christians of the timate bond between Christians turn world might grow to love and know one down membership in an organization another. It does not aim to hide or which claims no other purpose for its ignore existing theological differences, being? or various historical traditions." Analysis of Position "The ecumenical movement," says Dr. For what it may be worth, I offer Latourette in Tomorrow Is Here, "is a this self -analysis of us: We are afraid trend toward the development of a of the ecumenical movement. We are consciousness in all the chiu-ches of the a distinctive cultural and ethnic group, church universal conceived as a world an agrarian people, proudly independent missionary community. Its primary con- and self-reliant. We live close to the cern is making the gospel effective the grassroots, and call ourselves "folks," I world around and to this purpose or- not folk. We trace our spiritual an- ganization is subsidiary." cestry to persons who suffered intimi- Southern Baptist Position dation, abuse, even death at the hands of other Christians who would tolerate With all these facts in mind, per- no dissenter in their churches; we can- haps you wonder where Southern Bap- not forget it and our fear of ecclesiastic- tists are on the World Council ques- ism is a phobia for anything resembling tion? When an invitation to charter hierarchy. membership came to our Convention We have also inherited memories of in 1938, it was put to a vote and de- an embarrassing situation with fellow clined. It came again in 1948 and was Baptists in the Northern states a hun- again by majority vote declined. In dred years ago, and the terror of the 1938 the Convention sent an unofficial Reconstruction Era is associated with observer to the Oxford and Edinburgh that. conferences and heard his report on Today Baptists in certain countries these meetings; when the committee are being discriminated against or which dealt with this invitation last openly mistreated by representatives of year recommended that the precedent churches which are members of the be followed in respect to the Amsterdam World Council. We do not see that we meeting, the Convention at Memphis or they would be any better off for our voted against it. No one was asked to accepting membership in such an or- attend the two-weeks' world conference ganization. and report to Southern Baptists. All these factors account psychologic- By this action we have left the im- ally for our rejection of an offer for pression in America and abroad that something which we have always ad- we are interested in world fellowship vocated: spiritual unity in the bonds only with Baptists. of peace. We believe fanatically in the These are the facts. They define the dignity, worth, and responsibility of the term. Now for interpretation—and here human personality and in the democ- I admit I am feeling my way. The man racy, autonomy, and unity of the group, who said "Know thyself" unquestion- and we will not jeopardize these values ably meant "Know thyselves," too, and by "entangling alliances." We feel safe I am constantly trying to understand only by "minding our own business." ;

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Inaffective Defense ment momentum. We do not appreciate the struggle for existence which the More than that, although we will free churches have in state-church fight for our principles, we cannot nations—where every citizen has to effectively speak for them. We do not pay the expenses of the dominant produce scholars. Less than ten per church, and his preference for a Bap- cent of us secure a formal education tist or Methodist church is only tolerat- climaxed in a college degree, and among ed. eloquent spokesmen for opposing views, Being dominant in our area, we do we feel helpless and futile. (I could not know the constant pressure of non- name exceptions—George W. Truett, Christian religionists in a vast country Dr. Carver, and others—but that is like India or China where Christians obvious.) Among those who share our number less than two per cent of the opinions we can speak fluently but population. We cannot even feel the we are silent and cowed in the pre- threat of the Roman Catholic political sence of those who disagree. power which is very real in some sec- It is these fears which account for tions of America, and is evident every ovir reputation as isolationists. day in the daily papers, the radio, and So the World Council of Churches the theaters. has been established without the Sou- thern Baptist Convention. I hope our What Other Christians Think decision was the right one. We younger members of the churches will know ten Yet large groups of sincere Christ- years from now. ians in the world today feel the need for strengthening their spiritual forces Frankly I have an imeasy feeling against tyranny, paganism, and secular- about our claim to belief in spiritual ism by contact with Christians in other unity of all Christians when I can locate parts of their countries and the world. not one specific evidence of its practice. The differences between themselves How can we know why a Baptist is a Baptist unless we know why a Presby- and other denominations are slight, in all terian is a Presbyterian, an Episcopalian they feel, comparison with they in that, if an Episcopalian, and so on? Does it have common. They reason violate our basic interpretation of the forces of Satan can get together Jesus' teachings to cultivate an honest so regularly to destroy human life, appreciation of other evangelical Christ- Christians must surely find some way ians? Without losing our denomination- to pool their resources for saving man- kind. al integrity, is there not work we can do together in our communities, local, Now, we defend their right to be- national, and world-wide? lieve as they will. We assert our right to believe as we must. Some things are Distinctive Contributions very precious to us. What we believe is Aren't we missing something when good for oiurselves, we believe is good we have no dealings with other Christ- for others; we will never force them to ian groups as church bodies? "Every take these ideas, but we will give every- denomination has a contribution to body we can an opportunity to consider merits, to take or make to the universal church," Dr. them on their own Latourette says. "No one denomination leave. is a full expression of the gospel. Each No Surrender of Conviction must become conscious of being part of in is To be specific, we believe that the that fellowship Christ which | broader than any one denomination or World Council of Churches ought to be the sum of all the denominations." so organized that no person will be coerced by it in spiritual matters. Another thing: It is hard for a Sou- it or not, theo- thern Baptist to understand the forces Whether we belong to which have given the ecumenical move- retically this is oiu- opinion. An influ- April, 1949 The Reveille

ential group of members of the World chiu-ch movement with all their might; Council believe that, too. They have they will champion the cause of free- shown by word and deed that they dom in Christ which has made the intend to see that the policies adopted Baptists famous all over the world. protect the right of the individual and That group, in Dr. Carver's opinion, of the church to be independent, free, was last spring clearly the determining and self-determining. They want it to factor in the emergent Council. be what it claims to be: a council for If, for lack of adequate reinforce- fellowship and for evangelism of all ments as other church groups join the the groups who are members—the first- CouncU, that group of members loses generation Christians among the Com- out to the super-church people, some- mxmists or north China, the fiftieth- thing strange may happen. It is pure generation Christians among the ritual- conjecture, of course, but it is not be- istic, dead churches of Europe, the fourth-generation Christians among the yond the realm of possibility in this remnants of headhimters in the South mad world that Baptists will be a body Seas, and the tenth-generation Christ- of fifteen million free churchmen be- ians among the money-mad people of tween a Latin Church of 300 million America. adherents and an equally powerful That group will resist the totalitarian- Protestant hierarchy.

The Student Center

By Clara Jean Cooke

STUDENTS from the various colleges building rooms to be used for Student and universities of North Carolina Centers. would all give different definitions of If any student could boast of the the term "Baptist Student Center." A Utopian set-up for a student center, it Meredith or Wingate or Campbell stu- would be one at Woman's College in dent would say that the Student Center Greensboro, for here is an entire house is a suite of rooms in one of the college used as headquarters for Baptists and buildings given to the use of the Baptist their work (and play). The Student Student Secretary and students, while Secretary has her own living area up- a boy from Appalachian, State Teachers stairs in the house, and the students College would say that the local church live in the downstairs area a greater has provided a center for B.S.TJ. activ- part of the day and night. Old as the ities in its education building. house is, it provides a living room and Other types of student centers are: hall for meetings, a prayer room for those combining rooms both in a church quiet solitude, an office for files and and in a college building, as at Wake desk, a kitchenette, and a dining room Forest and Mars Hill; those made up (for obvious reasons). of ofC-campus rooms or houses for the A typical week in the life of Mr. students' use, as at Baptist Hospital, Five-Ten Forest Street (for the house East Carolina Teachers College, and has a personality all its own) would the Woman's College of the University begin with the countless conferences of North Carolina; and the unfortunates between Student Secretary and stu- at the University in Chapel Hill, Gard- dents. Then the executive council meet- ner-Webb, and State College, who have ing on Monday afternoon sets off a only one room or merely plans for chain of other organizational meet- The Reveille April, 1949

ings there such as the Greater B.S.U. most of the girls are sitting around on Council, Y.W.A., and Sunday School the floor; and the kind that makes a class meetings. Between the meeting- gang singing aroimd the piano sound afternoons come study-group days, good no matter how off-key. It is the when the Student Secretary leads in- kind of informality that makes girls formal classes in comparative religion, actually enjoy ironing ciu-tains and worship program direction, character washing dirty corners during spring analysis, and Old Testament. Of course, cleaning, and that makes Christian co- there are the special occasions like Vo- operation as well as worship doubly cational and Religious Emphasis Weeks meaningful. when students gather in the house to The values of the student center on hear discussions and worship services the Woman's College campus cannot led by well-known visitors. More in- be reckoned in an assessment of the formal meetings are the Friday even- rickety old building or even its attrac- ing supper hours open to the entire tive comfortable furnishings. Account campus, the standing appointments of must be made of the value of an almost prayermates, and the girls, or couples, completely homelike center in the all who just drop in during the day and too academic surroimdings of a uni- at night to make fudge in the kitchen versity campus. or make record-player and piano music. This outline of typical activities at Only such a center can provide space the Baptist Student House still doesn't for the most wholesome of social activ- hint at the true atmosphere of it. From ities and training in the most practical its squeaky front door to its leaky back of domestic duties. Only a place like porch the house reaks informality—the this house can provide training in kind of informality that allows a hush leadership and devotion to the church to fall over the living room during an in a way reminiscent of parental guid- inspiring worship program, even though ance at home.

Thinking Straight About The B.S.U.

By Bob Winecoff

SOMEONE has aptly said. "The Bap- makes one more a member of the Bap- tist Student Union is the Church tist Student Union than when one is extended." It brings the program of the not a member of the council. Everyone church into all of college life; it is not should understand that any person who merely the Executive Council. is a member of one or more of the following organizations or bodies is a As the Diaconate serves the life of member of the B.S.U.: the Church, the the church so the Executive Council Sunday School, the Training Union, the serves and coordinates the work of Christian Service Groups, Y.W.A., the B.S.U. It is neither the whole of B.S.U. Religious Education Club, and the nor the sole reason for the existence Ministerial Association. of the Baptist Student Union. It fol- Experience has shown that on either lows natui'ally that the individual a local or a world-wide basis there is should not feel that one is not a part always a crucial need for an effective of B.S.U. unless he is a member of the unity within the church, and we may, Executive Council. say, within the Baptist Student Union. A position on the Council is to be Competition between the directors of desired, but not for the reason that it the various phases of activity would AprU, 1949 The Reveille lead to weakness. Disunity would tend been hidden by either of the previously to deny the fact of Christian fellowship mentioned attitudes we have missed and force the exponents of each phase many opportunities to advance the of the work into a one-sided emphasis kingdom of God which shall not re- upon its distinctive contribution to the turn. religious life of the students. To secure We have forgotten that of the many this unity is the job of the Executive calls which we may accept, none are Council. To use in an effective ministry comparable to God's call to Christian of Christian witnessing the unity thus service which will "secure within in- established is the obligation of every dividuals and society an ever-increasing student. practice of the attitudes toward God To amplify Christianity in the Sun- and man that were revealed in the life day School, Training Union, Vespers, and teachings of Jesus Christ." and every phase of B.S.U. activity re- The letters B.S.U. should symbolize quires the unceasing effort of everyone. to us God in human experience—an Unity may be attained at the top of experience of which all are a part, each the organization but it must grow from contributing whether as a member with every individual member if it is to be no ofBce, or as a Sunday School class useful and worthwhile. Lofty ideals president, or a secretary of a Training without propagation are all but worth- Union, or as a B.S.U. president. The less. The loyalty of the individual mem- work of God's kingdom calls to all of us. bers to the whole organization is the Mortar that will cement the entire B.S.U. into a living fellowship that stands for the spiritualization of life, the cause for which it had its origin.

Professor Wesner Fallaw of the And- over-Newton Theological School said of the church that "If people are in the church it is because the church has drawn them in, appealed to them, touched the deep places of their needs and woven them inseparably into the fellowship." If, as has been contended, the B.S.U. is the Church extended, this statement is equally true of the Bap- tist Student Union. The call of B.S.U. is the call for fellowship, brotherly love and service of the New Testament kind, not for coimcil members only, but for everyone. Some of us who are on the Executive Council have undoubtedly deprived our- selves and others of opportunities for fellowship, brotherly love, and service because we considered the B.S.U. as a Council-centered program. Others, not RETREAT SPEAKER on the Executive Council, have lost DR. J. WINSTON PEARCE will give those same opportunities because of the concluding address of the North their conception of B.S.U. as a Council- Carolina Spring Retreat at the Watts centered program. Someone has said, Street Church on April 23. Dr. Pearce "Hidden talent like hidden gold avail- was President of the North Carolina eth nothing." If our talents and worth- B.S.U. during his student days at Wake whileness to God and humanity have Forest College. 10 The Reveille April, 1949

Ecumenical Studenf Conference

By Leonard Morgan, Jr.

HISTORY was made in Lawrence, meeting and something along the line Kansas, home of Kansas Univer- is planned for our State Convention sity, during the Christmas holidays. next fall. The other level of discussion Starting with an address by Dr. J. A. in the Lawrence meeting was the sub- Mackay on December 27, the first Ecu- conferences. The group discussed per- menical Conference in America, at the sonal faith, the church and the Univer- student level, got under way. Prom that sity, the church and politics, or the opening session until Dr. Elton True- ecumenical movement. blood closed the conference on the fol- Those of us that were delegates there lowing Saturday, we as conference dele- saw a working example, an operating gates went from one interesting pro- model, of Ecumenicity and how it can gram to another even more interesting. work. We could see its advantages and The meeting was not a revival nor its disadvantages. Above all, we could was it a convention. It was not a pro- see that it is a good thing, and one gram planned to work up a lot of spirit that must work in North Carolina, as toward dropping denominational iden- in the world, if we are to approach the tifications or beliefs. It was, instead, a Utopia we seek. conference where a Southern Baptist Those of us from North Carolina could sit down with a Methodist, white asked ourselves questions on how we with black, American with European, could transfer the new enthusiasm to and discuss the vital basic questions a working organization here in North that are facing our culture today. We Carolina. What needs to be done, and could test the palpable ideas which we who is going to do it? To help work grew up with and see that these out an answer to the questions a stear- aphorisms of ours are not taking into in gcommittee for the North Carolina accoimt all that should be recorded Ecumenical Student Conference was within our Christian living. formed with Dr. Arnold Nash as honor- Not only could we check ideas, but we arary chairman; Jimmie Ray, Maxine ideas and profit the ex- could share by Garner, and Charlie McCoy as advisor; perience of our newly acquired friends. and myself as student chairman. We could also see in action the real This committee met on February 13, way of interdenominational cooperation. and then again on March 27. The plans We worked together as a conference for that we have now made call for a state- a week, but at the same time kept our wide student meeting sometime in the denominational identity. One thing after fall term of next year, probably after another came up to show that although our B.S.U. Convention. This meeting we must work together toward common will be opened to all students of all goals, we must each maintain our own denominations and should be one of denominationals. Each denomination the most revealing experiences in the has its part to contribute to the over- North Carolina student life. all picture—a picture that can be seen holds better when a long range view is taken. The Baptist Student Union now The entire program of the conference the leadership of this conference and was based on the advantages of dis- it is, therefore, up to all Baptist students cussion. Twice each day all the dele- to join in this work, new in the state gates were broken down into groups of and even newer in our denomination, ten to twenty where various topics were and show that the Baptists Student discussed from every possible angle. thinking organization with This part of the conference was con- Union is a

sidered by many as the highlight of the a power to get important things done. . April, 1949 The Reveille 13

A Faith To Live By

By J. Glenn Blackburn

can we receive the gift of Christ anc? MANY people think of religion as have a faith fit to live by. something you get and faith as One element in the faith of Christ something you have to carry. The term, was His confidence in God. In spite of faith, often represents a set of beliefs all that happened to Him, His confi- that are not related to life and make no dence in the power and love of God was contribution to the happiness and use- never shaken. He could live serenely fulness of the believer. and with rare courage because He Christ did not ask the fishermen what was trusting Himself to His Heavenly they believed or what they thought Father. He was truly "blessed" for He about Him. He simply said, "Follow knew that God was looking after His me." He offered them a way of life and life. Such security and peace of mind a faith to live by. He did not give them is for those who share His faith in a set of rules or any secret formula. He God. There is nothing that we need taught them and sent them out into quite so much as this. If only we could life to live. They caught from Him His be sure of God many of our fears would faith, and soon they had a faith pull- vanish. Our weak and hesitant lives ing them onward and making them would become bold testimonies and equal to every challenge. arresting examples of triumphant liv- Abraham Lincoln is reported to have ing. said in 1862, "The dogmas of the quiet Another element in the faith by which past are not adequate for the stormy Christ lived was His confidence in man. present. The occasion is piled high with His belief in the goodness of people and difficulties, and we must rise to the the possibilities of mankind was luiique. occasion. As our case is new, so must He was always passing by the obvious we think anew and act anew." Life is and going beneath the ugly to find defying our dogmas and asking for a something good, call it forth, and start faith that is related to human need. it on its way to overcoming the cheap People do not need theories, but they and the mean. It was His belief in need and want a faith that will lift people that must have helped Him and strengthen them. We need a faith exercise patience, show mercy, and work by which we can live with all our de- tirelessly for the ungrateful crowds. votion. A faith that is related to the This confidence in people is clearly deepest needs of people and of society illustrated by His choice of disciples. will be respected and quickly accepted No one would have expected any move- with gratitude. ment to succeed with such a board of Such a faith must be based upon an directors. The Master showed courage experience of God in our lives. In some as He ventured with fishermen and tax fields we are required to take knowl- collectors. His faith in them was a con- edge second hand, but we cannot live stant invitation to them to be their by the faith of our fathers unless it best. After many failures He went on becomes our faith. We cannot depend believing in them. At long last they upon heresay. We must know for our- came through, challenged so thoroughly selves. Only the individual who has by His confidence in them. opened his life to let God come in and Such a confidence in others contrib- do His work can know the meaning of utes greatly to our happiness and im- the Christian faith. Only as we surren- measurably to our usefulness. People der ourselves unconditionally to the are hungry to be believed in. Young work and leadership of the Holy Spirit people are desperate to be trusted. We 12 The Reveille April, 1949

are most like our Christ when we be- live by. Such a faith is contagious. lieve the best about people and live by Those who are transformed by it be- a confidence not only in God but in come world transformers. others. Some of us are not sure of God. We Many of us are the victims of life. do not have a faith by which we can We are defeated by circumstances, and live in confidence. Maybe it is because we live with a defeatist spirit. If we we have not wanted it. Perhaps we will keep our lives open to God and let have not been willing to accept the Him give us a Christ-like faith, we can will of God. To follow Christ is a walk through life confident of God and serious thing and the most important believing in others. thing in the world. But only in that The greatest job in the world awaits way will we find a faith that is ade- our taking. Experiencing the faith of quate. Only as we experience faith in Christ we will accept His commission Christ and the faith of Christ are we to bring all people and all of life imder prepared to live victoriously. This faith the reign of God's kingdom. When we can be ours if we want it. God will be- are ready to accept the will of God and come real when we vote for Him to be get into the center of it we will become so. When God can be sure of us, we the victors in life and have a faith to can be sure of God.

Summer Opportunities

By Glenn W. Fisher

"V¥7rHAT are you doing this summer? we put fenders on Cadillacs, helped build experimental models of Hudson W Would you like to spend it help- ing those less privileged than yourself? convertibles and similar jobs. One girl Would you like to train yourself for spent all day inside new Ford bodies Christian leadership? Would you like, which were being sprayed with water at the same time, to spend the most to check for leaks. We observed the enjoyable weeks of your life? If so, the working conditions and the attitudes work camp or summer service move- of worker and supervisor. We joined ment which is attracting thousands of the union and attended union meet- Christian students every summer will ings. interest you. In the evening we returned to the I spent last summer with a group of church to hear speakers and to discuss 31 students interested in studying the our experiences. We heard labor leaders problems of labor-management rela- tell of their objectives and methods. tions and the role that Christians can We heard the story of the period of play in solving the problems that arise. labor organization — labor spies, scabs, The seminar was sponsored by the sit-down strikes, and violence—from the Northern Baptist Convention. We lived, people who were there. We heard man- army-style, in the gymnasium of a agement representatives explain their Baptist Church in Detroit. The director personnel policies. was Dr. H. G. W. Smith, formerly Our director told of his experiences pastor of a leading Detroit church, now as a member of the Citizen's Committee, Associate Director of the Council on which listened to both sides of the Christian Social Progress, Northern General Motors strike in 1946. Their Baptist Convention. reconmiendations had a part in settling We spent eight hours a day in the this strike which almost paralyzed the automobile plants of the city where life of the city in 1946. We heard of April, 1949 The Reveille 13 the part which Christians, as ministers, and to participate in courses on the as union members, and as businessmen, problems of these institutions and their can play in bringing justice and peace inmates. to industrial relations. A seminar in Washington, D. C, On week-ends we forgot our blisters known as a Student-In-Government and sore muscles to go on picnics with Seminar operates on a plan similar to the young people of the church, or to that of the Student-In-Industry Semi- go to concerts and plays. On Sundays nars. we sometimes went to a nearby church Siunmer projects are sponsored by to tell a group about our project or to many organizations. The American lead a worship service. Friends Service Committee and the At the end of the summer we all National Intercollegiate Christian Coun- agreed that we had received new in- cil (student YMCA and YWCA) have sight into the problems of a city and been pioneers in the movement. Almost the part that the Christian ethic can every major denomination sponsors at play in the work-a-day work in which least a few projects, most of them we live. open to members of all denominations. Student-In-Industry Seminars are All are religiously oriented, although only one type of summer project. Work the emphasis on formal religious ex- camps are intended primarily as a pression varies from project to project. means of contributing aid to construc- The cost varies. Many ask the stu- tion projects. Playgrounds, church build- dents to contribute something toward ings, school buildings, hospitals and his living expenses. If you want to go libraries are built or repaired. These to France the cost will be over $500.00. projects are located in under-privileged The cost of projects in this country areas or areas where disaster has struck, ranges around fifty or sixty dollars plus both in this country and abroad. transportation. Scholarships are some- For those who prefer to teach in times available and some projects, vacation Bible schools or conduct wor- especially the Student - In - Industry, ship services, opportunities are offered Student- In- Government, and the In- in locations varying from some of the stitutional Service Units offer a chance most sparcely settled regions of Wyo- to earn expenses and to save something ming to the most overcrowded sections for next year's school expenses. It should of Harlem. be emphasized, however, that these pro- Institutional Service Projects offer the jects are intended as religious, educa- opportunity to work in understaffed tional, and service groups and students mental hospitals and penal institutions who are interested only in the money as full-time, paid members of the staff to be earned are not desired.

Campus Evangelism As I See It

By Warren Turner

THE rarest virtue among men is students say they are saved and know consistency. So rare is it that it. We need more students who are someone has said, "Consistency, thou saved and show it. I believe the new art a jewel." birth to be a demonstrable experience. In order to have a successful program Devout Christians down through the of evangelism on our campuses, we ages have demonstrated the new birth must be consistent, living examples of in such a way that the world could see the new birth. We have countless advo- that a miracle had taken place in their cates of the regenerated life, but too lives. It was said of the early apostles few illustrations of it are seen. Many that the multitudes took knowledge that 14 The Reveille April, 1949

they had been with Jesus and had appearing from the lives of Christian learned of Him. students. We are doing most of our I have a conviction that ordinary, soul winning by proxy: we leave it to perfunctory Christianity is not enough the student secretary, college chaplain, in these days. Moral Christian living or the evangelist, but the world is not might have been an impressive testi- impressed too much by such a ministry mony for our grandparents, but not for unless it sees salvation demonstrated us; we must have something deeper, individually in the lives of Christian something beyond moral living. The students. world must see that we have been Born-again students are God's ad- with Jesus, the Son of the Living God, vertisement to win others to His way and have learned of Him. of life. I believe there is a very definite In order for students to be impress- hunger for God in every heart and it ed they must see consistent Christian is our responsibility so to live that we living in us. Somehow the average stu- shall attract our classmates to the Son is not dent impressed by our mere pro- of God and make them hungry for the fession or by our "Sunday Service" for Bread of Life. When we have done this, God. wants to daily He know about our we will have campus evangelism par living, and when that is in keeping excellence. with our profession and our service, "Now my thought is for the souls of then he will believe that we really have men, been born again, because he sees demon- strations of the new nature in our I have lost my life to find it again, daily living. Ere since one day in a quiet place, Perhaps the best sign of our re- I met the Master face to face." generation is the desire and willing- "Ye are my witnesses," says Jesus. ness to win others. This desire or zeal Let Him demonstrate His salvation for the lost seems to be rapidly dis- through us.

We Have A High Calling

By Marjorie Toole

THE youth among Southern Baptists lotte, North Carolina, dropped this idea for many generations now have into the discussion that if we believe been bombarded with the idea that God God has called the preacher to his "calls" certain ones into "full-time task then we must believe also that Christian service" meaning into the those who work in the monotonous ministry, missionary work, or denomi- jobs, even at the looms of the textile national jobs. If all the young people mills, are called. who, at one time or another, have Any work that is plainly necessary to dedicated themselves publicly for "full- the ongoing of life, that serves God and time Christian service" were now en- one's neighbor is worthy of being a gaged in that type of work our churches God-called task. It is dangerous for us would be supporting something of a to hold to the idea that only ministers Baptist "W.P.A." are "men of God" or "called by God." Does God call men to be truck drivers, This suggests to us that being in re- farmers, or engineers? Several years ligious work is the only way a man can ago in a seminar at a B.S.U. Conven- earn a living and still live by the teach- tion, Dr. George Heaton, Pastor of the ings of Jesus. While it is true that many Myers Park Baptist Church in Char- must do this type of work yet they need April, 1949 The Reveille 15

very special reason for doing so, as it about being good stewards of our mate- offers a rather artificial type of life. rial possessions. Much more emphasis So often it has been preached to us is laid on how we use our money than that our true vocation as believers is on how we earn it. We take it for grant- to live the Christian way and that our ed that no Christian is going to make jobs are really our vocations. The ex- his living by gambling, bartending, etc., ample always used is that of William but at the same time we do not voice Carey the missionary. He said, "My any objection to the "money-mad" or business is doing Grod's work, but I unscrupulous businessman if he con- cobble shoes to pay expenses." Some- tributes generously to the church. one has said that Carey's first duty Too long Christians have accepted as was to do a good job of mending those decent many business practices that are shoes! Students are guilty of practicing damaging society. This presents a chal- this philosophy for on every campus lenge to the student preparing to be a we have those who do their B.S.U. jobs "full-time Christian" businessman. It with zeal but who study in a hap- is easy to see that the most powerful hazard way. influence felt in the world outside the Jesus had a work to do that was his church is the effort of Christian people own special task and while accomplish- in their secular vocations. ing his mission he met the conditions Even when we have acknowledged the imposed. We are not expected to pat- claim that God has on the choice of our tern our lives after the way in which life work it is not an easy matter to he met the conditions of his work, but find our particiolar task. After examin- rather we are to give the same degree ing our aptitudes and interests, talking of devotion and submission to the will to wise friends, and studying the fields of God in the work that he asks us to we should be able to find the place in do. This realization gives us the sense which we can best serve. Dr. John R. that whatever be our appointed job, it Mott has given this brief comment on is a holy one and worthy of the best a call, "A need known and the capacity preparation and effort. to meet that need; that constitutes a In our churches we talk a great deal call."

Student Action In Race Relations

By J. C. Herrin

THE Interracial Baptist Student proposed to set up a state student Forum, held at Shaw University legislature to dramatize much-needed April 2-3, marked another milestone legislation and to gain experience in along the road which Baptist students the practice of democracy. The only in North Carolina have been travelling mistake they made was to invite stu- towards a better understanding of one dents from all colleges in North Caro- of the South's most vexing problems. lina to meet in the Capitol in Raleigh. While graciously accepting the admoni- The resistance to bringing together tion not to "go too fast," Baptist stu- Negro and white citizens was wide- dents, not content with doing nothing, spread enough to force the realization have been working out a program for that democracy could have different going slow. interpretations put upon it. A very few years ago North Carolina Baptist student leaders took active students were jolted into a serious study part in these sessions and found them- of "the American Dilemma" when they selves squarely up against a real dilem- 16 The Reveille April, 1949

ma. If democratic ideals were hard to When the Convention met in the fall practice, what of the Christian truths of last year 1948, the motion was made about brotherhood and the Kingdom of to assvime from henceforward that all God. After much serious study and colleges in the state were invited to prayer it was decided to bring up the participate in Baptist Student confer- question of interracial meeting of stu- ences. We now have invitations to dent minds at the Southwide Student Watts Street Church, Durham, for our Retreat at Ridgecrest. Three years ago Spring Retreat and to First Baptist the subject was discussed in open forum Church in Winston-Salem for our Fall and 2000 out of the 2400 present voted Convention. These churches under- to invite Negro students. Since the Sun- stand and approve of our plans. day School Board has supervised over It is now time for a full and frank Ridgecrest, student expression by it- discussion discussion of the problems in- self was not a determining factor. volved in achieving on a deeper level North Carolina students, however, of understanding, what we have cleared continued to study and pray and foimd as a matter of policy. Since we are themselves discussing an interracial committed to work together as Christ- state convention. The First Church in ian youth, we need to become better High Point invited the convention to acquainted with each other. The long use their church and 1947 in the fall traditional pattern of segregation has saw a group of earnest, sincere Christ- erected barriers of mind and spirit that ian students in conference, worshipping must be penetrated. As we meet to- and working, having fellowship and fun. gether, come to know each other, the The Spring Retreat the following year problems that all face alike, we will was interracial, meeting in the College enter a new era when to label a Christ- Park Church in Greensboro. One of ian gathering as "interracial" will be as the Negro delegates was nominated for state office but was not well known as redimdant and unnecessary as it is now yet to receive a majority of votes. a contradiction of terms.

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PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA B.S.U. n^c 'R.etAeiUe

A Journal of Baptist Student Life

Volume XI SEPTEMBER, 1949 Number 2

EDITOR

H. R. Caldwell, Jr N. C. State College, Raleigh

STATE OFFICE HEADQUARTERS 119 Hillsboro Street Raleigh, N. C.

i James W. Ray, State Secretary

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' STATE OFFICERS

Eugene Ensley, President Wake Forest College Coleman Hanson, 'Enlistinent Vice President Appalachian Jo Brooks, Social Vice President Woman's College Edlyn Freerks, Devotional Vice President University of N. C William Worley, Extension Vice President Shaw University H. R. Caldwell, Jr., Publicity Director N. C. State Bill Bonham, Secretary-Treasurer E.C.T.C Caroly'n Massey, Literature Chairman Meredith Kenneth Archer, Micsic Director Gardner-Webb

STUDENT SECRETARIES

Edith Arrington, Baptist Hospital Roberts C. Lasater, State College Gloria Blanton, E.C.T.C. Charles McConnell, W.C.T.C. Harvie Brewington, Pembroke Peggy Greene, W.C.U.N.C. Billie Ruth Currin, Meredith Klein E. Parkes, Duke Eli Galloway, Wake Forest Texie Sowers, Campbell J. C. Herrin, U.M.C. Marjorie Toole, A.S.T.C.

CONTRIBUTORS

Dr. E. McNeill Poteat is pastor of the PuUen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh . . Rober H. Ayers is former State B.S.U. Secretary for South Carolina, at present he i

Head of the Department of Religion at the University of Georgia . . . Edlyn Freerks is president of the B.S.U. Council of the University of N. C. . . . Leslie Campbell is presi- dent of Campbell College . . . Bob Poerschke is Minister of Education, Youth Department,

Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte . . . Leonard Morgan, Jr., is former State B.S.U

President . . . Vivian Parks is former B.S.U. president at U.N.C. . . . Eugene Ensley is present State B.S.U. President. EDITORIALS

RESPONSE TO EXPERIMENTAL Winston- Salem and the host campuses ISSUE will be Salem College and the Nurses

This is the second issue of the and Med. students at North Carolina's REVEILLE in its new form. The first Baptist Hospital. issue was an experimental issue, and it We've tried hard to avoid conflicts was the outcome of a great deal of hard with football games; of the big "Four" work and planning on the part of the only University of North Carolina has retiring editor. Thanks to Ann, and to a home game on that weekend. A record all that had a hand in giving us a good attendance is anticipated for the Con- start on this undertaking. vention's opening session Friday even- In response to the experimental issue ing at the church. Prom its beginning we received approximately one hundred through the benediction on Sunday flfty cards from students, twelve or fif- morning following the message by host teen letters from non-students, and a pastor Dr. Ralph Herring, every session multiple number of verbal compliments will be full of addresses conferences, from both students and non-students. music, Bible study, devotions, food, fun, All had constructive and complimentary and fellowship. Approximately 30 cam- suggestions as to size and content. puses are expected to send delegations To keep the magazine in its present to Winston-Salem. form and make it the best magazine of The following program personalities its kind as we are endeavoring to do, will will be featured during the three day certainly require some work. session: Dr. Claude U. Broach, pastor In the experimental issue about half St. Johns Baptist Church, Charlotte; of the articles was written by non-stu- Dr. Olin T. Binkley, Professor of Sociol- dents. It will be necessary to have a few ogy, Southern Seminary, Louisville; Dr. of these writers contribute articles for Franklin Young, Professor of Theology, each issue, but our wishes are to have Duke University, Durham; Dr. Richard more students sending in articles. If you T. Howerton, former State B.S.U. Secre- have anything that you would like to tary, now pastor First Baptist Church, say to the Baptist students of North Lincolnton; Mr. Bob Poerschkle, minis- Carolina, please do so by publishing it ter of education. Youth Department, in the REVEILLE. Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte; We reserve all rights as to whether and several others. YOU'LL BE SORRY or not the articles will be published. IF YOU MISS THIS CONVENTION! HRCjr Council Presidents, Student Secre- NEEDED taries and Faculty Advisors are urged to We have had many requests for the set a goal for attendance from each REVEILLE to have some news and not campus. Charter buses, provide ample contain all articles as was the experi- number of private cars, or use regular mental issue. train or bus, and/or 'Air ye goin' my This matter will have to be taken up, way?' schedules to get to Wtnston- discussed, and voted on at our Fall Con- Salem on October 28, 19, 30. This will be vention. It would probably be possible the fifth statewide interracial meeting for the last two pages to be used for a under the sponsorship of the Baptist short article or news flash from each of Student Union. the campuses. MAKE RESERVATIONS EARLY ! ! HRCjr The homes of the members of the host B.S.U. FALL CONVENTION church will be opened to entertain In a little over one month after regis- messengers. The registration fee is $1.00 trations, rush week, etc, and right in per person, and may be paid when reser- the middle of football season comes the vation is made. Address all reservations high light for Baptist students from all to James W. Ray, 119 Hillsboro Street, North Carolina campuses . . . THE BSU Raleigh, North Carolina. PLEASE CONVENTION, October 28, 29, 30. The MAKE RESERVATIONS ON OR BE- host church is the First Baptist Church, FORE OCTOBER 20. The Reveille September, 1949

The Barden Bi

By Dr. E. McNeill Poteat gered at many points by ideological con- troversies. Simply because Protestants (EDITOR'S NOTE: Since the BAR- are more numerous than Catholics no DEN BILL has not been settled or more makes us a Protestant nation than disposed of, and is, therefore, still the numerical preponderance of wo- of great interest and concern (or men makes us a female country. Let us should be) to every college student, keep this fact clear if we do not want we are carrying the following article to fall into the dangerous trap the which appeared in the July 27 issue Cardinal—purposely or carelessly—has of the BIBLICAL RECORDER. set for us. We repeat: only in a nation With the permission of Dr. Poteat where the State-Church alliance is fixed and the editor of the BIBLICAL can we give a religious character to RECORDER the article is reprinted matters that concern the administration verbatim.) of the State's affairs. Of course there is a characteristically Protestant culture in Mr. Graham Barden, Representative the United States, but that is another in Congress from North Carolina's Third matter. District, has found himself the target of a vigorous attack by the head of the Conflict of Ideals Roman Catholic hierarchy in the United With this understanding we can see States aided and abetted by lesser dig- the controversy over the Barden Bill for nitaries of this church. The familiar and what it is: a conflict between two con- increasingly tiresome charge of "bigot" ceptions of the locus of responsibility for has arisen out of his sponsorship of H.R. general education and the manner of its 4643, a House Bill providing for Federal support. On the one hand our democra- aid to elementary and secondary schools. tic concept concedes to the State that right and responsibility of educating its Propoganda children in public schools. Opposed tc We are told by the hierarchy that this this is the Roman Catholic view that bill is anti-Catholic and un-American, the State has no such right, educatior and the attack against its author seeks being primarily the responsibility of the to place the controversy it has excited Church. This is explicitly set forth in a in the category of religious quarrel. It pamphlet by Paul L. Blakely, S.J., bear- is, of course, nothing of the kind, having ing the imprimatur of the late Cardina! simply and solely a concern with the Hayes, Archbishop of New York. Fathei allocation of federal funds to public Blakely states that a Catholic "can fine schools. The attempt to confuse this no tolerance for the opinions now almost political and educational issue by calling universal in this country that educatior a Catholic-Protestant fight is an old belongs primarily to the civil power, thai startagem and we must not allow it to the schools belong to the State." Canor deflect us from the real issue and into Law — 374 states: "Catholic childrer unseemely religious bickering. Careless must not attend non-Catholic, neutra references to it as a Protestant-Catholic or mixed schools; that is, such as are fight are already appearing in news open to non-Catholics." With suclr stories. This is partly because there is forthright consistency the Romar an unclear understanding that often re- Church acts on this theory and de- fers to the United States as a Protestant mands that its faithful adherents dc nation. Such language is that of those the same: "The first duty of an Ameri- who identify Church and State. France can Catholic father to the public schoo can say Spain is a Catholic country, but is 'to keep his children out of it . . we must insist that America is a demo- and not to pay taxes for its mainte^ cratic country. The moment we depart nance.' " This is also from Fathe; from that basis concept we are endan- Blakely's pamphlets. September, 1949 The Reveille

This then is the crux of the current First Amendment. Mr. Barden's bill is argument. That the latter theory is so drawn as to fall within the provisions held by a church does not make the con- of the Constitution. As has been estab- troversy a religrious one. It is a political lished in at least the Everson Case, measure dealing with public education Cardinal Spellman's claims for general and nothing more. and equal aid to the Catholic Church are not within the provisions of the Strategy Shifted Constitution.

Since 1919, when the first bill for Roman Catholic Argument federal aid to public schools was intro- duced into the Senate, the Roman The Roman Catholic argument which Church has consistently opposed a fed- always follows a blast at the bigots who eral aid on the basis, we assume, of the will not write legislation to suit the Canon Law referred to above. Of late, heirarchy sounds plausible. They share however, the strategy—if not the Canon the burden of the elementary and se- Law—has shifted. Now the hierarchy is condary education of American children. strong for federal aid if such aid can Some two million are in their private be allocated to private (parochial) and religious schools. These schools exist by public schools alike. The Barden Bill, right and are in a measure integrated specifically states in Section 7: Defini- (in the matter of supervision for credit, tion (3), "the term public and secondary etc.) into our elementary school system. schools means tax - supported grade Why, they ask, should not American schools and high schools which are un- money be available for the support of der public supervision and control." In their schools? Roman Catholics pay other words, it proposes that no private twice for their children's schooling: schools—whether church schools, trade taxes for public schools their children schools, or whatever—shall receive pub- are forbidden by Canon Law to attend, lic funds for their support. and church levies for the private schools they are required to attend and which This is not un-American, as the hier- a majority of them do not attend. Costs archy noisily insists, unless the First and are mounting; the Federal Government Fourteenth Amendments to the Consti- should not discriminate. Thus they tution are un-American. Mr. Justice plead. Jackson of the U. S. Supreme Court in the famous Everson case in New Jersey The facts are: First, it is not Govern- stated in his dissenting opinion: "Catho- ment that discriminates; it is the lic education is the rock on which the Church which erects, owns, and sup- whole structure rests, and to render tax ports schools in which differences are aid to its church school is indistinguish- scrupulously maintained and sedulously able to me from rendering the same aid cultivated. Secondly, their burden of to the church itself ... If these prin- double taxation was not created by the ciples seem harsh in prohibiting aid to Government but by the Church. It Catholic education, it must not be for- could be lifted tomorrow, if the hier- gotten that it is the same Constitution archy wanted to, by the closing of all that alone assures Catholics the right parochial schools. The Government to maintain these schools at all when would then have to assume the total predominant local sentiment would for- educational load. The position of our bid them." (Pierce v. Society of Sisters, democratic school system is clear; pub- 268 U.S. 510.) lic funds for public schools. Since Mr.

On this point all the Justices agreed; Barden specifies this in his bill, he is their disagreement was at another point. abused by the Cardinal as "the new bigotry." It is therefore clear that as the present apostle of rulings of our highest court stand. It is not always safe to give reasons Catholic schools are religious schools for the actions of those who oppose us, and to support them with public funds but in this case the meaning of the at- is violative of the clear intention of the tack on H.R. 4643 is fairly clear. If this ':

6 The Reveille September. 1949 political question can be made to appear Thus the public school system would be to be a religious question, people on both weakened by the competitive rivalry of sides will be drawn into bitterness and all sorts of private schools. In either highly emotional controversy. This will case, therefore, the ideal of the Roman tend to divert attention from the real hierarchy of church-controlled educa- issue, and the merits of legislative pro- tion (Church and State united in educa- posals for federal aid to education will tion) stands to win. In one way they at- not be adequately discussed. There is tempt to forestall federal aid unless they another factor, less clear, but certainly participate; however, should they parti- not absent from the Catholic heirarchy's cipate, they way will be open for all purview. Canon Law—374 states the private educational interests to come in Church's position respecting public ed- and by milking the public purse, reduce ucation under state control. This general public educational funds to the vanish- disapprobation must extend to the parti- ing point. cular system we support in America. It This is the question involved in tne : is not unfair to say that the Roman Barden Bill. To make it a religious quar- Church does not approve of public edu- rell is clever tactics but an absurd state- cation by the State; they say so them- ment of the issue. That there are many i selves. Is it illogical to assume then that Catholic lay members who see the issue . they hope, in the long run, to displace as it is has been disclosed by the not it, by their own statement, if not indeed inconsiderable protest that has arisen to destroy it? This they deny: and yet from them against the Cardinal's out- if this were their ultimate intention, burst. They have no more taste for ugly t their veto of aid to public education un- religious controversy than we. If we less their private schools are also sub- keep the issue where it is, we shall be i sidized would be a very good way to doing a real service to the lay Catholics bring it about. who are more and more turning to pub- More Support Needed lic schools and expressing their resent- fulness against the hierarchy's domi- Public schools must have more gene- neering attitude. rous support if they are to fulfill their We must not forget that this a a dem- function in our democracy. By so much ocratic country. That means all groups as democracy would suffer by inade- and all individuals should have equal quate support of schools, democracy rights before the law. It does not mean would be weakened all along the line. that issues raising When the Roman hierarchy speaks of can be settled by democracy, it does not mean what we smoke-screens and crying bigot, discrim- mean. Furthermore, if public funds were ination, or anti-this and that. Let's keep allocated to any private school, all pri- our heads, and write Mr. Barden, if we vate schools would probably seek them. agree with him.

The B.S.U. Secretary

By Robert H. Ayers

RIDDLE: When is a secretary not a nor yet are they stenographers taking secretary? Answer: When he is a dictation. Rather they are the ministers B.S.U. Secretary. This is but a fecetious or servants of students. way of saying that the title of Southern Often the Student Secretary has been Baptist Student workers does not accu- called a spiritual coach. Recently I rately describe their work. They are watched a coach direct his team in certainly not desks upon which to write, spring practice. He was the absolute September, 1949 The Reveille dictator on the field. He told the boys of Yale Divinity School in his book, what they must or must not do. Their The Church Follows Its Students, has advice was not sought and there was suggested, "He (the Student Secretary) no hint of mutual give and take. should have an understanding of the In this sense of the word, the Student historical and philosophical problems of Secretary is not a spiritual coach. He religion. His preparation should be is no dictator, spiritual or otherwise, grounded in the basic studies of a telling the students what they must or theological curriculum." This author must not do. He is rather a counselor, also states that in addition to the three giving guidance primarily through in- years of theological training beyond the direct means. A. B., the Student Secretary ought to The good counselor is one who never have a year's study in the social sciences attempts to force his personality nor and psychology. his solution of problems upon others. In addition, there ought to be some He has high regard for the personality first hand knowledge of the devotional of others. In personal conferences he literatures of the ages, and a keen in- is cautious about giving advice. He helps sight into the principles of real wor- the student to come to an understand- ship. An understanding of the Bible is ing of his own problem and to work another basic necessity. Any graduate through it. This same approach he uses training which does not touch upon with individuals and with groups. He these fields is simply inadequate. realizes that, of necessity, individuals One thing is certain, the Student or groups "must work out their own Secretary should never feel that his salvation." His guidance is primarily of training and study is ever complete, the non-directive type. but should avail himself of every op- To be sure, the Student Secretary portunity to take refresher courses. must have some firm convictions, but A person who has a deep personal these he never attempts to force upon faith in the living Christ and an in- his students. Neither does he feel that telligent grasp of the relationship of he has the last word on truth, but with this faith to the world, aided and abet- open mind, continues to grow in his ted by a sound scholastic background, spiritual understanding and intellectual can make a mighty impact upon a grasp of truth. college campus for the Kingdom of God. More important than a knack of This background will give him the re- promoting methods and techniques is spect of faculty and administration. He a first-hand knowledge of the best will gain their confidence and coopera- thought in religion and sociology. Be- tion, and even lead them to higher ginning with a deep conviction in the levels of Christian thinking and ex- unique revelation of God in Jesus perience. Christ, the Student Secretary seeks to The whole atmosphere of a campus understand the implications of this can be changed by such a student unique fact in relationship to our so- worker. Religion will be held in respect ciety. No matter how expert he may by even those students not actively be at the technique of promotion or at participating in the religious groups. the planning of attractive programs, It will not be looked upon as inferior the Student Secretary is of little use if because the representative of religion he is unable to shed some light on the on the campus is able to hold his own basic intellectual and religious prob- with the best intellects of both faculty lems that concern students. and students. Moreover, students will In light of this, then, the basic re- be won to a vital faith in Jesus Christ quirement for Student Secretaries is at because the Student Secretary is able least some graduate theological study to interpret the significance of this and, preferably, a degree from a theo- faith for the totality of the student's logical seminary. Dr. Clarence P. Shedd life. '

The Reveille September, 1949

The Chrisfian Student

By Edlyn Freerks,

President of B.S.U. CouncU—U.N.C.

"vyrHEN Christian parents recom- the existence of God and His ultimate W mend a college or university to authority over all forces in the universe. their sons and daughters, one factor In studying the arts and social sciences which will determine their choice is the he knows that it is the will of the presence of a religious atmosphere at Father that all of man's relationships the school. In denominational schools to his fellowman should be based on organized religious life is taken for truth, justice and mercy. This student granted, while in state - supported looks upon his entire learning as an schools such an assumption cannot be aid to better Christian living and ser- made. However, many devout Christian vice, regardless of the particular field parents send their children to state in which he is specializing. universities with the expectation that In his social life he generally be- the son or daughter will not only retain haves like any other normal person who previous Christian teaching, but will enjoys fellowship and recreation. On also acquire new knowledge in other some occasions, however, he politely but fields which will make their religious unmistakably refuses to take part in training and experience more mean- those activities which are wrong or ingful. It is obvious that public schools questionable from the standpoint of with their mixtures of the good and the Christian principles of life and action. bad influences more nearly resemble the The Christian student is not inactive outside world in which the student will in extracurricular activities. He partici- some day be a citizen. pates freely in athletics and in tha Suppose, then, that we center our various clubs according to his abilities attention on a young lady or gentle- and interests, but he gives particular man who has grown up in Christian attention to the program of his church surroundings and is now enrolled in a and its student group. He does his part state university like UNC. Let us as- in promoting the spiritual welfare of sume further that this person is Christ- his fellow students. ian in thought and deed, as well as in Finally, for the Christian student, name. the years spent in college are the most Scholastically, this student realizes exciting and useful of his entire life, that since his mental abilities were since it is on the campus that friend- endowed by God, his Creator, nothing ships are formed, decisions are made, less than the highest in scholarly at- discipline is acquired, and knowledge tainment is satisfactory to him. In ac- is obtained, that will enrich his life and quiring knowledge in the natural sci- equip him for Christian leadership ences, the Christian student presupposes throughout life.

Value of B.S.U. as Seen by a College President By Leslie Campbell

ANY critical appraisal of current support of some such over-all religious B. S. U. programs, such as request- organization, the Administrator's hercu- ed by our State leaders, to be both lian task of conducting a Christian in- "serious and sincere" must begin with stitution to-day would be infinitely an acknowledgement that without the more perplexing. However widely the September, 1949 The Reveille lollege administration and the unifying his youthful idealism in the steady religious organization among the stu- grind of must activities. After all, he dents may differ at times as to policies has cut for him a definite job to perform and techniques, we should remember that is never done, and his success or that the ultimate objective for both failure depends upon getting results. He groups is the same. To that end, the believes in worship periods even if he purpose of this discussion is a fuller is not always present for the full calen- understanding of oiu" task, leading to a dar of student religious activities. His loser working relationship between goal in all probabilitiy is a Christian these two indispensable allies in a holy college, but on every hand there are ause. immediate, pressing problems to be That differences as to what constitute solved. If good seeds of spiritual truth genuine Christian living and how to get are to grow, the weeds must be uprooted. there should exist between groups as far Christian virtues cannot flourish in the apart in experience and spiritual hori- midst of dishonesty, personal impurity, zons as faculty and student groups is and other forms of unrighteousness. not surprising. Probably the points of From his station down in the valley the view of neither are all right or all administrator at times feels like crying wrong. Quite naturally the exuberant, out for help to those on the mountain. are-free spirit of youth delights in In other words, the realistic adminis- mountain-top experiences where visions trator is prone to insist that beyond of transfigured spirits dwell. Who doubts coordination of existing activities, we after all but that Mary rather than must together attack the problem of Martha chose the better part? But since integrating all campus life for the glory life inevitably strikes its depressions, the of God. Calendar-building is important, inward urge for continuation of these but the yard stick for measui'ing B.S.U. spiritual thrills on the heights some- success will ever be character-building. times results in such artificial stimu- The golden rule is productive of holier lants as "singspirations" and "pep" living only as it is reinterpreted and talks. Moreover, one imagines that these applied to present situations. Prayer is young knights of the Round Table, cap- indispensable to successful Christian tivated by the charms of court life at living, but only that prayer is effectual times manifest a bit of impatience with that culminates in a willingness to help the insistent call of commonplace duties answer the petition, however hard and on the lower levels, such as rebuking distasteful the task. Not for less genuine evil and correcting wrongs in campus piety, but for more courage on the part behavior. of students and faculty alike in uproot- The school administrator, on the ing evil among us is the administrator's other hand, has often lost the edge off prayer.

A College Church Education Program

By Bob Poerschke

Against the confusion and difficulty students who attend them must rethink of nine months residency, frequent trips their program of Christian nurture if away on week ends, strenuous study re- ever it is to have any degree of real suc- quirements, and extensive extracurricu- cess. lar activities the education program for College community churches have young people in a college community long felt that the student could be "en- church struggles with real difficulty. It listed" if enough pressure and publicity IS obvious that these churches and the were brought to bear on him. These 10 The Reveille September, 194'. advertising to the frequent neglect of presenting the God of truth can furthei staff and program. Work with a college such an understanding. It is the stu- religious group requires competent direc- dent's responsibility to himself to seeh tion. There is a need for leadership that information in every area of life—thai knows Christian truth of the caliber he may not remain immature and il- that is taught in our seminaries. It literate at any one point. must be leadership that has an interest Nor does the student's responsibilitj and ability to establish rapport with the stop with himself. He is a debtor, ever college student and which is capable of in his opportunity of study in the col- giving direction to a program so dyna- lege or university in which he is enrol- mic and so applicable to living that the led, to the church for the privilege ol students will seek the program rather higher learning. He owes thanks to the' than that they will have to be sought church and Christianity for his exist for the program. ing legal setup, for the idea of public Traditional mechanics of religious ed- welfare, for the hospitals and every sort ucation may have to be broken. Some of community care which has grown out situations may require co-educational of the idea of Christian brotherhood activity. In some instances the time of These things he must realize and fee] meetings may have to be changed to obligated for. such a time when frequent absences His expression of obligation need not' from the college and community will take the form of blind devotion. As the not hinder attendance. The mechanics student enters the activity of the churcl: of meeting at meal time may prove the he should seek, in a friendly spirit, tc answer in some situations. Content of find better ways of presenting the truth: program must be evaluated thoroughly better ways to keep his own and the in order that the material under consi- interest of others close to the church; deration will meet the interest and felt better ways in which the felt needs oJ' need of the group. Always the church students may be met. He should seei must seek the suggestions of the stu- out the minister and the leaders of hi' dents in order that meaningful service group as he would "cultivate" his pro- may be rendered them. The pastor may fessors, and feel free to use them as £ want to consider taking upon himself means to an understanding of ethical the responsibility of directing the stu- moral and religious fact. dent group since he is best able to meet The student has a right to expect thf the requirements they would expect to church to "wake up" to his needs, bui have filled. In such capacity he would the church has a right to ask the stu- establish a relationship which would dent to "wake up" to the fact of hi; promote personal conferences and coun- non-support. Our students, in the hurrj selling opportunities. of campus life, have found, too often But the church is not to be charged that they are in the "Will Rogers pre- with all the responsibility. The students, dicament" of "having so many irons ii being thinking individuals, must also the fire that the fire's gone out." Foi give consideration to the problem of the sake of student and church and ir establishing a competent program of order that the program of religious edu- religious education. A student seeking cation may become significant, the truth and knowledge must not limit "irons" that are removed in order tha himself to the classroom and laboratory. the fire of adequate and successful cam-, He must be concerned, not only with pus living may continue to burn brighth the "how" and "when" of the universe and its function, but he must look be- must not be the iron of participatioi hind the scenes to discover the "who" and support in all the church sponsors! and "why." The mechanical aspects of churches have followed the pattern o; living are important but the ethical, thinking that students will be interested moral and religious must be considered in and have time for anything and sc: for the directive of life. Only the church. have placed stress upon enrollment anc Sepleniber, 1949 The Reveille 11

Hawaii, 1949

There were fourteen of us B.S.U.'ers, the sacrifices required of them to live lix boys and eight girls, representing the for Christ ; some are forced to surrender Baptist students of Alabama, Arkansas, their family ties in order to serve him. Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennes- Many are persecuted to the extent that see, Texas, Florida, and North Caro- they are beaten because of attending lina in the Hawaiian Islands for sum- church while others go home and find mer mission work. they have been locked out. Still they We left Los Angeles on Saturday, keep the faith and live with the desire June 11, and traveled the 2000 miles of for their parents to see Christ through Pacific Ocean in about nine hours on them and accept him as their master. the mammoth Pan American Clipper. A devoted Christian Japanese girl As we were winging our way among the told me that her family returns yearly beautiful clouds our minds were filled to her father's grave on which they with wonder of what was in store for leave food to be consumed by his spirit. us, who would meet us, and what would Because she will not join them in the be the actions of the Islanders. Darkness worship of her father the mother had fallen and our hearts gave an screams and says "you do not love extra leap when we saw the colorful your family any more." In other cases lights of Honolulu in the distance. As the parents see the difference Christ we left the plane we were met by the has made in the lives of their children sound of laughter and saw a host of and seek him also. missionaries and islanders in the gate- After this first week at Kokoahi we way. With smiles that radiated their summer workers received assignments wonderful Christian spirit they greeted to the different islands. Some stayed on us and placed beautiful leis around our Oahu while others went to Kauai, Molo- necks. kai, and Maui. My co-worker. Bob On Simday we visited the four Roberson from Alabama, and I were chiu-ches on Oahu. We taught Sunday assigned to the Nuuanu Baptist Church School classes, preached, led singing, in Honolulu for three weeks, and then and played the piano. to the Hilo Baptist Church in Hilo, The next day we left Honolulu for Hawaii for the remainder of the sum- the Kokokahi ("Little Ridgecrest") mer. Bible Conference and spent a week in Hawaii is the largest island of the activities similar to those carried on at group and has a population of 78,870 Ridgecrest. About 150 missionaries and people. The most varied floral growth young people had come from the differ- and cultivated areas are here and the ent islands for this Bible Conference. largest number of religions, from the Here I was counselor of a group of modern Christian churches to the Chinese and Japanese girls. Ancient Pegan Temple. The Hilo Bap- In this friendly atmosphere we got tist Church is the only Baptist church acquainted with the nationals and the on this island, and it was organized missionaries. Here we were on a rain- November 17, 1946. The missionary's bow island among the coconut palm home in which I lived at Hilo, had trees, blooming poinciana trees, and orchids growing in the front yard and beautiful flowers such as the "bird of bananas in the back. paradise," "plumeria," "hibiscus," "or- Hawaii has active volcanoes and live chid," and "anthurium." Even so, my craters. A group of us hiked down into most lasting impression was made by Kilewa ike crater which was last active the consecrated young people who have in 1877. This crater was 640 feet deep an earnest desire to seek and find God's and the bottom looked like a furnace in will for their lives. which charcoal had burned. There were Many of these young Christians told monuments built of the lava to the me of their Buddhist environment and Hawaiin goddess of fire, Pele, to appease 12 The Reveille September, 1949

Sixty-six similar groups met daUy during the Stockholm Youth Congress. Leading

this discussion group is James W. Ray, and to his right is pictured Al Stuart of State College and Mary Woodfln, graduate of Judson College. The others represent eight nations.

her. It is believed that in her wrath she' were so attentive and eager to learn causes the volcanoes to erupt. that it was a real joy to work with them. Many young people accepted Christ It was an inspiration and challenge to while young Christians were strengthen- work on the field with the missionaries. ed and inspired. All worked hard to make this a most I shall never forget the hospitality profitable and successful summer. It and kindness shown us by the people. would be hard to estimate the fruits They truly did appreciate oui' coming. of our labor, but much was accomplish- Scores of people saw us off, and we left ed. We taught a number of Bible amid cries of "aloha," "God bless you," schools, conducted G. A. and R. A. "come back," and with many, many leis camps, preached, sang, led youth re- around our necks. vivals, and visited in interest of thq I am grateful for having had the op- churches. portunity of serving and witnessing in Many of the children came to Bible the islands. My only regret is that fellow school from heathen homes and heard B.S.U.'ers could not be there to share about Christ for the first time. They the blessings with me. September, 1949 The Reveille 13

Paid Vacations in North Carolina

By Leonard Morgan, Jr.

The students of North Carohna are the figure, one way or the other, and blessed in many ways but one of the it builds up an unfillable backlog of most profound blessings is the summer sleepless nights. Workers get used to work program sponsored by the Bap- eating baked ham and fried chicken for tist State Convention. The program in every meal so it's rather hard to eat North Carolina tops by far anything "plain common eating," after getting that is put on by any other state, even back home. No matter where the stu- Texas. Last year there were 219 stu- dent works, when he leaves he'll carry dents used in the program and the re- with him a little of the commimity, presented 25 different schools and semi- not in the form of some thoughtful and naries. This summer the program is useful gift, but in the form of either slightly reduced, because of the Atlantic dust or mud, caked tenaciously to every- Pact and the proposed rocket trip to the thing from the very best suit on down to moon, but so far this summer there have the soxs. Is summer work hard? You been 140 students used in one way or can bet your life, if you are a betting another. man, that it is very hard, but the hard- There are several types of 'vacations' ships and discomforts seem small, even available, one of which is bound to suit fade away, when the rewards are con- everyone. Fruitland, Ridgecrest, and sidered. Seaside all have summer staffs that The first reward comes in the form have charge of the work of those as- of seeing new sections of North Caro- semblies. This work includes everything lina. You meet new, and sometimes from earring bags, luggage that is, and strange, people and you can get a wealth sweeping floors all the way to serving of new ideas. Of course all the workers food and showing movies. The Sunday get a cute collection of those handy School and Training Union Depart- pictures of Father Washington that ments of the Convention both employ come in so handy when buying clothes. about twenty students each to teach All of these are rewards that are tangi- study courses and put on enlargement ble, that can be pointed out, but there campaigns in different churches over is another side of the ledger to consider. the state. Some students are used in The side that contains the rewards the mission work in the state. These that cannot be described so they can be well fed individuals work with the mis- understood by anyone except those who sionaries from the various associations have had the experience. The feeling and put on Vacation Bible Schools, re- that one gets when he hears that the vivals, or work with the pastors in a church he was just in has added some way they need help. A few local new classes or that attendence has churches contact students on their own picked up, all as a result of the week and these students serve as assistant that the worker spent in the church, is educational directors, youth directors or a feeling that escapes description but assistant pastors. Only 24 hours of each the effect on the worker is unlimited. day is needed to do the work required The knowledge that you were able to and in all the leisure time there is op- make a better Sunday School or in- portunity for fishing in some mountain crease the work of the church in any lake, a drive to a scenic spot, or a moon- way is a comfort when school works lit cruise on the Cape Fear. The time pile up on you. A comfort that makes that is left over after this can be used every summer worker glad he took a any way the worker desires. paid vacation with the Baptist Conven-

Is summer work hard? Well that's a tion. If you don't believe it, just ask question. Summer work is a strain on one of us that did summer work 14 The Reveille September, 1949'

The Value of B.S.U. as Seen by a Former B.S.U/er I

By Vivian Parks

Many people have tried to set forth ficant roles in local churches in post- the purposes and functions of B.S.U. college days.

In the role of a former B.S.U. 'er, I Every B.S.U. has its own specific prob- would like to add my views as to what lems, of course, in seeking to attain this a local B.S.U. ought to seek to accom- objective. Some local church leaders are^ plish and to offer a few criticism, not as cooperative or encouraging to which I hope may be constructive. "transient" student participation as they' First, the B.S.U. ought to be the should be. Some times the presence of means through which students away more than one church complicates the from home can become more closely problem; whereas, another campus may associated with the local church in the have no church conventiently located.' college community. All of us probably In spite of the nature and number of- are familiar with the oft-expressed these problems, B.S.U. should certainly idea that the B.S.U. is the "link" be- persevere in seeking to relate the tween the student and the church; yet, largest number students possible to some

many local B.S.U. 's fail to carry through local church with a view toward making

on this primary function in any signi- that church a more significant Christian ^ ficant sense. One of the greatest deter- force in the community and training- rents to B.S.U. progress is the tendency students to become more effective Chris-' for the B.S.U. to be an end in itself, as tain leaders and church-members. opposed to the idea of making the Another important purpose for which church a stronger and a more signifi- B.S.U. should constantly strive is to cant force in the community and in the help students become more aware of lives of the students by and through the and concerned about the moral, econo- participation of B.S.U. students. Often, mic, social, and political issues that are students who are active in B.S.U. be- of such great consequence in our world come somewhat clanish—as is natural today. In bringing these issues into for any closely knit group—and, in be- focus, the emphasis must be placed on coming so, they tend to draw distinc- seeking Christian solutions and the pro- tions between themselves and other stu- per attitudes and actions for Christian dents and between themselves and the people in effecting these solutions. More local church. This tendency defeats the and more B.S.U.'s are beginning to re- announced purpose of a close relation- cognize the extreme importance of this ship with an active participation in goal. It is rather frightening to contem- the local church program by a larger plate the number of people who attend number of students. It is very important church and Sunday School from an that the local church be the focal point early age, earn a college degree, and for our Christian activities while in col- take their places in a confused world lege. We all come to college bringing without once having realized signifi- with us the experiences of our home cantly that their being Christian has churches and communities. Upon leav- anything to do with the way they run ing college we venture out into new com- their businesses, the way that they treat munities where the center of Christian those of other races, the number of activity is again the local church; there- times they get married, the way they fore, unless students in college are re- conduct a political campaign, the way lated to the local church in a significant they vote in an election, et cetera. The way, a completely abnormal situation Christian faith is rarely thought of in develops, which may distort the pur- connection with labor-management re- poses of B.S.U. and which may not be lations, proper relationships between helpful in preparing students for signi- nations, and those other areas where the- 'eptember, 1949 The Reveille 15

Christian way of life so desperately the necessity for more effective Chris- leeds to be applied. Our church rolls tian thought and action, they will less re jammed today with people who, ap- likely be awakened, after they have set- )arently, have not the slightest inkling tled into the daily routines of making a

)f an idea that their responsibilities as living. Therefore, every B.S.U. should Christians and as church members ex- seek to impress as many students as end beyond attending church services possible with the important fact that )Ccasionally and pledging enough fin^n- this business of being Christian de- ;ial support to maintain a "respectable" mands a great deal from each of us. itatus in the community. By the same Certainly the crying demand now is for oken, the degree of success of a local a greater sense of Christian responsi- is bility and for greater sense of urgency ;; ;hurch often determined by the num- a Der of new names added to the roll each in seeking those areas in which we can /ear or by the size of its budget (no most effectively give of ourselves in do- natter where the money goes). In a ing the will of God. ivorld that is so dependent upon the Much more might be added in setting Christian faith for its ultim.ate salva- forth the purposes and functions of tion, is it absolutely essential that our B.S.U.; yet, what I have said is a big standards be revised. Ultimately, the order and one I have never seen proper- success of a church must depend upon ly filled. I did find, though, in my re- its abUity to awaken each one of its lationships with B.S.U. the significant members to his individual responsibility beginning of an attempt to meet the in being constantly aware of the critical goals we have been discussing. For this issues facing our generation and in sens- experience I will be eternally grateful, ing that he is a significant part of a I sincerely pray Christian community which is seeking and hope and that to know and to put into effect the will B.S.U. will strive to meet the challenge of God. Herein lies one of the greatest to graduate more responsbile, courage- possible challenges to B.S.U. If students ous Christians to take their places in in college do not become impressed with more effective, wide-awake churches.

The Value and Purpose of a State B.S.U. Program From the Standpoint of State Officers

By Eug^ene Ensley

That's a big subject, but the Baptist is because of the value, it is difficult to Student Union is a big organization with determine from which viewpoint we a big job to do. There is one part of this should approach the subject. Let's go topic, however, that I would like to astray from the theme, however, and clarify in the beginning. That is the work from the pui'pose toward the value fact that my idea of the State B.S.U. of the North Carolina B.S.U. program. program, furthermore, the idea of any I was a rising sophomore, even a state officer toward the program, will B.S.U. council member, before I began be practically the same as your view of to see the real purpose of the Baptist it; for regardless of our position, we are Student Union. Of course, like most all Baptist Students, "laborers together students I knew it was a "religious" with God." organization, but as far as the purpose Now, what about the value and pur- of its program was concerned I was pose of a State B.S.U. program? Since ignorant. Now this should not be be- the value of our program depends upon cause our purpose is greater than that our purpose and the purpose is what it of any other campus organization. 16 The Reveille September, 194!

The purpose of oui- program is two- the Baptist, "He must increase, but ] fold: first, we are to keep the children must decrease"? What a change thert of God abiding in Christ; second, we would have been in the life of thai are to lead the children of darkness into young student if his faith had beer the glorious saving light of Christ. strengthened by a hard-working, Christ- Neither of these can be placed above filled B.S.U. council. When he stands be- the other, for they complement each fore ovu- Maker in that blessed day ol other. The Word which says, "Brethren, reward, will He say, "Well done gooc if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye and faithful servant", or must He say which are spiritual restore such an one "Because of your laxness someone did in the spirit of meekness; considering not see Jesus". thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear We are beginning a new year ol ye one another's burdens and so fulfill clean the law of Christ." also says, "he which B.S.U. work. God has given us a converteth the sinner from the error of slate to work with. Let's submit our his way shall save a soul from death, "nothing-perfect to His all-complete and shall hide a multitude of sins." and fill that slate with our Lord Jesus Sometime ago I read an interesting Christ. Then when the end of the yeai yet pathetic story in one of our pub- draws near, we can say with Paul, "I lications. The writer told the tragic in- have fought a good fight, I have finished cident of a handsome, brilliant, young my course, I have kept the faith." man who left his preacher father's home In this profound purpose of magnify in search of a Christian education, only ing Christ, we see the value of our years later an to return four avowed B.S.U. program. Can we tag the value athiest and drunkard. The aged father of our B.S.U. program when it makes already broken in years, weeps and cries more and better Christians? No! The bitterly, "To whom shall we send our value of it all is too great for our finite: children?" I want to answer, "B.S.U.", minds to comprehend. But with the but can I? Are we consecrated to our vision of the cross in our hearts, and task of letting the Holy Spirit use us to lead the students in our state? Do we the prayer that God will use our yielded glorify B.S.U., or do we magnify Jesus spirits, the value and purpose of our Christ? Can we as the Baptist Student B.S.U. program will be clarified in the Union of North Carolina say with John hearts of many.

Words From Jimmie

As this is being written (11:00 P.M., this year, I shall try to bring you a re- July 11) I am just before leaving for port and an interpretation of the Stock- New York City where I will join a party holm Congress and the European tour of others who will attend the Third which your money helped to make pos- World Baptist Youth Congress meeting sible. in Stockholm, Sweden, August 3-9. We My absence from the state until Sep- sail on the Queen Elizabeth at 10:30, tember 6 causes me to miss the Fruit- FYiday, July 15, and will return via Nea land Student Week program and many Hellas, a Greek ship, on September 6. of your Pre-school Retreats. These peri- It is with a sense of deep gratitude ods with many campuses have been re- that I say "Thank you" to the hun- freshing indeed to me when I have seen dreds of students on more than a the councils come to grips with the prob- dozen North Carolina campuses who lems and opportunities which every new contributed to make this trip possible. school year presents. I'll be checking I shall endeavor to prove, in a small on your fine work through out thisi measure at least, to be worthy of your year when I visit your campus . . . investment. As occasion and opportunity SEE YOU COME OCTOBER AT come to me when I visit your campus STATE CONVENTION. 7^e 1Re(Ai

DECEMBER, 1949

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'„ to right: Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn, pastor of the Baptist C . plain of Wake Forest College: Dr. Clarence Jordan, managing director of Koinonia Farm, Americus, Georgia; Miss Edith Arrington, B.S.U. Sec- retary, Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem; Miss Maxine Garner, Religious Activities Director, Woman's College, Greensboro; Dr. John Wayland, Pastor of First Baptist Church, North Wilkesboro; James W. Ray, State Secretary of student department, Raleigh.

"Adventuring With Christ" was the keynote for five days of classroom visitations by the team members who also conducted seminars each evening, spoke in chapel each morning, and conducted worship services in the church each evening. Coop- eration from the administration and student body was especially good.

PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA B.S.U. n^e ^e(AeiCie

A Journal of Baptist Student Life

Volume XI DECEMBER, 1949 Number 3

EDITOR

H. R. Caldwell, Jr N. C. State College, Raleigh

STATE OFFICE HEADQUARTERS 119 HUlsboro Street Raleigh, N. C. James W. Ray, State Secretary

STATE OFFICERS

Eugene Ensley, President Wake Forest College Coleman Hanson, Enlistment Vice President Appalachian Jo Brooks, Social Vice President Woman's College Edlyn Freerks, Devotional Vice President University of N. C. William Worley, Extension Vice President Shaw University H. R. Caldwell, Jr., Publicity Director N. C. State Bill Bonham, Secretary-Treasurer E.C.T.C. Carolyn Massey, Literature Chairman Meredith Kenneth Archer, Music Director Gardner-Webb

STUDENT SECRETARIES

Edith Arrington, Baptist Hospital Roberts C. Lasater, State College Gloria Blanton, E.C.T.C. Charles McConnell, W.C.T.C. Harvie Brewington, Pembroke Peggy Greene, W.C.U.N.C. Billie Ruth Currin, Meredith Klein E. Parkes, Duke Eli Galloway, Wake Forest Texie Sowers, Campbell J. C. Herein, U.N.C. Marjorie Toole, A.S.T.C.

CONTRIBUTORS

Marjorie Moore is Associate Editor of COMMISSION. . . . Annie Ruth Watts is

devotional vice-president at W. C. T. C. . . . Jo Keeter, former council member at

E. C. T. C. is director of girls athletics at Chowan College. ... J. J. Morgan, Jr.,

the 1948 State B.S.U. president, is a graduate of State College. . . . Carolyn Massey,

Meredith College, is literature chairman on State Officers Council. . . . James W.

Ray, State B.S.U. Secretary. . . . Joe Congleton is a student at E. C. T. C. EDITORIALS

THE EDITOR'S APOLOGY to get nominating committees on the work of recommendations for new In the last issue of the REVEILLE, council members. This is an important two unforgiveable mistakes were made. work on every campus. Sufficient time The editor takes the blame and wishes and study should be given before nomi- to apologize to two people. nating and presenting for election by The article entitled "Hawaii, 1949" all B.S.U.'ers. was written by Miss Ruby Dean Myers, These officers should be elected, and a graduate of Wake Forest College who if possible, formally installed by the represented North Carolina for two 16th of April. It is highly important months as a student missionary to that all newly elected council members Hawaii. In our haste to get the copy attend the training conferences at to the printers, we failed to list her Spring Retreat. Only new elected coun- name with the other contributers and cil members are eligible to attend. under the title. Our apologies. Miss J.W.R. Myers. In the article "A College Church THE BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION Education Program" several lines were The 119th session of the N. C. Bap- omitted at the end of the article. This tist State Convention was held at the happened as a result of an error in Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh, Novem- spacing. Apologies, Mr. Poerschke. ber 14-17. Nearly 2,000 messengers and HRCjr visitors represented the 2,800 Baptist churches in the state. Read current is- THE B.S.U. CONVENTION sue of the BIBICAL RECORDER for Convention reports. What did you think of the Conven- The keynote was similar to the B.S.U. tion at Winston-Salem? If you attend- Convention keynote: "Our Worship and ed, you will long remember it. If you Our Witness" was the topic for the didn't go, well! you missed something!! Baptist State Convention, while "Be- I have talked with several people who cause Christ Loved—We Worship and attended and it seems that everyone Work" was used by B.S.U.'ers. profited greatly from the lectures and Featured on the program were the discussions. Of course there is never following out-of-state speakers: Dr. any question about the quality of the Theodore Adams, Richmond; Dr. W. F. fun, food, and fellowship that are al- Powell, Nashville; Dr. Arnold Ohrn, ways found at a B.S.U. Convention. Baptist World Alliance; Dr. M. T. Ran- Since this Convention followed a kin, Foreign Mission Board; Dr. Ray little different trend of thought this Sommers, Southwestern Seminary; Dr. year, there have been many comments Walter Judd, Congressman from Min- made—most have been highly compli- nesota. mentary but a few have been unfavor- We urge our Baptist students to at- able. If you have any criticism or re- tend these annual conventions when marks to make, please send them to it is at all possible. us for they will be helpful in planning J.W.R. the Conventions in the years to come. HRCjr CAMPUS FLASHES

SPRING RETREAT In a brief business session during the Winston-Salem Convention, it was The next state-wide meeting will be voted that part of each issue of the Spring Retreat in April. The exact REVEILLE be devoted to "campios date and place will be announced iri flashes" giving the news items from our next issue of REVEILLE. B.S.U. activities on the campuses. The All campuses are reminded and urged editors appreciate this expressed desire The Reveille December, 194i> from the students. This issue includes your hands by February 10. To be in- excerpts of campus news. cluded in this issue, please make your At the same time, we call attention notes to cover activities between Janu-i to the fact that it is difficult to edit a ary 15 and February 28. When our "news" paper when more than two space is filled, we will refer the other months clasped between issues. We so- campus news notices to the Student

licit campus news notices . . . they must Department column in the BIBICAL be news and they must be short. RECORDER. Our next issue is scheduled to be in J.W.R.

Midcentury Advance

By Marjorie E. Moore

Have you ever stood in a big power joined the home office staff in Rich-i plant hearing the hum of gigantic ma- mond, with seven years' experience in chinery which a couple of workmen Baptist student work to my credit. The tend, checking the gauges and watching men were all deeply concerned at that the needles and signals on a control time about the personal safety of some panel—knowing without being told that China and Japan missionaries then in you were at the source of a tremendous the hands of the enemy. Mission prO' amount of controlled energy being gene- perty in Europe and Asia, valued atj rated for hundreds of thousands of daik, quite a little money, was also on theii cold places where light and warmth minds. Growing opportunities in Latin were needed? America, and the impossibility of get and women to fill the Then you know how some forty of us ting enough men there, was just as much of a Southern Baptists have felt these last demand problem but another kind. few months at the home office of the Foreign Mission Board. The Convention, Letters coming to the Board were adopted a Program of Advance last generally sympathetic, but some ol May and we feel the growing momen- them insinuated that the Foreign Board tum of vast forces generating the power was mighty careless with other people's for a tremendous job—terrifying when, loved ones to get them get interned over- out of control, thrilling when harnessed seas. to useful activity for the good of all The only bright spot in that 194; mankind. picture was the likelihood of getting Americans are furmy! They'll piddle The Debt (and the capital letters art along vuitil their dying day if they have intentional!) paid two years earliei only a man size job to do, but give them than the most optimistic had hoped a Herculean task, they'll dare anybody The Hundred Thousand Club had dont to say they can't do it, and prove them- its job, and with restrained jubilatiorl selves giants in the accomplishments. the men who had carried the weight ol> it since 1933 decided to celebrate. As one who has done little more than. | check the gauge or report the pressure, Foreign Board President L. Howarc I can tell you something about this Ad- Jenkins invited everybody to a dinnei vance Program. You may hear another on him at the Country Club, during tht "version of it from someone else but October Board meeting, when all tht let me tell my story. out-of-state as well as local member; could attend, and the Bankers wen Missions and World War II honor guests. Mr. Jenkins said the mei Eleven months after Pearl Harbor I who loaned the money had said the} "Jeceinber, 1949 The Reveille

Delieved Southern Baptists would never an ocean liner and send 5,000 mission- pay it back—would just have to declare aries to China and Japan!" chemselves bankrupt! —and this dinner These fantastic statements might Afas a polite way of saying to them, have been very gratifying to a board We told you so!" which had never been able to convince All of us enjoyed seeing the money all the people of the urgency of more lenders eat their words that night! men and more money for some of those But this was no frivolous occasion. mission fields, had it not been for the [n every speech and every prayer the fact that they were hysterical. They :iote of thanksgiving was accompanied were made by men who had no experi- oy a spirit of self-dedication to bigger ence in overseas missions. They did not hings. "We're free, at last," the Board know that anybody who set foot in said. "Now God have pity on us if we Japan had to guarantee that he had IS missionary Baptists don't get up and a house, food enough for a year, nis go places!" Dr. Charles E. Maddry own fuel and his own medical service. walked like a different man, a sort of It was almost as bad in Europe. And smancipated slave really, and his part- missionaries can't be sent out in whole- ner in service, the devout Christian sale lots, without careful physical and businessman who was the Board's ex- psychiatric examinations to prove their ecutive, tackled the foreign mission pro- adaptability to foreign life—not if you gram with new vigor. expect them to make good and work a lifetime. Dr. Rankin Becomes Secretary Yet the Foreign Board knew that this The next June a new executive sec- war-born enthusiam, though partly retary was elected, because Dr. Maddry negative, should and probably could be Insisted that his job at the Board was mobilized for a new drive in world done and he had earned a rest. The evangelism. It would be senseless not first foreign missionary ever to be head to take advantage of it. of the Foreign Board took over Janu- Then some Americans went to Europe ary 1, 1945. in 1947 for the Baptist World Congre.ss. While Dr. M. Theron Rankin, for ten What they saw and felt and thought years secretary for the Orient, a re- that summer compelled them to de- patriate in 1942, was getting acquainted mand a more virile mission program on with his new job, the newspaper reports the continent, and the Board began to of casualties on foreign fronts, and the get evidence of it. I remember a Sun- arrival of War Department telegrams day night when several of us sat in in Southern Baptist homes increased a hotel lobby in Rome, after services in the mail at the Foreign Board. Some three local Baptist churches and a visit of it was resentful and bitter—"Why to the struggling little orphange that after all these years of missions haven't Italian Baptists had undertaken on we made Christians out of those sav- their own during the war. ages?" and some of it — was penitent How, we pondered, could we ever tell and constructive—"Our son's insurance the folks back home about it without will be given as a memorial to support being accused of soliciting "designated a missionary over there, as long as the gifts" and killing the Cooperative Pro- money lasts." gram? We pooled our ideas and came And increasingly the demand for home to produce a series of ads for more foreign missionaries was heard in state papers captioned "You can make Southern Baptist churches and papers these dreams come true," and signed and convention halls. "When this war "Cooperative Program." It was a sin- is over we ought to send 10,000 men cere effort to show that the welfare of and women to Japan!" "Why can't we our whole denominational program de- open a Mission in Germany and put pends upon an honest attempt to do 500 missionaries there?" "Let's charter something abroad. — —

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Retreat for Advance Vision and Response by Southern

The men of the staff were conspicu- Baptists ous in their absence from the office for Now the whole Convention is talking the first three days of 1948. I guess v;e Advance. The number of foreign mis- thought they were taking an extend- sionaries has increased to an exact 700. ed New Year's hoUday—they certainly The budget is growing all the time deserved it! But soon we got a report. slowly, and very sensibly, and steadily— They had registered for a room in a and the advance overseas is beginning hotel not far from Richmond, and spent to get under way. This will be a sound practically all the seventy-two hours program of development all along the in studying Southern Baptist Missions. line. Each regional secretary had the facts Have you considered your place in it? on every mission station in his area There's a job overseas for 1,050 young the missionaries assigned, the mission- Baptists between the ages of twenty- aries needed, the physical equipment in four and thirty-two—preachers, teach- use. the equipment needed, the goals ers, doctors, nurses, homemakers, all attained, and the goals still to be reach- versatile, strong-hearted, emotionally ed. stable. Christian men and women. Dr. Rankin, Dr. George W. Sadler, For those of us who don't qualify for Dr. Everett Gill, Jr., and Dr. Prank K. overseas service, the statement Dr. Means worked morning, afternoon, and Rankin made when he presented the evening, to decide what the Foreign Advance Program to the Foreign Mis- Mission Board ought to do, now that sion Board is a compelling one: "For the war was over, the debt was paid, us to fail to go forward at such a time and the Convention wanted to go into as this will constitute the most tragic action for Christian missions. denial of the truth of God's gospel in That's where the goals of 1,750 mis- Christ Jesus that the world has ever sionaries, $10,000,000 annual budget, and known. By standing still we betray our 300 mission centers came from. Lord; by retreating we crucify him."

'Campus Conference On Religion'

by Annie Ruth Watts

The mission to Western Carolina given their time and thousands of meet- Teachers College, the only campus in ings have been held with students and North Carolina to be selected for a faculties in American Colleges and Uni- University Christian Mission in 1949, versities. has just ended its program, but the When the University Christian Mis- spirit of the mission lives on. sion sponsors a mission on a particular The University Christian Mission was campus, it works closely with the Cam- started in 1938 as a venture of the De- pus Committee in choosing the most partment of Evangelism of the Federal feasible date and speakers. Official re- Council of Churches. Since that time presentatives of the University Christ- the United Student Christian Council ian Mission meet with the local Cam- has become a co-sponsor with the De- pus Committee to offer organizational partment of Evangelism. help and to outline duties and respon- At the end of 1948, 102 missions had sibilities of committees. been held in thirty-two states in the The Campus Committee at W.C.T.C.'i United States and Hawaii. Hundreds consisted of an Executive Secretary, a of outstanding Christian leaders have Chairman, two Vice-chairmen, a sec- December, 1949 The Reveille retary, a treasurer, and fourteen sub- Hays; "Making a Christian Home" and committees. A total of 115 people com- "Courtship, Love and Marriage" by Mrs. posed the Campus Committee. An effort Behrman; "The Cooperative Movement was made in selecting these committee and the South" and "Which Way in members to get a cross-section repre- Race Relations" by Dr. Jordan; "What .sentation of the Campus. Difference does an Education Make" Five outstanding leaders came to the and "Why Cheat Yourself?" by Mr. Campus to lead the students in think- Womeldorf. Dr. T. Z. Koo led seminars ing concerning contemporary problems on "Inside the United Nations" and in the light of religion. "China and Communism." Hon. Brooks Hays, Congressman from The Vesper Services and the night the state of Arkansas; Dr. T. Z. Koo, seminars had good attendance. Many adviser to the Chinese delegation at people from the community came at the United Nations Conference in San night to the services. Francisco, world traveler and lecturer, On the last night of the mission, a and past secretary of the World's Stu- Communion Service was held in the dent Christian Federation ; Dr. Clarence local Methodist church for all who Jordan, former director of Negro Set- wanted to come. The Communion Serv- tlement House in Louisville, Kentucky, ice was preceeded by a worship play, and Managing Director of Koinonia "Thy Will Not Mine." The play took Farm, Americus, Georgia; Rev. Ray- place in the upper room after the Last mond Womeldorf, missionary in China Supper. This was a climax that was and Student Volunteer worker; and fitting for a week spent together under Mrs. Mayes Behrman, counselor in the the theme "DOES CHRISTIANITY field of Marriage and the Home, MATTER?" brought the mission to the Campus. The University Christian Mission's During their stay on the campus, mission to the campus of Western Caro- these leaders led seminars, classroom lina Teachers College is the greatest discussions, chapel, and "bull sessions." thing that this campus has ever had. Every eight, morning at the leaders had The effects are widespread, the seeds breakfast with the campus committee. have been sown and many have fallen After breakfast the group met for a on fertile soil. brief period of worship and planning for the day. This early morning fellow- ship gave the conference a sense of FOR YOUR READING ROOM unity that could not have been attained otherwise. The Student World, U.S.C.C., c/o John The classroom discussion which last- Deschher, 156 Fifth Avenue, New ed from 8:55 until 12:35 were the most York 10, New York. Published quart- stimulating of any of the organized erly—$2.00 meetings. The speakers went into the IntercoUegian. N.I.C.C. and S.V.M., 347 classroom by the invitation of the Madison Avenue, New York 17, New professor of that particular subject. York. 9 issues, $1.00 Most of these discussions hinged around the subject material being studied. Motive, Methodist, 810 Broadway, Nash- Of all the meetings, held, the after- ville 10, Tennessee. 9 issues, $1.00. noon seminars had the smallest attend- Baptist Student, Baptist, 161 ance. This was probably due to the The North, Nashville fact that many of the students had Eighth Avenue 3, Tennessee. issues, $1.00. classes during the periods when semi- 9 nars was being held. of the topics Some (Order direct or address editor of for discussion at these meetings were: REVEILLE.) 'What Does Russia Want," by Brooks The Revjeille December, 1949

The Meaning Of Christmas

by Carolyn Massey

It will not be long now before stu- I certainly will be glad when Christ- dents all over the country will be on mas is over, maybe then we will be their way home for Christmas. Many able to get some rest and balance the of them have already had a hard time budget once again." People feel the getting reservations on trains to go vast emptiness of the celebration and home for the holidays but they feel that need to come to see the true meaning it will be worth the effort. Families of Christmas. will be together again. Eeveryone will To answer the need for an under- be busy doing last minute shopping, standing of the meaning of Christmas, sending Christmas cards and going to certain things should be pointed out. parties. At this season of the year few of us By the time Christmas day comes seemingly have time to think deeply everybody will be thoroughly exhausted. about the ultimate questions of life. All the family, excluding the children In the classroom, we ponder over the who are too excited over what Santa philosophies of man and Ultimate Real- Claus brought them, will gather around ity. At the Christmas season do we I'e- the dinner table to celebrate the day. cognize Ultimate Reality revealed in Perhaps after the meal the gifts will the babe in the manger? The Eternal be exchanged. Because of the elaborate- has bi'oken through time and space. ness, variety, and quantity of the gifts "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt we receive, our consciences will probably among us (and we beheld his glory, be pricked and we will rush out to glory as of the only begotten of the shower some underpriveleged family Father), full of grace and truth." with left over fruit and candy. Emil Brunner says in his work The

Some of us will go to church for a Mediator, . . . "the great miracle over special Christmas service. There through which Christendom rejoices is the music and sermon an attempt will be Christmas miracle of the Incarnation, made to direct our thought to the man- the coming of the Son of God, the ger scene. The attempt will more than Incarnation of the Word; and this likely be in vain because our minds will means the Person of the Mediator. be filled with such thoughts as our That He is here, that the God-Man forgetting to send the Brown's a Christ- exists, this is salvation, this is revela- mas card or hoping that John won't tion." give you a gift since you haven't gotten^ So Christmas is the day we celebrate him one. After singing too familiar as the birthday of the Christ child carols with too familiar words, we will through whom all men can have life. go back to our homes feeling that we "God so loved the world that He gave have truly observed the Christmas sea- His only begotten Son, that whosoever son in the right way. believeth on Him should not perish, Many people recognize the superfi- but have everlasting life." Our ultimate ciality of our celebration of Christmas destiny depends on the event which but they are caught in the tangled occured on this day over two thousand threads of our age. It is hard to think years ago. deeply about the Christ child's birth- It would be well for us to work out day when the shop windows carry out for ourselves and our families the kind the Santa Claus theme, and people are of celebration which would foster the put under such pressure to buy gifts true spirit and significance of Christ- for all their friends. mas. We should understand the basic So we hear such remarks as, "Well, concepts of our Christian religion and —

'Jeccinber, 1949 The Reveille 9

ome face to face with Jesus Christ in to the world! the Lord is come; Let ." ill His Majesty and Splendor. From earth receive her King; . . "Oh come, he depths of our souls will come, "Joy let us adore Him. Christ the Lord."

Chowan College

by Jo Keeter

How does Chowan College, situated received its name because of the mas- )n the lazy Meherrin River, fit into sive columns featured on the front. America's political, economic, or social This is the dormitory, where over 45 cene? It has no complicated, pictur- girls live with the first floor being used !sque history, unless, of course, one for classrooms. :;onsiders the colorful period during Back of, and on the side of "The he Civil War when Chowan College, Columns" stand the three cottages hen named the Chowan Baptist Fe- Love, Hope, and Charity, being occupi- male Institute, was the only woman's college in the state to remain open. Chowan College grew from a few families and churches— supplanting he Banks school and from 1848-1850 was conducted in the Banks school ouilding under the direction of the Bap- tist denomination of the Albemarle sec- ion.

From its origin, foremost teachers of the day were employed, among them being Dr. William Hooper, grandson of the illustrious William Hooper, one of the signers of the Declaration of In- dependence.

It wasn't a boom school—still isn't didn't spring into being—just sorta' :rept up into its present self. The School is still expanding, developing and improving in small, almost imper- eptible ways. Entering the campus, the one-quarter 3f a mile "Piney Drive" could remind the imaginative person of the perfect Miss Peggy Green became Baptist setting for a modern novel. Pour mod- Student Secretary at Woman's College, ern cottages which serve as the "home Greensboro on September 1, 1949. Miss away from home" for 35 male students, Green is a graduate of Coker College in gaze calmly at the ebb and flow of South Carolina and served as a mem- traffic. ber of the church staff at the First Surrounded by 50 acres of beautiful Baptist Church at Hamlet and the campus, the main building called "The Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte. olumns" is a four story structure Excellent response to her leadership has erected in 1857. It is of classic colonial come from the students and the architecture constructed of brick and churches in Greensboro. 10 The Reveille December, 194', ed by the music department and the a day at Chowan as it can be. Churche.' Science building, presenting contrast in in the town are filled with students Architecture, but a significant harmony faculty members, along with the busi- of religious ideas and faith in God. nessmen, office workers, and farmers What could be more typical than the all getting themselves in tune spiritual- swarm of college students in the soda ly. shop, post office, society halls, and on We don't boast about Chowan—whj the front porch of. the "Columns," be- should we? It is quiet but it has prob- tween classes or after dinner? lems and undeixurrents. It's proud be-

But what really makes a college is its cause it "belongs" to America—one ol students—all kinds of students. Chowan the thousands of small colleges belong' is a simple school, and the majority of ing to America as well as the famous its students live simply, some working Notre Dame or Yale, and just as strong! in various departments while others in its little way. Students will come and spend their hours in a more leisurely go from this institution, strengthen It, preserve it so that matter. It's a good life, working, study- — when we look in again in years to come, the ing, knowing that one has contributed same school will be here grown a little, changed a to the world's wealth and culture. — little, improved a little—then we car He who prescribed work for six days realize and visualize the strength and of the week carefully called for rest permanence of it like Notre Dame oi! on the seventh, and Sunday is as "good" Yale. !

THIRD YOUNG BAPTIST WORLD CONGRESS IN STOCKHOLM

by James Ray

The third World Baptist Youth Con- Early in the first session Dr. T. G, gress opened at 8 p.m., August 3, and Dunning, chairman of the Youth Com- continued through Tuesday, August 8, mittee of the Baptist World Alliance in Stockholm, Sweden. Thirteen hun- presented Dr. Joel Sorenson, who has dred messengers from 24 countries were recently accepted the new position of enrolled. The largest delegation was executive secretary of the Youth Com from Sweden, with about 600 young mittee. Dr. Sorenson is from Sweden people and adults. Great Britain was and has studied in this country. Hii second in number, with about 300 regis- bride of a few months is from Chicago, trants, and the United States was third, Illinois. with approximately 200. Keynotes The countries represented were: Aus- tria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, With a different assistant for each Canada, Ceylon, China, Czechoslovakia, period of each day, Dr. Sorenson pre- Denmark, (Estonians in Sweden), Pin- sided over the Congress under the gen land, Prance, Germany, Holland, Italy, eral theme of BAPTIST YOUTH PAC (Latvians in Sweden), Norway, New ING THE FUTURE. Keynotes were Zealand, Philippine Islands, Portugal, chosen for each day's session and these South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, keynotes were also the subject for the United States, and displaced persons. "paper of the day." These papers were Delegates from Poland and Spain had printed in booklet form and presented preregistered, but government restric- to each person. tions prevented their attendance. The daily keynotes and the authors December, 1949 The Reveille 11 of the papers were as follows: "The period consisted chiefly of reports of Forces of the World and the Power of the various types of work done and em- God" by Dr. Ralph T. Overman, a mem- phasis made to develop the Christian ber of the Atomic Research Commis- personalities of youth in the several sion, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; "Christian countries. Youth and Lasting Peace" by Dr. T. G. The first period each afternoon found Dunning, chairman of the Youth Com- the membership divided into 66 differ- mittee, London; "What Baptists Stand ent conference groups where the "paper For" by Mr. Hans Arndt, Baptist youth of the day" was the basis for an hour leader in Germany; "Youth Evangelism of profitable discussion. This gave ex- in Modern Times" by Dr. Joel Soren- cellent opportunity for youth from dif- son, executive secretary of Youth Com- ferent nations to hear about and to mittee, Stockholm. some extent come to appreciate the On Sunday the members of the Con- issues facing Baptist youth around the gress attended the morning worship world. In the second period each after- hours in the Baptist churches of Stock- noon the Congress met at Sodermalm- holm, where the following were guest skyrkan in a beautiful Pentecostal speakers: Dr. Arnold Ohrn, Secretary of Church where reports were heard from the Baptist World Alliance; Dr. Roland the 66 conferences. The session was Q. Leavell, President of the New Orleans closed with an inspirational address. Baptist Theological Seminary: Rev. The evenings offered varied types of Hans Mallau, pastor in Berlin, Germ- programs in different parts of the city. any: Mr. Ronald Bell, active in Baptist One evening our Stockholm hosts pre- and ecumenical work, a layman, and a sented pictures and music typical of member of the Free Church Federal Swedish culture and served refresh- Council, Britian; Mr. William Hall Pres- ments in the Gold Room of the Muni- ton, associate southwide student secre- cipal Building at Stadshuset. One tary, Nashville, Tenn.; Rev. Gullstone night was devoted to a special youth Ohrn, pastor in Tromso, Norway; Rev. program featuring as speakers, Mr. Orla Grarup, pastor in Denmark; and Ronald Bell, Britain, Dr. Jessie McNeil, Rev. Kenneth Dodgson, national presi- Chicago, and W. G. Wickramasinghe, dent of the Baptist Youth, Fellowship, Ceylon. New York. On Saturday evening the homes of All addresses from the platform were Stockholm Baptists were opened to en- interpreted into the English and the tertain small groups of the delegates. Swedish languages. Each day's schedule This proved to be one of the most in- followed a set pattern, and after the spiring experiences of the week. On short devotion, there were two main Sunday and Monday evenings musical periods in the forenoon and two special programs were presented. The sacred emphasis each afternoon. Lunch was concert was given in the Concert Hall served for the entire delegation in a (Konserthuset) and featured the Swed- large gymnasium -type auditorium ish Baptist Choral Association conduct- (Eriksdalshallen) where the opening ed by Mr. Martin Lidstam. An open-air session convened. concert was presented at Skansen Park featuring the Choral Association and The Daily Schedule the Y. M. C. A. Choir. The final evening In the first morning period, called was devoted to the subject of evange- "Looking at today's theme,"the paper lism, with Dr. Townley Lord, London, of the day was presented and discussed and Dr. Joel Sorsenson as concluding briefly by two or more speakers. Then, speakers of the Congress. after a short community sing, conduct- Call Nations ed by Mr. Sorenson, the second period RoU of was spent hearing representatives from The most picturesque scene was the different nations relate "Effective In- answering of the roll call of nations. itiatives in Baptist Youth Work." This Each country's flag was displayed on —

12 The Reveille December, 1949 the platform and as each country was Looking to the Future called, one person went up and held the In his report of the Youth Com- flag until the roll call was completed. mittee's plans for the immediate future. Then the choir sang "Jesus, Keep Me Dr. Dunning offered the following sug- Near the Cross" and "Beneath the gestions: (1) That the Youth Congress Cross of Jesus while the auditorium continue to meet midway between the lights were dimmed and a silhouette of dates for Baptist World Alliance meet- the globe appeared overhead in the ings: (2) that regional meetings be light of the symbol of the cross. The held, armually if possible, where groups flag bearers gathered with flags lowered in the different continents might meet beneath the lighted cross, then replaced for mutual strength; (3) that national the flags around the platform. groups, wherever possible, develop fel- It was interesting, though difficult, lowship tours into other countries; i4i for some Baptists from Free Church that the publication of an Information countries to understand and appreciate Bulletin be continued by the Youth the circumstances of Baptists in State Committee; (5) that literature be ex- Church nations. In Denmark, for in- changed between the different Baptist stance, we were told that in the face publication boards of the world; (6i of a measure of religious tolerance. that international pen friendships be Baptists are not permitted to teach encouraged; (7) that as individuals ve religion in the public schools. study and seek to understand the in- In Sweden Free Churchmen are also ternational problems, economic, politi- members of the State Church. This cal, and religious cultures of other position was as difficult for Southern countries; (8) that one night during the Baptists to understand as the attitudes 1950 session of the Baptist World Alli- of Southern Baptists toward such meet- ance meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, be de- ings as the Amsterdam World Council voted to youth, and that two other were difficult for Scandinavians to un- sessions be given to the study of youth derstand. Theirs is a hopeful case, how- work; (9) that cautious attention and ever, because there is at present a mea- thorough preparation be given to youth sure before the Swedish Parliament evangelistic teams who work with other which, if passed, will exempt Free linguistic groups; (10) that the leaders Church members from taxation for the of Christian youth be as well trained as support of the State Church. the youth leaders of secular movements.

Let's Talk It Over

by L. L. Morgan, Jr.

Since the beginning of time, or at used to plant some personality in the least since some of the monkeys began programs of the campus B.S.U.? acting a little bit like humans, prob- The first answer is in a high squeaky lems have been solved by the use of a voice. "We tried that but it just didn't very common and simple technique attract any attention." Second answer, DISCUSSION. The family budget, the uttered lackadaisically, "We had some math problem, war strategy, and the discussion but we always ended up talk- location of the next date are all topics ing about race relations or our last that receive long consideration and dis- dates." The similar answers are multi- cussion before any decision is made. tudinous and the reply that comes at Why then, if everybody is acquainted once is that maybe some changes need with the rules, can't discussions be to be made. A dull dry discussion and December, 1949 The Reveille 13 a wet corn flake have about the same A Reading Party is worthy of men- power to get people excited while a tion at this point. When a person goes good, well planned discussion can rank to a week-end-reading-party he car- with Betty Grable James or Spike Jones ries with him books and any other ma- in attracting attention. terial that he might have on the pre- A simple Friday night discussion can announced subject to be considered. be primed by adding the clever idea of Before he goes to the meeting, he be- Role Playing. This simply means that comes thoroughly familiar with his ma- three people take, for the sake of talk- terial so the time at the Reading Party ing, three points of view on a particular can be spent studying information problem or question. They then play brought in by someone else. the parts of people that must face the The program for the week end would problem under discussion in their every call for a period of study, followed by day living. a period of discussion, followed by a For example, in dealing with a strike period of recreation, followed by a peri- situation, one person would take the od of study and so on and on. Not only worker, another point of view of the is the discipline of the strict program that of the employer and then maybe (very essential) helpful but the depth one with the point of view of the buyer. to which a subject will be discussed will require The situation chosen might completely amaze and also inspire ail more roles, such as in this case some- of those taking part. one would be needed to speak for the Now these discussions should by no government. means be limited, not even to Baptist At first the talk might be about as students. Truly one of the best guaran- constant as the hot water in a boarding tees for a lively discussion is to have house shower but as the participants several denominations present. Particu- get the feel of the problem, the leader lar pains should be taken especially for will be as helpless as a one armed bell the week end meetings to have them hop in trying to control the conversa- interdenominational and interracial. tion. The part of the "on lookers" is Then of course, if possible, persons from that of supplying information to the both sides of the question to be discuss- role player that is giving that persons ed should be present. The topics should- point of view. If a longer period is available, then a session of Role Playing n't deal strictly with religion but with can be followed by a general open dis- present day situations where Christian cussion. This combination would fit thinking is needed. nicely into an afternoon-evening date Some planning and forethought are on the campus calendar. needed if a discussion of any type is But we must in no way limit our to be successful. An interesting resource planned discussions to nights or after- personality, always available on a col- noons when week ends are made to lege campus, is a must for any program. order to carry these ideas just a little A comfortable place where there will be bit farther. Each fall the B.S.U. coun- few interruptions always helps. But cil has a retreat to plan the years work. above all, an open mind and an intense Why not a similar week end retreat desire to learn are the prime requisites, late in the fall to look over what has been done and to make more plans? on the part of the individual, if he is Why not use a week end to look at the to get anything out of these discussions real issues in Human Relations or the and after all, they're presented to help facts about Ecumenicity. the individual. 14 The Reveille December, 194i\

Campus Flashes

APPALACHAIN—Miss Marjorie Moore OAK RIDGE—Six students from the of the Foreign Mission Board visited Military Academy attended the Wins- our campus immediately following the ton-Salem Convention. This is the first

Convention at Winston-Salem. . . . The time Oak Ridge has been represented student lounge has been newly re- in a state-wide meeting of Baptist stu

finished. . . . The B.S.U. Canteen is dents.

open ever Saturday night. . . . Baptist MARS HILL—The yearly B.T.U. studyj students have conducted the worship course was held November 14-18. Eight services for the last two weeks during subjects were taught by the college the absence of Dr. George Bond, our faculty including: "How to Win to

pastor. . . . Sadie Hawkins Day was Christ," "The People Called Baptist,' observed on Friday, November 11. "The Destroyer," and "Planning a Life.' CAMPBELL—"Dare We Be Christ- . . . The B.S.U. Council, accompanied ians?" was the keynote for the Re- by the Glee Club, presented its an- ligious Emphasis Week held October nual Thanksgiving program in the 31-November 4. Team members were: Church. The Council, dressed as pil- James W. Ray, Robert C. Lasater, Max- grims, led the processional to the altar ine Garner, Dr. J. W. Angell, Dr. Glenn where John Claypool, president, con Blackburn, Dr. Carlyle Campbell, Dr. ducted their meditation. Sankey Blanton, and Dr. Marc Love- MEREDITH — Ronald Hicks, Oxford, lace. ... A Chapel Chairman has been North Carolina taught a study course added to the B.S.U. Council, whose from the book "The Larger Steward work is to provide a more worshipful ship." . . . The week of prayer for atmosphere at the weekly B.S.U. chapel Foreign program. Missions was observed by Y.W.A. in a vesper service each nigh DUKE An orphan at Kennedy — Home, during December 5-10. On Friday even- Kinston, North Carolina was adopted ing, Miss Hilda Mayo, Young Peoples by our B.S.U. last year. He recently at- Director, gave a brief and vivid account tended the Wake Forest-Duke football of the life of Miss Lottie Moon. . . . On game and will return for the Southern December 7 at the campus B.S.U. meet-

Conference Basketball Tournament. . . . ing demonstrations were given for pro- "Basic Moral Problems of the Present gram to observe Student Night at Generation" was the theme for a lecture Christmas. series recently completed in our Sunday night meetings. Prominent Duke and W. C. U. N. C—The annual Pastor's ^fight served Durham people will lead in another Banquet was on Friday series beginning soon. evening, November 18 at the Student House. Pastors of the students home WAKE FOREST—The Wake Forest churches were invited. . . . Many of the Chapel Building, recently completed, W. C. girls visited Chapel Hill Sunday, was dedicated and presented to Wake November 20, 1949 at the invitation of Forest College by the Baptist State University B. S. U.'ers. Convention, in session at the chapel on Wednesday afternoon, November 16, STATE-MEREDITH—On November 18, 1949. State and Meredith B.S.U's jointly SALEM—^Pre-school contact with new sponsored an annual party to honor Baptist students added interest in the freshmen and transfers. Between 250 B.S.U. program and church activities. and 300 were in attendence. The pro- A successful welcome party was given gram featured spectacular dramatiza- for the new students early in the first tions of short stories such as "The month. . . . Our most recent major Three Bears," "Little Red Hen," "Chic- activity was serving as co-hostess for ken Little," etc. The Grand March and the B.S.U. Convention. refreshments concluded a gala evening. eceinber, 1949 The Reveille 15

Am I Prejudiced?

by Joe Congleton law, but they found their efforts futile. (Editors note: This was written as a Many found themselves in jail. Thus, peech for the "Better Speakers Tour- those natives proved to these Americans lament" in the Baptist Training Union that they were not going to stand for such undemocratic un-christian f the Roanoke Association. As winner and n the Association, Joe gave this speech dealings. These Americans, miles from home, learned that each individual has t the Regional Tournament last Spring.) the right to enjoy religious and social Fellow Christians, Fellow Americans: freedom regardless of race creed or \.m I prejudiced? Me, prejudiced? Why color. fear a dominant laven't you heard, I am an American. Because has been factor in swaying certain sectional and [ believe in democracy. I believe that religious groups into the premissibility 'all men are created equal and that ,hey are endowed by their Creator with of prejudice and segregation, we have certain inalienable rights, among which let prejudice suck us into its narrow, ire life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- unreasonable, poisonous stream. We thank are Americans; .less." How could I be prejudiced? must God we and Yes, friends, I'm afraid we Americans as one united group we must look upon ?row up prating highly patriotic and any problem that affects the principles ethical phrases such as these. Yet down- upon which our forefathers founded deep in our hearts there sometimes this government as a situation not to be dwells the poison of prejudice and in- solved by any state or sectional group, tolerance. but by that one federal unity of many Because men for centuries have had races and many religions—the govern- the unrealized tendency to prejudge or ment of the United States. to be obsessed with hate and selfishness, We Christians many times forget the prejudice has been able to determine purpose of Jesus Christ's stay on earth. the fate of history. It has left its black To me the most beautiful representa- marks upon the races of men, rich and tion of His teaching is "peace on earth, poor, and finally, upon that "good-will- goodwill to men." We forget that and ideas to-men" Christianity itself. hold our opinions and about our Someone has said, "Like a false light- dogmatic creeds so strongly that we house, prejudice has been continually minimize the purpose of Christianity. liu-ing us out of the deep, safe channel Prejudice is a product of un-Christian of reason onto reefs of disaster." thinking, and if we Christians continue We "Sons of Liberty" through the to be influenced by the false convictions course of our history by discriminatory of secular groups, there never will be laws, relating to both foreign and do- a solution to this foremost problem of mestic problems, have put a deep chasm our day. We can be prejudiced and still between our principles and our actions. be American citizens, but we cannot be Many of us have had to go to other truly Christian. countries to realize the essential value The most heartening hope of de- of our way of life. molishing prejudice dwells within the There is a story of a group of engi- Christian Church. Because of what the neers, mostly Southerners, who during church teaches it makes us feel neces- the war were sent to the Island of sary to God. It makes us feel a relation- Jamacia where the dominant Negro ship as men with God and as men with population stood for and upheld our men. These teachings only can trans- conception of liberal and equal social cend our hates, greeds, and prejudices freedom. At first, they tried to prac- and bring tolerance and understanding. tice those discriminatory activities In conclusion, we must believe as which back home had been upheld by Carl E. Downs expressed: "I believe in 16 The Reveille December, 19i the great, good God who made me a Through tolerance, through unselfish black man. I have no apologies for the ness, through a love for mankind an color of my skin. His wisdom surpasses above all, through faith in God Al my curiosity. Of one blood and for one mighty we can conscientiously and trul purpose did He create all 'for to dwell give the correct answer to the questioi upon the face of the earth'." —"AM I PREJUDICED?"

FUND FOR SHAW STUDENT DEVOTIONAL MATERIAL The Baptist students on about a dozen Worship Services for Youth, Alice A campuses have committed themselves to Bays, Abingdon-Cokesbury. Lyric Religion, H. Augustine Smith raise funds to assist Miss Georgia Ruth Reveli. Sanford in her first year as a student Resources for Worship, A. C. Reid at Shaw University. In this venture we Abingdon-Cokesbury. are joining with the First Baptist Invitation to Worship, A. C. Reid Church, Lincolnton, N. C. and with Abingdon-Cokesbury. Shaw University which awarded her a Confessions — St. Augustine, Ernes Rhys, Editor Everyman's Library, E: scholarship. About $150 has been sub- P. Dutton. mitted already. A minimum of $200 is A Chain of Prayer Across the Agesi needed. checks Make payable to Baptist Selina Fox, E. P. Dutton. Student Union and mail to 119 Hillsboro (Order these from your Baptist Boolj

Street, Raleigh by January 1, 1950. Store.)

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FEBRUARY, 1950 Number 4

First Baptist Church, High Point, N. C. Host to B.S.U. Spring Retreat AprU 14-15

PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA B.S.U. A Journal of Baptist Student Life

Volume XI FEBRUARY, 1950 Number 4

EDITOR

H. R. Caldwell, Jr N. C. State College, Raleigh

STATE OFFICE HEADQUARTERS 119 HUlsboro Street Raleigh, N. C. James W. Ray, State Secretary

STATE OFFICERS

Eugene Ensley, President Wake Forest College Coleman Hanson, Enlistment Vice President Appalachian Jo Brooks, Social Vice President Woman's College Edlyn Freerks, Devotional Vice President University of N. C. William Worley, Extension Vice President Shaw University H. R. Caldwell, Jr., Publicity Director N. C. State Bill Bonham, Secretary-Treasurer E.C.T.C. Carolyn Massey, Literature Chairman Meredith Kenneth Archer, Mu^ic Director Gardner-Webb

STUDENT SECRETARIES

Edith Arrington, Baptist Hospital Roberts C. Lasater, State College Gloria Blanton, E.C.T.C. Charles McConnell, W.C.T.C. Harvie Brewington, Pembroke Peggy Greene, W.C.U.N.C. Billie Ruth Currin, Meredith Klein E. Parkes, Duke Eli Galloway, Wake Forest Texie Sowers, Campbell J. C. Herrin, U.N.C. Marjorie Toole, A.S.T.C.

CONTRIBUTORS

Samuel R. Levering, Ararat, Virginia, is Chairman Peace Board, Five Years Meet-

ing of Friends. . . . Vernon M. Herron is BSU President at Shaw University. . . .

Dr. Wayne E. Gates is Professor of Pastoral Care at the Southern Baptist Theol-

ogical Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. . . . Evelyn Wilson is BTU Representative,

Meredith College BSU. . . . Roberts C. Lasater is Chaplain of Baptist Students at

State College, Raleigh, N. C. . . . Raymond Gilbert is President of State College

BSU. . . . Beverly Neilson is YWA President at Wake Forest College. EDITORIALS

ELECTION OF NEW COUNCIL B.S.U. WEEK AT RIDGECREST MEMBERS JUNE 7-14

The Baptist students on all campuses North Carolina's quota for attendance where B.S.U. is organized, come face to is 200 students. Unless your campus face about this time of each year with delegation is engaging a private cottage, the choice and election of new council you will make your reservations and members. It has been found that the pay the $2 registration fee to James best study of the Student Body can be W. Ray, 119 Hillsboro Street, Raleigh, made when a nominating committee N. C. Please make these reservations is appointed early enough to make their by May 20 if possible. study, present their nominations, and Meals in the Assembly dining hall have the election and installation be- will be $2 per day. The cottage rates fore April 1. These new officers should will not exceed $1.50 each day. In most be elected early enough to make definite instances blankets and linens are not plans to attend Spring Retreat. furnished. Students may bring their

In some instances it seems best for own blankets and linens or rent them the old coimcil to remain in oflBce until at the Assembly linen room for 10?; the close of the school year. On other per person per day. campuses the new council takes full BEGIN NOW TO PROMOTE AT- responsibility immediately after Spring TENDANCE AT RIDGECREST ON Retreat. There should be no attempt YOUR CAMPUS. made by one campus to do a thing like any other campus. Each council must SPRING RETREAT carefully study its situation and let the new council take control at the time Meredith College council will be in most appropriate in each case. charge of the installation of the newly When the old council remains in elected State officer's council at Spring 14-15. office for the full school year, the new Retreat, April The First Baptist coimcil members work in close relation- Church, High Point will be host to the ship to the retiring council from the Retreat. time they are installed to commence- Registration fee will be $1.00. No ment. The new members must do some meals will be served at the church. of the work but their first full respon- All newly elected council officers are sibility begins at the pre-school retreat invited and urged to attend. The re- and dioring those important first few tiring council members may attend if weeks of school. The main concern of they wish. all is to do the best job possible in each Eugene Ensley, retiring State Presi- situation. All newly elected council dent, will preside at the Retreat and members must remember that loyalty will serve as Chairman of the Nominat- to the group and a dedication of him^- ing Committee. Each campus may have self to the work of his office are nec- one member on this committee. essary requisites for a successful B.S.U. program. STUDENT GOVERNMENT Many believe that the nominating committee shoiUd first of all present for The Student Government at Wake election persons to serve as council Forest College has been faced with a president. After his election, the new nvunber of difficult issues in recent president would serve with the nomi- weeks. Perhaps the reference made to nating committee and help in nominat- the decisions of the Student Govern- ing the ones to fill other offices on the ment by the Secular press has not executive council. The actual election taken into consideration all of the fac- of all council members should be done tors that color the local situation. by the largest possible number of the The REVEILLE wishes to congrat- students on the campus. ulate Lamar Caudil, III, President of —

The Reveille February, 195C the Student Government, and his Coun- ther commended for being "no respecter cil for their courageous attempts to of persons" while at the same time con- consider all of the facts relative to the sidering each one accused as an in- difficult situation. They are to be fur- dividual deserving justice in a fair trial.

LAW IS NECESSARY FOR PEACE

By Samuel R. Levering

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Peace Established Through Law and Deuteronomy are properly called Historically, peace has been establish- the books of the law. God saw that the ed over wide areas through establishing first need of the Israelites, a numerous wider and more inclusive law and gov- mass of people coming out of bondage ernment. Tribes have merged into Feu- in Egypt, was law and government to dal groups; Feudal groups into city.i guide their conduct and bind them to- states or small nations; these, in turn,' gether as a decent society. They could have come together into larger nations not hold together and grow strong if or empires. Often this has been done! murder, robbery, adultery, and other through conquest. Sometimes, as in the evil was allowed to go unchecked. So case of the Thirteen American colonies God gave the Ten Commandments and joining to form the United States, it the rest of the law spelled out in much has occurred through consent. detail, even listing punishments, in the first five books of the Bible. Need for World Law Urgent For exactly the same reasons that Law Necessary for Peace peace within nations requires laws Law and law enforcement are equally against murder and robbery, and en- necessary for any orderly society today. forcement of these laws, world peace "Thou Shalt not kill," and "Thou shalt requires world laws against preparation not steal" are now the corner stones of for and committing of national murder the law in all nations. Without them, and robbery, which accurately describes no community could live. Even in non- attacks by nations against other na- Christian and Communist countries tions, and enforcement of these laws. murder and robbery are crimes and the For the first time in history, modern law is enforced against common people, commimications and weapons make even though rulers sometimes are im- world law and world government tech- mune from punishment. nically possible. For the first time, the

What is the relations between law destructiveness of atomic bombs and other confronts all and peace? We commonly speak of law modern weapons mankind with a common fate, and and order—peace—in a single phrase. therefore with a compelling interest in They must, and do, go together. Peace establishing peace through world law keeping violence at a minimum—has and world government. For the first been established within nations every- time, this need has been recognized where through law, and by no other through the world-wide United Nations. means. As long as there are evil men, until everyone are saints, which is not Strengthen the United Nations! likely soon, the restraint of law will be The United Nations should be sup- necessary for peace. ported vigorously. Yet it is only a halt- ''' February, 1950 The Reveille

ing first step. It must be given the be, but the end shall not be yet." power to make laws to prevent nations Careful reading of this chapter shows from arming with weapons which that Jesus in this verse was foretelling threaten other nations, and from using the destruction of Jerusalem by the these weapons for attack. It must be Romans, which occurred in 69 A.D., less given an international civilian inspec- than forty years later. tion and police force to see that these There are other scriptural passages laws are obeyed, with enforcement pri- concerning wars when the world comes marily against individual violators. It to an end. But the Bible in no place must have adequate and dependable re- says that there will always be wars. venue to do this job. Nowhere does the Bible deny the pos- sibility of durable peace between now Peace is Possible through World Law and the end of the world. Quite the Fortunately, there is a powerful contrary. There is much evidence that world-wide movement to strengthen the God, with and through Christian peo- United Nations. In the United States ple, is working to establish peace on it is led by United World Federalists, earth. Durable peace is possible. which has over seven hundred active Our Christian Responsibility groups in American communities, col- leges, and schools. At present. House We should work for peace through Concurrent Resolution 64 and Senate helping to establish world law to make Resolution 56 have been sponsored by "Thou Shalt not kill," and "Thou shalt 105 representatives and 22 senators, not steal" binding for nations, as they supporters including North Carolina now are for individuals within nations. Senators Graham and Hoey, and Re- This, of course, is only one part of the presentatives Chatham, Deane, Durham Christian's job as peacemaker. The and Redden. There is a real chance other part is our eternal task of helping that this may become official United to build the foundations of peace States foreign policy, and that a con- through bringing people to the saving ference to strengthen the United Na- knowledge of Jesus Christ, and through tions may be called within the next building brotherhood and justice among few years. men. Both are essential for durable But some Christians say "Working peace. for peace is futile. The Bible says that Christianity is the answer to war. there will always be wars." The pas- There is no other. But we must remem- sage usually meant is Jesus's words in ber, and use, the whole Christian mes- Mark 13:7, "And when ye shall hear sage, not only love and personal salva- of wars and rumors of wars, be ye not tion and justice, but also law in building troubled: For such things must needs a world of peace.

WOULD IT BE OUT OF PLACE?

By Vernon M. Herron

During the spring of 1949, it was our and intolerance being slowly eradicated great privilege to attend the Student by the analytical thinking youths of Union Spring Retreat at Durham, North our day. We experienced a genuine Carolina. It was one of the many in- friendliness existing among Christian terracial conferences which we have students and felt that the Divine pre- attended that we could see prejudice sence was ever near because of the —

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amicable relationship with our white Dr. Tupper 'counted not his life dear brothers. We could see the great ad- unto himself, that he might lift God- vantages of interracial conferences. It ward his brother.' " Solemnly around is about the latter realization that we the grave we joined our hands and wish to speak further. united our hearts himibly before the Just before the Shaw delegation made one God who made us all, and submit- its departure from the "Retreat," we ted ourselves to his will. extended to many of our friends a sin- Having such an experience metamor- cere invitation to visit Shaw's campus phosed our attitude, thoughts and out- at their earliest convenience. Less than look on human relationship. I feel that one hoiu- after our return to the cam- interracial conferences fulfill the law pus, we were happily surprised by the of Christ—in that all suddenly realize visitation of the Mars Hill College dele- the fatherhood of God and the brother- gation who had so readily accepted our hood of man. There is none 'high' or invitation. 'low' in the Kingdom of Heaven. As we toured the campus from the Interracial conferences help us to President's home to the heating plant, understand each other; —we lose our conversing and exchanging our per- fears, our prejudices diminish, our atti- sonal thoughts, we pointed out the tudes change for the better, and we are values of interracial conferences. We stimulated and determined to stand for recognize our duties as Christian youths equality and justice. and paid tribute to the North Carolina In the December issue of the RE- Baptist Student Union for its great VEILLE—Joe Congleton prompts every- contribution in promoting peace and one to ask himself, "Am I Prejudiced?" good will among mankind. If, after such an examination, we find As the shadows of evening fell upon that we are, would it be out of place our heads, we found ourselves nearby for us to make every effort to under- the grave of the late Dr. Henry Martin stand and appreciate the thoughts, ac- Tupper, founder of Shaw University. A tions, and presence of all races? Would spokesman from Mars Hill College said, it be out of place to accede to a com- "Would it be out of place to have a plete revolutionary change in our atti- word of prayer before we leave?" Every- tude for a greater good? Let us, as one was in favor of doing so. A Shaw followers of Christ, practice the law of spokesman immediately suggested that action and do our part in helping to we move around Dr. Tupper's grave for transform our nation from a theoret- the prayer. He continued, "The spirit ical democracy into a practical nation of brotherhood and good will which we of Brotherhood. Would it be out of exemplify here today is the spirit on place in America? Is it out of place which Shaw University was founded. in our own B.S.U.?

PRAYER

The college student finds himself hard been consciously aware of the reality pressed to develop the sort of prayer of God at all. life that will sustain him amid the Then fatigue creeps into every muscle "intellectual growing pains" and emo- of the body and sleep outdoes the need tional upheavals of his college life. for a more intelligent grasp of the Time slips through his fingers like gol- Biblical truths and a more intimate den sand, bringing a day to the end acquaintance with the Holy Spirit. Two with the uneasy realization that an- weeks pass—a month—summer again other day has passed and he has not then it is the Senior year, and the —

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college student suddenly realizes that he diflficult problem in research result in is educated in many things, but illiterate a tacit realization of a Third Presence in the way of prayer. How avoid this? of the Holy Spirit. Such thrusts of the What are some practical suggestions as Eternal into the temporal cause us to to the "how" of a college student's lay aside all "vain repetitious" and prayer life? "idle talk" and respond to the "serious First, cultivate the practice of Habit- call to a devout and holy life." ual prayer. Paul meant something of But not all prayer can or should be this when he said "Pray without ceas- so spontaneous and occasional. Prayer ing." It is also something of what he is a discipline of the personality as well meant when he said: "Have this in as a "rest along the way," an oasis in mind in you which was in Christ Jesus." the desert. In the second place, there- On the most obvious level, habitual fore, the college student does well to prayer is the reverent observation of lay a careful plan for the development the simplicities and profundities of the of his prayer habits. Some specific work of nature. In the biology labora- suggestions again are in order: tory, the revelations of the microscope First, build your prayer life around provoke exclamatory prayers of praise the specific happenings in the life of and "awestruck adoration." The astro- Jesus. Christmas, Easter, Pentecost nomer's telescope causes the meditative especially to these days provide both student to murmur in the words of time and opportunity for "seasons of Kepler: "O God, these are thy thoughts refreshing from the Lord." Some of the I am thinking after thee!" Such an in- most spiritually rewarding prayers of sistent and reverent cultivation of the my life came to me when I stayed on sense of ciu^iosity as to nature's won- the campus during the holidays and ders prompted Moses to "turn aside" rested, read what I wanted to read, and to see the burning bush, and rewarded took time for long sessions of medi- him with an immediate apprehension tation and prayer. Then, too, it was a of the Eternal God. devoted English teacher who taught me Then, too, habitual prayer moves the habit of reading Milton's "Hymn on more surely into the realm of person- the Morn of Christ's Nativity" on ality when the college student gives a Christmas and Tennyson's In Memo- prayer-perspective to his personal re- riam, on Easter. lationships with those about him. He Again, a careful mastery of the pray- "no longer considers any person from ers, doxologies, and benedictions found a hiunan point of view"—as competi- in the four Gospels and the Pauline tors, as enemies, as friends, as critics, Epistles provide "The words" with as "bores," as "fools," as "scholars." which to pray. It is better to pray Rather he considers each person to alone and aloud in the language of the whom he is related as "a person for Scripture. Other books of devotion such whom Christ died." as The Book of Common Prayer, The Such a perspective lends attentive- Confessions of Augustine, The Imita- ness, consideration, and care to each tion of Christ, Pilgrims Progress, A contact of the day. This is a kind of Testament of Devotion, by Thomas R. prayer that one practices in the hidden Kelly, and Purity of Heart, by Soren places of his heart, not that which Kurkegaard are of inestimable value in spawns on the attention of others. It is the education of a person in the lan- rooted and grounded in reverence for guage of prayer. hiunan personality and brings forth Furthermore, it is a common en- fruit in effective and enduring human couragement to prayer if groups of relationships. three and four students can get to- Quite often a chance walk with a gether on special occasions and express casual acquaintance, a brief visit to a their prayers of confession, thanksgiv- sick classmate, a spontaneous meeting ing, adoration, and petition to God in of minds with a fellow-student over a each other's presence. This, I think, is The Reveille February, 1950 i

much less likely to be as morbid as sins, and teach me what they are, that ' "prayer mates" of just two persons, I may labor with Thee in overcoming regardless of sex, often become with them." each other. The 51st Psalm is the purest expres- Courtships begim in this very inti- sion of confession. Also, we pray prayers mate fashion with the "absolute will of of Thanlisgiving whereby the gratitude Grod" stamped on them have often of our hearts overflows to God as did shattered, breaking both the religious the Psalmist in the 103rd Psalm. An- confidence and the courtship of the other kind of prayer is that of dedica- persons involved. Likewise, aggressive as tion. Hannah's prayer in I Samuel 2, well as erotic motives can become mix- and the Gethsemane prayer of Jesus ed in such a relationship to make the demonstrates this. prayer life morbid also. Thus prayer This prayer coming to us from the becomes a tool to achieve one's own war also is one of dedication: "Help ends with anothei* individual, rather me to change those things that can be than the means whereby both indiv- changed. Father. Help me to accept iduals become an "instrument of right- those things that cannot be changed. eousness" in the hands of the Heavenly And help me to know the difference be- Father. tween the two." A final suggestion as to the Different But the purest expression of prayer kinds of prayer needs to be made. Most is in Adoration of the King of Kings, often people think of prayer as a peti- the Lord of Lords. The contemplation tion. Here the person asks for some- of Jesus, the Incarnate Word of God, thing for himself or for other persons the Redeemer of the World causes the who are significant to him. Jesus' prayer heart and voice "to sink oppressed" in John 17 is an example. Then, there and the soul to surge with "groanings is the prayer of confession of sins and that cannot be uttered." Thus utter de- an accompanying petition for insight, pendence upon the Holy Spirit becomes such as: "Our Father, Forgive me of my the beating heart of our prayer life.

SUMMER ADVENTURES

By Evelyn Wilson

Have you made any plans for the you may be doing any of the jobs which summer yet? Do you hope to keep from are necessary to keep the assembly go- becoming mentally dull this summer? ing. Students who have worked at these Would you like to gain valuable ex- assemblies agree that this is a joyful perience while earning a small income? and inspirational experience. Let me tell you of an adventure which If you really want to "get out on will assure you of all these things, and your own," then apply for work in more too—student summer work in Associational Missions. Here students North Carolina. are sent out as either Associational There are several types of work offer- Missionaries or Assistant Associational ed which may carry you to any section Missionaries. Last year I worked for of our state. Those who like to hear good this department in an association in speakers week after week and who the mountains. My duties primarily would like work lasting almost all sum- were to conduct a Vacation Bible School mer can find work in our assemblies at each week in a different church and to Ridgecrest, Fruitland, and Seaside. Here build up other phases of the church ebruary, 1950 The Reveille

rogram—Sunday Schools, Training dents, rural mountain people perhaps, nions, etc. I was able to help the peo- a small town congregation, pastors. te become better acquainted with our Baptist leaders, and many more. You )tal Baptist program. will learn to be tactful, make the right Those who work with Mr. L. L. Mor- approaches, and adjust yourself to any an of the Simday School Department group or situation. You will come to ill help conduct enlargement cam- feel "at home" any place you find fel- aigns throughout an association each low Christians. You will gain valuable eek for about five or six weeks. This experience as you find yourself "on your impaign includes taking a community own" teaching a Study Course, conduct- ansus and teaching a study course. ing a Vacation Bible School preaching The Training Union functions simi- a sermon or tabulating a religious cen- irly. Students help Mr. Harvey T. Gib- sus. Also nothing gives you a greater Dn in enlargement campaigns in the joy than sharing with others whatever raining Union field. In addition to you may possess. Most of all, the stu- ork with the assemblies and depart- dent worker grows spiritually as he lents, many students have been em- comes to realize his own inadequacy loyed by individual churches as edu- and his dependence upon God. ational directors, church secretaries or All of us as college students have lusic directors. much that we can share with the peo- College students may work for State ple of North Carolina and they are lissions in North Carolina but also grateful for our coming to work with lany of them have worked with the and for them during the summer. lome Mission Board in various parts Whether we are helping to make a week f the United States, and last summer, at an Assembly more pleasant, leading he North Carolina B.S.U. sent a stu- a Jimior in Bible School to become a ent to Hawaii. Christian, improving a Sunday School, So there are many opportunities in or organizing a Training Union, we are ummer work. Perhaps you are wonder- still doing something worthwhile. ag if these few weeks or months of Last summer one hundred fifty stu- ummer work will be worthwhile either dents were a part of this summer pro- you or to the people with whom you gram. If you feel that you would like lay work. Prom my own experience to take this summer adventure this nd from the experience of other stu- year, contact Jimmie Ray (119 Hills- '.ents, I can assure you they will be. boro Street, Raleigh, N. C.) for an ap- It is helpful and enjoyable for you plication, fill it out, and send it back lecause you will come to know people to him. You'll never experience a more etter—all kinds of people—other stu- enjoyable and meaningful adventure. 10 The Reveille February, 19'

President of New Orleans Baptist Th) ological Seminary, his pastor, Dr. M P. Powell, and R. T. L. Holcomb, Exe^ utive Secretary of the Baptist Sundi

School Board. His burial was at ii birthplace, Oxford, Mississippi. Dr. Leavell received his education

Oxford, his Batchelors Degree at tl University of Mississippi, and Mastd Degree at Columbia University. He all studied at Harvard University La School and held Honorary Degrees Lid. from Mississippi College, and L.H.I from Baylor University. Dr. Leavell had been a member the Executive Committee of the Baj tist World Alliance since 1934 and Sa^ retary of the Youth Committee of th,^ organization since 1931. He had bee' connected with Church Student Woi for 27 years. Before becoming Soutl Dr. Frank H. Leavell wide Secretary of Student Work, he W! Secretary of Baptist Training Unic IN MEMORY OF DR. LEAVELL Work in Georgia.

Dr. Frank Hartwell Leavell, 65, Sec- In 1922 Dr. Leavell became Executi\ retary for the Department of Student Secretary of the Inter-Board CommL Work for the Southern Baptist Con- sion of the Convention, and held thi vention, died at his home in Nashville, post until 1928 when the Departmei Tennessee on Wednesday morning, De- of Student Work was set up and b( part of the Sunday Scho cember 7, 1949. He became ill Tuesday came a night after working in his ofBce all Board program. day. His death was attributed to a heart Students in North Carolina ar ailment. throughout the Southland will remen Fioneral services at the First Baptist ber Dr. Leavell as the first and on Church, Nashville, were conducted by Baptist student leader between 192'. his brother Dr. Roland Q. Leavell, 1950.

THE BAPTIST STUDENT UNION AND THE LOCAL CHURCH

By Roberts C. Lasater

The Baptist Student Union is a fulfills its objective by working close) church centered student movement. Its with the church in the college consj purpose is to build from the student munity. body mature churchmen who have a The church in the college communis vital personal faith in Jesus Christ. It has the unique opportunity and obligj li ebruary, 1950 The Reveille 11

n ion of providing a ministry to the stu- standing among these is its responsibil- ents who attend the college. To fulfill ity for building a program worthy of xf ;s mission effectively in the college student participation and interest. In

Id ommunity, it must work through the their college classes the students be- iaptist Student Union. This implies come accustomed to instruction of a hat there must be cooperation between high quality. If the church desires to he Baptist Student Union and the local hold the student which the BSU has hurch and that each has certain re- enlisted, it will provide some of its best

K ponsibilities in the work of the other. leaders for its student groups. Outstanding among the obligations of Many of the students who attend the he BSU to the local church is the college churches will be the ministers, nlistment of the students into the pro- deacons, teachers, and lay leaders of ;ram of the church. The college church churches throughout the denomination. /ill be the logical church home for the If the college church provides leader- tudent for a period of four years. The ship for the development of these stu- tiajor portion of his spiritual instruc- dents, it will have contributed vitally

ion will come through it. Since no to the denomination in one of its most lither group can work as effectively important phases, that of training men yith students as can another student and women so that they can operate !;roup, one of the primary responsibil- our churches constructively and intel- ties of the BSU is to enlist the student hgently. nto the total program of the church. Since the student will make the local Vhen there is more than one Baptist church his home for four years, the :hurch in the college community, this local church should recognize the stu- )bligation extends to every church dent ministry as an important part of vhere students desire to attend. the total church program and extend The BSU will seek to lead the stu- to the students the recognition and the lents to give the college church all the influence that it affords its own mem- oyalty and enthusiasm which they gave bers. It should use him, when possible, their home churches. It will en- in the total program of the church so jourage them to become an effective that both the church and the student Dart of the local church program and will profit by the relationship. ;o support it with their time, ability, The BSU is also obligated to support ind experience. If the BSU fulfills its the local church financially. It should responsibility at this point, the church encourage the students to give their will find that the college students have money through the local church. An Drought into the church new vitality, active student program is a financial :he inspiration of growing minds, and burden on the church. Students are Che collective experience of membership therefore morally obligated to assist in many churches in many different the church in financing the student situations. The students will be a stim- phase of its program. Furthermore, the ulation to the pastor and the entire local chiu-ch and the cooperative pro- :hurch. gram provide the best medium through The BSU also has an obligation to which the student can participate fi- feeep the church roll clear of the names nancially in the world-wide program of of students who have graduated or Christian advance. In encouraging the dropped out of school. Without the student to give through the local ooperation of the BSU at this point church, the BSU is providing a means the church in the college community for instructing the students in the many will, over a period of years, build a phases of the denominational enter- large enrollment of non-resident church prise. members. In return for the financial support of In return for the enlistment efforts the BSU, the local church owes financial of the BSU the college church owes support to the BSU. Students who be- certain obligations to the students. Out- come loyal to a college church frequent- 12 The Reveille February, 19y

ly give their money in amounts that gets that it is only one part of th embarrass local members who earn total ministry of the church. It seek steady incomes. Experience in almost to usurp its rightful place and to de every college church indicates that, mand from the church benefits whicl where this policy is followed, student are out of proportion to its relativ gifts greatly exceed the cost of the position in the ministry of the churcl> student program. On the other hand, the church fre

The church, therefore, is responsible quently acts as if it either fears th^ for supporting not only the program in influence of the students or feels tha' the local church, but also for contribut- the student ministry is an unwantei' ing to the greater campus program of imposition upon the church. The stu the Baptist Student Union. The BSU dents quickly sense such an attitud, should be placed in the regular budget and become unsympathetically critical, of the church so that the BSU leaders If misimderstandings are to be kep will know from the outset what their at a minimum, therefore, both the BSI financial resources will be. With finan- and the church should seek to under cial undergirding for its campus pro- stand sympathetically the problems o gram the BSU will be of much greater the other. The BSU will recognize tha ministry Oi service to the church which supports it. it is only one phase of the the church to the total community. I In spite of their dependence upon will seek to be an asset to the churcl each other for success of their mutual rather than a liability, cooperating ii ministry, frequent misunderstandings the total church program. The churcl arise between the church and the BSU. will accept the students warmly inti Two factors usually form the basis of its fellowship, recognizing and accept these misunderstandings. On the one ing the contribution which they cat hand, the Baptist Student Union for- make to the life of the church.

THE STATE COLLEGE B.S.U. RETREAT CAMP

By Ray Gilbert

The State College BSU Retreat camp need. Tom Garrison, The BSU Presi- is a result of many factors. dent in 1947-48, first suggested that The most important factor is the since a student center near the campu! desperate need of the BSU for ade- was out of question in the near future quate facilities in which to carry on a site be developed away from the cam- certain phases of its ministry to the pus for part of the program. Mr. PranPi

students. This need became more acute Parker, an alumnus of State and i\

after the program was expanded by friend of the BSU at State, deeded tci the coming of our Student Secretary, the Baptist State Convention two and, Bob Lasater. Throughout its history the one-half acres of land to be used foii BSU at State has had no facilities of the retreat camp. its own. All of its program must be To further the project the BSU Coun- carried on in rented or borrowed facil- cil purchased an army mess hall anc ities. This fact makes necessary a se- moved it from Camp Butner to Raleigh rious limitation of the program that Ed Smith, the BSU President in 1948- the BSU can carry on. 49, took office when the first money was A second factor has been the interest being raised. Raising money and pre- of many people in meeting this crucial paring the land for building were the jj 'ebruary, 1950 The Reveille 13

ti oajor contributions of his administra- enough to town to be convenient. With

ei ion to the completion of the project. the exception of the clearing for the Jifts and contributions have come from building the entire two and one-half ieople and churches throughout the acres are covered with trees. These pro- itate. Under the present administration vide shade for the area and carpet the he foundation has been laid and con- ground with pine needles. truction is ready to begin. Also, plans The building is located on the edge .re now being made to secure the addi- of a hill and from a position near the ional money for completion of the pro- building one may look out over two act. lakes. These two lakes enhance the The third factor has been the enthu- beauty and the desirability of the site. iasm of the students. They have been Electricity from a nearby power line :enerous in giving their time and labor will be available for the camp. Some of dismantle the army mess hall and the rented facilities used by the BSU in the have not had this service. nove the building to the camp site, to past will lear the site of undergrowth, and lay Water also be available from a he foundation for the building. Now privately drilled well. hey are ready to help in the con- The building will be L-shaped with jtruction of the building. the main part 64 feet and 25 feet wide. The kitchen and toilet facilities which A fourth factor has been the coop- make the foot of the "L" will be 21 ration of a cooperation of a committee by 25 feet. The building will be ideal f Raleigh churchmen. These men con- for many of the activities which the ributed their judgment in the original BSU has planned. Some of these are jlanning of the project and throughout week-end and between-term study ts development have given freely of groups, exchange meetings with stu- heir money and skills. dents from other colleges, planning con- The retreat site is three miles from ferences and retreats, social activities, he campus and easily accessible by good pastor's night banquets, and discussion oads. The location gives it all the ad- groups. Other features will be added 'antages of the country; yet it is close as the program expands.

PUTTING THE "MISS" INTO MISSIONS

By Beverly Neilson

The Young Woman's Auxiliary is and proportionate giving to world mis- iponsored by the Woman's Missionary sions are held before the Young Women. Society for the purpose of spreading The Woman's Missionary Society pro- nissionary knowledge to unmarried vides the Y.W.A. with a consecrated, vomen between the ages of sixteen and enthusiastic counselor who guides the -wenty-five. In 1949 there were 5,078 organization, so that youth may de- ifoimg Woman's Auxiliaries with 52,084 velop independent leadership under the nembers in nineteen states and the hand of experience.

district of Columbia. The Y.W.A. , which has a large en- Following the command of Christ to rollment, uses the circle plan for meet- 'oUow him as Lord and Master, ideals ings—all meeting in diflerent places )t thoughtful study of the missionary simultaneously, but coming together for nessages of the Bible, prayer for mis- a monthly general meeting. These or- sions, a comprehensive study of regular ganization methods should be important 14 The Reveille February, ifli

only as a means to the end of studying dard of Excellence too much. By educa)

missions. The Standard of Excellence ing and enlisting the young women < for which every Y.W.A. should strive today in mission work we will have helps keep a balanced program of activ- new group of devoted, missionary-mine ities. ed women who are willing to say, "Hei; Realizing that the Baptists look to am I Lord, send me." college-trained women for educated leadership in their mission work, the college division of Y.W.A. was inaug- urated in 1910; the hospital division in 1923. The campus Y.W.A. is fostered and encouraged in all its activities by the local W.M.S. which provides a con- secrated counselor to tie the two groups closer together. In addition to performing leadership duties, the Y.W.A. president should re- present the Young Woman's Auxiliary on the B.S.U. Council always keeping Y.W.A. plans before the Council so that they may cooperate. In colleges where there are both Y.W.A. and Y.W.C.A. organizations, there need be no conflict, for an advisory board can plan for the best development of the students. At Wake Forest there are nine circles as individual units, but which are under a greater council which guides the year's work. At the monthly general meetings. State, Home, and Foreign Missions have been discussed by students and visiting speakers. KLEIN PARKS LEAVES DUKE In December, Mr. Alexander Herring, a missionary to China, was on the cam- Rev. Klein E. Parks, Chaplain pus for a week leading informal dis- Baptist students at Duke Universit

cussions on our mission work in China. resigned his position on January 15 i Feeling that Community Missions is accept the position of Chaplain at th the heart of the Y.W.A., we have cen- Veterans Administration Hospital, Gulli

tered our work on Community Missions port, Mississippi. Duke students and tli| and Foreign Relief. We have provided North Carolina Student Departmen meals for a school child, clothed a child, Staff has sustained a heavy loss wit, given baskets of food to needy families, his going. His work ajid contributior and sent Care Packages overseas. to B.S.U. will be long remembered I A "Family Altar," which many of the all. Klein is to be congratulated upo girls attend, is conducted each evening this appointment to a ministry to whic^ on the dormitory halls. Although we are he is qualified because of service in tl proud that along with Mars Hill and United States Navy and special trair Gardner-Webb, we had an A-1 Y.W.A. ing in hospital ministries at Andov* last year, we try not to stress the Stan- Newton Theological Seminary. bruary, 1950 The Reveille 15 CAMPUS FLASHES

ARDNER-WEBB—Dr. Ralph Heering, the Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, istor of First Baptist Church in Win- spoke for the January meeting of the

Dn-Salem, will be the preacher for Mission Forum. . . . Jimmie Ray will be

.8 campus revival February 20-25. . . . the speaker at the B.S.U. banquet and or campus caught up with New York at the Installation Service on Friday, ty diiring the week of January 11-15. March 31 and Sunday, April 2, respec- le pump for the campus water system tively. ;nt on a sit down strike. Few baths MARS HILL—Mr. L. L. Morgan, State shaves were possible until the pump Sunday School Secretary, will direct a is repaired and replaced. series of studies in Sunday School Ad- INGATE—Our B.S.U. Council has ministration February 6-10. . . . Dr. en active this year in remodeling our Theodore Adams of Richmond, Virginia S.U. room, carrying baskets of fruit will be the preacher for the annual id presenting short programs to shut- Youth Revival February 19-26. s in the community, sending boxes food and clothing to needy families MEREDITH COLLEGE — On Wednes-

the community. . . . The Sunday day night, January 4 we were host to !hool Study course on the book of more than 50 students from Shaw Uni-

ts is set for January 23-27. . . . The versity for a joint meeting between the T.U. Study course is scheduled for two student groups. The program was

16 month of February. . . . James W. directed by Vernon Herron, President ay, State Student Secretary, visited of the Shaw Council, with Miss Ann le campus January 10 presenting the Ferebee, Professor of Religious Educa- unmer Student work in a chapel ad- tion and Psychology, as advisor. The ess. He remained on the campus all Shaw students presented a Religious ly interviewing students for this work drama entitled, "The Challenge of the Ith the Baptist State Convention. In Cross." Several such meetings are to be le evening he talked on the Third held this year with the schools present- ''orld Baptist Youth Congress at Stock- ing exchange programs February 20- olm, Sweden, and showed the slides 24 is the date for Focus. The theme is, hich he took on his European tour "Religion—Its Reality and Relevance."

ist summer. . . . On Wednesday even- The team members will be Dr. Claud ig, January 12 Mr. Bill Jackson, State Broach, Charlotte; Dr. E. T. Clark, Win- .A. leader and Miss Ruth Province, chester, Virginia; Mr. Maxie C. Collins, tate W.M.U. Secretary, were guest Columbia, South Carolina; Mrs. Win- leakers at the mid-week prayer ser- ston Pearce, Durham; Mr. James W. ice. Ray, Raleigh; Rev. E. McNeil Poteat, Raleigh; Dr. J. Blackburn, Wake EMBROKE COLLEGE—The B.S.U. Glenn Forest; and Miss Emily Lansdell, Heph- undergoing the experience of sharing zibah, Georgia. le spirit of B.S.U. with the churches f the local association. The program WOMAN'S COLLEGE — On Friday made up of talent from among the evening, December 9, the B.S.U. Coim- aptist students. Talks on such topics cil gave a Christmas party for the 3, "What is B.S.U.?" and "My Church Student House. Those who went took ife at School" as well as other topics gifts for the house, decorated the tree, used in these programs. sang, played games, were served re- PPALACHIAN—Dr. J. Glenn Black- freshments, and had devotion. ... At urn, Pastor of the Wake Forest Bap- College Park Baptist Church the Coun- st Church, was the speaker for Life cil was in charge of the morning wor-

urpose Week, January 22-27. . . . Miss ship service December 11. The council dith Arrington, Student Secretary for choir rendered special music. 16 The Reveille February, 15

E.C.T.C.—Religious Emphasis week will ference to be held at Memorial Bapt: be held March 14-16. Dr. Messick, Presi- Church in Greenville. dent of East Carolina, will open the STATE—The State B.S.U. had a Pla program with a student assembly, the ning Conference and social at Sun; first called convocation opening Relig- Lake on Saturday, January 7. Twent ious Emphasis week in the history of one of the Council members were pi our college. The program includes a sent and outlined the entire tern main address by Dr. T. D. Johnson, work. At 7:00 o'clock Harriet Lassat seminars will be led by Roberts Lassater had something for all the boys to e of State College, and a panel: Gods of After eating, we settled back down for the Campus, with Dean Jenkins as full night of planning—then came t moderator. . . . B.S.U.'ers are taking surprise of the night. The entire Mei part in a city-wide religious census. dith Council dropped in and the r(

. . . Plans are under way for a play to of the evening was turned over to B( be presented at a regional B.T.U. con- Baily our Social chairman.

Summer Schedule of Baptist- Assemblies

Week CasweU, N. C. Fruitland, N. C. **Ridgecrest, N. C. Monday- Sunday

Jime 12-18 Intermediate R.A. Training Union B.S.U. and Y.W.A. Jime 19-25 Training Union W. M. U. Y.W.A. and S.S. June 26 - July 2 Pastors' School & Junior G.A. Sunday School Rural Church July 3-9 Christian Home Intermediate G.A. Sunday School & Music July 10-16 W.M.U., Y.W.A., B.W.C. Junior R.A Sunday School Training Union July 17-23 Missions Intermediate R.A. Training Union Evangelism Jimior G.A. *July 24-30 Deacons Conference Missions Training Union Associational Evangelism Missionaries Music

July 31 - Aug. 6 Intermediate G.A. Sunday School Training Union Foreign Mission August 7-13 Sunday School Training Union Foreign Mission Music August 14-20 Training Union Christian Home Deacons W. M. U. Bible Conference August 21-27 Bible Conference

*Baptist World Alliance, Cleveland, Ohio. **Ridgecrest weeks begin on Wednesdays and close on Tuesdays.

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Volume XI MAY, 1950 Number 5

PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA B. S. U. 7^e "R.etACiiie

A Journal of Baptist Student Life

Volume XI MAY, 1950 Number 5

EDITOR

H. R. Caldwell, Jr N. C. State College, Raleigh

STATE OFFICE HEADQUARTERS 119 HUlsboro Street Raleigh, N. C. James W. Ray, State Secretary

STATE OFFICERS

Eugene Ensley, President Wake Forest College Coleman Hanson, Enlistment Vice President Appalachian Jo Brooks, Social Vice President Woman's College Edlyn Freerks, Devotional Vice President University of N. C. William Worley, Extension Vice President Shaw University H. R. Caldwell, Jr., Publicity Director N. C. State Bill Bonham, Secretary-Treasurer E.C.T.C. Carolyn Massey, Literature Chairman Meredith Kenneth Archer, Music Director ^ Gardner-Webb

STUDENT SECRETARIES

Edith Arrington, Baptist Hospital Roberts C. Lasater, State College Gloria Blanton, E.C.T.C. Charles McConnell, W.C.T.C. Harvie Brewtngton, Pembroke Peggy Greene, W.C.U.N.C. Billie Ruth Currin, Meredith Klein E. Parkes, Duke Eli Galloway, Wake Forest Texie Sowers, Campbell J. C. Herrin, U.N.C. Marjorie Toole, A.S.T.C.

CONTRIBUTORS

Edlyn W. Freerks will be a 1950 graduate of the University of North Carolina.

. . . William C. Soule is Assistant Professor of Law at Wake Forest College.

. . . Worth Grant, pastor at Weldon, is a newly appointed Missionary to Japan.

. . . Theodore Freedman is Director of the North Carolina Office of the Anti-

Defamation League. . . . Nancy McCall is outgoing Extension Director of

Woman's College B. S. U. . . . Garland A. Hendricks is present pastor of Apex Baptist Church. EDITORIALS

BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE Officers. (See names listed on page 10.) They have already received Several campuses are planning to their charge and have begun their send the BSU President or some other duties. May we wish much success to representative to the Baptist World them for the ensuing year. These Alliance to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, newly elected officers didn't step into July 22-27. The student's parents, a newly created position. They re- their home church and the B. S. U. place someone else. May we say con- are joining together in providing gratulations and thanks to Gene Ens- funds necessary for the trip. Esti- ley and his retiring co-workers for a mates are that betw^een $75.00 and job well done. $100.00 will be required to finance

. HRCjr. one student. We suggest that many other cam- RIDGECREST AND VACATION puses might well work on the possi- TIME bility of sending a representative. This is the second time the B. W. A. has When we think of vacations, we been held in this country. Never again also remember B.S.U. Week at Ridge- while this generation of students is crest. in college will this opportunity come. Our quota is large enough to in- Two days of this session will be clude all students from any North devoted to youth and student work. Carolina campus who wish to attend. Excellent speakers and conference It is necessary that a registration leaders have been secured for this fee of $2.00 per person be paid to the program. State B.S.U. office by June 1. Room Campuses interested in sending rep- reservations can be made at the B.S.U. i-esentatives should begin at once to office or directly to Mr. Robert Guy, make plans. The Allerton Hotel may Manager, Ridgecrest Baptist Assem- be able to furnish accommodations at bly. reasonable rates. Requests for reser- The following is the list of speakers vations must be directed to Dr. D. R. and leaders: J. P. Allen, Howard Butt, Sharp, 900 Schofield Building, Cleve- M. T. Rankin, Chester E. Swor, Leon- land, Ohio. ard A. Duce, Duke K. McCall, Dale JWR Moody, Margaret Bruce, C. Oscar Johnson, Joel Sorenson, Wayne E. SALUTING NEW STATE Gates, Ralph T. Overman, Center L. OFFICERS Stephens, James L. Sullivan, Jack R. Noffsinger, Baker James Cauthen. In this final issue of the Reveille Hope to see you in Ridgecrest, for 1949-50, we salute Boyce Medlin June 7-14. and the other newly elected State HRCjr.-

PASSING ANOTHER MILESTONE

(Open Letter to Graduates)

Dear Graduates of 1950: final exams, and, a more pleasant As this issue of The Reveille is be- expectation, for the graduation exer- ing received and read by thousands of cises which will mark the end of our North Carolina Baptist students, college careers. many of us are preparing for our last Looking backward to the day when The Reveille May, 1950

we entered school as a freshman, the over what it was before we came to three or four intervening years seem college. Likewise, our attitudes to- such a short time, don't they? Then, ward our owTi conduct and responsi- it was with considerable misgivings bilities should reflect a maturing that we began this important period mind as should our attitudes toward of our lives, wondering if we could all other persons. "make the grade." Fortunately, most If we have been giving the proper of our fears were groundless, as they care to the spiritual element of our usually are, and we were able to pass lives, we shall be among the most for- one course after another. We learned tunate persons on earth when we leave a lot of facts about a number of sub- school. Of course, Christians have an jects, of which most are even now incomparable advantage over non- forgotten, but with it all we should Christians because our faith gives be able to think more clearly and meaning to life in this world and hope effectively now than ever before. for "that which is perfect" in the Most of you who will read this next. Among Christians only a rela- article brought to college a reason- tively few have had the advantages of ably satisfactory and sufficient (at a college education, and every one of the time) faith in God, which had Us should be deeply grateful to our been implanted in you by your par- parents, educators, teachers, and ents, pastors, Sunday school teachers, many others who have made the nec- and others. You were also probably essary sacrifices in order that we warned by many of these persons of might enjoy this opportunity. Above the dangers of "losing your religion all, we should be thankful to God, in college." who created and rules this universe If you took heed of such warnings, for the benefit of his crowning crea- you did well, for in some colleges at tion, man. least various false teachings are quite When we realize how fortunate we prevalent. However, guarding against are, we must automatically become the loss of your Christian faith is aware of the heavy responsibilities not enough. A more positive admoni- that are placed upon our shoulders. tion is to follow the example of the Since being in school we have heard One who "increased in wisdom and time and again that we are the lead- stature, and in favor with God and ers of tomorrow. Now, that "tomor- man." The really unfortunate thing row" is practically here. It is up to that all too often happens to college us to use all our possessions and students is not that they "lose their faculties for the glory of God and the religion," but that although they grow advancement of Christ's Kingdom on in wisdom and stature and in favor this earth. If we should fail to fulfill with man, they do not grow in favor our responsibilities, the consequences with God. In other words, while they are frightening to contemplate. One acquire stronger bodies, keener minds, generation of unfaithful leaders would and the social graces of getting along result in losses to the forces of evil with each other, their spiritual which would cancel the good that the growth is stunted because they fail faithful have accomplished during to reinterpret their Christian faith in several centuries. the light of increased academic The way in which we are to carry knowledge. out our obligations to God and man This does not mean, of course, that is for each one to decide. It is encour- any fundamental tenet of our faith aging to note that many of you are' should be discarded, but it does mean planning to enter the Christian min- that God expects our conception of istry and other so-called full-time Him to be enriched and advanced Christian vocations. It is to persons —

May. 1950 The Rbvbillb like you that the rest of us will look and participation in a civic club, labor for the spiritual guidance which we union, or cultural society if our fel- shall always need. But we who make low-members can tell that we are up the laity of our churches have Christians. In the use of our time, scarcely less challenging tasks con- then, as with our goods, God's will, fronting us. as we best understand it, must pre- If our vocation is one that benefits vail. our fellow-man — and no Christian One unfortunate aspect of gradu- should engage in one that does not ating from college is the physical sep- then it deserves our utmost efforts. aration from true and sincere friends. God has no use for poor workmanship Still we know that there is a tie that in any field. However, our responsi- shall always keep us bound together bility not end here, for most does —the tie of God's love as manifested people have considerable "free time" in His Son Jesus Christ. To know after working hours are over. But that we can call ourselves children of this to does not all of time belong God and joint-heirs with Christ is a God? The uses which we may make comforting thought that is sufficient of this time are numerous. to sustain us through all trials of this Certainly there are always several world. opportunities for a sincere, dedicated young Christian in your church, but Sincerely, God may be served by our presence Edlyn W. Freerks

THE GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE, AN EXAMPLE OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDUSTRIAL LABOR RELATIONS

By William C. Soule

"Labor relations mean strikes, vio- education in labor relations and labor lent and unlawful picketing and trou- law. This demand stems from an in- ble." In advancing such a definition, creased industrial activity in the many Americans, unassociated with South. Such industry affects inter- industry, indicate their failure to com- state commerce and hence is gov- prehend the significance that is at- erned, with regard to its labor ac- I'tached to the term by those who ap- tivities, by the National Labor Rela- ply it. Thus far, labor relations, as tions Act of 1935, as amended by the they are thought of in the highly Labor Management Relations Act of industrialized areas of our country, 1947. have not been clearly illustrated to These laws provide that employees the South. We have been indirectly shall have the right to self organiza- affected by the difficulties experi- tion, to form, join or assist labor enced in the coal, steel, automobile organizations and to bargain collec- and other major industries and we tively through representatives of their have witnessed the strife that has al- own choosing. It is not the purpose ways accompanied the organization of of this article to discuss the relative employees. It is difficult, therefore, merits of, or objections to, such labor for us to conceive that labor strife is laws. Rather, it is to indicate at least the exception, rather than the rule of one field in which Southern industry labor relations. and employees represented by their The South is currently demanding unions, are effectively carrying out more in the way of information and both the provisions of the Federal The Rbvbille May, 1950 labor laws and advancing the princi- merely joint consideration and partici- ples of Christianity. pation. This could be the method em- It has been very truly said that ployed in the adjustment of problems the goal of Judeo-Chi-istian religious as they arise without a collective tradition is "the free and self-respon- agreement. Mature parties who have sible development of the individual so enjoyed a long relationship which is that he will freely and joyously put not characterized by hostility and who his energies at the service of the com- share an accepted body of custom or munity of man;" and that this is also practice can, and do, proceed in this a sound expression of the fundamen- manner. But more commonly, each tal principle of democracy. What side, while quite willing to reserve better directive could there be for the its own freedom of action, wishes to conduct of industrial relations in a be assured about the future conduct great production plant than "The free of the other side. This desire for as- and self-responsible development of surance, for security, leads to term, the individuals (managers and work- agreements setting forth the rules and ers) so that they spontaneously and policies which are to be in force for with self satisfaction put their ener- a stated period of the future. gies at the service of the community The adoption of the collective agree- of man?" ment begins, rather than obviates, the It has often been said that labor process of daily adjustments and con- relations are closely akin to domestic tinuous administration. Here, as in relations. Certainly, the two have the governmental regulation of com- much in common. As with man and plex affairs, successful results de- wife, a company and its employees pend perhaps even more on the qual- share in the hope that through their ity of long-term administration than combined efforts success may be on the detail of underlying legislation achieved by both. As with the marital or agreement. And, as with the main- relationship, complete success in in- tenance of public health, good labor dustry is impossible without the co- relations depend not so much on the operation of both parties. The simi- strenuous efforts made in the spora- larity between marriage and labor re- dic crises, though they are obviously lations ends however, when one con- important, as upon the persistent ef- siders the alternative to success. forts at advance care and preparation Although as a practical matter to ward off crises and build health many of us feel that the similarity by eliminating avoidable sources oi continues, the divorce laws have made disease. it a relatively easy matter for man Accordingly, the grievance proce and wife to dissolve their marriage dure becomes, as is often said, the without apparent prejudice to either heart of the collective bargaining re- party. (It might well be added at this lation. To be sure, the grievance pro- point that social studies have indi- cedure contemplates the fair ascer- cated that an unsuccessful marriage tainment and enforcement of rights generally does have a lasting effect and duties under the collective agree- on all concerned.) Divorce, in the in- ment, but its principle function is tc dustrial sense, has an immediate ad- advance the parties' cooperation ir verse effect on both parties, in that their joint enterprise. it means unemployment to the work- Grievance procedures can be tail- ers and decreased or discontinued pro- ored to fit the requirements of anj duction to the company. plant. They are generally intended t( Theoretically, and perhaps ideally, set up a succession of steps through collective bargaining does not require which contplaints may be processed— a collective agreement. It requires from lower to higher echelons of man May, 1950 The Reveille

agement and union officialdom. Nor- parties. Often he is flanked by two mally, the plan provides that the em- other arbitrators, one appointed by ployee, either by himself or in the the union and the other by the com- company of the union steward (a pany. Both parties are provided with fellow worker in the department), an adequate opportunity to present discuss the matter with the employee's all of the evidence and testimony and immediate superior, the foreman or argument that tends to support the supervisor. view that they have taken in the mat- In the event that the grievance is ter. An award is then made that is not adjusted by such discussion, it is binding on both parties and enforce- usually provided that the union pre- able at law. sent the grievance in writing to the Let us look, for the moment, be- company. This is done with the under- yond the immediate procedure utilized standing that within a fixed number for the adjustment of grievances, and of days, a higher company official, see what the parties are doing. Does often the personnel manager, will not the agreement provide a basic meet vdth the General Shop Commit- pattern for living together? What tee, a small group of employees des- then of the grievance procedure? It ignated by the union to act in this would appear that this constitutes a capacity. plan which takes into consideration If this meeting is ineffective, the the inability of man, be he foreman, resident representative of the national supervisor, employee or union repre- union meets with a high ranking of- sentative, to govern himself in a pro- ficial of the company in a final effort per Christian-like manner at all times. to provide a remedy for the problem. Recognition has been given to the in- These three steps constitute the basis ability of prejudiced parties, often for the adjustment of most grievances, following due consideration, to reach as the greatest percentage of them agreement on "what is right." Thus, are misunderstandings or defects of individuals, in whom they have great which the company or employees were faith, have been selected to provide unaware. an unbiased decision.

^l! The majority of the collective bar- It would be a gross injustice to f gaining agreements today further conclude this article without paying provide that in the event that griev- tribute to the companies that, with

'! ances are not settled at one of the or without laws or unions, have

1 three levels that we have noted, the treated their employees as fellow-men written grievance will become the rather than mere commodities. They, e subject of arbitration. The arbitration too, would join me, I am certain, in hearing is conducted by an impartial my enthusiasm for the Christian at- citizen appointed by the mutual titude which has brought about griev- agreement of the parties or by an ap- ance procedures, whether union or pointing authority designated by both company sponsored.

ee WHY A PREACHER BECOMES A MISSIONARY TO JAPAN

;2l By Worth Grant

Advance has begun! This was the it was reported that our Foreign Mis-

J- caption of a recent article appearing sion Board had just appointed 36 new in our state Baptist paper in which missionaries. My wife and I were Thb Rbveillb May, 1950

listed in that group. We expect to God, this is our field of service, this leave our very happy pastorate of al- is His plan for our lives. most four years and sail for Japan in There is a compulsion about it all the late summer. We have chosen to in which we share the feeling of the labor for Christ overseas. Chosen did Apostle of Christ when he wrote: I say? Well, "yes" and "no." I think "Woe is me if I preach not the Gos- you will understand just what is pel." We are tremendously happy meant by that expression as you read about our decision. The thrill of on. preaching the gospel to those who Leaving a wonderful state whei-e are hearing it for the first time will be the greatest of lives. Baptists number 600,000 to preach in our The joy a land wheie Baptists number around of winning those to faith in Christ who perhaps would never be won if 3,000 is not the easiest choice we have ever made. Many factors have we did not tell them will be a joy incomparable to any I have known, led us to this decision. First of all, thus far in sacred of en- we have both had a very keen inter- this most deavors that est in and concern for the missionary for our Lord. To know endeavors of our denomination. we will receive that reward which surpasses all others that the Chris- Since it was my privilege as a tian can know is enough to help us to first Chaplain see hand something! to forget about. all the things we leave of the destruction and desolation, tha behind—mother and father, brother hunger and the distress of the coun- and sister, relatives and close friends. try whei-e ai-e itj we going to work, May I say a very personal word is not strange that we felt that this to each of you about this cause which was the land to which we felt God has so engulfed our lives ? There has calling us. No Christian could view never been a student generation that the appalling conditions in Japan has faced the challenges of the mis- without having great compassion for sion field as does this one. Never has the people. But almost five years the call been so desperate for cru- later and many thousands of miles saders for Jesus Christ to venture away that compassion has developed into war-torn lands with the comfort- into a real conviction that Christ was ing, forgiving message of our Mas- calling us to give the remainder of ter. our lives to the task of witnessing for Never before has there been a mo- Him in Japan. We know that for us ment in the history of mankind when there is no other field of service; there the knowledge of the Christian Gos- is no alternative. pel is more needed in all the world We have always been quite willing than in this the fifth year of the to go overseas as missionaries, but Atomic Age. Never before have we did not think that our desire alone Southern Baptists dared to think in was sufficient evidence that God was terms of sending out 1750 mission calling us, or that this desire was suf- aries at a cost of some 10 million dol ficient to warrant our taking steps lars per year. Thanks to the vision leading to our appointment. So for and daring of those who direct our almost four years it has been our missionary effort, those goals are prayer that God would reveal His steadily coming closer to realization will to us and give us His commis- though not as close as they might be. sion. That commission has been re- There was a day when Southern ceived—not in the form of any super- Baptists had to say "NO" to young natural phenomena but, as I have men and women who wanted to be stated, in the form of a definite con- missionaries because of the lack of viction that for us this is the Will of funds. That day, and may it be re- May, 1950 The Revbillb membered with great shame and hu- what wilt thou have me to do with miliation, is gone and under God we my life?" hope it shall never return. Today, One must be completely willing to however, this situation has been al- have Him direct the course of his life most reversed. I say "almost" be- and be willing to follow His direction. cause I am not yet willing to admit Having done this (and believe me that Southern Baptists have the there is much more involved than this money but do not have the volunteers simple two sentence statement of it) who are willing to take the message one is in position to be led to a overseas. I cannot believe that in our knowledge of his place of service in ranks which .number more than six God's kingdom. The price for rebel- million that there are not enough lion against, and open disobedience to young men and young women with the revealed will of God is tremen- healthy bodies, alert minds and con- dously high. None of us wants to pay secrated hearts to meet this need. My that price in wasting our energies, faith in the youth of our denomina- our talents in some area contrary to tion leads me to believe that when that place Our Lord has chosen for the challenge has been placed square- us. The doctor, the school teacher, the ly before them that hundreds will be farmer, the housewife, whatever the willing to step out as volunteers for vocation, should have the same sense overseas service for Christ. of mission as the missionary. What are some of the factors that I firmly believe that the mission- enter into a missionary call? Here I ary call in our day should receive top wish some veteran missionary might priority in the life of every young* take over and complete this article. Christian who has been impressed to in full service. I can speak only in the light of my give his life time Can Christian service own experience and in the light of you name an area of where the need is greater and where the experiences of a few missionaries the personnel to meet the need is who have shared them with me. Of smaller ? If Christ wants you overseas course we must be in vital union vdth —whether as a nurse, a doctor, a Jesus Christ, having experienced his teacher or preacher—are you willing saving power in our lives and, there- to go? If you are, the Director of fore, having the great desire to do Missionary Personnel, Dr. S. E. Mad- His will above all else. We have sin- dox, would like very much to hear cerely and earnestly prayed: "Lord from you.

CAMPUS FLASHES

EAST CAROLINA TEACHERS—The presented a play, THE GREAT E. C. T. C. BSU is planning to send LIGHT, written by a student, Ralph five representatives to the Baptist Rives, when the Region No. 2 BTU

World Alliance. . . . Doris Edwards Meeting was held at Memorial Bap- has been elected President for the tist Church in Greenville, April 14 coming year. New and old Councils and 15. met in a tentative planning Retreat at Morehead Beach on the week-end MARS HILL COLLEGE — Robert of April 28 and 29. When the new Melvin has been elected as BSU Presi- council members take office at Fall dent for the coming years succeeding

Retreat the plans will be further dis- John Claypool. . . . An impressive Eas-

cussed and completed. . . . The BSU ter Sunrise Service was conducted by —

The Reveille May, 1950 the BSU Devotional Vice-President, riage counselor at UNC, Dr. Preston Thelma Angell. The group met at Epps of the University Greek De- Cemetery Hill and sang hymns until partment, and Student Secretary J. C. sunrise. . . . The annual BSU banquet Herring, as well as student panels. was held April 25. New members of the '50-'51 Council were honor guests. Miss Emily K. Lansdell, returned missionary from China and former PINELAND COLLEGE—Sara Ash- teacher in the University of Shang- ley, President of Pineland BSU in- hai, visited the following campuses vites all B. S. U.'ers to visit their in North Carolina during the month campus for one of the following reg- of March through the courtesy of the ular programs and exercises: Wor- Foreign Mission Board. ship services on the Second and March 5, U. N. C; March 6, E. C. Fourth Sundays at 11:00; Training T. C; March 7, Pembroke; March 8, Union at 6:30 each Sunday Night. Wingate; March 10, Campbell; March Vesper services each Thursday night 12, 13, 14, A. S. T. C; March 15, Wake at 6:30; or the showing of Religious Forest; March 16, Baptist Hospital; movies in the chapel auditorium on March 17, Woman's College; March the First and Third Sunday Evenings. 19, Duke; March 19, Shaw. The campuses of North Carolina are U. N. C—UNC BSU recently ended indeed indebted to the Foreign Mis- a series of Sunday night supper fo- sion Board for making Miss Lansdell rums on the influence of religion in available to our state. professional fields. A number of well- known men from the various depart- At the business session of the an- ments of the University, including nual Spring Retreat held on Satur- physics, chemistry, psychology, soci- day morning, April 15, in the First ology, zoology, and medicine, gave Baptist Church in Greensboro, the fol- the opinion that religion is a very lowing officers were elected to serve vital factor in any venture into the on the State Council for the year professions. . . . Camp New Hope, 1950-1951. seven miles out of Chapel Hill, was President—Boyce Medlin, Wake the site of the 1950 Spring Retreat Forest; Enlistment Vice-President for our BSU. Ours was a week-end Frank Tatum, Appalachian; Social affair, March 31-April 2, aimed at Vice-President—Doris Edwards, E. C. indicating to the students the choices T. C; Devotional Vice-President — open and those most desirable from Elaine Saunders, Meredith; Extension the Christian standpoint in the com- Vice-President—Alton Powell, Shaw; mon ventures, of life; Southern Bap- Secretary - Treasurer—Howard Shell, tist issues, vocations, marriage, per- N. C. State; Publicity Chairman — sonal religious living, and worship. James Evans, Appalachian; Music Di- Discussion leaders were Mr. Warren rector—Charlotte Bunch, Woman's Carr of Watts Street Baptist Church College; Literature Chairman—Bon- in Durham, Mrs. Arnold Nash, mar- nie Lynch, Campbell.

CRACKING COLLEGE QUOTAS Bv Theodore Freedman

For the first time in history, Edu- gravest barrier to democratic educa- cators representing all parts of the tion . . . discrimination in college ad- nation have acted to eliminate the missions. One hundred of the coun- May, 1950 The Reveille try's leading college and university exist—and that the time had come to presidents, deans and registrars met batter them down. in Chicago, 111., at the invitation of This meeting was a high point in the American Council on Education the Anti-Defamation League's drive in cooperation with the Anti-Defama- to "crack the quota system" in Amer- tion League of B'nai B'rith. Twenty- ican education. The campaign followed six states and the District of Colum- a sound pattern of digging up facts bia were represented from Maine to for the record and enlisting educators, Alabama, from New York to Cali- organizations, and individuals in fornia. planning remedial action. Dr. Andrew C. Ivey, vice-president It started four years ago when the of the University of Illinois and ADL and the Vocational Service Bu- Chairman of the Conference on Dis- reau of B'nai B'rith made a grant to crimination in College Admissions the American Council on Education, presented the issues: top policy body in the educational "Discrimination against deserving world, to survey the admissions prac- students who want to get into college tices of American colleges. The Elmo is evil. It causes great loss and dam- Roper Organization conducted the age to the United States. It violates survey based on the class entering the democratic credo which educators college in the fall of 1947. are presumed to hold sacred . . . the Publication of the Roper findings

Declaration of Independence . . . the created a public stir. So did the find-

Golden Rule . . . Hebrew-Christian ings of independent research done by tradition." state authorities in New York and Dr. Ivey told of his interest. His Connecticut. A plan was developed by ancestors had left Holland because Frank Trager, ADL program direc- they were Dutch Huguenots and the tor, and Francis J. Brown of the United States offered them freedom American Council, for joint action by of religion. their organizations with the help of "All of us, if we think about the Dr. Ivey who headed an important reasons why our ancestors came here, group in Chicago working on the will find them about the same. They same problems. The result was the came because they wanted freedom of conference. religion, because this was the land Following is some of the data ac- of opportunity, because here they cumulated by these studies. Some of could find the privileges and respon- the data has already been presented sibilities of individual human rights." to the thousands of Americans in the ". . . Equality of educational op- Public Affairs-ADL pamphlet. Reli- portunities is the effective answer to gion and Race: Barriers to College, totalitarian ideologies," he added. of which Dr. Ivey is co-author: Prior to Dr. Ivey's opening re- "A study taken in New York State marks, no one ever had the chance a few years ago showed that colleges to raise the problem of discrimination there accepted 72 per cent of the ap- in college admissions before an as- plications from non-Jewish students semblage of leading college officials in the first quarter of their class. directly concerned with the matter. From the same quarter, only 51 per The "quota system" was talked about cent of the Jewish applications were once in awhile—but its use was never accepted. admitted by an official of his own "Throughout the country. Catholics school. The Chicago conference was have less success than either Protes- proof that enough hard-gained evi- tants or Jews in getting into college. dence had been produced to prove Eighty-eight per cent of all Protes- that racial and religious barriers do tants, 87 per cent of all Jewish, and The Reveille May, 1950 only 81 per cent of all Catholic ap- They certainly agreed on one point: plicants eventually get accepted. The quota system cannot be justified "A Connecticut study clearly on any grounds compatible with dem- showed discrimination against stu- ocratic principles. Furthermore, it dents with different backgrounds. Pri- represents a loss to the nation of some vate non-sectarian colleges accepted of its natural resources and poten- only 30 per cent of the applications tial leaderships. made by students of Italian origin. They declared themselves in favor Forty-one per cent of Jewish, 71 per of: cent of Protestant, and 75 per cent 1. Development of a program by of non-Italian Catholic applications the colleges themselves that would were accepted." eliminate discrimination. Dr. Floyd Reeves, professor of ad- 2. Study of legislation, such as the ministration at the University of Chi- fair educational practices law now op- cago and chairman of the Council's erative in New York and Massachu- Committee on Discrimination, spoke setts, to determine its use for other of these and other surveys. states. "No matter what the investgatory 3. Government financial aid to im- method," he said, "all studies show prove the quality and quantity of the same thing: a pattern of discrim- higher educational facilities so as to ination throughout the country for eliminate the economic barrier. reasons of race and religion." The The educators added that govern- evidence was incontrovertible. ment funds should be administered The assembled educators responded with the proviso that they be given in many ways. They had not been in- only to schools that do not practice vited to the conference because they racial and religious discrimination. all opposed "quota systems" and dis- Before making their resolutions, the criminatory policies. With the samp- delegates also held informal round ling of men and women from twenty- table discussions. Here they let their four states and the District of Co- hair down. The head of a big mid- lumbia, defenses of the system, ra- western school said that at least three- tionalization for discrimination, and fourths of his student body favors some support for segregation of Ne- the abolition of discrimination; the groes and whites were heard. But the problem now rests mainly with the facts were irrefutable—that discrim- faculty which brings pressure on the ination is prevalent, that the "separ- administration. A delegate from a ate but equal" system is separate but border state Catholic college spoke of almost never equal and certainly eco- the gradual acceptance of Negroes in nomically unwise, that Jews have to his school and how well the school file one-third more application blanks is doing because of it. to get into college in the northeastern To implement the conference reso- states than do their Christian broth- lution, the American Council and ADL ers. are continuing their campaign with The men and women listened to the educators. Their next step is a series facts, then divided into four commit- of regional conferences to refine the tees to dig into the major areas of the problem and its solutions. problem: discrimination in admissions Meanwhile, the ADL is attempting to undergraduate and professional to stimulate community action pro- schools, and economic and regional grams on behalf of equal educational barriers. After three half-day sessions opportunity. It supplies cooperative of probing and sifting, the conference groups with many materials necessary reassembled to adopt a program that for a social action campaign. amounted to self-housecleaning. The great strength of democracy May, 1950 The Reveille 13 which rests in organizations such as that a case of disciimination can be the BSU can be a powerful force in made against virtually any private cracking the quota system. Both or- nonsectarian educational institution ganization committees and individual which includes questions about reli- members who are college alumni can gion, race nativity of parents, and serve the cause well. There are two similar data on its application forms. primary steps for action: These steps were included in the conclusions of the Chicago conference. 1. Call for a clear, concrete state- Though thousands of young people ment of admission policies from the still suffer under the whiplash of colleges in your region or from which discrimination in college admissions, you graduated. help is on the way. A good beginning 2. Review the application blanks of has been made, but progress depends these colleges. The President's Com- upon the interest and cooperative ef- mission on Higher Education holds fort of all.

EXTENDING B. S. U.

By Nancy McCall

The activities of the Extension Di- successful clothing drive was con- rector of a B.S.U. will vary accord- ducted on the campus. With a knowl- ing to the needs on his own campus edge of the needs of the world, stu- and in the surrounding community. dents were willing to share with those And yet, though they vary, the main in need. Many times a closer relation- purpose toward which he is working ship can be brought about between should be the same as on other cam- the students and the local churches by puses. To me, that purpose is, not a student-church committee that can only to strive to permeate the cam- act as a motivating force for both pus with the Spirit of B.S.U., but church and campus activities. also to extend the spirit and the work One of our major concerns has been of the B.S.U. beyond the boundaries to keep the home churches informed of his individual campus. of the work of the B.S.U. Thus, an Where do we begin as Extension annual event on our campus is the Directors? The answer is compara- Pastor's Night Banquet, usually tively simple, for there are many held around Thanksgiving. It is for services to be rendered on your cam- the council members and their pastors. pus and in the surrounding commun- It has proven to be a wonderful op- ity. At the Woman's College of the portunity to let them see something University of North Carolina, we of the nature of B.S.U. work. This have found that there are a number year we have also mailed the home of activities that can be conducted by churches copies of "The Pyxie," the the extension committee. publication of the Baptist Student Un- For instance, special emphasis has ion at W.C., and any programs which been given to summer work by stress- we think might be of interest to them. ing the opportunities that it offers. Having a representative on Inter- Those best qualified to publicize sum- faith Council has enabled us to share mer work are those students who with the other religious groups the have participated in this great pro- activities of the B.S.U. and they, in gram. The response from our stu- return, have given similar informa- dents was notable. Very recently a tion to us. Inter-faith Council is a 14 The Reveille May, 1950 coordinating mechanism for all of the programs and after the first time they religious activities that take place on offer their services for future pro- our campus and we are proud of the grams. Recently one of our girls spirit of cooperation between the var- helped to organize a Junior G.A. at ious religious groups and of the inter- this same church. participation of the students. Attempts have been made to organ- The highlight of the program of In- ize a B.S.U. on several other cam- ter-faith Council this year was the puses. This year, this work has con- campus-wide Religious Emphasis sisted mainly of talking with groups Week. It was an enriching experience of students and explaining to them for there were outstanding guest what B.S.U. is. The students need to speakers to represent various reli- have the opportunity to catch some- gious groups. Working with the other thing of the Spirit of B.S.U. Special Protestant groups this year, we have communications have been made with sponsored fellowship suppers for the Bennett College, Greensboro College, council members of each group. This Guilford College, and Oak Ridge and offers an opportunity for fellowship their interest is mounting. with the leaders of the other Protes- tant groups on campus. It is the be- As has been said before, we, as stu- ginning of a strengthening of ties be- dents, need to serve as well as to pre- tween the different denominations. pare. One of the best ways by which B.S.U. contributed to the Foreign Stu- we may grow in our Christian life is dent Fund which enabled a foreign through service for Christ. Often it student to study here this year. requires a lot of hard work and time, There have been favors to make for but when the job is finished there is the children's trays at the polio hos- an inner peace that comes with the pital, such as peppermint candy sail- knowledge that you have been able boats and lollipop dolls. By the pres- to do something for someone else. It entation of devotional programs, we is this enriching experience that we helped to brighten the day for the pa- would wish for the students on every tients at the Guilford Sanatorium. We campus. You will find that your own have found that we can be of help organization will grow through this to a small church by presenting spe- outward expression of interest in oth- cial music on Sunday. The girls who ers, in their needs and problems, and have participated in these devotional in the life that thev are living. Let's and musical programs have received help ethers 1o find the Spirit of B.S.U. many benefits from them. It is easy which is the Spirit of Christ—that of to find volunteers to help with these love and service!

THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION AND ITS RURAL CHURCHES

By Garland A. Hendricks

The Baptist denomination is numer- Convention. In the whole world we ically strong in only one small region constitute only about two per cent of of the world—the Southern region of all church members. In North Carolina the United States. Of some fourteen we constitute more than fifty per cent million Baptists, approximately ten of all church members. million, Negro and white, live within The location of Baptist churches by the territory of the Southern Baptist type of community varies in different May, 1950 The Reveille areas of the world. In some of the built a new industry every two hours European countries, and on most of since 1940, and two-thirds of them are our mission fields in the Orient our located in rural communities, so as to churches have been organized mainly be secure against possible atomic in the towns and cities. In most of warfare. We are increasing expendi- the United States where there are tures and enrolment in schools. The large numbers of Baptists many of character of our roads is good. We our churches are located in rural com- excel in railroad mileage and equip- munities. In North Carolina two- ment. thirds of the people are rural. Eighty As we develop the primary resour- per cent of the churches are rural, and ces which God gave us into money have in them more than half of all wealth it is necessary that we inspire the members of Baptist churches. We our people with vision and lead them are a state of small communities, and on a great daring adventure of spir- a denomination of small churches. itual achievement. The same heavenly In the South and West more than Father who put these material re- one-half of the people of the nation sources here sent the Lord Christ to live. Considerably more than one-half forgive, cleanse, strengthen, envision, of the farm people live here. Two- and empower us to meet the challenge thirds of the people are rural by oc- of the times. In the discovery of lead- cupation or interest. A larger propor- ers and in the motivation of all life tion of income is from agriculture our churches should be prepared to than is true for the nation as a whole. play an important role. The highest percentage of people The place of a predominantly rural gainfully employed in extractive work denomination in the surge forward of live here. new vitality in the life of the South In this rural region we are rich in is important. It is necessary that we certain types of resources, but poor in have in our rural communities large others. We excel in natural and hu- numbers of wholesome rural people man wealth, while we lag in such sec- to give their balancing and steadying ondary resources as technology, arti- influence in charting the course of ficial wealth, and institutional serv- progress. We have the resources. Our ices. The first two types of resources task is one of developing them in are essential to and productive of the proper ways. They will be developed other three types. Being rich in these —by leaders and laborers who have primary resources there is little rea- Christian ideals, or by those who care son why we should continue to be poor nothing for Christianity. in secondary wealth. If we plan wise- Rural churches everywhere are call- ly we can develop the most complete leadership and extensive wealth of any region of ing for a better prepared era of our nation. to direct them into the new development in the South. One dea- Already we are making notable con said to me, "We are looking a progress in the development of our re- pastor for our country church." sources along some lines. Since 1900 a pastor you the ratio of increase in our wealth "What kind of do has been larger than that of the na- need?" I asked. tion as a whole. We are developing His reply was, "We need a man a rural pattern for industry. Fifty who is so well educated that he can years ago Gaston County was a poor forget he has ever been to school and arming county. Today in more than give us the advantages of a trained 1 hundred cotton mills there they op- mind and broad vision in the language erate more cotton spindles than any and life of our community. We coun- like area on earth. The South has try folks are like children. Put down 16 The Reveille May, 1950

a child in a room where several adults observed, "Every man we get leaves are gathered. He will soon be playing and goes to town where he can get with the one who loves children most. more salary and work with more peo- When a man cornes into our pulpit we ple. We have had good men, but can't can soon tell whether or not he is keep them. We want somebody whoi ringing true to life, whether he loves will be satisfied to live with us, and the Lord and people. Our need is help us to develop the Lord's work, great. We must have a capable and we can't find such a person." leader." The doors of opportunity stand More recently a member of a pulpit wide open for young men and women committee said, "We are having a who will do Christian work in rural hard time getting a preacher. All we communities, as ministers or laymen. have to offer is a field with great A security is offered there that can- opportunity for development. The last not be found where people live under man we tried to get turned us down conditions of crowding. The next time because the parsonage didn't look to you take a trip across North Caro- suit his fancy. If the right man would lina observe the up-and-coming ap- come and live with us a while we pearance of rural churches and homes. could offer him a much better liveli- Consider investing your life in the hood as we develop the people." development of the human and nat- A member of another rural church ural resources of some one of these..

"Trifles make for perfection but perfection is no trifle." (Dr. Leavell)

Make full and adequate plans for your B.S.U. Councils Pre-School Retreat before the end of this school year.

The date, meeting place and outside speaker (if any)

should be selected in advance. / L

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Volume XII OCTOBER, 1950 Number 1

PULLEN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH Raleigh, N. C.

Host Church to B. S. U. Convention November 3-5 Registration Fee—$1.00 ATTENDANCE GOAL—1000

PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA B.S.U. ^^e ^etAciCie

A Journal of Baptist Student Life

Volume XII OCTOBER, 1950 Number 1

EDITOR

James A. Evans A.S.T.C, Boone

STATE OFFICE HEADQUARTERS 119 Hillsboro Street Raleigh, N. C. James W. Ray, State Secretary

STATE OFFICERS

BoYCE Medlin, President Wake Forest Frank Tatum, Enlistment Vice President Appalachian Doris Edwards, Social Vice President E.C.T.CJ Elaine Saunders, Devotional Vice President Meredith Alton Powell, Extension Vice President Shaw University Howard Shell, Secretary-Treasurer N. C. State James Evans, Publicity Cliairinan Appalachian Bonnie Lynch, Literature Chairman Canipbel) Charotte Bunch, Mxisic Director Woman's College

STUDENT SECRETARIES

Edith Arrington, Baptist Hospital Roberts C. Lasater, State College Gloria Blanton, E.C.T.C. Charles McConnell, W. C. T. C. Harvie Brewington, Pembroke Virginia Dawson, W. C. U. N. C. Virginia Greene, Wake Forest Jim Cansler, Duke J. C. Herrin, U. N. C. John Davis, A. S. T. C. Billie Ruth Currin, Meredith

CONTRIBUTORS

Erie Cofield, B.S.U. President, U. N. C. . . . G. Kearnie Keegan, Southwide B.S.U

Secretary, Nashville, Tennessee. . . . Dale Davis, student at Wake Forest College

. . . Boyce Medlin, President of North Carohna B.S.U. . . . Betsy Ann Morgan.

1950 graduate of Meredith College. . . .Charlotte Bunch, President Inter-Faith

Council, W.C.U.N.C. . . . Dot Tribble, student at W.C.U.N.C. . . . Al Stuart^ student at N. C. State College. ,.:..;. Roberts C. Lasater, Chaplain of Baptistj Students, N. C. State College. EDITORIALS

To the old and new readers of the ends on the campuses and especially iEVEILLE, I invite you to read all football games between members of the hat is printed within these backs. May Big Pour. It is our plan to make this hese publications be of inspiration to the largest and best convention ever. rou. This is your booklet to read and With so many schools located in and my constructive criticism concerning around Raleigh, we believe it is reason- hese publications will be appreciated. able to expect 1000 students registered If you have an article you wish to for the sessions. Every session, from the lave published in the REVEILLE, send opening one on Friday evening through t to either the Editor or to the State the Worship Hour on Sunday Morning Dffice. which closes our Convention, will be JAE full of addresses by prominent Baptist pastors and leaders, conferences, music, NEWS! Bible study, devotions, food, fun and fellowship. (See the Convention Study Last year the EDITOR of the RE- Guide in this copy of the REVEILLE V^EILLE had good response from the for a list of program personalities.) nany campuses across the state with The State Office hopes that it will be regard to the news flashes from each possible to plan an autograph party ampus which are printed in the RE- for Dr. Claude Breach his VEILLE. recognizing biography on the life of Dr. Frank Lea- Again this year we plan to set aside vell which is just off the press. If it some space for this kind of news. Be can be arranged, this party will most sure to have your council member who likely be held on Friday evening at the is responsible for such publicity send close of the session. This book by Dr. us any events you wish to have printed. JAE Broach should be in the possession of every Baptist student because it re- B.S.U. CONVENTION cords much of the first quarter century of B.S.U. history. Take note all Baptist students; it's MAKE RESERVATIONS EARLY!!

Convention time again . . . THE BSU The homes of the members of the host CONVENTION, November 3, 4, 5. The church will be opened to entertain mes- host church is the PuUen Memorial sengers. The registration fee is $1.00 per Baptist Church, Raleigh and the host person. Address all reservations to James campuses will be N. C. State, Meredith W. Ray, 119 Hillsboro Street, Raleigh, and Shaw. North Carolina. PLEASE MAKE RE- We have tried hard to pick a date SERVATIONS ON OR BEFORE that will not conflict with any big week- OCTOBER 20.

THAT ALL MAY KNOW CHRIST'

B.S.U. State Conventions will use the character and concept of the church this keynote in their annual meetings and its role in the Kingdom of God. in October and November. In North Dr. C. C. Warren, First Baptist Carolina the Convention Program em- Church, Charlotte, will deal with the phasis will be a study of the "Mission local aspect and nature of a New Testa- of the Church in the World Today." We ment Church. believe this study is vital and foimda- Dr. E. McNeil Poteat, host pastor, will tional inasmuch as the church is the in- discuss the universal fellowship of Be- stitution We have to accomplish "That lievers giving special emphasis upon the All May Know Christ." deeper invisible and mystical conceptions The program committee has therefore of the Kingdom of God on the Earth; planned for a four-fold consideration of Dr. Richard McKinney, Virginia State The Reveille October, 195

College, will lead into a deeper under- Its Meaning" and the individuals identi standing and appreciation of the vari- ty with the church. ous denominational, interdenomination- Dr. Wayne Dates, Louisville, Kentuck; will conduct the worship th' al and interracial characteristics of the period at beginning of each session of the Con church as it is recognized in the con- vention and teach the Sunday Schoc temporary ecumenical movement. Dr. Lesson on Sunday Morning. McKinney will deliver the Sermon at the Miss Emily Lansdell will represent th Worship Hour on Sunday Morning in Foreign Mission Board and Dr. C Meredith College Auditorium. Kearnie Keegan, the new South-wid Dr. Preston Epps, Chapel Hill, will B.S.U. Secretary, will represent th speak on the subject "The Sabbath and Nashville Office.

CONVENTION PROGRAM STUDY GUIDE

We present the following study guide toward God and man that were reveale for the purpose of suggesting and in- in the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. dicating the nature of the Convention —Beavens. program. It is hoped that this informa- The church has many things to d( tion will generate some interest among such as fostering the development c students and enlist them to make a pre- Christian Character in its membership convention study of the Program Key- preaching the Good News of the Gospt; note. This preparation will stimulate to those to whom the Evangel woul' healthy discussions in the Conference appear, Christianizing of human institu' periods which will deal with the key- tions such as political parties, economi' note in light of the key platform ad- theories and practices, social and cul' dresses. The speakers may or may not tural activities, local, national and in' follow the lines of thought indicated in ternational affairs, etc. Too, the churcl this study guide. in the tangled field of human relation;' THE VOCATION OF THE CHURCH has a great unifying ministry to dis charge. But if it is to be instruments

What is the use of the church? in building up world brotherhood, i

Some say it is irrelevant, impotent, a must compose its own differences an hot bed of snobbery and hypocrisy, the present to the world a united ani last work in provincialism and obscur- harmonious front. (See John 17) antism. The Role of the local church. Others believe the Church to be the The body of Christ in a given com central foimdation on which our totter- munity has a basic function in pro ing civilization can securely be reared. viding spiritual health. The church ani What's the use of the church is an church leaders must concern themselvel honest question requiring that we survey with organizational democracy, churc! the task of the church, ponder the role polity, a creative program of religioul which imder God it is called upon to education and evangelism. There ar fill in the present crisis in human af- areas for the intangible ministry of thi fairs, remind ourselves of what brought church thru its minister. The family anil it into existence, and of what it is in the individual problems and needs, a the world to do here and now. well as contributions to the church, prei What ougrht the church to be doing? sents a redeemptive personal element.

"The purpose of the church is to se- The witness of the churches on th cure within individuals and society an state, national and international level ever increasing practice of the attitudes depends upon the corporate strengtl )ctober, 1950 The Reveille

f the cooperating units in local situa- What do we mean by worship? ions. Do we mean maintenance of the forms Here then is the vocation of the of worship? Or is it not of first im- hurch: portance that we define worship as the recognition of and response to the 1. Proclaiming Redeeming Truth sovereignty and grace of God? So con- 2. Developing Christian Character strued, it is beyond dispute that the 3. Remaking of human nature worship of God has priority rights over

4. Christianizing of social institutions the service of men. It is the first and central duty of the church. The lack of 5. Building up of a Universal Fellow- it is one cause of our failure to change ship the world. Is that all? Why must worship come before all other tasks of the church? There is just one task that preceeds

,11 these others, apart from which it "The true church," writes Carnegie las lost its integrating principle, the Simpson, "before it has any social pro- ource and secret of its vitality and gram or any theological system, knows lower. That is, of course, Worship. its infinite indebtedness to the redeem- ing and saving love of God in Christ; What is the use of worship? and its first, because its instinctive You serve God and your fellows, but voice is adoring and grateful praise. Be- ou are careful to put the service of fore either sociology or theology is dox- xod first. All other functions depend ology. 'Unto him that loved us, and in this prior service. Always we must washed us from our sins, and hath et ourselves to survey the contempor- made us kings and priests unto God iry scene from the viewpoint of etern- and his Father; to him be glory and ty, and work out here what we have dominion for ever and ever.' A church

ij ;een there. The "heavenly vision" must that cannot say this, or that has for- )e the most formative influence we gotten to say it, has never learned or aiow, giving to our minds perspective, has forgotten the Creative and Con- our Characters stability, to our acti- stitutive principle of its life — what 'ities direction and inspiration. makes it a Church at all."

THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL

The Idea in History The idea of God's Elect did not die

It perhaps had its origin in the aware- with the political disintegration of Bhess of Israel that God had chosen her Israel. It persisted through the days of ;eis the special medium through which the early church and took shape in many ways, notably in the "Blessed ti His divine purposes were to be made cnown to mankind. Hope" of those who were under the This earliest intimation was gradually persecutions of Rome. Its most drama- concreted into a political system, and tic representation in the New Testament is found in the description of the B altimately was corrupted by the pre- New ;entions to physical power and superi- Jerusalem descending from God out of heaven (Rev. 21:1-8). [f jrity that plague all political organiza- "ions. The Intention of the Idea During Israel's history the idea was ]j £ept alive by futuristic hopes. The Man Insofar as such ideas can be said to j] Jf Destiny (Messiah) was to come and have an intention, it seems clear that ,j "escue the people of God from their this one was designed to give body to inemies. the social aspect of man's experience of The Reveille October, 1951

God. Do all religions invite man to be so committed. Thus the Universa' intimate with God? Did Jesus' revela- Church is ageless in that it transcends tion of God tend to make men feel at the components of time in a universal home with Him? If all the children of sweep. Similarly it looks forward to z God were thus privileged, would not continuing fulfillment of itself withir there result a great family, or society, and even beyond history. or community or even culture, of God? One does not enter this family by tht (cf Ephesians 3:1-21) mere accident of birth nor by being What of the practical demands for the participant in an unique pattern ol achieving solidarity among the human culture. It comes only by a deliberate families? Is it necessary, or advisable, and conscious assimilation of one's wii: or possible? And can it be achieved in and mind to the purposes and mind oJ a way other than the voluntary accept- God. ance of the invitation of God to become The Bond of Unity a member of the divine family? What While all ideas tend to have united benefits would accrue to humanity and about them organizational patterns anc to the fulfillment of the purposes of institutions to help preserve and nur- God by such a community of believers? ture them, the Universal Church cannol The Basis of the Universal Church yield itself knowingly to such a ten- This phrase is not used in the New dency. Testament but it is an inevitable one. What historic episodes support thi; The small groups united in churches in generalization? What has been the rea- the early days of the Christian move- son for their limited success or ultimatj ment felt a kinship with each other that failure? is in itself an extraordinary fact. Since all institutions of which th( Were they always identical in the human individual is a member find theii ideas and disciplines that united them? coherence in loyalty to symbols, wha' What did Paul write his letters about? is the symbol of the Church Universal' The Universal Church came eventual- Cf How the Mass is the symbol whicl ly to mean what Jesus had called the holds the Roman Catholic community Kingdom of God. It has, down the ages, together. It is a "meal" which is allegec been subjected to efforts to formalize it to supply actual sustenance to the par- politically. St. Augustine wrote "The ticipant. Similarly the Prayer Book o: City of God" during the last few years the Anglicans. Observe also how beneatl of the collapse of the Roman Empire these and other symbols a considerabli and he set the pattern for thought and variety of different detail is allowed social idealism that has, in some mea- Cf also Circumscision as the symbol o: sure, persisted to this day. Are there Jewish unity. other notable attempts to socialize this The symbol of the Church Universa intention? What of the Holy Roman is the Family. Empire? What of the meanings given Consider the component parts of th( to the concept of the Church Universal human family and project them to thi by the Roman Catholic Church or other Family of God. Different inaividuals Christian communions? different functions, etc. Cf also thi But the basis of the idea was not family as the nucleus of school, court social or political or sectarian though it market. seems inevitable that such auxiliary When these familial obligations an ideas would develop and attach them- seen and accepted as something int( selves to it. Basically the idea is that which one has entered voluntarily—in the individual may, by voluntary com- stead of having been born—the variet; mitment of himself to the Divine of human experience is not compresse( Father, become a member of the Family into one tight pattern; On the contrar; of God. This family is composed of all one lives in the world as an individua those, living and dead, who are and were whose total action is always under thi October, 1950 The Reveille ijudgment of God, the Father, and under ference for all patterns and practical the constraint that brotherhood with programs. all God's other children lays upon us. Would it make a difference if South- We become and continue to be, new ern Baptists, to take the most familiar creatures—sons of God, members of the pattern, were as concerned about the Kingdom of God. Church Universal, the whole family of Practical Values God, as a standard of reference, as we One is always cautious lest so great an are about the projection of our particu- ideal lead to frustration by being re- lar denominational programs? Try an duced to programs. The church and the experiment: every time we want to use churches have programs. The value of the words "Southern Baptist" substitute the Universal Chtirch, or the Com- "The Church Universal," "The Family munity of Christ, or the Fellowship of of God," "The Fellowship of the Re- the Redeemed — all cognate terms — is deemed," etc., and see whether the vista that it supplies always a point of focus, of the Christian future is enlarged or a standard of judgment, a frame of re- retracted.

ONE DAY IN SEVEN

Has the church any special vocation moral, and social, Sunday says, 'Grow'." on the Sabbath? In that sense this day should be differ- On the Christian view one day can- ent from the other six days of the week. not be more sacred than another. They It is not to be devoted exclusively to all come to us from God and should all relaxation and pleasure; it is to be seen be dedicated by us to God. But the use in the light of those higher values which we make of Sunday constitutes a search- give life significance and purpose. Sun- ing test of what we are. How we spend day is given us for this end—that we Sunday will depend on how we regard may grow more sure of the reality and ourselves and interpret the meaning powers of God; that we may arrive at and purpose of existence. a clearer understanding of the mean- What does the Bible teach regarding ing of our life on earth; that our the use of the Sabbath? character may be piu-ified and strength- The 4th Commandment ened; that we may see the needs of Mark 2:27 our fellows and give ourselves more sacrifically to their service. To those who Is there any general guide to tbe use use it thus, Sunday is not a burden but of the Sabbath? a boon. The spiritual nature of men requires one day in seven when it can be re- What is the final test for our use of freshed and renewed, when it is possible the Sabbath? to step aside from the everyday activi- The "Moriday Test." If, like Ruskin, ties of life and consider their meaning we think of Monday as the happiest and end, when men remember that they day of the week because there are then are not only engineers, doctors, trades- six days before the dreaded, hated and men, students, but children of God and miserable Sunday comes around again, heirs of imjnortality; a day on which we are victims of dreary restrictions we breathe a clearer air and allow our- and inhibitions that make Sunday un- selves leisure, ensure rest for the body inviting and oppressive. and health for the soul. On the other hand, one of the most What is the Christian use of Sunday? common ailments of the modern man Henry Ward Beecher sums it up: "To is "Blue Monday." This means there is that in man which is animal, Sunday practically no difference between Sun- says, 'Rest'; to that which is intellectual. day and the other days of the week —

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since secularization has set in, and one day in seven when it can be re- Monday thus becomes the day set aside freshed and renewed, we need to test for recovering from week-end "relaxa- our lives by the renewed test for living tion." that comes from properly using one day If the spiritual nature of men requires in the week for spiritual recreation.

THE WORLD DIMENSION OF THE KINGDOM

In recent years the trend has been 2. Do these trends indicate a growing to give the Christian Faith a "third sense of unity Vith Christ among dimension." The Ecumenical movement Christians? reaches into an interdenominational 3. What is Ecumenicity? What is the inter-racial—inter-national plane. role of the denomination in the Some interpret this movement to be work of the Kingdom? proposing that denominations give way 4. is a part of the "Body of to a Super-church pattern which would Who Christ"? parallel the Catholic hierarchy.

Others understand that denomina- 5. Does the Christian Faith admit tional identities are to be preserved and Racial discriminations? What of that each group as such contributes to the contemporary church? the total picture of the Kingdom of 6. Some Baptist bodies have actively God in the World. affiliated with the Ecumenicial The Baptist World Alliance is the movement. Why do Southern Bap- purely Baptist inter-national and inter- tists afflliate with these Baptist racial manifestation of the Ecumenical groups in the Baptist World Al- idea. The World Council of Churches is liance and, at the same time, dis- the inter-denominational—inter-nation- associate themselves with the Ecu- al—inter-racial concept of Ecumenicity. menical Movement? Some questions are typical of the in- quisitive student mind. 7. Do Southern Baptists have any- 1. What are the trends of the Church thing to give, or to receive from today? such a fellowship?

THE STUDENT AND THE COLLEGE CHURCH

by Erie Cofleld

Each school year a large number of cent to college campuses and the very college students move their member- existence of the Baptist Student Union ships to churches near the college or are testimonials to the importance of university they are attending. Baptist continued church contact throughout students, most of them fresh out of the college years. To the unthinking high school, with or without careful student whose schedule is crammed with thought, are joining churches in college classes, studies, organizations, and extra- cities and towns as they enter four years curricular activities, the church may or more of study. seem the most easily jettisoned object Certainly each person entering college in his college life. Some real considera- should give deep thought to his place tion now, please, or a later regretful in the college church. The detailed stu- retrospection will demonstrate how dent programs of most churches adja- wrong the decision was. October, 1950 The Reveille

Man's need for religion and the learn the needed place for the applica- Christian's need for the church are in- tion of our lives. Perhaps the necessity satiable ones. Indeed, the church is of of continued contact with the church the utmost importance during the col- can be emphasized by a quotation from lege years; for even as an earlier age our BSU literature: "The tragedy of is labeled the "formative years" for our eager seeking for truth and know- physical growth and primary ethical ledge neglect religious development so standards conditioning, the college years far as to become intellectual giants and are those in which young people, if spiritual dwarfs." ever, are most likely to grow spiritually. Why is the college age the most suit- Can you, as I, remember some friend able time for an individual to grow of grade school who was perfectly com- deeper in spiritual experience and probe patible and esteemed at that time, but further into the mystery of man and his who dropped out of school, say in the God? Why is the college church the seventh grade? Usually by the time you most efficient medium for such a pro- were graduated from high school all of ject? Because the college years are those the common bonds between you two in which a person is most anxious to were broken. You are even hard put to learn and to get behind the scenes to carry on a conversation with such a the real meaning. Because the college person. It isn't a matter of exclusiveness years are those in which the individual or snobbery, but rather the fact that is breaking away from the shelter that the grounds of mutual interest have the home provides from the reality and been eroded away by the inequalities of trials of the world and is then most education and intellectual growth. Such capable and needful of finding a mean- a person has experienced little or no ing to the historic, perturbing question: growth along certain very important "What am I?" "Is there a purpose in lines. what I am doing?" "Where am I going?" The college man or woman who neg- "Where should I begin?" lects the church during those precious The church is the best medium be- four years can look to being left simi- cause only Christianity has the satis- larly undeveloped. The victim of a factory answers to these questions. Be- failure in mental development is label- cause the church and its teachings ed a mental dwarf; that of a failure in can provide a new, impenetrable cour- physical growth, a physical dwarf. We age to face up to the world and our can but admit that the person who place in it. Because the college church, neglects religious and spiritual growth blessed with the wisdom of faculties of is a "spiritual dwarf." The frightening learned men to exploit to the further- aspect of the matter is that we have ance of youthful understanding, endow- so many spiritual dwarfs, recognize so ed with the spirit and love of Jesus few, and do so little to prevent their Christ, can bring the young person into occurrence. contact with his fellows and cultivate Unlike other types of growth, spiritual his search for truth and nurture his growth cannot be had without the par- faith before the stagnation of indiffer- ticipation and cooperation of the in- ence sets in or the keenness of youth is dividual concerned. The churches may lost. stand with open doors at every gate of Aside from these benefits to the the college or university; but their pur- spirit and worship requirements, the pose is unfulfilled if the students do not church offers to the college student the seek spiritual development in a devoted, privilege of valuable training for future planned system of worship and study. places in secular and religious positions. It is in the college churches that we Certainly the ethics, standards, and best come to understand the faith of sense of justice that should be instilled our fathers, to see the real meaning of in the college church will mould the the Divine in our own being, and to pattern of our conduct in all phases of 10 The Reveille October, 1950

life. Students of college age are capable the future of Christianity rests on the of positions in the church that will fit shoulders of youth, and fortunate is the them to the work of Christian laymen denomination which has the educated, in the churches in which they settle. trained youth of our colleges and uni- A definition of the work of BSU once versities. heard may illustrate this: "to convert Ignoring all ideas of the benefits stu- high school graduates, unwise and un- dents bring, it should be evident that educated in the needs, working, and churches have a responsibility to stu- meaning of the church, into mature dents. College students are strangers to churchmen, an asset to their community be taken in, they are hungry for the and denomination." teachings of Christ, thirsty for the re- A listing of benefits derivable from freshing qualities of Christian fellow- the church by the college student would ship, sick of the tribulations facing not be complete without mention of the them, locked in the prison of half-form- services churches provide as a social ed concepts and unexplained beliefs, outlet for the collegian. Many organiza- naked of the real meaning of the Divine. tions will be seeking to give the college Yes, churches need students to fulfill student a social life; and, without enter- their Christian duties. John 4:35 calls ing the controversy of their respective them fields, but the college church merits even, no one can truthfully claim should see the campuses "white unto to be more wholesome and acceptable harvest." than the church. The church is the Before moving from needs to techni- most logical means whereby the stu- ques of church membership, it should dent meets and becomes friends with be explained that the students, alert the resident members of the community. to the opportunity to hear the messages Lasting friendships should be formed of so many great and wise men, are not through the medium of the college a menace to their denomination when church. they "church hop" occasionally. This is Conversely, the student who comes in- a good sign of a real search for truth. to the college community should be It is only for the confirmed "ecu- aware that the local church needs him. maniac" who stumbles from dogma to Many college churches are not the dogma and in and out the doctrines and richest in the state. The church which denominations that we need pity and gives the above mentioned benefits cer- offer to help back to the stability of one tainly needs and merits the financial as- faith. sistance of the student. Students considering church relations Churches with student memberships today should consider the frequence of should be the most progressive in the their trips home. Despite the frenzied world. The eager, idealistic liberalism efforts of merchants and administra- of students, buffered by the traditional tions today, thousands of students spend conservatism of adult members, can pre- almost every week-end at home. They cipitate a progressive, forward-moving may find it most convenient to remain element that makes up the vanguard of a member of the home church. A sort the denomination. Churches and de- of dual membership is needed here, for nominations need the insistent jostling the student should not neglect the op- of open-minded students. Students may portunities offered by the college church find the stifling of their ideas dis- during the week. It may well be that appointing and the adult members will this problem will bring about the de- be frightened by the influx of bold, dar- velopment of a new technique of coop- ing ideas. But the inevitable, worth- eration between home and college church in regard to student welfare. while product of this reaction is a pro- gressive, expanding, growing Christiani- To the college student two methods ty that is free from stagnation. of membership are open. One is a tem-^ Even as in politics and foreign affairs. porary membership, wherein the stu- October, 1950 The Reveille 11 dent remains a member of the home membership from a college church as church and takes a student membership from his home town. Pour years is too or affiliation with the college church. long to leave church membership in an Full privileges of membership are grant- enstranged and awkward state. The ed. The student membership is worth- college student will seldom return to the while to the student with strong ties sheltered orbit of his home town life to their home churches and especially for more than the period of summer so to those who will be returning to vacation, often not even then. He should their home town after graduation. be fully capable of making the decision For the student who sees little pos- to change. Full membership gives equal sibility of returning to his home town footing with resident members and direct and full membership is advised. complete freedom to enjoy the richly Once settled down to a permanent home, endowed relationship of student and col- the ex-student can just as well move lege church.

POLICY FOR SUMMER STUDENT MISSIONARIES From—G. Kearnie Keegan, Nashville, Tennessee

The Department of Student Work of to countries where English is not the the Simday School Board and the De- language of the people is in the nature partment of Personnel of the Foreign of an experiment. We are confident that Mission Board have adopted a coopera- the extension of the project to areas tive plan for student overseas summer that are not English-speaking will be service projects. The Department of worth-while from the standpoint of in- Student Work and the State Student creasing the interest of students in Departments will be responsible for se- world missions. It remains to be seen, lecting approximately fifteen students however, how effective the service of the for overseas projects each summer. All students will be on the field in areas expenses for the projects, including where they do not know the language travel and entertainment, will be pro- or customs of the people. vided by sacrificial offerings or gifts We believe that the experiment is from students in the various states with thoroughly worth trying. If the results the understanding that no appeals for on the fields are found helpful and the funds will be made to local churches. demand of the missions and Baptist The Foreign Mission Board, through conventions for the summer programs its Department of Personnel, will be increases, the undertaking can be en- responsible for all arrangements of the larged as increased demand and re- mission fields. Projects will be under- sources make advisable. taken in countries where our missions or the Baptist conventions have made The Student Department of the Sun- specific requests to the Foreign Mission day School Board and the Personnel Board for summer service of students. Department of the Foreign Mission Such a program has been found worth- Board will work closely together in while in the Hawaiian Islands and San directing this undertaking in the light Andres which are English-speaking of future experiences both abroad and areas. The extension of these projects at the home base. 12 The Reveille October, 1950

CITIZENSHIP IN OUR MODERN DEMOCRACY By Dale Davis

The ideal of our democracy is a so- ing on juries, holding public office when ciety in which each seeks the truth in elected, and serving in the armed forces his own way and all are united by —as so many Americans have and are understanding and mutual need. The doing so wonderfully today. good world of the future must be built Citizens cannot, however, work with upon the foundation of a recognition their government unless they have a of the privileges and responsibilities of willingness of mind and spirit to serve each individual, regardless of his race, and unless they are trained for places creed or national background. of useful service. It has already been When we think of citizenship, we at stated that our country can be no once begin to think of our privileges; greater than its citizens. It is there- but too often we fail to pause and real- fore absolutely necessary to see that ize that citizenship also involves re- we strive to live at our best and be good sponsibilities. It is true that we as citizens. It is true that we should do American citizens have many privileges. all in our power to see that the youth Without listing them here, we might of our land are better educated and sum them up by saying an American better trained so that they will make citizen has the privilege to live his life better citizens for tomorrow. and conduct himself as he sees fit so long If you do not think that citizenship as he does not purposely harm another is something to be concerned about in person. Even when an American citizen our land today, look for a moment at harms another person or commits an some of the results of poor citizenship. act against society, he has the privilege Look for instance at the thousands of of trial by jury and the privilege of hir- criminals we have each year in the ing an attorney. United States. Now when you look at them, do not stop there. Go on in your However, with these privileges come thoughts and see that some of them are certain responsibilities which are the young very yoimg and that in many citizen's duty to carry out. Citizens in — — cases their lives are ruined. Even if the a modern democracy such as we have lives of these yoimg offenders are not in America are the rulers of the land. completely lost, they will forever bear A country like our own United States a black mark. can be no stronger, no more intelligent, no more righteous, and no more just Law enforcement officers tell us that than its citizens. This fact constitutes one of our greatest problems in Amer- the weakness as well as the strength of ica today is youth morally adrift with- a nation. History shows that without out chart or compass. This in most cases a government, a good government, there can be traced back to the homes from can be no peace, there can be no justice, which these youths came. In those there can be no protection or security in homes they received little or no love one's home and family life, or in one's and training. They were not taught pursuit of happiness. Good governments how to live. As long as we have citizens make civilization prosper; without them who refuse to do their duty as parents, civilization cannot survive. Since the can we expect anything but tragedy? things we value most are possible only Then let us look deeper into the re- under the protection of a good govern- sults of poor citizenship. Look at the ment, it is our duty as citizens to work children who are left without mothers with our government by voluntarily and or fathers. See them growing up on intelligently performing those respon- the streets; see them in training schools sibilities asked of us as citizens. Some and other institutions. Do not be quick of these responsibilities are voting, serv- to judge them. They never had a chance. —

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But be quick to resolve in your minds We should give more attention to our that you will strive to be a good christ- homes, our schools, our colleges, and ian citizen, and that if God has given our other training institutions, equip- you the privilege of making a home, ping individuals to give intelligent wit- you will make it christian. Would to nesses in the fields of labor, manage- God that every christian could see ment, production, distribution, politics, nay—^rather could feel in his heart elections, and government in the local, what this author has seen and felt in state and national levels. regard to poor citizenship and poor Abraham Lincoln said in his Gettys- home life in his experiences in one of burg address, "It is rather for us, the our state institutions this past sum- living, to be here dedicated to the great mer. Remember, my friends in Christ, unfinished task before us." This state- that the Roman Empire was not de- ment applies to us today. The citizens stroyed by outside foes, but rather by that are enjoying their citizenship most a soft society within itself in which the today are those that are trying to be duties of citizenship and of home life at their best; not those who are putting had become something to be neglected. little effort to realizing the possibilities Today we in America have enemies who of service in our democracy. Theodore would perhaps destroy us and our coun- Roosevelt had the right idea in mind try. The world situation would lead us when he said, "This country will not be to believe this, but this author still be- a good place for any of to live in lieves that it is the great sores within us our land that poise the greatest threat until we make it a good place for all to our christian way of life. of us to live in."

WHAT THE B.S.U. OFFERS By Boyce Medlin

You and I think of the B.S.U. as an worship exercises which are to be con- organization which is important to a structed so that we may be lifted out college student. As such it has a vital of petty living into an experience with and meaningful role to fulfill. This goal God, who enriches our life and fortifies is not easily attained because it re- our assurance that we can live victori- quires wise and persistent planning. In ously. Our BSU presents the Christian an effort to carry out its purpose, the principles that are the core around B.S.U. has several essential features to which we are to build a mature, abund- offer. ant life. First, the B.S.U. offers aid in making Second, the B.S.U. offers a study of each student a part of his church while the Bible as the guide for our spiritual he is in college. It cooperates in a life. A study is made of its characters, church program which will include and its truths and central themes to deter- embody him in the fellowship of the mine what is "good and perfect" for us. members. It provides a program of study Third, the B.S.U. offers a challenge and worship which enables him to en- to our best intelligence as we examine lighten his mind and come to a better and discuss the problems that face us and fuller realization of God. The im- today. There is an opportunity for a derlying desire of the B.S.U. is to be better understanding of our society as thoroughly Christian and to present we exchange views and consider ideas Christianity in such a way that we as to how we may try to solve these students may increase our love for God, problems in order to build a better strengthen our faith in Him, and grow society in which to live. in our fellowship with Him. It offers Fourth, the B.S.U. gives us an op- 14 The Reveille October, 1950

portunity to do various types of service. ture Christians, therefore, it employs These services may be rendered to fellow more than is listed above. It should students or to people in other circles. strive to present each student with the In this way we get some practical ex- opportunity to become a redeemed, perience as well as making a contribu- transformed, and well informed per- tion to our people. In this we learn sonality and anything less than that something of what is required to render is inadequate and the B.S.U. faDs to beneficial service and have a part in fulfill its purpose. These are some of bringing joy and happiness to those who need it. the major things which B.S.U. has to Its plan is to aid us in becoming ma- offer.

THE BAPTIST WORLD ALLrANCE: A Synoptic Report Compiled By Betsy Ann Morgan Dot Tribble Charlotte Bunch Al Stuart Roberts C. Lasater

Between July 22 and July 27 fifty what he was made to be—a living soul thousand Baptist from forty-six differ- created by a Father God. Basic free- ent countries attended at least some of dom begins with the complete volimtary the sessions of the 8th World Congress submission of the individual to God. It of the Baptist World Alliance. Twenty is maintained through communion with Thousand of these registered for the God and with fellow Christians. entire Congress. Represented among The next major emphasis concerned this group were approximately twenty- religious liberty. Dr. Culbert G. Ruten- five students from North Carolina. ber, of Philadelphia, spoke on the topic The theme of the meeting was John "The Totalitarian State and the In- 1:15: "And the light shineth in the dividual Conscience." He declared that darkness." The meeting was interracial the totalitarian state had annihilated throughout, and the city of Cleveland the individual's conscience and thereby participated in its interracial character. robbed him of his humanity; but he The major portion of the program said if the church should address itself was built around the exposition and to the defense of the individual con- interpretation of the basic principles science against these forces which seek which Baptists over the world believe. to destroy it, there is still hope for the Separating these major emphases were preservation of Christianity in the addresses concerning the practical world. phases of the Baptist ministry to the Prof. Emlyn Davies, of Wales, and world, such as relief, evangelism, and Dr. Benjamin Mayes, of Georgia, em- religious education. phasized the relevancy of the Gospel in The first emphasis was upon the the problem areas of life. Prof. Davies, Christian interpretation of freedom. speaking on the topic "Christ and Dr. E. McNeil Poteat, pastor of the Labor," called attention to the fact that host church for the North Carolina BSU the Christian church has withdrawn Convention this fall and one of the from its interest in the way people make speakers to be heard at the BSU Con- their living and has become interested vention, dealt with this theme in his only in their "salvation." As a result address "The Basic Freedom." Freedom, unrealistic and atheistic communism stated Dr. Poteat, consists of neither has taken over the labor movement. independence nor autonomy but of the The solution to the labor problem, he liberty of each individual to become stated, is for the church to become con- —

October, 1950 The Reveille 15 cerned again for a man's body as well tremendous reality of Christian salva- as his soul. The total gospel includes tion. They are acting as tools in the both a love for God and a concern hands of God to restore broken fellow- for other persons. ships—social, political, and economic Dr. Benjamin Mayes, speaking on the on an all-inclusive world scope." His topic, "Christ and Human Relation- address was followed by stirring testi- ships," stated man is unique in that monies from youth of Germany, Scot- he came from God and was made in land, Canada, and the U.S.A. God's image. This means in turn that In the meetings of the Youth Section if any man is of value all men are of of the BWA the constitution of the' value and that the destiny of one man Youth Committee was changed so that is tied up with the destiny of all. As more young people would be represent- creatures made in the image of God ed. Mr. Robert Denny, of the Southwide and as persons redeemed by the same Student Department, was elected Chair- Christ, Christian people have no other man of the Youth Committee of the alternative than to live together as BWA to succeed Dr. T. G. Dunning, of children of God. London, who had served as chairman The emphasis upon the necessity of of the committee since its organization a continuing mission to the lost was almost twenty years ago. The meetings presented by Dr. K. S. Latourette in an of the youth section were highlighted by address entitled, "The Missionary Out- testimonies of young people from all look Today." He pointed out realistically over the world. that some doors are now being closed to The music of the congress was out- missions but that others are open now standing. The Saturday evening pro- as they have never been open before. gram was highlighted by the singing of He concluded with the that emphasis Mr. Roland Hayes, famed Negro operatic Baptists are limited in their missionary star, and by a choir of five thousand program only by their own lack of vision. voices. Miss Adele Norman, celebrated The final major emphasis concerned radio soprano from Chicago, sang at the doctrine of the church. This em- all the sessions. Outstanding choral phasis was made by Dr. M. P. Mc- groups from Ohio also appeared on the Cutcheon, of Canada, in his address program. "The Body of Christ." He repeated the The congress left lasting impressions emphasis which had been made by pre- upon those who attended. It was an vious speakers that all Christians are active demonstration that our two maj- members of the Body of Christ, the or races can live and work together in "called out" of God. This in turn means harmony and respect. It demonstrated that as members of the Body they must that the leaders of oiu- denomination have a cooperative relationship toward over the world are capable of thinking each other. Christians unite in must with the best leadership of the world presenting a common Christian wit- and that they are prepared to face ness to a pagan world. realistically the problems of the world. A youth rally on Sunday evening It pointed out some of our inadequacies brought together several thousand young and showed us areas in which we must people. Cities as far away as Cincinnati do more work if we are to remain con- sent special buses to the meeting. The tributing members to the cause of principle speaker. Dr. Joel Sorensen, of Christ. It made us appreciate our mem- Sweden, Youth Secretary of the Baptist bership in the family of Baptists. It World Alliance, pointed out that the proved that even in diversity, for all call of Christ is the call to give all of our Baptists do not see eye to eye on one's life. It is a call to courageous liv- ing. Young people, he stated, "have many of the issues that confront us, found the quest of our time is the there can be union and fellowship and quest for life. They have a share in the respect. It left us with a warm glow 16 The Reveille October, 1950 of pride in our people and with a chal- land meeting Dr. Townley Lord, pastor lenge to continue with even more vigor of the Bloomstaury Baptist Church, Lon- our witness to the world. don, was elected President of the B.W.A. The next session of the B.W.A. is and will serve in that capacity for the scheduled to be held in London, Eng- next five years. He succeeds Dr. Oscar land in 1955 where the Alliance was or- Johnson, Pastor of the Third Avenue ganized fifty years ago. At the Cleve- Baptist Church, St. Louis, Missouri.

WELCOME NEW STAFF MEMBERS

Mrs. Ray Greene is serving as B.S.U. B.S.U. Chaplain at Duke University. Jim Secretary at Wake Forest College for is a native Georgian but a graduate of the next year while Eli Galloway takes the University of North Carolina and a year's leave of absence to study at has recently received his B.D. from Union Seminary in New York. Mrs. Duke University. Jim is married and Greene gained much B.S.U. experience has a lovely two-year old daughter, as a student and later as a faculty mem- Linda.

ber at Campbell College, Buies Creek. Mr. John Davis is also beginning his Before joining our staff, Mrs. Greene first year of work with the North Caro- was Educational Director at the First lina B.S.U. as Chaplain at Appalachian Baptist Church, Raleigh. State Teachers College, Boone. John is Miss Virginia Dawson comes to Wo- a graduate of Wake Forest College and man's College of the University of North also received his B.D. from Duke Uni- Carolina, Greensboro as a graduate of. versity. His wife, Betty, and six-months Mars Hill, Carson-Newman and the old son, Johnnie, are with him in Boone. W.M.U. Training School, Louisville. Miss We welcome these new members to Dawson is a vivacious redhead with a our North Carolina Staff of Student winsome personality. Although a native Secretaries and Chaplains. We feel that of our rival state, Virginia, we feel that each one of them will contribute much Miss Dawson is indeed an asset to our present corp of workers. to our program on their individual cam- Mr. James Cansler joins our staff as puses, in the State and in the South.

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Volume XII JANUARY, 1951 Number 2

Vesper Room, Baptist Student Center, East Carolina Teachers College. Students in picture are Milam Johnson, Devotional Vice-President and Elizabeth Pate, Student Center Hostess. (See page 15 for further account.)

PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA B. S. U. V^c ^e(AeiCie

A Journal of Baptist Student Life

Volume XII JANUARY, 1951 Number 2

EDITOR

James A. Evans A.S.T.C, Boone

STATE OFFICE HEADQUARTERS 119 Hillsboro Street Raleigh, N. C. James W. Ray, State Secretary

STATE OFFICERS

BoYCE Medlin, President Wake Forest Lindbergh Martin, Enlistment Vice President Pembroke Doris Edwards, Social Vice President E.C.T.C. Elaine Saunders, Devotional Vice President Meredith Alton Powell, Extension Vice President Shaw University Howard Shell, Secretary-Treasurer N. C. State James Evans, Publicity Chairman Appalachian Bonnie Lynch, Literature Chairman Campbell Charotte Bunch, Music Director Woman's College

STUDENT SECRETARIES

Edith Arrington, Baptist Hospital Roberts C. Lasater, State College Gloria Blanton, E.C.T.C. Charles McConnell, W. C. T. C. Harvie Brewington, Pembroke Virginia Dawson, W. C. U. N. C. Virginia Greene, Wake Forest Jim Cansler, Duke J. C. Herrin, U. N. C. John Davis, A. S. T. C. Billie Ruth Currin, Meredith

CONTRIBUTORS

CHARLES McCONNELL, Pastor of Baptist Church and Chaplain of Baptist Stu- dents, CuUowhee, North Carolina (W.C.T.C.) . . . DON G. SHROPSHIRE, graduate of U.N.C., State B.S.U. President 1948, employed by National Biscuit Co., Atlanta,

Georgia. . . . W. W. FINLATOR, Pastor of First Baptist Church, Elizabeth City,

North Carolina. . . . CHARLOTTE BUNCH, President of Interfaith Council and

1949 B.S.U. President at Woman's College, Greensboro, North Carolina. . . . WINFRED E. GARRISON, Reporter and Associate Editor of Religious News Ser- vice, New York. . . . LEONARD MORGAN, JR., graduate State College, State B.S.U. President 1949, now studying at Southern Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.

. . . ELAINE SAUNDERS, Devotional Vice President of State B.S.U. Officers Coun- cil, senior at Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina. EDITORIALS

STUDENTS IN SUMMER MISSIONS to the State B.S.U. secretary by May 15. It is hoped that final announcement Each summer several North Carolina concerning the appointment can be students are employed from six weeks made during the Spring Retreat at to three months by the Baptist State High Point, April 13-14. Convention in various types of work sponsored by Baptists. Some honora- B.S.U. PRESIDENTS SCHOOL rium and a wealth of experience are of the key persons on the campus gained by those students accepted. One is the B.S.U. President. In various and Within the state work is offered by the significant ways he is a leader and an following agencies and departments: executive in the religious life among Sunday School, Training Union, W.M.U., his fellow students. Many B.S.U. presi- Associations, Assemblies, and many lo- dents feel that they need more orienta- cal churches. The State Student Secre- tion and training in the duties of their tary directs this summer student work office, in the work of the denomination for the Baptist State Convention and and in the total imperative of the application blanks may be secured by Christian Faith. addressing the State B.S.U. OfBce. The Spring Retreat at best can only Several students may be employed by touch the siu^face of these needs. It has the Home Mission Board of Atlanta, been suggested that a B.S.U. PRESI- Georgia, and assigned to work in other DENTS SCHOOL for a period of three states. Qualifications for Home Mission to five weeks would be a tremendous work differ from requirements for State asset to B.S.U. presidents and give a work. The honorarium may be a differ- stronger bond of oneness to the State- ent amount also. Application blanks wide B.S.U. program. Members of the may be requested at the State B.S.U. State Officers Council could benefit per- Office. sonally and be of greater service to the One student may have opportunity to work if this school could be conducted. work with the Foreign Mission Board Plans are under consideration to at some mission point out of the states. schedule such a school diu-ing the latter The student will work under the super- part of the summer. It may be held at vision of a missionary already commis- one of the Assemblies or perhaps at sioned by the Foreign Mission Board. Wake Forest College. Costs will be mini- All money for sending a North Carolina mum with the Baptist State Conven- student to a Foreign Mission point tion, the Assembly or College and the must come from students. Between $600 student's home church helping to bear and $800 is required for each student the expense. It is possible that summer accepted for this work. Application must school credit may be carried. be made to James W. Ray, State B.S.U. Secretary, 119 Hillsboro Street, Raleigh, North Carolina. National B.S.U. Spring Retreat and In former years this summer foreign Planning Conference will meet at Shaw mission work was not completely chan- University, Raleigh on April 7-8. This neled through the Foreign Mission is the first meeting of its kind to be Board. This year a new arrangement held in North Carolina. Attendance is has been worked out with the Foreign open to representatives of Negro and Mission Board. We believe this new white students from all N. C. campuses. arrangement is much better than the Campus quotas will be low because of former one and we feel that we can accommodation limitations. join the Foreign Mission Board enthus- iastically. Campus B.S.U. organizations are be- Elect new B.S.U. Council by April 1 ing requested to set up the necessary and make ample plans to attend Spring committees for soliciting funds for this Retreat at First Baptist Church, High project. The funds must be remitted Point, April 13-14. The Reveille Janvary, 1951

A. D. 1951

By Charles McConnell

After a great deal of discussion dur- are, today, more people in America who ing the past year, it is rather generally have their names on the roll of some agreed that 1951, not 1950, marks the church than at any time in the history beginning of the second half of the of our nation. Approximately 55 per Twentieth Century. Be that as it may, cent of the population is aflBliated with A.D. 1951 confronts us as being a year some church, as against 5 per cent in which the very future of our civiliza- who were church members in colonial tion may be determined. It is, therefore, America. of vital importance that we pause at the Within the past twelve months the beginning of this year and attempt to National Council of Churches of Christ make some evaluation of our world as in the U.S.A. has come into being, an it affects Christian thought and living. organization designed for cooperative Hanging over our heads, like a mod- and concerted Christian witness. Into ern Sword of Damocles, is the gaunt this Council have gone all the major specter of "COMMUNISM." In much Protestant denominations, with the ex- of our thought about the New Year, ception of the Missouri Synod Luther- we are forced to reckon with the fact ans and Southern Baptists. Disagreeing that our military preparations, our eco- on many points, the group of churches nomic life and our patterns of thought which has gone into the National Coun- are shaped and directed by the ever- cil has decided that the time has come present knowledge that tomorrow we when Christians must work together in may be actually at war with Communi- those areas where they do agree. If, ist Russia. This fact is all the more they say, we are to meet the challenge terrifying because we have slowly come of our times, we must work together to a realization of the fact that there as fellow-laborers in God's vineyard. It can be no real security simply because is no attempt, as some have mistakenly we have stockpiled an unknown number thought, at church union, but a realistic of atomic bombs. Even with The Bomb, effort to present a more united Christ- we stand naked in the face of the un- ian witness in a basically unchristian certainty of our times. world. How desperately such a witness Are we, then, living in an age with- is needed in A.D. 1951! out hope? Has the Christian Church For, call it police action or what- folded its tents and crept silently away? you-will, the world is at war in Korea. There are signs that such might be the How easy it is for us to feel comfort- case: we are often guilty in our religious able and virtuous, since it was, after organizations of being more concerned all, the North Koreans (inspired by with reports and standards than with Communist Russia) who first crossed the vital issues of life; many feel that the 38th Parallel. But what can we say our own denomination is more intent to China, where Christian missionaries on asserting its individuality than on have proclaimed the Gospel of the presenting a united challenge to the Prince of Peace for over one hundred secular forces of our day; sometimes years, in the face of our treatment of the manipulation of power politics in that country during the past five years? the State Conventions causes one to Asia, and China in particular, has been ask which is more important—that the a "hot potato" that the United States will of God shall be done, or that the was afraid to handle; as a result, our wishes of individuals and groups shall position in the Orient is far from a be of prime consideration? pleasant one. If the fighting in Korea On the other side of the pictiu^e, how- were to end suddenly, we would still ever, there are signs of hope. There be involved in war. It is this fact of war, January, 1951 The Reveille

with mobilization of manpower and the 1. I will commit myself, anew, to the imposition of economic controls, that Christian Faith, in all of its depth and stares us in the face at the beginning power. This is a faith which finds its of this year. roots in the belief that God is a loving, Here, then, is the world in which creator, Father-God, who has revealed your college campus is located: the Himself to men in the person of His Communist and non-Communist na- Son, Jesus Christ. If He has loved me tions are lined up facing each other; enough to give Himself for me, then some portions of the battle line, like this world which He created cannot Korea, Indo-China and Tibet, bristle destroy me absolutely. Therefore, I will with guns, while others are living under find in Him the peace and the quiet- the shadow of tenuous diplomacy and ness of spirit which I so desperately intrigue. Because this is so, you return need in A.D. 1951. to your campus this year with more 2. Because I believe that, imperfect uncertainty than you have known. as it may be, the Christian Church (in Many of you watch the mails for noti- all of its manifestations) is the best fication from your draft boards, or you medium through which I can work for hope and pray that you will be allowed the furtherance of His will in my life to finish out this year before you have and in the world, I will endeavor in to go. The indecision in Washington A.D. 1951, to identify myself more com- makes for unrest on the campus; and pletely with its ongoing program in the you come, finally, to the place where community where my college is located. even going on active duty would be I will not simply give lip service to the better than not knowing. Thus far Church, but I will give myself to its there has been no decision to draft service. women, but that does not mean that 3. Believing that there is open to the girls on the college campus are immune individual Christian a storehouse of re- to the general feeling of unrest—the sources for victorious living, I will en- boy friend, the brother or someone else deavor during this year to unleash the who is near and dear may be in combat latent power in my own life by a more or may be facing induction. How can intensive practice of prayer. I know you be expected to keep your mind on "prayer changes things;" and if I allow yoiu- work? On every campus there is it to change me, then I can better already too much of the "tomorrow-we- meet the challenge of these times. may-die" psychology, and somehow in 4. Finally, I will seek to know the this year, A.D. 1951, we must find that Will of God, that whatever life may which will give stability to our lives in hold of uncertainty and hardship in these times of instability. this year, I will strive to meet it in His Since the beginning of the New Year spirit; I will not forget, because life is is the traditional time for making reso- unpleasant, that He is my Lord, and lutions, let us consider a few commit- because He is, I will seek to make my ments which, as college students, we life a living witness to the power of might make: His love in A.D. 1951.

THE MENACE OF MEDIOCRITY

By Don G. Shropshire

This is a call to arms! have neglected to recognize its firm

There is a menace to this world far existence. greater than Communistic imperialism; Actually there have been many who and, in fact, it is the germ out of have sought to point it out to us, but which such destructive intents grow. fewer have clearly listed the many And yet it is so close to us that we fronts on which the war is fought. All The Reveille January, 1951

to often the 'generals' in the field have be the best master of law his abilities refused to equip and to point their own will allow; the accountant must use his "soldiers" in the direction where the powers and knowledge of figures to be enemy is making the greatest advances. the best that he can; the politician The menace is mediocrity. It sounds must represent nobly the hopes and dull and unimportant, doesn't it? "Why, desires of his constituents in the nec- our minister has been telling us about essary processes of government; the that for years," you say. He probably factory worker must turn out a product has, but all you have to do to realize which will be a credit to the company that his admonition has gone unheeded for which he works; the labor leader is to take inventory of your own life, must fight in the face of toughest and then look around you a little. opposition for what he believes earnestly It is unfortunate that some of us is right for the people he seeks to have slipped into the position of think- represent at the bargaining table. ing that our weekly responsibility to All of us must realize that these the Christian doctrine ceases when we secular enterprises make up the en- attend two church services, are on time vironment in which we exist, and it is for the B.S.U. Council meeting, and just as much a Christian duty for us address envelopes to de- a hundred to excel in these areas as it is for your linquent Baptist students on campus. pastor to fill his pulpit with all the We hear a lot about "Pull-time spiritual fervor he can command. The Christian Service" when we attend con- world, the church, and the home must ventions and retreats, and almost in- not be cheated out of the veracity and variably we think of such positions as integrity given by the Creator to his pastors, missionaries, and student sec- people. When we approach this dynamic retaries. Could it be that we have fail- responsibility with mediocre thought ed to realize that when any individual and action we lay ourselves—the world his place in the he accepts Kingdom, —open to the forces which would seek then commits himself to full-time to destroy our God-sent freedoms. Christian service in whatever field for May the Christian young people in which he is equipped? Anything short our colleges and universities today of this serves to defeat the very Cause branch out courageously into such fields to which he has so solemnly pledged as politics, law, labor relations, race his support. relations, and science, and be the best And it means more than just adher- that they can in each chosen area. ing to Christian principles in our rela- Sometimes the very field which seems tions with the people around whom we so corrupt is the very one in which work each day. Our Faith demands you can do the most good. that a student give everything he has is to to the purpose of equipping himself There a war be fought against for the vocation he has chosen; the mediocrity among men and women of housewife must devote all her energies the Christian Faith. We are going for to making and holding together a happy a ride whether we like it or not; we and Christian home; the lawyer must owe it to God to be in the driver's seat.

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, JUSTICE

By W. W. Finlator

These words are written on the eve the birth of the Savior. By this we are of the Christmas season. According to to understand not that all the rooms the Revised Standard Version of the or reservations (?) were taken, as in a New Testament there was on that first modern hotel, but that the innkeeper, Christmas no "place" in the inn for taking one quick glance at Mary, de- January, 1951 The Reveille

cided that there was no "place" in his betterment. Bunting was a social ty- khan for such an event. "Room" (as rant who had no use for anything in in the King James' Version) there the way of the general uplift of society. might have been but certainly no He was almost a foe of the laboring "place." The difference is vast. classes. His gospel was strictly evangel- The briefest objective study of the istic, aiming at the building of the history of evangelical sects throughout church solely by the conversion of in- the English-speaking world will reveal dividuals. He ruled Methodism for forty how little, if any, has been the "place" years. for the humanitarian concepts of lib- "Toward the close of his presidency erty, equality and justice in their mes- the Methodists felt interested in gen- sage and mission. The evangelical eral movements for the improvement churches have preached equality of all 'of the people' through some social men in the sight of God for whom activities. President Bunting took the every soul is infinitely precious; they ground that on all social activities, have exhorted men to come to the especially those of labor groups, and glorious liberty of the sons of God; wider popular liberties, the Methodist they have proclaimed the kindness of polity was to 'stand stock still.' Meth- God's justice which is more than lib- odists did stand 'stock still' on a plat- erty. form narrowly evangelistic, declaring But on a down-to-earth humani- that the only way to transform society tarian level in the realms of race, was by the conversion of men one at economics and politics these concepts a time. have been cold shouldered and shut "England's public opinion however did out. As theologians put it, our witness not stand stock still while the air was in these areas has been "other-worldly." becoming charged with intense interest One is reminded of Dr. Harold Cooke in the application of Christian principle Phillips' story of the teen age lad in to the larger civic and political and the employ of a pious grocer. Calling human needs. The result was that in down early each morning from his one five-year period the Bunting branch apartment above the store to inquire of Methodism lost one hundred thou- if the boy had poured water in the sand members, a loss not recovered milk, mixed lard with the butter, sifted until a wider social view, not to say a flour in the sugar, and hearing the more radical one, came to power in reply given sleepily in the affirmative, Methodism; in a word, until the holders the grocer would then add; "Well, then, of Methodist authority began to share come on up to prayers." in a genuinely supreme 'spiritual and No contemporary churchman has felt social insight'." (THE PULPIT, October so strongly this absence of social con- 1950). tent in the witness of Protestantism as The bishop is a bit optimistic. It has Bishop Francis J. McConnell, now might rather be concluded that Meth- retired, of the Methodist Church. Bis- odism lost the supreme opportunity of hop McConnell has for many years winning the British labor class which been a pioneer and a prophet, not of now rules England and which for the the social gospel, but of the rightful most part is still unchurched. Here in "place" in the gospel for the Second America, as someone has observed, Commandment. In a recent sermon he Methodism lost another supreme oppor- said: "If my Methodist hearers will not tunity. In the days prior to the Civil become too impatient I will remark that War the denomination came to a cru- within the generation after John Wesley cial moment. One of its prophets coun- died he was succeeded by a leader of selled the church to go all-out for the Methodism named Jabez Bunting. Wes- abolition of slavery and the enfran- ley had never made a specialty of "out- chisement of all men with liberty and side" social or political interests, but in justice and equality. But the makers of the main his work tended toward social policy could find no 'place' for this sort

II The Reveille January, 1951 of thing. Instead they agreed to bend to serve as chairman of one of these all energies toward evangelism, exten- committees. Officially a segment of our sion and organization. Had the decision leadership has spoken out with bold- been otherwise who can tell but that, ness and clarity on social issues, and while destiny hung in the balance, the here and there we read of some Amos horrors of the Civil War might have in the parish ministry. But when it been averted. comes to implementing these utterances But Methodists have not been alone down on rank and file level, well, that in standing stock still. Here in the is another story. It seems easier to South we Baptists have had things visualize equality, justice, liberty as a pretty well sewed up for years. In Da- pie in the sky in the sweet by and by. mon Runyan's phrase we are "more It's safer to be "other-worldly." than somewhat" down here. From our The matter is pretty well summed up ranks come governors, senators, repre- by one of North Carolina's brilliant sentatives, leaders in finance, industry younger journalists who wrote in a re- and the professions. We are the farmers cent letter to me: "I am somewhat of and the laborers and the white-collar a rebellious Baptist who is weary of workers. As Baptists go, it might be being a slave to organization and sys- said, so goes the South. And there can tem and push-button evangelism in an be no doubt that we are going some- age that demands relevant Christianty. where. ... I believe our denomination ought We are on the march, a march to- to do something more than make de- ward greater unity, stronger organiza- claration of principles. Something tang- tion, mass evangelism and church ex- ible needs to be done to get our people tension. We have a vast simultaneous out from under the bondage of system evangelistic crusade coming up in and professional religion and expose March. But we are marching through them to wider and deeper thinking a Dixie where labor fares the worst, about the Bible and its message, and where political and social liberties are about the application of Christian prin- the most flaunted, where equality of ciples to economic and social realms." opportunity is the least respected and Almost two thousand Christmases ago where simple justice is the most pre- our Master confronted the denomina- carious of any area in the nation. tional leadership of his day with the These are hard words, and harder still rebuke that their piety and promotion, for a southerner who loves the South while good in themselves, were not and a Baptist who loves his denomina- enough. They were neglecting the hu- tion to write. But they are true words. manitarian concepts. "You tithe mint They simply record the results of an and dill and cummin, and omit the attitude and policy which has given weightier matters of the law, justice little "place" in the denominational and mercy and faithfulness; these lat- caravansary for the humanitarian con- ter you ought to have practiced—with- cepts of liberty, justice, equality. out omitting the former." Jesus was a And if the South, like England after young man of social vision who was Jabez Bunting, is changing and making ready to buck the revered leaders of progress in improving the earthly lot his faith when they gave no "place" of all her people, what share of the to the kingdom of God on earth. credit, one wonders, can go to the in- The simple preaching of the gospel fluence of our Baptist churches? Per- to change men's lives will ultimately haps a jot, perhaps a tittle. change their earthly condition, we are This is not to disparage the courag- told. And so it does. Yet this gospel eous utterances and valuable contribu- carries an emphasis to change men's tions of the social service commissions conditions so that their lives might the and committees in our denomination. more easily and effectively be changed. They have been our awakening con- Somewhere in his writings Dr. Harry science. The writer is himself honored Emerson Fosdick tells the story of a inuary, 1951 The Reveille

lan complaining to the artist Whistler plied: "Man, you're beginning at the ecause a certain picture could not be wrong end. You can't make that pic- anged to fit his room. Whereupon ture fit the room. You will have to /histler, looking over the matter, re- make the room fit the picture."

INTERFAITH COUNCIL

By Charlotte Bunch

The Interfaith Council plays an im- Some observance of these will be plan- ortant part in bringing about the ned by the Council. riendly, cooperative atmosphere which Interfaith Council has bi-monthly xists here at Woman's College. It seeks programs which are open to all stu- promote a better understanding of dents and faculty members who are in- he various religious groups on campus, terested in attending. These programs nd also serves as a means of fellow- usually consist of interesting speakers hip among the members of these and group discussions concerning ques- roups. We believe that the feeling of tions vital to all who are present. oneness" which emerges from this The B.S.U., being one of the largest roup is vital if we expect to live to- denominational groups on campus, adds ether in harmony on a campus of greatly to the work of the Interfaith his size. Council. Its representatives consist of The Interfaith Council, consisting of the B.S.U. President, the extension di- epresentatives from all religious groups rector, an especially elected Interfaith )n campus, sponsors of many programs representative, and the B.S.U. Student nterest to the students and faculty. Secretary. It is their duty to help plan Dne of the main events of the year Interfaith functions and to see that is a campuswide Religious Emphasis Baptist students are informed about Week, during which time the larger of Interfaith happenings. the Church groups bring speakers to In its own small way, Interfaith the campus. In addition to hearing Council is trying to do what so many several different viewpoints during the people would like to see the nations of week, a definite period is set aside each the world do—to look each other day for denominational meetings. Here straight in the eye and have the courage each individual can re-examine his to say, "I realize that we have many own beliefs and become even more differences some small, some big—but, strengthened in them. Most speakers — in spite of them, why can't we learn who have taken part in this program to be tolerant of each other's ideas and have been very much in favor of mak- live together peacefully since we are ing such a meeting an Interfaith affair. thrown together in every day life?" They feel that it definitely strengthens the entire program. Yes, it is a job that each individual The Interfaith Council sends dele- can do, with or without the aid of an gates to meetings of the National Con- organization called Interfaith Council. ference of Christians and Jews. It also Just think what an effect it would have encourages students to attend the sum- on all campuses (and eventually on our communities, state, nation, mer conference at Wildacres, which is and and sponsored by this organization. even the whole world) if we all tried Other important events of interest to our very best to understand, love, and the Interfaith Council are the World cooperate with "all our neighbors all Day of Prayer and Brotherhood Week. the time!" 10 The Reveille January, 135'

IN cia THE YEAR RELIGION m

By Winfred E. Garrison IV bin

I (In this copyrighted article Rehgious A United Evangelistic Advance, or News Service reviews outstanding events ganized by the Federal Council o among all faiths and in all denomina- Churches of Christ in America and in tions for 1950.) volving the cooperation of many denom Important movement toward Protest- inations, began late in 1949 and con ant unity, a Roman Catholic Holy Year tinued through 1950. An intensive eflori of Pilgrimage to Rome culminating in for 15 months was planned. One featuri the promulgation of a new dogma, and of it was the activity of laymen, mori a wide interest in the progress of the than 350,000 of whom had been enlist Jewish State of Israel have been high- ed for active participation by the enc, lights of the past year in religion. of April. As usual, it can be reported that the Meanwhile, many denominations havi churches in America have gained in also continued the special evangelists membership. This is true not only of programs which were aspects of thei: the churches collectively but of all the postwar campaigns and crusades. Th larger ones individually. Religious sta- most conspicious individual figure as ai tistics lag by nearly a year. The latest independent evangelist has been tha compilation, at mid-year, shows for the of Billy Graham, young (31) and de- preceding twelve months a Protestant bonair, whose campaigns have extend- gain of 2.9 per cent and a Roman ed from Boston to Los Angeles and whc

Catholic gain of about 2.9 per cent in packed the Pasadena Rose Bowl like £ numbers. The Southern Baptists have New Year's Day football game. had a greater increase than any other large denomination. Growing- Interest Considerably more than 50 per cent There are other than statistical evi- of all the people in the United States dences of the increased vitality of th( (infants included) are members of churches. Such expert and unbiasec churches, though most of the Protestant observers as the Associated Press man- communions not count do infants a- aging editors, who were interrogated or mong their members. contrast, the By the subject at their convention ai corresponding figure in England is a- Atlanta in November, generally agreec bout 17 per cent divided not very equal- that they saw a growing interest ir ly into three parts, Anglican, Protestant religion. One sign of it is the establish- Nonconformist and Catholic. Roman ment of new departments of religion or the enlargement of old ones, in manj; Free-Church System colleges and universities. The American free-church system The reasons for this growing interest apparently does not spell the death of would be a matter of opinion. One sug- religion, as is feared by some who are gested reason was that the churches alarmed at the possibility of disestab- have been more energetic in their pro- lishment elsewhere. On the contrary, motional efforts, and that "religious it may be one reason why the churches people seem to want everyone else tc grow. Another reason is their policy of get religion." (This, of course, is just vigorous evangelism. Methods may and what evangelism means.) Another pos- do vary, but the evident fact is that, in sible reason is the general sense of in- a country where church membership is security and the feeling that the world's voluntary, the churches which have the present conflicts and confusions are due most definite and energetic programs to neglect of the spiritual element in for getting new members are the ones life. that get them. Specific issues involving welfare and —

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jcial justice have had much attention Council of Churches, and the Inter- :om churches and organizations of national Council of Religious Education. tiurchmen. A study conference on "the For the consummation of this merger, ihurch and Economic Life" was held which has been under consideration for 1 Detroit, February 16-19, under the eight years, a delegate assembly met in uspices of the Federal Council of Cleveland, Ohio, November 27- Decem- ihurches. Two-thirds of the partici- ber 1. ants were laymen. Union Plans A World Organization for Brother- Plans for union between some pairs lood, and international extension of the of denominations have received set- National Conference of Christians and backs. The adverse decision of Supreme ews, was organized at Paris in July. Court Justice Steinbrink of Brooklyn, t sponsored no program of specific N. Y., on January 26, blocked union be- olutions, but aimed to stress the moral tween the Congregational Christian i.nd spiritual principles upon which the Churches and the Evangelical and Re- iroblems must be solved. formed Church, after both bodies had The World Order Sunday message of voted for it. A proposed merger of the he Federal Council of Churches, Octo- (Dutch) Reformed Church in America )er 22, approved the "swift action of with the United Presbyterian Church he United Nations in resisting aggres- failed to receive the necessary degree ion" in Korea, but added a reminder of approval from either. hat all nations have defied God's laws Interchanges between Northern Bap- )f love, justice and brotherhood, though tists and Disciples of Christ continue, lot all in the same degree. but the movement toward union seem- Racial Problems ed slowed. Baptists appear to be con- solidating their denominational posi- The American churches in both North tion. The Northern Baptist Convention and South, more liberal on the race changed its name to the American Bap- question than the total communities in tist Convention. which they exist, are moving toward non-discrimination. At the General The American Unitarian Association Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, at its 125th anniversary meeting in May U. S. (Southern), there was no segre- announced that 75 per cent of its con- gation; Negroes are admitted to the gregations had approved the starting of graduate seminaries of this church. No negotiations for federation with the racial discrimination was seen at the Universalists. Congress of the Baptist World Alliance. Church-State relations have had There are constant reports of new inter- much attention. This is the core of that racial churches, especially in California "sharpening of debate" between Pro- but not only there, including Orientals, testants and Roman Catholics which Mexicans, Negroes and Caucasians in has been noted by some secular editors. their membership. The bill for federal aid to schools was Church World Service continues to except for a belated minor compromise function as an interdenominational bill passed in September—deadlocked agency for overseas relief, though it has by the hot debate over public money suffered from some diversion of funds for church schools. to denominational channels for the Mr. Myron Taylor's resignation on same purpose. It is planned that C.W.S. January 19 as the President's "personal will become a department of the new representative" at the Vatican, with the National Council of Churches. rank of ambassador, changed the long The list of Protestant movements for debate over the justification for an union and cooperation should be head- ambassador to the head of a Church ed by the National Council of Churches, into a discussion of the propriety of a merger of eight great interdenomina- the suggested establishment of formal tional agencies including the Federal diplomatic relations with the head of a 12 The Reveille January, 195

State which has only ecclesiastical sig- The dogma of the Assumption of thi »' nificance. Most Protestants are strongly Blessed Virgin Mary, proclaimed oJ <^ opposed to such action. November 1, was the first doctrine tit" It has been, and still is, a hard period be formally defined since the dogma o|»' for foreign missions. The fate of Chris- Papal infallibility was proclaimed b tianity in Asia is involved in Asia's the Vatican Council in 1870. revolutions. Some missionaries have re- In the United States, Catholic school' mained in China and have given brave enjoyed a period of expansion. It

tc reports of their work under Communist estimated that 250 million dollars wil' rule. But a change has come rapidly. be spent for buildings in the next fiv' The pressure now is more anti-foreign years, and that more than ten per cexi, than anti-Christian. of the nation's children are now The churches in Korea (as in Japan) Roman Catholic schools. were forced into union by the govern- ment in July, 1945, just before VJ Day. The year gave evidence of increasin?

The present religious situation is a vitality in the religious life of Orthodox !I1 complete enigma which the mere re- Conservative and Reform Jewish con Si turn of missionaries will not solve. gregations in the United States. 10

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Ji THE CALL TO BE A CHRISTIAN i

t By L. L. Morgan, Jr. I

Dr. Karl Menninger, in his popular differences indicate that there is n(' book, THE HUMAN MIND, makes this need for a person to 'knock himsel statement: "No religion, which does not out' trying to be a Christian in a voca take congnizance of the human being, tional situation unsuited for his per^ If other than "saving" him and bringing sonality. This condition must be re him into the church, is a real religion; membered and considered in makinf it is a neurosis." Dr. Menninger is a life work commitments. psychiatrist and would normally put As we come to the point of choosing religion in a separate catagory from a vocation, we are also coming to thi real living, but this statement gives us point when we begin to set up goal; a clear standard by which we can judge for our lives. Just what are we goinj our life's work. Our "degree of Chris- to accomplish by the time we are readj tianity" can be measured by what we to retire? What are we going to leave do with our religion over and above behind to make life better for oui saving lost souls. children? We set up these ideals, goali When we as individuals accept Christ or ambitions and our degree of happi- we accept also our first and main voca- ness in later life is a direct functior tional call—the call to be a Christian. of the degree of success in realizing No matter what the profession or vo- these goals. As Christians we cannoi cation we then enter, we are to be be happy in work where we are not Christians. allowed to fulfill our Christian ambi- As we look at our future in this tions. Christians measure life by a se1 light the picture changes. There are of values consistent with Christiar some kinds of work that offer high principles. Therefore, one is not pre- pay or social position in which it would pared to choose a vocation in which be difficult for one to become a pro- he can be Christianly happy until he ductive Christian. Because personalities accepts the call to be a Christian. Hap differ, each person's Christianity is dif- piness in our work after all means 8 ferent. This means, then, that there is measure of success or failure—whethei a Christian personality for all voca- we get our name in "Who's Who" oi tional situations. These Christianity become a dot just within the 5 pei inuary, 1957 The Reveille 13

;nt mark on a statistical chart. Wil- not listen in one town to go to another. am James has well said, "The great Our efforts must produce spiritually for 36 of life is to spend it for something God as well as physically for our pay lat will out-last it." check. Elton Trueblood states that the But as we continue to "worry" about 7ents of the past few years have what profession to enter we must re- lused an "interim mentality" which alize that it is not really our choice to aves many of us wondering just what make. It is God's choice and the call

; to be expected of us next. Will we comes from him. God's call to full- e able to go on to school or will we be time Christian work as a paid church 3nt across to far away places to tear worker often comes as a clear-cut, emo- iiings to pieces. Naturally, we all want tional experience. The call to full-time 3 remain in the peaceful situation at Christian work as an engineer, or doc- ome but we must be continually wor- tor, farmer, etc., is usually not as dis- ied by the threat of separation that tinct a call. It is usually a call that angs over us at all times. comes through our natural ability, our Since we are in what are called long thinking and from having first troubled times" we must be careful this door opened and then that one lot to make false starts in our voca- closed to us. The call may seem vague ions. Careful consideration must be but it is a call and we must never for- iven to all sides of the question be- get that God does know what he is ore a definite decision is made on the doing—even if it isn't what we want ype of work in which we want to spend him to do. lur life. However, if after a trial period If we are to be mature Christians, t is found that the choice is not a good we first must accept the call of God jne, then a change should be made. to be a Christian; accept the call from Ne must be careful not to let false him to a certain profession or voca- nfluences work on us as we make our tion; and dedicate our whole personality ihoices. The "Parent-called" preacher, to being a good Christian in that pro- or instance, and his unhappy misfit fession. God calls persons into all noble n vocation, is a prime example of areas of work. It is a lifetime task to istening to a false counsel. live up to that high calling. First, we must accept the eternal all to be a Christian. Then, in the ight of our ideals and ambitions we Among the December highlights East must make the vocational choice that Carolina B.S.U.'ers remember gathering ivill lead us to happiness. Religion is at the Student Center to hear Dr. not the only source of ideals but, as Elizabeth Utterback of the English fac- Christians, we must see that none of ulty, read A CHRISTMAS CAROL by aur ideals conflict with our religion. Charles Dickens. Four rooms were fill- Work without some set of ideals be- ed with eager listeners. comes drudgery. On the other hand, Preceding the reading, Elsie Howard, a set of ideals without the work makes Forum Chairman, gave those present simply a dreamer. We must strive for an opportunity to bring forward their the middle ground between drudgery Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. While and dreaming, both in our vocation and the group sang carols, Donald Smith in our Christian relationship. We must and Frances Dixon completed the de- do a good job in our vocation or pro- coration of the tree at the Center by fession in order to please the "boss". tying on it the envelopes containing We must do an excellent job as a the mission offerings, amounting to al- Christian in order to please our God. most twenty dollars. When it appears that we are unable to get anything done in one situation, Following Dr. Utterback's reading, then we move to another. Jesus told Elizabeth Glasgow had charge of a pe- the Seventy that if the people would riod of informal fellowship. 14 The Reveille January, 195

THE PLACE OF EVANGELISM IN OUR DAY 311

By Elaine Saunders

Evangelism and the evangel are sel- turb us, or upset our normal way d dom used terms in our day. When they life. are used many are skeptical concern- Christ, however, has always been dis ing their meaning and place in our turbing to the life of man. Man, creat life. All too often these words are limit- ed in the image of God, can never flm ed in their meaning to a certain period peace until he is at peace with hi' of history or to a certain method. For Creator; yet man is involved in a basi this discussion, however, we shall be contradiction in that his ego cause concerned with the broader, more gen- — him to have a self-centered life (thi eral meaning of the terms "good tid- Chirstian concept of sin). To find hi ings, gospel," or the "bringing of good true place in relationship to God, mai tidings." In Christianity, this has come must become God-centered. This basii to mean the good tidings of the re- change or recentering of life canno demption of the world through Jesus be brought about by man himself. Onlj Christ. through the grace and love of God i: The spreading of this good news or this possible. the gospel has taken different forms Throughout the Old Testament on( from the time of the early Christians sees the transformation of lives as thes to the present day. In each generation faced up to God, and committed them' there has been an effort to use the selves to Him and His Way of Life method that would best fit the needs From the time of Abraham, Moses anc of that day. Why then, one may ask, the prophets, men saw more and mon has there been such a decline in evan- into the nature and redemption pur- : gelism in our day? Is it that we no pose of God until finally in Jesus Christ longer need the good news? Is the gos- God revealed himself to man in thf pel irrevelant to our generation? highest form that man can conceive Anyone who is sensitive to the needs The Perfect Personality. This is the of man could hardly say that the gos- good news of the evangel. In Christ pel is not needed. Rather it is due, as God is revealed in his Infinite Love always, to the loss of a dynamic faith for man even while man is in self- in the gospel. Christianity has become seeking rebellion against God. Christ a "cult of comfort" which makes the offers the Abundant Life, but man gospel the servant of man's convenience. must make the all important decision The prevalent faith is in automatic pro- and commitment which makes such a gress through science, education, and a life possible. better social order. The Christian em- Ours is a time of crisis; a time for phasis is on social and ethical prin- clear-cut differentiating decision. Such ciples not the individual life devoted decision is necessary when one truly and consecrated to God. Jesus becomes meets Jesus Christ. In this meeting, a teacher of wisdom, not a Savior. two worlds clash—the perverted world To use Dr. Elton Trueblood's phrase, which men have made, and the true ours is a "cut-flower religion." We fol- world which God desires and offers in low the forms and accept the ideals of Christ. At first Christ is desirable, but our forefathers, enjoy the fruits of their then he becomes disturbing because he vital religious faith without understand- challenges man's thoughts, affections, ing the roots or the basis of the forms, and actions. He upsets their scale of' values. Though he upsets us, we can- morals and ideals we have inherited. not get away from Him. The crucial We like the "comforting, respectable" decision is "Christ or self." We hesitate type of Christianity which doesn't dis- to decide or to make a complete com- anvnry, 1951 The Reveille 15

litment in either direction, because we devotion in the light of the demands re afraid to let go of our own direct- of the gospel. Is our faith vital enough; ag of life, and we are afraid to turn is Christ real enough to us that we way from Christ. We, therefore, avoid can share Him with others? lecision, but the decision not to decide B.S.U. calls upon the Christian stu-

3 a decision against Christ. dents on the campuses to make signifi- Also in meeting Christ, man feels a cant witness of the redeeming power ense of guilt, failure, and inadequacy of God with renewed and sustained s he sees himself in relation to the emphasis. During the Evangelistic Cam- Iternal. The only satisfactory answer paign many students, both young minis- the guilt of man is found in the ters and lay-students, may be given op- ove of God which is able to forgive portunity to participate in some church he trespasses of man and lead him into as preacher, song leader, choir member better way of life. Associated with or in some other active capacity. Shar- his sense of guilt is man's repentance, ing our Christian Faith and winning lot a negative, emotional state, but a fellow students to Christ is an exercise )0sitive "shift in the very center of which challenges every student to grow ife that results from a viewing of the in his quest for truth and the Light )resent in the light of the eternal, a of Life. eeing of the self from the perspective f the divine" (Minear). VESPER ROOM AT EAST Today many people believe that the CAROLINA ireakdown of Western Civilization is in Gifts from B.S.U. friends in Memorial he process. Old standards and accepted and Immanuel Churches, alumni, and jeliefs are being challenged. The "cut- students made this newly decorated lower religion" which has so character- Vesper Room possible. East Carolina zed our civilization is beginning to Teachers College B.S.U.'ers cleaned and how its weakness in the face of such painted the room, made an altar, put in aggressive faith as Communism. in a new lighting fixture and decorated Secularism and selfish individualism the windows so they could have an lave failed in their promise of a better appropriate place at the Student Center ife causing many to turn cynic in the for daily vespers, forums, and study ace of a meaningless type of existence. groups. Enough chairs were purchased Our generation is in desperate need so they can seat approximately fifty in )f the gospel, the good news of the their "little chapel." The lectern is a Ivangel. What then will point be the gift to the B.S.U. from Mr. and Mrs. )f contact in this generation? How can R. B. Studebaker, members of the Carr- .he gospel in all of its urgency reach boro Baptist Church near Chapel Hill. he profound strings of human exist- A dedicatory vesper service was held !nce and arouse men to positive re- when the room was completed recently. )entance? Many believe that the an- Open House was held at the Center swers that are given to these questions before the Christmas holidays and many vlll have more effect upon the ultimate students, faculty, and townspeople had !Xistence of mankind than the scream- an opportunity to see the little chapel ng headlines of military advances. and visit with Baptist students at their Southern Baptists are sponsoring an "House of Pelowship" on Eighth Street. Svangelistic Campaign in all the states sast of the Mississippi River in March md April 1951. This will be a time The Simultaneous Evang-elistic Cam- vhen many people will be working to- paign, March 25 - April 1, in churches ,'ether to spread the "good news". This east of Mississippi River will offer many )resents an immediate challenge to opportunities for student participation ach of us to reconsider our ideas of in churches in and near college com- ;vangelism, and our commitment and munities. 16 The Reveille January, 195 RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS WEEK AT CAROLINA

By J. C. Herrin ing church services. Heretofore, th A week of religious emphasis was ob- participating denominations completel;f7: ° served at the University of North Caro- lost their identity in the promotion o lina on November 22-26, 1950, with 19 emphasis week so far as the majo outstanding religious leaders participat- campus calendar was concerned. Whil. ing. The Week was planned by an inter- not diminishing this wholehearted spiri faith council and was jointly sponsored of cooperation, it was decided to adc by this local council and The Federal to the campus calendar of events ai Council of Churches of Christ in evening church service in each of th( America. churches in town in order that stU' Several new features were tried in dents of particular churches and towns this program in an effort to solve some people could come together for worship of the difficulties and overcome some Along with these special features limitations found in such special more than 100 classes were opened U "Weeks". Of particular interest were invited guests, and every fraternity an< the departmental convocations that re- sorority invited a speaker in for dinne: placed the usual daily chapel convoca- and an informal discussion hour. Sb tions, and the addition of the evening seminars met in the afternoons, dormi' church sessions. tories housed discussion groups, am The departmental convocations were faculty luncheons were held each o: set up by first polling the classes meet- the four days. ing at a given hour in a department, Each day began with 7:00 breakfas' to determine if they would vote to in- for the student committee members an( vite one of the speakers to take over a visiting speakers, usually fifty or mor^ session in which the several classes students and fifteen speakers bein^ would combine for that hour. A speaker present. A period of announcing sched was selected who had special talent or ules and a worship period always seem- training in the field. All departments ed to get the day started in the besi polled voted to participate. possible way. From 7:00 until midnighl The other departure was the even- became a normal day for those at work

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STATE OFFICERS FOR 1951-52

Front row, left to right: James Alexander, Shaw University; Marian King, Camp- bell; Clara Gilbert, Woman's College; Elsie Howard, East Carolina; Ann Shaw, Shaw University. Back row, left to right: Eddie Grey, Mars Hill; Lindy Martin, Pembroke; Glenn Eason, N. C. State; Maynard Bridges, Appalachian; Paul Royal,

Campbell. (See inside cover for respective offices.)

PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA B. S.U. 7^e "^ev^eCUe

A Journal of Baptist Student Life

Volume XII MAY, 1951 Number 3

EDITOR

Marian King Campbell College, Buies Creek

STATE OFFICE HEADQUARTERS 119 Hillsboro Street Raleigh, N. C. James W. Ray, State Secretary

STATE OFFICERS

LiNDY Martin, President Pembroke Maynard Bridges, Enlistment Vice-President Appalachian Eddie Grey, Social Vice-President Mars Hill College

Glenn Eason, Devotional Vice-President N. C. State James Alexander, Extension Vice-President Shaw University Clara Gilbert, Secretary-Treasurer Woman's College Marian King, Publicity Chairman Campbell College Elsie Howard, Literature Chairman East Carolina College Paul Royal, Music Chairman Campbell College Ann Shaw, National B.S.U. President Shaw University

STUDENT SECRETARIES

Edith Arrington, Baptist Hospital Virginia Dawson, W. C. U. N. C. Gloria Blanton, E.C.T.C. Virginia Greene, Wake Forest Harvie Brewington, Pembroke J. C. Herein, U. N. C. BiLLiE Ruth Currin, Meredith Roberts C. Lasater, State College John Davis, Appalachian Charles McConnell, W. C. T. C.

CONTRIBUTORS

JOHN T. WAYLAND, Pastor of First Baptist Church, North Wilkesboro, North

Carolina . . . ROGER CROOK, Professor in Department of Rehgion, Meredith Col- lege, Raleigh, North Carolina . . . GEORGE H. JOHNSON, JR., Student in the Law School of Wake Forest College. EDITORIAL BREVITIES

CONGRATULATIONS to Lindy Martin, RIDGECREST: School year ends, vaca- our new State B.S.U. President and all tion on our hands, and then B.S.U. week newly elected state officers. May you at Ridgecrest where thousands of find your office a motivating challenge B.S.U'ers from all over the southland of duties and obligations for a better will come for a week of meditation, in- B.S.U. in North Carolina. spiration, fellowship, friendship and fun. Plan to attend now. Make your reserva- tion now by writing the State B.S.U. CONGRATULATIONS to Boyce Medlin office, 119 Hillsboro Street, Raleigh. and his retiring State Officers staff for the excellent job done during the past THE DAY IS HERE : During these criti- year. cal days of ours, make your daily living count. Hold to the ideal of Christianity HATS OFF to Beverly Neilson, a senior giving your convictions backbones. Reli- at Wake Forest, who was elected to bei gions have had their chances; give the Student Missionary from North Christianity its chance. "It is later than Carolina B.S.U. to Hawaii for the sum- you think" contains more truth than mer months. Thanks to the Baptist Stu- we realize. dents that are making this possible. JAE

AN OPEN LETTER TO GRADUATES

Dear friend Graduate: for the universe by success, it is no I can hear you saying to yourself over better than a game of private thea- and over again: "It ain't right! It ain't tricals from which one may with- right!" And you are exactly correct. It draw at will. But it feels like a real isn't fair for you to be graduating into fight,—as if there were something a world that is so terribly fouled up really wild in the universe which we, that you don't know where you're going with all our idealities and faithful- and one that gives you so little chance nesses, are needed to redeem, and of doing what you want to do and be- first of all to redeem our own hearts ing what you'd like to be. from atheisms and fears. There are two things that the reverie "These then are my last words to of "It ain't right" can do to you. It can you: Be not afraid of life. Believe surround, engulf and overcome you with that life is worth living, and your the pall of defeatism. Lots of fellows belief will help create the fact. The and girls are going around wearing that 'scientific' proof that you are right pall. It may be popular with some, but may not be clear before the day of it's not a bit becoming on you. Webster judgment (or some stage of being says a pall is "a fine cloth spread over which that expression may serve to something; especially a heavy cloth, as symbolize) is reached. But the faith- of black velvet, thrown over a coffin; full fighters of this hour, or the be- hence, figuratively, a coffin." Webster's ings that then and there will repre- right I sent them, may turn to the faint- The second thing that the reverie "It hearted, who here decline to go on, ain't right" can do to you is to make with words like those with which you "so firing mad" that you'll come Henry IV greeted the tardy Crillon out fighting. I'm not talking about the after a great battle had been gain- prize ring and I'm certainly not a re- ed: 'Hang yourself, brave Crillon! cruiting officer. What I have in mind We fought at Argues, and you were was better expressed by William James not there'!" who wrote: I still feel young, friend graduate, but "If this life be not a real fight, in to you I'm an "old grad." I believe yom- which something is eternally gained road ahead looks rougher than mine did The Reveille May, 1951 when they turned me loose in the world, very real sense. It has been so since you but maybe you can profit from my ex- took your first falling step, since you perience. I "got out of jail" in the mid- ventured to enter the first grade. And dle of the depression. There were al- more and more you have been on your most no jobs and "positions" were even own. more difficult to find. The American But life is also God's battle. He is dream had burst. Millions of men fighting for the Right, and our chief walked the streets begging for work. business is so to order our ways and Most of the banks were closed—de- conform our wills, that we will be fight- funct. "Hoover carts" slowly dragged ing His fight. It is not as important for over the countryside. But my sweetheart us to win as it is for us to be right. For and I got married. She had a hope chest. it's the Lord's battle and He alone can I had a wardrobe trunk. We bought an bring the victory. old Ford and set out for work in a new During the school years you have been state which we had never seen. We were graduating from term to term. Just keep soon making many good friends and on graduating! You have nothing to found that the more diflRcult the times fear but fear—and defeatism. the finer were those friendships and the Come on, get in the fight. We need greater was the opportunity for service. you! The fact is, friend graduate, that life Sincerely, has always been a battle. The Bible often depicts it as such. And life is your joltn- l/UciulcmJL battle, and you are in command in a J-.

WOMAN'S COLLEGE in other nearby campuses. The Baptist Dinner at 6:00 p.m. on On several Saturday Evenings the Friday is a weekly attraction because of Baptist Student House has rung out the good food and the well planned pro- with merriment when the deputations grams. Guest speakers from the campus from State College, University of North and from across the state have brought Carolina, Guilford and other campuses challenging and enlightening subjects paid a visit. On one ocassion the State to the attention of the students. During College boys helped to paint the front "Purposeful Living Week" a study was porch and give the house a clean-up. made of one's responsibility to the Fast friendships have been the result church, the school and the community. of some of these "boy meets girl" rela- Dr. L. D. Johnson, Pastor of the First tions. Baptist Church, Danville, Virginia, visit- The Student House has been the re- ed the campus for two days and led cipient of a number of gifts including seminars and discussions on Marriage furnishing and money from the local and Christian Home Building. W.M.U.'s and other friends. A study of various denominational be- liefs was of particular interest to stu- WINGATE COLLEGE dents who are seeking to understand B.S.U. on Wingate College campus other religious groups in our country. feels that it accomplished much in the Students questions were answered ob- Youth Revival held on the campus Febr- jectively and the denominational repre- uary 26 to March 2. Sermons were de- sentatives did much to dispell uncer- livered during the week by members of tainty, intolerance and confusion about the Wingate Ministerial Band. denominational identities. The Y. W. A. at Wingate has had a B. S. U. participated in the Greens- very active year. Their programs have boro Churches by presenting Sunday been stimulating and inspirational. On Night services and leading other special February 16 they held a banquet in the activities. The B.S.U. has been instru- college cafeteria with faculty members mental in strengthening Baptist groups as guests. May, 1951 The Reveille

THE CASE OF CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA TODAY By Roger H. Crook

"There are three things you don't the Life." In insisting upon obedience criticize," a student told me recently: to her laws, she is merely insisting upon "a man's cigarette, his girl, and his re- obedience to the truth. When the ligion." This statement reflects the very church, through the Pope, speaks on widespread reluctance to discuss religi- matters of faith and morals, she is in- ous differences for fear of being con- fallible. That is to say, the church does sidered intolerant. There are religious not create truth or law; it speaks that differences, however, and whether we which is true. This may best be illu- wish to discuss them or not those differ- strated by the recent proclamation of ences become important in areas other the dogma of the Assumption. According than church life. There are at least four to this dogma, Mary, the mother of areas of Roman Catholic thought which Jesus, after her death was taken bodily Protestants need urgently to understand into heaven. Before the Pope proclaimed today. this to be a part of the faith of Church

I. The Nature of the Church it was widely believed by Roman Catho- lics. Conway says that "its wide accept- Basic to an understanding of Roman ance since the sixth century renders it Catholicism in America today is an a certain doctrine, that cannot be denied understanding of the Roman Catholic by Catholics without rashness." (THE conception of the church. If what Ro- QUESTION BOX, p. 361.) Now it is re- man Catholic teach about the church is ceived as an article of faith by all Ro- true, then their other teachings appear man Catholics, and must be believed. logical. If, however, Roman Catholic To disbelieve it now is not only to dis- claims about the church cannot be sub- believe that which is true, which is stantiated, then the foundation for their evidence of foolishness; it is also to dis- other teachings is unsound. believe an article of faith, which chal- In the first place, the Roman Catholic lenges the authority of the church and Church claims to be apostolic. That is is therefore sin. to say, it claims that it can trace its In the third place, the Roman Catho- origin in an unbroken line back to lic Church claims to be catholic, or Jesus and the twelve apostles. Its min- universal. Throughout the world, say istry, with authority to teach and to Roman Catholics, the Church teaches rule, is in direct line of succession from all of the gospel of Christ, and ad- the apostles. Its doctrines are those ministers "all His divine means of sal- taught by Christ himself and his vation." Other churches are not catho- apostles. "Apostolicity implies that the lic as to time, for they are recent in true Church is the Church which Christ origin. They are not catholic as to faith, commissioned His Apostles to establish for they are broken away from the cent- under the supremacy of St. Peter. He er of unity, the Roman Church. They Himself chose the twelve Apostles, made are not catholic in extent, for they are St. Peter their head, and commissioned identified with particular nations. Since them to transmit infallibly all His divine then the Roman Church is the only revelation to all nations till the end of church with a valid claim to catholicity, the world." (Rev. Bertrand L. Conway, other churches are not true churches. THE QUESTION BOX, p. 134.) In the second place, the Roman Catho- In the fourth place, the Roman lic Church claims to be authoritative. Catholic Church teaches that the true Since she alone represent Christ, she church is a visible society. The term alone can say to the world as Christ "church" does not refer to a group of said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and believers, nor to any "universal fellow- 6 The Reveille May, 1951 ship of the Redeemed," but to a visible, priests, and rabbis appeared on the same organized institution, a divine society platform and spoke of 'the common established by Jesus Himself. It is in- positive elements of all the faiths'." deed a spiritual kingdom, established for (Paul Blanshard, AMERICAN FREE- the salvation of mankind; but it oper- DOM AND CATHOLIC POWER, p. ates in a temporal world, and takes a 300). Catholics are even forbidden to visible form. It cannot therefore be con- read the Protestant and Jewish books ceived apart from its institutional as- recommended by the Conference, pect. through the Roman Church is willing

II. Relationships with other Churches to recommend Catholic books for Pro- In general, it must be said that the testants and Jews to read. It is true Roman Catholic Church does not co- that, out of 125 dioceses, the hierarchy operate with Protestant churches. In the in 75 has announced its willingness to words of Pope Pius XI, this is because permit Catholics as individuals to par- those churches represent "a false ticipate in the Conference's activities, Christian religion completely foreign to but the Conference gets little active sup- the one Church of Christ." Historically port. In the remaining 50 dioceses, the movements to explore the possibility of hierarchy is either officially neutral or uniting Christendom have not had the hostile to the Conference. support of Rome. She had no delegates This attitude is seen also in respect at the meeting which brought into being to individuals visiting other churches. the World Council of Churches in 1948. Protestants are welcomed to Catholic To have sent delegates to that meeting services. But the Catholic who attends would have been to meet with those and participates in a religious service in Protestant bodies on a basis of equality a Protestant church is guilty of grave and mutual respect, and thus to deny sin. Rome's claim to be the one true church. III. Marriage and the Home The only way in which Rome is willing All three of the major religious groups to unite with other Christian bodies is (Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish) in for those bodies to enter the Roman this country encourage their young peo- Catholic fold—which, of course, they ple to marry within their faith. This will never do. is the natural result of the conviction This doctrine of non-cooperation with that their faith is the one valid faith, other religious groups on a basis of and the fear of the results of marriage mutual respect applies also to local com- outside the group. The results of such munity affairs. There is occasional co- marriages may be apostasy, loss of the operation in civic enterprises, but never children to the group, and discord in when it is suggested that the various the marriage. The Roman Catholic groups meet on a level of equality. The Church is most vigorous in its opposi- Roman Catholic hierarchy is hostile to tion to mixed marriages. For the Roman such cooperative groups as the Y.M.C.A., Church "true" marriage (and this con- secret societies and fraternal orders, and siders marriage as a sacrament) is the cooperative support of the teaching of marriage of two Catholics, performed by religion in the public schools. Even such a priest. an organization as the National Confer- It recognizes as valid, but not desir- ence of Christian and Jews, which has able, the marriage of a Catholic with a done everything possible to gain the non-Catholic only where special per- support of the Roman Catholic Church, mission is given by a local bishop or by is handicapped because of either active the Pope, where the non-Catholic opposition or indifference on the part of pledges to rear the children as Catholics most of the hierarchy. and not to interfere with the exercise "The American Ecclesiastical Review, of the faith of the spouse, and where the in September, 1948, warned Catholics ceremony is performed by a priest. The against the organization because it held couple must also promise that there will school meetings in which ministers, be no other marriage ceremony than the May, 1951 The Reveille one performed by the priest. This type upon the commandments, "Thou shalt of marriage is so decidedly undersiratale not kill" and "Thou shalt not commit that it cannot be performed in a Catho- adultery," and upon the story of Onan lic church without special permission. recorded in Gen. 38. Consistent with Marriages involving Catholics per- this position, the Church is also unalter- formed by Protestant clergymen are not ably opposed to eugenics and to thera- considered valid. To recognize as valid peutic abortion. such marriages would be to put churches IV. Church and State founded by mere men (Luther, Calvin, Perhaps the chief source of tension Wesley, etc.) on the same level as the between Catholics and Protestants in Church founded by Jesus Christ. Mar- America today is in the matter of the riages of non-Catholics performed either relation of church and state. Protest- by Protestant ministers or by civil offi- ants, on the one hand, insist upon the cials are considered legitimate but dis- complete separation of church and state. tinctly inferior. The Roman Catholic Church, on the It should be recognized that mixed other hand, teaches that, under certain marriages are indeed dangerous, both circumstances, the church is free to from the point of view of religion and enter into a more or less close associa- from the point of view of sociology. tion with the state. Indeed, though When such marriages do occur, however, Catholics insist that they are quite the methods of the Roman Catholic happy with the present arrangement in Church would seem to place additional the United States, the Church teaches hazards in the way of success, rather that in the ideal state the Catholic re- than helping the individuals to over- ligion should be established and sup- come their difficulties. ported by public taxation. Thus Pope The Roman Catholic Church teaches Pius IX says, "The proposition that 'The that valid marriages can be dissolved Church must be separated from the only by death; therefore it does not State, and the State from the Church' recognize divorce. The Church does, on is false." various grounds, annul marriages; in- And Archbishop Cushing of Boston deed, the annullment of marriages is says that the extreme development of much more common than is ordinarily the idea of separation of the church and believed. But in general the rule of the state is "fantastic and un-American." church is: no divorce for Catholics who (New York Times, Jan. 14, 1947) marry Catholics with a full Catholic That is not to say that the Roman ceremony. It should be pointed out that Catholic Church is now seeking the an annullment granted by the Church establishment of Roman Catholicism as is not a legal matter. A marriage may the state religion of the United States. be annulled by the Church on grounds But there are two areas in which Pro- which in law are a basis for neither an- testants feel that the Roman Catholic nullment nor divorce. And in the eyes Church is violating the principle of of the law, the couple are still married separation of church and state. The first until some legal action dissolves the is in the attempt to get public support marriage. On the other hand, a couple for parochial schools. The Pope has may get a legal divorce, but in the eyes specifically ruled that wherever possible, of the Church they are still married. Catholics must boycott public schools Most Protestants recognize two legiti- and send their children to parochial mate functions of sex in married life: schools. This naturally involves Catho- the procreation of children and an ex- lics in additional expense in the support pression of affection between husband of parochial schools. The Church has and wife. The Roman Catholic Church therefore sought to have the state pro- recognizes only the first function. There- vide transportation and text books for fore the use of artificial methods of children in parochial schools. Upon oc- the control of human fertility is con- casions, the question of free lunches for demned as sinful. This position is based the children has also come up. This is- 8 The Reveille May, 1951 sue is still in an undecided state, and of a large portion of the population of as yet no generalization can safely be this nation, he retained this position made about the answer which will ul- until he resigned in 1950. Shortly after timately be wrought out. Mr. Taylor resigned, President Truman The question of public support of announced that he was considering ap- parochial schools has been an important pointing an ambassador to the Vatican. consideration in the issue of Federal Most Protestants are inclined to feel aid to education. On this issue the that this announcement was a sort of Catholic position has been one of op- "trial baloon" to see what would be the position to any proposal which fails to reaction of the people in this country. make it explicit that Catholic schools There were angry protests from many will share in its benefits. The Catholic sources, and as yet nothing has been position may be summarized thus: done. As to what actually will be done, "Either the parochial schools perform we cannot at present be sure. The prob- the same functions as the public schools ability at the time of this writing is that in training children for American citi- Mr. Truman has not yet decided whe- zenship, or they do not. If they do, they ther he can get the support for such an are worthy of public support in return appointment. At any rate, the Roman for the contribution they make to the Catholics are now insisting upon an state." (Crapullo, ROMAN CATHOLIC- ambassador, indicating that they will not ISM AND VITAL ISSUES, p. 28.) at present receive a "personal repre- The second area in which Protestants sentative." feel that the principle of the separation Conclusion of church and state is being violated is Discussions of similarities and differ- in diplomatic relations with the Vatican. ences of Catholics and Protestants often The Roman Church insists that the are based on ignorance and emotions. Vatican State is an independent state, We need to inform ourselves as to the carrying out all the functions of a civil actual situation in order to arrive at government. The only period in history, sound conclusions. For that purpose the however, during which the United States following books are recommended: maintained diplomatic relations with Rome was 1848 to 1867. During this peri- Blanshard, AMERICAN FREEDOM od there was in Congress much opposi- AND CATHOLIC POWER tion to the relationship. Prom 1867 to Crapullo, ROMAN CATHOLICISM the present there has been no ambassa- AND VITAL ISSUES dor to the Vatican. However, in 1939 Finkelstein others, RELI- President Roosevelt assigned ]\Jyron C. and THE Taylor as his "personal representative GIONS OF DEMOCRACY with the rank of ambassador" to the Nichols, PRIMER FOR PROTEST- Pope. In spite of the vigorous opposition ANTS

WEST CAROLINA correspond in behalf of the Baptist students on the campus with men who Most of the B.S.U. Council caught have been called into the armed forces. cold and everyone caught the B.S.U. Pastor and Mrs. Charles McConnel have Spirit at the Pre- School Retreat on given excellent leadership to the B.S.U. September 13-14 at Lake Glenville. Sea- group. Their home is always open to sonal fellowship periods have been con- college students and Mrs. McConnell ducted throughout the year with a uni- frequently serves meals in her home for fying effect upon all B.S.U. activities the B.S.U. Council. The Unit Organiza- on the campus. tions of the B.S.U. and church have Early in the year a Corresponding taken on new life and significance in the Secretary was elected whose duty is to past year. May, 1951 The Reveille

THE CASE OF PROTESTANTISM IN AMERICA TODAY By Roger H. Crook

When one tries to speak of "Protes- tants) four are Baptist groups and two tantism" he must speak only in the are Lutheran groups. Or again, the total most general terms, and even then he of those who go by the name of Baptist, rims the risk of being inaccurate, for Methodist, Lutheran, or Presbyterian there is such great variety within Pro- amount to more than 35% million! All testantism. In general, Protestantism this has been said to demonstrate that, began as a reform movement within the while we are divided into denominations, Roman Catholic Church. Reformers we are not actually fragmented as it sought at first to correct evils within would seem. the church, and only when they found Each one of these sects and denomi- that to be impossible did they withdraw nations has a history which makes an and establish new organizations. It interesting and a rewarding study. Each should be remembered, however, that one has its own merits, and each one throughout history there have been has its own contribution to make to the groups of Christians who acknowledged larger life of the church in America. no allegiance to the Roman Church. The There is no virtue in bigness alone, and Roman Catholic Church has never been the larger denominations would do well "catholic" in the sense that all Chris- to note the emphases of the smaller tians were under her control. Further- groups. And any objective analysis must more, the doctrines, the structure, and recognize that these Protestant groups the power of the Roman Catholic have much more in common than they Church have been changing constantly have in difference. For that reason, it through the centuries. Therefore, when is possible to make generalizations con- we acknowledge the fairly recent origin cerning Protestantism in several basic of various denominations, that is in no areas. way to accede to the claims of the Ro- I. The Nature of the Church man Catholic Church concerning its Protestants believe that the church apostolicity and its authority. consists of a fellowship of believers According to the figures published by united by their common loyalty and the Christian Herald in 1950, there are faith in Jesus Christ. Indeed, the church at present 222 different Protestant de- is spoken of in two ways. First, it is nominations and sects in America. Many regarded as a local institution, a par- of the denominations, however, are very ticular group of believers worshipping small, and actually claim only a very and working together. It is here that small proportion of American church Baptists put the greatest stress. How- members. There are only 31 groups with ever, Baptists also recognize the second over 200,000 members, and four of the aspect of the church, that is, the church 31 are Baptist groups. Of the 47 V2 mil- as a universal fellowship of the redeem- lion Protestants, 361-2 million are mem- ed. All people who recognize Jesus bers of six denominations. These six de- Christ as Lord and Saviour are members nominations, however, are divided into of this universal fellowship. 23 organized church groups. Put another The church was established by Jesus, way, this means that 36 ^ 2 million Pro- and is therefore a divine institution. But testants are members of 23 groups and the true church is not the one which has six denominations, while the other 11 "apostolic succession;" indeed, no mUlion Protestants are members of 199 church can rightly claim such succes- different groups. Of the 11 denomina- sion. The true church is the one which tions with membership of more than a is true to the spirit and message of Jesus million (comprising 73% of all Protes- Christ. The work of the church is that 10 The Reveille May, 1951

of evangelizing, that is, "preaching the the Federal Council of Churches. Such good news" of salvation through faith cooperation is possible because Protes- in Jesus Christ. The church can neitlier tant churches, while clinging to their extend nor withhold the gift of salva- distinctives, have recognized other tion; it can only proclaim; it is God churches as true churches of Jesus alone who saves. Therefore the minister Christ. of the church has no more power than There have been, in recent years, two any other member. He is the minister, evidences of this trend toward greater the servant, whose work is best per- cooperation among denominations. The formed when he is adequately prepared first is the union of two or more Protes- and trained, but who position is one of tant bodies. From 1930 to 1947 there service and responsibility, not one of were six such mergers. Some of these power. mergers brought together all (or nearly II. The Bible all) of the various groups of one de- Protestants regard the Bible as au- nomination, such as the union of the thoritative and as their sole rule of Methodist Episcopal Church, the Metho- faith. This places them at odds with dist Episcopal Church, South, and the Roman Catholics, who consider the Methodist Protestant Church into the traditions of the church fathers and Methodist Church. Other mergers the interpretations of the Church to be brought together different denomina- equally as authoritative as the Bible. tions, such as the union of the National Protestants insist that the only valid Council of Congregational Churches and foundation for doctrine and practice is the General Convention of the Chris- the Bible, understood and interpreted tian Church to form the Congregational under the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Christian Church. They differ among themselves about The second evidence of greater coop- some interpretations, and those differ- eration is the ecumencial movement. ences of interpretation lead to differ- This is not a "church union" movement, ences of faith and practice. But they but rather is a movement to expand the are agreed upon the Bible as the foun- areas of cooperation between denomina- dation. tions, and to implement that coopera- Furthermore, Protestants insist upon tion. Its best expression is the World the right of all Christians to read and Council of Churches, which was formed to interpret the Scripture for them- in 1948, but which had been in the plan- selves. It is the Protestants who have ning stage since 1937. And behind the been responsible for translating the Council were such ecumenical move- Bible into the language of the people, ments as the World's Student Christian and who have sought to make those Federation, the International Mission- translations available to the common ary Council, the World Conference on man. This is consistent with the doc- Faith and Order, and the Universal trine of the priesthood of all believers, Christian Conference for Life and Work. stated by Martin Luther but held to by In the United States the leading ecu- all Protestant groups. menical body for years was the Federal III. Relationships with other Churches Council of Churches. That body was in One of the dominant trends in Pro- 1950 merged with a number of other or- testantism today is the trend toward ganizations into the National Council of greater cooperation among the various the Churches of Christ in America. groups. For years there has been coop- Southern Baptists, for the most part, eration between local churches, though have not formally participated in the this has varied from community to ecumenical movement, although they community. There has also been coop- have cooperated in various interdenomi- eration in such groups as the Interna- national agencies and in local communi- tional Council of Religious Education, ties. Two reasons are given for this non- the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., the cooperation. The first reason is the re- International Missionary Council, and cognition of some basic theological dif- May, 1951 The Reveille 11

ferences between Baptists and other V. Marriage and the Home Protestant denominations. The most Protestants regard marriage and the profound of these differences is the family as being in harmony with the Baptist conviction that the chmxh is purposes of God. The ideal is the perma- composed of believers, while most Pro- nent union of one man and one woman testant denominations baptize infants who, in the providence of God, bring and consider them members of the children into the world and rear them church. The second reason for non-co- in an atmosphere of love. Divorce re- operation on the part of Southern Bap- presents failure, and is therefore not in tists is an insistence upon the autonomy harmony with the Christian ideal. Most of the local church, with the implication Protestant churches do not refuse to that the Convention is constitutionally recognize divorce, for they understand incapable of committing the local that sometimes divorce is the lesser of churches to any program. two evils. They see that divorce is not It should be noted that, although they the ideal, but that in some instances have not taken any formal part in the neither alternative which is open to the ecumenical movement. Southern Bap- couple represents the ideal. There are, tists share in its basic objectives. They of course, differences within Protestant- have been influenced by the movement, ism, but in general Protestant churches and, to a lesser degree, they have exert- do not make divorce a barrier to mem- ed influence over it. Their democratic bership in the church or to service organization imposes certain conditions through the church. upon them, but within the framework The remarriage of divorced persons of those conditions they recognize the presents another problem on which universal fellowship of all believers, and there is difference of opinion. In most acknowledge their responsibility to other denominations it is left with the indi- Christians as well as to fellow Baptists. vidual minister as to whether he will perform a ceremony for divorced per- ly. Separation of Church and State sons. Since this is true, there is great The Protestant ideal of the proper re- variety of practice; but ministers usual- lationship between church and state is ly are very cautious about officiating at "a free church within a free state." such marriages. Protestants recognize the legitimate In attempting to help individuals to functions of the state as well as those achieve the ideal in marriage and fami- of the church. They insist the re- upon ly living, Protestant churches do not ex- sponsibility of the individual Christian ercise force by demanding that certain to his state. But American Protestants conditions be met in threat of with- feel that where church has dominated drawing fellowship from the communi- state or where state has dominated cant. Rather, Protestant churches seek church the results have been detrimental to prepare their young people for Chris- to both institutions. Therefore, for the tian marriages through training pro- welfare of both institutions, both must grams, through counseling, and through be free. literature designed to create an expecta- Protestants insist that the church has tion of success and to help prepare for a message for society as well as for the success. On the matter of mixed mar- individual. The responsibility of the riages for example, the dangers may be church, and of the individual Christian, pointed out through counseling and is to bring Christian principles to bear through the literature which is avail- upon all phases of life, and to reform able. But in the final analysis, the in- society along Christian lines. This is to dividual makes his own decision with be done, however, not with the church the assurance that whatever he does, working as an organized pressure group, his church will seek to help him succeed. but through the influence of the church Conclusion over the lives of individuals who live Protestantism is divided, and will and work in society. probably remain divided for some time 12 The Reveille May, 1951

to come. But that division, while involv- purpose the following books are recom-

ing some matters of belief, is chiefly in mended : polity and organization. These are in- Easton, THE FAITH OF A PROTES- deed very real differences. But in spite TANT of these differences there are wide areas Harkness, UNDERSTANDING THE of agreement, and the future of evange- CHRISTIAN FAITH lical Christianity in America is bright. Nichols, PRIMER FOR PROTES- The wise student would do well to in- TANTS form himself of the fundamental doc- Rail, THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND trines of the Christian faith. For that WAY

WAKE FOREST COLLEGE The B.S.U. purchased a speaker sys- tem for the college cafeteria for the pur- Dr. Theodore was guest speak- Adams pose of piping music from the radio er on the campus for the week Septem- station to the cafeteria during the even- ber 15-19. B.S.U. represented the was at ing meal. Program originating in the National Student Assembly of the Na- cafeteria can be broadcast over the tional Intercollegiate Christian Council campus Radio Station WFDD . . . held on the campus of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, December 27, 1950 to Jan- uary 2, 1951.

The Council met January 6 at the APPALACHIAN "Cedar Chest" in Raleigh where the Grandfather Mountain was the site of evalu- campus program of B.S.U. was the Pre-School Retreat, September 5-6. the se- ated and plans made for new Rev. John D. Davis was presented to the mester. Prof. Chandler provoked John Council as the new student chaplain. serious in discussion much thought a on Later in September the church "Wel- the Christian Faith. "Christian Guid- come Party" was given and the group ance Week in February brought to the took hikes to Tater Hill and Rich Moun- campus Mrs. Arnold Nash, Dr. Carlyle tain . . . Forty students attended the Campbell and Dr. Harold Tribble who State B.S.U. Convention in Raleigh . . . led seminars "Courtship on and Mar- Sadie Hawkins Day was observed in the riage," "Vocations —What and Why?," true "Dogpatch" tradition. and "Christian Doctrines" respectively. Dr. E. McNeil Poteat delivered a series Dr. John T. Wayland of North Wilkes- of four special messages on February 25, boro was the guest minister of the "Life March 4, 11 and 18. A Chaplain's School Purpose Week" in January. The annual was held in March for all those who Valentine Party was held in February have responsibility of conducting wor- with an interesting program where ship and devotional periods. Rev. Carl- everyone had a "hearty" time. Miss Vena i ton Mitchell of Zebulon was the leader Aguillard, Missionary to French speak- of this study. Dr. Tribble and Dr. Black- ing people in Louisiana, conducted a bum, assisted by the Wake Forest Choir, Mission Study March 12-14 . . . The Re- conducted Pre-Easter services at the tiring Council gave a banquet for the church. New Council following the installation i

on April 6. The visit of Miss Rebecca i A Training Union program guide was Eddinger was a highlight for the year. prepared in an attempt to discover best

methods of promoting Training Union. Saturday Afternoons have been spent I The programs were planned with the in many hikes to Rich Mountain, Wink- consideration of several major fields ler's Creek and Tater Hill and the such as "Understanding the Christian Tower. On Saturday Nights from six to Faith," "Social Responsibility" and eight o'clock a B.S.U. canteen is open to

"Campus Affairs." all at the Baptist Church. I iMay, 1951 The Reveille 13 THE SOURCE OF UNITED NATIONS DISUNITY

By George H. Johnson, Jr.

The purpose of the United Nations as Many states were not satisfied with the an organization was to form the basis adequacy of these guarantees. Since the for world peace and security for all. It league system failed to furnish the was believed that by the unity of enough security desired, it was instrumental in nations within such an organization developing regional arrangements which their concerted action could insure the did contain more specific military com- peace of the world for years to come. mitments.

The question which now arises is, why, There is little evidence that these if the idea is practical, is there so much agreements within the League of Nations confusion, and lack of unity within this contributed substanitally to the main- organization at Lake Success today. tenance of peace and security. Their in- This whole subject is treated in a very fluence within the League was divisive scholarly fashion and in much greater rather than unifying. Thus the League, detail in Professor Leland M. Goodrich's as an instrument of peace, was wholly article, "Regionalism and the United ineffective. When aggression moved out Nations." This treatise appeared in the to challenge it, the League collapsed May, 1949, issue of Proceedings of the like a deflated balloon. Academy of Political Science, published The failure of the League and the by Columbia University, and in summa- wide spread destruction of World War tion thereof I shall attempt to answer II created the desire for anoher world the question presented. organization, one based upon sounder The idea of the United Nations is good principles so as, this time, to be effective and appears to be basically sound. If as an instrument for peace. the United Nations were given the pro- The United Nations was envisaged as per backing, it should work effectively early as October, 1943, at the Moscow for universal peace. However, nations, Declaration. The Dumbarton Oaks Pro- like man, are strongly endowed with the posals advanced upon the ideas and set desire for self preservation. This trait up In some detail the proposals to be is sometimes manifested in selfish and embodied in a world organization to destructive ways. In the League of Na- keep the peace. The final agreements tions, as well as in the United Nations, basic to this organization were com- some of the more influential members promised and agreed to at Yalta. urged recognition of their right to create The means set up for peace by inter- regional alliances. Their argument for national enforcement were delegated to alliances in addition to membership in the Security Council's supervision. How- the world organization for peace was ever, under other provisions nations that such alliances would further insure could by certain actions act for their their own security interests. own security. Under the charter of the President Wilson took a strong stand United Nations, the only limitations against limited leagues and alliances placed upon the right of members to within the League of Nations. He was make arrangements among themselves convinced that limited alliances bred for protection against an assumed dan- counter alliances and that the inevitable ger of attack are: one, to inform the result was war. However, he was com- council of measures taken or comtem- pelled to make a concession to the re- plated; and, two, to terminate such ac- gional point of view. Therefore this was tion once the council has taken meas- expressly recognized in Article 21 of the ures necessary to maintain internation- Covenant. al peace and security. The Covenant of the League of Na- Note that here within this provision tions did impose specific commitments is allowed the right of regional alliances to take action against a state resorting with little or no qualifications for such to war in violation of it obligation. except that the power concerned claims 14 The Reveille May, 1951i that it is needed for "security reasons." Since the United Nations has not taeenJ This was the same mistake the League able to check the regional trend, nor' of Nations made. It may be further build up prestige in global arrange- noted that it is not clear who decides ments, its very ineffectiveness has speed- under this provision whether "necessary ed up nation's actions toward making measures" have actually been taken to other alliances to counter balance those insure peace. It is clear, however, that that have been created. What is to be a permanent member, such as Russia, particularly noted is that, contrary to could prevent the council from taking the regional alliances within the League necessary measures and could further of Nations, the ones within the United prevent any decision at all; also, that Nations are not directed against former "measures necessary" to maintain in- enemies but against former allies. This ternational peace and security have in itself clearly shows the extent of the been taken. Thus, it takes little imagi- disintegration of the unity of the major nation to see how powerless the Security powers, which was so naively accepted Council can actually be. as the "solid" base of the United Na- Member nations, even before the Se- tions. curity Council was established as a Where a world organization for peace functioning organization in January, and security allows regional security ar- 1946, had made wide application of the rangements which are clearly directed regional principle. At the time the against other members of this organi- charter was entered into, the trend in zation, such action not only reflects a this direction of reliance upon regional lack of basic confidence of good faith or limited arrangements was well under by the members but encourages and in- way. The pact of the Arab League was spires counter groups to organize. signed in March, 1944; the Act of Chapultepec, creating obligations of In conclusion, it appears that unless mutual assistance for the duration of the nations of the world can overcome the war, was adopted in March, 1945; their viewpoints on national security and the Soviet Union had concluded through regional arrangements, and join treaties of mutual assistance with Yugo- hands in an honest effort to perfect the slavia, Poland, China and others. Prob- idea of a world secure through unity of lems were shaping up even before the all for all, the United Nations is doom- Security Council had even taken its ed. There must be more power in the first breath. It had no sooner been set delegates to this organization and a up and put into operation than some of relinguishment of certain powers by the the permanent members were engaged various member governments from their in lambasting charges at each other. It political autonomy. The idea of the is because of this inability of the perma- United Nations is sound but the means nent members to agree that the Security now employed to carry it into effect Council has the record of being con- lacks the proper machinery and faith sistently incapable of making decisions of its members at present to show the or taking decisive action upon important world that we have one world united for questions. peace.

GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE have been Campus Revivals led by Rev. Fred Forrester and the Religious Em- A strong B.S.U. emphasis has been phasis Week with Miss Mary Herring. placed on Prayer with "Noon-day Pause The Y.W.A. had charge of two signi- For Power" where the main object of ficant prayer weeks—one for Foreign prayer is the non-Christian students on Missions and one for Home Missions. the campus. A Vesper Service closes each Students have participated in several day and Dorm Groups meet for prayer Revivals, mission programs and campus- each night . . . Two outstanding events wide study courses. The Reveille 15

SUMMER MISSIONARY and Rev. Knolan Benfield, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Hickory, is the Pastor Adviser. The church has contri- buted to the financial support of B.S.U. and has sponsored a social for all Bap- tist students at regular intervals. CHOWAN COLLEGE B.S.U. sponsored an informal fellow- ship period during Freshman Orienta- tion Week. B.S.U. at Chowan College is the youngest council in the state pro- gram but it has already promoted two Religious Emphasis Weeks, opened a Council Room, organized a Y.W.A. and a Ministerial Conference; it schedules weekly Vesper Services and contributes to community charity. Nineteen students attended the State B.S.U. Convention at the PuUen Me- morial Baptist Church in Raleigh, No- vember 3-5. The second Religious Em- phasis Week was observed December 4-8 Miss Beverly Neilson, Greenville, N. C, with Rev. Audrey Tomlinson of Louis- is a Foreign Missions volunteer and burg, Rev. C. W. Duling of Hertford, graduates on June 4 at Wake Forest. Mrs. L. L. Carpenter and James W. Ray She was elected to be one of seven stu- of Raleigh leading the Seminars and dents in the South who will serve for Chapel periods under the theme "This three months as a missionary in Hawaii. Is Life" . . . Rev. Austin Staples is the A total of 15 students from the Southern Faculty Adviser; Rev. Warren Taylor is Baptist Convention will work with For- the Pastor Adviser; Colon Jackson has eign Missionaries in Hawaii, Mexico, served as a wide-awake President. Chile and Nigeria during the summer months. MEREDITH COLLEGE Baptist students from North Carolina "Building A Christian Home" was the campuses will contribute approximately theme of a week led by Dr. L. D. John- $800 necessary to support Miss Neilson. son, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, All campus contributions must be in the Danville, Virginia. The subject was ap- State Office by May 15 if possible and proached from the standpoint of science certainly by June 1. and the Christian Faith. Dr. Theodore Adams, Pastor of the First Baptist LENOIR-RHYNE Church, Richmond, Virginia, was the You have often heard the expression: visiting speaker for the Religious Em- "This would be a wonderful world—if phasis Week, February 19-22. "Under- it were not for the people in it." The standing The Christian Faith" was Dr. Lenoir-Rhyne B.S.U. helps make a won- Adam's theme for the week. derful campus because of the people in On March 18 Shaw University's B.S.U. it. President Charles Propst has been a visited the Meredith Campus and led capable President with excellent coop- a Vesper Service which was followed by eration from the B.S.U. Council. Regu- a fellowship period in the Recreation lar meetings have been held throughout Hall. Other exchange programs with the year with the Baptist students join- Shaw University are planned for the ing in with the Religious Council to pro- year . . . Mary Evelyn Brown of Wallace, mote various activities on the campus. North Carolina was elected B.S.U. Presi- Mrs. Alethea Fant is the Faculty Adviser dent for the year 1951-52. 16 The Reveille May, 1951

SHAW UNIVERSITY speaker. Under the leadership of Dr. B.S.U. participated in the orientation Robert Holt and the Inter-Religion periods for Freshmen at the beginning Council the nine religious groups of the of the year. A concerted drive for church campus jointly sponsored this week and members was made with encouraging unprecedented response came from fac- response from new and old students ulty and student body. who joined churches in the city. Preceding the Christmas Holidays a MARS HILL COLLEGE demonstration program for Student Rev. Harlan Harris, Pastor of First Night and a social hour was held in Baptist Church Shelby, and Dr. Everette the Spaulding Gymnasium. Students Gill of the Foreign Mission Board in participated in a good number of their Richmond, Virginia led the Relig:ious home church programs during the holi- Emphasis Week, February 19-23. days . . . An outstanding Religious Em- The theme for the week was "My phasis Week was sponsored by B.S.U. Life, His Plan, Our Mission." Mr. Harris in the early Spring. A strong Vocational brought emphasis upon God's plan while Emphasis Week was observed with out- Dr. Gill presented our mission in the standing professional advice from visi- many conferences, worship services and tors to the campus. The Sixth Annual chapel hours. National B.S.U. Planning Conference A Religious Life and Training Com- was held on the campus April 7-8. Stu- mittee composed of faculty and students dents in attendance represented Colleges give direction and stability to the Re- from four different states; Tennessee, ligious Activities on the campus. Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia- Miss Ann Shaw of Shaw University was CAMPBELL COLLEGE elected National B.S.U. President. Twenty-two students from the campus Marion King and Averett Tombes attended the North Carolina B.S.U. Re- directed in scheduling a series of Train- ing 9-13. treat at High Point April 13-14. Union Study Courses October Mrs. Perry Langston, Mrs. C. B. Howard, EAST CAROLINA COLLEGE Rev. R. E. Moore, Mrs. B. P. Marshbanks and Miss Pearle Johnson were the tea- Miss Gloria Blanton drove to Cleve- chers. land, Ohio and carried six students to "Religion In Life" was the theme for attend the Baptist World Alliance in a special week in November. Team July. Preceding the B.S.U. Convention members visiting the campus were Rev. timely study was made of Herman's Cartlon Mitchell, Miss Emily Lansdell, "The Church In the World Today." In Rev. Audrey Tomlinson and James W. February a week was spent studying Ray. Evening messages at the church "Understanding The Christian Faith" by were brought by Rev. Charles Maddrey, Harkness. Dr. Robert Holt, Religious Dr. Ralph McLain, Dr. A. C. Reid and Activities Director, was the teacher. Dr. C. C. Warren. Thirty students at- The Student Fellowship at Immanuel tended the State B.S.U. Convention in Church raised more than one-half of the Raleigh at the close of Religion In Life $50 the B.S.U. plans to contribute on Week. the expense of Miss Beverly NeUson the Prof. G. A. Tripp, Dr. A. L. Adcock, summer missionary to Hawaii . . . One Dr. J. W. Angell and Dr. J. Clyde Turner room in the Student Center has been were the principles in a campus-wide coverted into a Vesper room. Many other Vocational Emphasis Week ... St. improvements have been made possible Patrick's Day was observed with a ban- by the gift of more than $200 from local quet in the college dining hall. Ap- friends and B.S.U. alumni. propriate colors were used throughout "God and the Great Emergency" was in the decorations, place cards and etc. the theme for Religious Emphasis Week The tables were arranged to form the with Dr. Ray Holder as the convocation letters "B.S.U."

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/olume XIII OCTOBER, 1951 Number 1

See top page 3 for interpretation of drawing

ANNOUNCING!! FALL BSU CONVENTION

November 2, 3, 4

First Baptist Church, Charlotte KEYNOTE — "CHRISTIAN FRONTIERS" (See Study Guide pages 3-12)

PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA B. S. U. n^c "^eueiUe

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Volume XIII OCTOBER, 1951 1 Number ov

EDITOR

Marian King Campbell College, Buies Creel

STATE OFFICE HEADQUARTERS 119 Hillsboro Street Raleigh, N. C. James W. Ray, State Secretary Miss Reve Stewart, Associate Secretary

STATE OFFICERS

LiNDY Martin, President Pembroke Maynard Bridges, Enlistment Vice-President Appalachiar Eddie Grey, Social Vice-President Mars Hill Collegt Glenn Eason, Devotional Vice-President N. C. State James Alexander, Extension Vice-President Shaw University Clara Gilbert, Secretary-Treasurer Woman's College Marian King, Publicity Chairman Campbell College Elsie Howard, Literature Chairman East Carolina College Paul Royal, Music Chairman Campbell College Ann Shaw, National B.S.XJ. President Shaw University

STUDENT SECRETARIES

Gloria Blanton, E.C.C. Miriam Hollis, W. C.U.N. C. Harvie Brewington, Pembroke J. C. Herrin, U. N. C. BiLLiE Ruth Currin, Meredith Marjorie Joyner, Baptist Hospital John Davis, Appalachian Roberts C. Lasater, State College Virginia Greene, Wake Forest Charles McConnell, W. C. T. C.

CONTRIBUTORS

J. C. HERRIN, Chaplain to Baptist Students, UNC, Chapel Hill; TOM AND ANN GARRISON, BSU President, State College, 1946-1948 and editor of the REVEILLE, 1948-49 (WC) respectively. Tom is now an Engineer with the J. A. Jones Com- pany and assigned to the Hydroelectric Construction job referred to in the article. BEVERLY NEILSON, graduate of Wake Forest, 1951 and spent three months this summer as a missionary in Hawaii. MARJORIE JOYNER, BSU Secretary at Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, N. C. :

Interpretation of "CHRISTIAN FRONTIERS" drawing on Front cover

The word "Frontier" is symbolized by the Cross ... it cannot escape the ,he roughness of the Cross—the idea power of Christianity. FRIENDSHIP is hat its power has undiscovered mean- illustrated by a hand which is f ashionec

ngs. The four streams of thought are from the Cross . . . stemming from the

Afoven into the Cross . . . symbolizing center and receiving matter to be shap- low each one cannot be separated from ed into something meaningful. STEW- ;ach other nor from the cross. WOR- ARDSHIP is more symbolically present- 3HIP is illustrated by the kneeling fig- ed with the idea of showing how our ire at the foot of the Cross. It is here own inspiration comes from the Cross; T;hat we begin our experience in dis- we come into contact with outside mat- overing the true meaning of these ter which, if handled in the Christian frontiers. SONSHIP is depicted by a manner will add new significance to the world that is penetrated by the arm of meaning of the Cross.—Marjorie Joyner CHRISTIAN FRONTIERS

Edited by J. C. Herrin A Study Guide For Christian Youth Introduction Is there any evidence that mankind, on his pilgrimage through this earth, has lost his way? With all his new discoveries, new revelations, new interpretations and new formulations, can it be that we are "Lost in a landscape of the mind, A country where the lights are low And where the ways are hard to find."i Is there any evidence that mankind, on his pilgrimage through this earth, knows he has lost the way? Does Bernard Shaw's clergymanburgler in Too True to be Good speak for us when he cries: "I stand midway between youth and age like man who has missed his train: too late for the last and too early for the next ... I have no Bible, no creed: the war has shot both out of my hands ... I am ignorant: I have lost my nerve and am intimidated: all I know is that I must find the way of life, for myself or all of us, or we shall surely perish." Is there any evidence that mankind, on his pilgrimage through this earth, knowing that he has lost the way, can find a new way? Can "Return to the deep sources, nothing less Will nourish the torn spirit, the bewildered heart, The angry mind: and from the utlimate duress. Pierced with the breath of anguish, speak for love. "2 Is there any evidence that mankind, on his pilgrimage through this earth, knowing that he has lost the way, will find his way? Rufus Jones reassures us that new discoveries are always possible if we concentrate "all of our energies to the fresh re-interpretation of the essential spirit and truth of vital Christianity and above everything else the translation of it in practical application to the sores and illnesses of our present civilization. The most impressive feature of the testimony of history is the way a new burst of religious faith has lifted the civilizations of the past to a new dynamic level, with a unique marching power. What had looked like a terminus suddenly became a thoroughfare for a new advance. We need above everything else in this crisis of history a fresh burst of faith, a new discovery of the dynamic of religion, and a vivid consciousness of the eternal reality vitally present in our world of thought and events. "3 Words such as these, "a fresh re-interpretation," "a new burst of religious faith," "a new advance," "a new discovery," sets the Theme for our BSU Convention — — : "

4 The Reveille October, 195:W

which meets this Fall in Charlotte. There are indeed new frontiers open to us' a pioneering spirit is in the air, and we who have the strength of youth ar*

inarching. Thomas Wolfe has caught and expressed our dominant mood '• '" "Something has spoken to me in the night, ff Burning the tapers of the waning years; " Something has spoken in the night, '

And told me I shall die, I know not where. f] Saying: To lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; To lose the life you have, for greater life; To leave the friends you love, for greater loving; To find a land more kind than home, more large than earth

'' —Whereon the pillars of this earth are founded, I Toward which the conscience of the world is tending A wind is rising, and the rivers flow. "4

1" We are dividing our quest into four main sections for exploration : Worship Friendship, Sonship and Stewardship. The following is meant to be a mere sug- ' gestion of the relevant questions which might properly be raised in connection with each subject. When we come to the Convention, appointed speakers will explore these same areas, after which our small discussion groups will convene to share our own thinking. You can readily see how urgent it is that we give a good deal of thought in advance of the Convention if these discussions are to be fruitful. The materials presented under the following four sections were prepared bj all of the Student Secretaries in North Carolina. My work as an editor has been made easy by the abundance of suggestions that have come from them. At the same time, they should not be held responsible for any limitations or errors, since they had no opportunity to read the final draft. Finally, there is but one authentic mood in which to approach so serious a study. It is best expressed by Gamaliel Bradford's personal confession in verse: "But my one unchanged obsession, whereso'er my feet have trod. Is a keen, enormous, haunting, neversated thirst for God. "5 * * *

1. Geoffrey Scott, Poems, 1931 4. Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go 2. May Sarton, Santos: New Mexico Home Again 3. Rufus Jones, A Call to What is 5 Gamaliel Bradford, Shadow Verses Vital

WORSHIP ever spoke He is still speaking. If He Suppose you answered your telephone has ever been in mutual and reciprocal late some night and the operator would communication with the persons He say, "I have a long distance call from has made. He is still a communicating Heaven. God would like to talk with God, as eager as ever to have listening; you!" Wouldn't you be surprised? And and receptive souls." If this be true, yet, at almost any page of the Bible and it must be, why aren't we listening? we hear God speaking to His people in Browning says: "God has a few of us, words which do not shock us in the to whom He whispers in the ear." least. Could it be that we have grown Wouldn't you hke to be among those accustomed to the idea that God dealt f^^' with our human race only in the far Well, that is what Worship is all] past ages and that the Bible is the about. Here we are in the world Godj only evidence we have that our God is has made. We know something about' a living, revealing, communicating what is like and what he envisions God i God? for His world—Jesus spent His life Rufus Jones reminds us that "If God telling us those things—and we know. ictober, 1951 The Reveille

ve are failing Him at every turn. How have been driven maii> times to my lo we know? God is telling us so! Our knees by the overwhelming conviction ouls are sick with discontent, and we that I had nowhere else to go; my own lie aware of our soul's sickness. If we, wisdom and that of all around me made in the image of God that we seemed insufficient to the day." mow the source of our uneasiness, can If what we have been saying is true, lave this beyond within us, does it not if God is always ready to hear and ollow that we also can discover His will answer the longings of our hearts, then md purpose in our lives? why doesn't something happen to us The late, great Archbishop William when we Worship? Perhaps the fault Temple said near the close of his life; lies in us. I can think of three reasons 'This world can be saved from political why our worship might seem ineffec- ;haos and collapse by one thing only, tive. One is lack of reverence, one is md this is worship." And then he de- lack of faith, of belief that something Ines what he means: "To worship is to can happen, and finally there is the luicken the conscience by the holiness absence of a technique or method of )f God, to feed the mind with the truth worship. )f God, to purge the imagination by the Reverence for God, or reverence for Deauty of God, to open the heart to the anything sacred, is not a part of our ove of God, to devote the will to the habitual environment. Too many of us purpose of God." are like the American who rushed into Read that again and ask yourself the Rembrandt room of the Amsterdam what you would give for just such an Gallery, looked lackadaisically around 3xperience—conscience quickened, mind and asked: "I wonder if there is any- fed, imagination purged, heart opened thing here worth seeing." Dr. South and will devoted to the holiness, truth, puts the matter with brusque direct- beauty, love and purpose of God. Of ness: "None but the careless and the ourse such an experience would do confident would rush rudely into the something to us. It would lead us into presence of a great man; and shall we the discovery of a Way of Life that in our applications to the great God, would mean justice and peace for all take that to be religion which the com- mankind. We know that Dr. Temple mon reason of mankind will not allow was surely right, for such a discovery to be manners?" I think I won't say would save us and our world from chaos more about this, but it will require and collapse. much more study than we have hereto- We must come to the knowledge that fore given. it takes no long distance call from God, Faith or belief that something can no man-made electrical devices, for happen to us in Worship is a prelude God to reveal Himself to us. The testi- to successful worship. This unreality of mony of countless Saints has been writ- worship most often stems from two ten into the fabric of our common life, moods which Jesus points out: im- saying with Pascal: "Thou wouldst not purity: Blessed are the pure in heart, be seeking God if thou hadst not al- for they shall see God," and vindictive- ready found Him." Epictetus was a non- ness, the unbrotherly spirit that sets a Christian philosopher and yet listen to barrier between man and man: "If him: "When thou hast shut thy door therefore thou art offering thy gift be- and darkened thy room, say not to thy- fore the altar, and there rememberest self that thou art alone. God is in thy that thy brother hath ought against room." thee, leave there thy gift before the How desperately we need this sense altar, and go they way, first be recon- of the Presence of God, this constant ciled to thy brother, and then come awareness of a wisdom greater than and offer thy gift." No one can be our own to guide our choices and our wrong with man and right with God. acts. Abraham Lincoln was not a noted When doubts assail us and God seems churchman and yet he could say: "I very far away, our first move is to dis- The Reveille October, 19511 til

cover what in us has driven Him away. Frontiers in Worship for your explora- Methods of successful worship are of tion. supreme importance, lacking which we 1. What has the experience of worship are very likely to wander in the wilder- to do with the present world chaos? ness of our own thoughts rather than to 2. In your opinion which is more im- think God's thought after Him. Wor- portant, the pioneer who discovers for ship is an art and we do not appropri- mankind new continents, the one who ate any great art by sauntering in, discovers new machines for easier liv- through and out of its presence. There ing, or the one who may discover a isn't time in this short study to detail Way of Life that will mean justice and the laws of unity, of movement, or peace for all the children of men? rhythm, of style and of design that 3. What price are you prepared to payjia govern the art of worship. If one is for a successful worship experience? led, through a new understanding of 4. Is the attitude of worship easier the essence of worship, to undertake a for us today than it was a century serious study and discipline in the art ago? Can you give good reasons for of worship, he can find many helpful your answer? studies available. 5. What do you think is the greatest single hindrance to worship? What is of first importance is that 6. are some results we might one familiarize himself and make a What expect from a real worship experience? part of his own mind and heart the 7. What are some of the great issues great traditional literature and music of life that must be settled with God? of the Christian Church, prayers, Scrip- 8. What prevalent attitudes in your ture, hymns, painting and sculpture. own mind make the consiousness of With such rich treasures stored up, who God's presence well-nigh impossible? then could escape a habitual life of prayer and worship? Resources. 1. Several good Hymnals in which "Lord, what a change within us one of the great are preserved, short hour most Hymns Lyric Religion, by H. Augustine Spent in Thy presence will avail to make! Smith—stories of great hymns 2. Several good collections of prayers What heavy burdens from our bosoms like: take; A Chain of Prayers Through the What parched grounds refresh, as Ages, by S. H. Fox with a shower! A Diary of Private Prayer, by John We kneel, and all around us seems Baillie to lower; Prayers for Services, by M. P rise, and all the We distant and the Noyes near Devotional Services, by John Hunter Stands forth in sunny outline, brave 3. Books about prayer and devotional and clear! life: We kneel, how weak! we rise, how Prayer and Common Life, by Geor- full of power! gia Harkness Why, therefore, should we do our- Worship, by Evelyn Underbill selves this wrong. The God We Worship, by Roger Or others, that we are not always Hazelton strong Christian Worship, by Nathanial That we are ever overborne with care; Micklem That we should ever weak or heart- 4. Books for leaders in public wor- less be. ship: Anxious or troubled, when with us is The Public Worship of God, by prayer. Henry Sloane Coffin And joy and strength and courage are The Fine Art of Public Worship, by with Thee?" Blackwood ctober, 1951 The Reveille

5. General resources: born of human parents comes into the Christ and the Fine Arts, by Cyn- world for the purpose and privilege of thia Pearl Maus sharing in the fellowship of the King- The World's Great Religious Poetry, dom of God. In the Genesis account we by Hill see man exercising his created right to Art and Religion, by Vogt ignore or to rebel against this love of The Church Beautiful, by John R. God. From this point in history until Scotford the coming of Christ to the earth God Story of the Christian Year, by was progressively unfolding his love to Gibson man and revealing his purpose for man- kind. 6. The Bible—every student ought to lave three translations: Our Sonship is provided and guaran- The Moffatt Bible teed through Christ who said, "For God The New Revised Translation so loved the world that he gave His King James Version only Begotten Son that whosoever be- lieveth on Him should not perish but SONSHIP have everlasting life." John says, (John It makes a lot of difference to us 1:12) "As many as receiveth Him, to A'hat we are called. It makes a differ- them gave He power (the right) to be- mce in our view of ourselves, and cer- come sons of God even to them that ainly it reflects the other person's believe on His name." estimate of us. The sin of unbelief in Christ (the One of the most audacious statements failure to "receive Him") leaves man n the Bible is the one where you and too far from God for their relationship

[ are called "Sons of God!" "Behold, to be pleasing to God or satisfying to what manner of love the Father hath man. Jesus Christ, the God-man, hav- bestowed upon us, that we should be ing perfect acquaintence with the

ailed the sons of God . . . Beloved, now Father on the one hand, and having are we the sons of God, and it doth complete humanity on the other hand, not yet appear what we shall be: but atoned (made possible the spiritual in- we know that when he shall appear, timacy with God) for man's sin of un- we shall be like him." What could you belief and disobedience toward God. and I ever have done to merit being Now, in order to avail ourselves of called Sons of God? The answer is, this fellowship with God which Christ nothing. But that does not mean that has made possible, we are taught in we can accept such a title and then do the New Testament to confess Christ nothing about it. as Lord and Master and believe in His Christ was the son of God although name and in the significance of His he referred to himself as "the Son of death to free us from our sins. "And ye Man". In John 1:1, 14 we read, "In the shall know the truth and the truth beginning was the Word and the Word shall make you free. If the Son there- was with God and the Word was God". fore shall make you free, ye shall be "And the Word was made flesh, and free indeed." (John 8:32, 36) dwelt among us, (and we beheld his Jesus could see the dark depths that glory, the glory as of the only begotten, are in us and he also knew the divine of the Father,) full of Grace and truth". heights to which we could rise. He saw And at His baptism at the hand of the glory in many as well as the base John, the Spirit of God was heard to aspects of human nature when it is say, "This is my Beloved Son in whom spoiled. But He never lost His invinc- I am well pleased". In short, Jesus was ible faith and hope that man and God the Son of God; men become the Sons belong together, as branches belong to of God. the vine, as sheep belong to the shep- The mind and purpose of God is re- herd, as the boy gone away into a far vealed in the creation of man for fel- country still belongs to his father. lowship with the creator. Every child Incidentally, this story of the Prodi- The Reveille October, 195i

gal Son is the classic statement of the kind. No doubt the words from Isaiah God-man relationship. Read it again 53 were in his mind as He made this and again, putting away childish pic- decisive journey: "He hath borne our tures and placing yourself as you now griefs and carried our sorrows. He was know yourself in the framework of the wounded for our transgressions; He events. See yourself as you push out was bruised for our iniquities; The from home, taking your portion of the chastisement of our peace was upon family fortune (and its good name), him; and with his stripes we are heal- doing foolish things, taking the wrong ed. He shall see the travail of his soul turn, having a totally false idea of the and be satisfied. He shall justify many ." fullness of life, and then striking bot- and shall bear their iniquities . . tom with a dull thud. Being called "Sons of God" has not Now see how this is not the end, but prevented man from preverting every the turning point—it might have been noble instinct in his makeup, and in the end if he had not in a happy mo- our own day we have seen such reve- ment come to himself—to that deeper lations of brutality that would cause unlost self within himself. At this weeping in Hell. But that isn't the lowest point he came to himself, felt the whole story. It ought really to be easier tug and pull of home ties, but so con- for us to believe in our sonship than scious of what he had thrown away it was for those who walked with the was he that he felt he never again could Master. We have nineteen centuries of be called a Son. He pictured himself in noble history to learn from, and count the role of a hired servant. But no, his less thousands of nameless whose foot Father had been watching for this prints are imbedded in the sands of moment (He knew what was in man), time. had been out looking for him, and In the first section we dealt with when he was still a long way off, came Worship as an act of obedience and to meet him with outstretched hands trust, wherein we hear the voice of God and said, "This my son was dead and and learn of His Spirit. This is a pre- he is alive again." And God is like that! lude to our claiming of our Sonship This story is about a divine, forgiving Paul puts it well in the eighth chapter love, and it might appear to be decep- of Romans: "For as many as are led tively simple and easy. But it cost more by the Spirit of God, they are the sons intense suffering than you or I could of God." And again: "The spirit itself ever merit. It meant loving the un- beareth witness with our spirit, that we lovely and hoping for the best when are the children of God: and if child only the worst is in view; it meant ren, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint leaving the ei'rant youth absolute free- heirs with Christ." dom finally to reject the forgiving love which the Father was offering. But "Rise gentle soul, relate here we must leave the Father-Son re- What few believe or see lationship, as humanly conceived, and How through harsh pathes and strait see from God's angle what more is in You fell to victory. the picture. In Love's house none are lost. Turn to Mark's Gospel and read again No suffering vain. the story of Jesus and His followers on Death purchased at such cost their way up to Jerusalem. The die is Buys life again." cast. Jesus has seen for Himself that Frontiers in Sonship for your explora- this final act of revelation must be tion. played out on the human scene if God is to be made fully real to us. The cost 1. Do you think it is easier to believe has been counted. The decision has been in Christ now than when men saw made. Christ was going the whole way Him with their eyes? Justify your to the hard end to reveal the divine answer. love that suffei-s long and is amazingly 2. Does being called "Sons of God" October, 1951 The Reveille

make any difference in your estimate "Such a sister became such a brother Df yourself? and it was suitable to both their char- 3. In the Parable of the Prodigal Son, acters that they should have improved does the phrase "He came to himself" the relationship under which they were strike any familiar experience in your born to the more exalted and endearing own life? one of friend." It had never occurred 4. Do you think Christ would feel to me that friend was a "more exalted justified in dying to preserve the kind and endearing" relationship than bro- of life you are personally living? ther and sister. 5. What events in history can you re- Would you say the same was true in call that point unerringly to God's con- successful marriages? Dr. Fosdick says tinued Presence in man? so. "There have been many wives and 6. Can you name personal acquaint- husbands in the world, but only in ances who deserve the title "Sons of marriages like those of Charles Kings- God?" ley and Fanny Grenfell, Robert Brown- Resources: ing and Elizabeth Barrett, William 1. Invitation to Pilgrimage, by John Gladstone and Catherine Glynn, where Baillie the relationship of marriage was the 2. The Manhood of the Master, by cusp in which the flower of friendship Harry Emerson Fosdick grew, do we feel the meaning of wedded 3. The Man Christ Jesus, by John love truly consummated." Knox Dr. Fosdick goes even farther by say- 4. A Call to What is Vital, by Rufus ing: "So a father may be to his child- Jones ren simply the progenitor, or the pro- 5. Rediscovery of the Bible, by Bern- vider, or the disciplinarian, but the ard Anderson natural bond of parenthood is never 6. The New Testament fulfilled until it has been exalted into friendship ... So the sacred relation- FRIENDSHIP ship of Lord and Master which Jesus Someone has wisely remarked: "The bore to his disciples was in itself in- trouble about man is twofold: he can- adequate. He sought for friends. And not learn truths which are too com- ever since, the spiritual seers of Christ- plicated—he forgets truths which are endom have defined the deepest mean- too simple." This matter of friendship ings of the Christian life in terms of might appear to be too simple a truth friendship with God and with His Son." to bother about, but that is a first-rate (These quotations are from his little deception. Properly defined and con- book. The Manhood of the Master). sistently applied, friendship comes peri- All this may surprise you as it did lously close to being the most difficult me, but I am now anxious to explore of Christian virtues, as it is most des- this deeper level of meaning in the perately needed. word Friend. It is apparent that friend- Did you ever play the game of draw- ship is a two-way thoroughfare existing ing emotions? You draw a picture from between persons, each making an in- which your friends try guessing the vestment and each drawing dividends. emotions. It is fairly simple to draw But we must avoid using such terms as anger, hate and greed; but just try investment and dividend; any calcula- sympathy, courage and friendship. It tions that enter into true friendship offers an excellent way to spend a long would of necessity destroy its true evening. Or you might just try writing quality. There can only be a relaxed and an essay on Friendship. receptive mood where true friendship Long ago Henry Clay Trumbull wrote exists. Dinah Maria Craik puts it beau- a book with the title, "Friendship, the tifully: Master Passion." In these pages he "Oh the comfort, the inexpressible quotes one Bishop Burnett who had comfort of feeling safe with a person, said of Catherine and Robert Boyle: having neither to weigh thoughts nor 10 The Reveille October, 1951'

measure words, but pouring them all fellowship, Jesus revealed the strength ip right out, just as they are, chaff and and quality of His friendship. Not ex-p grain together; certain that a faithful traordinary men, not educated men, but

hand will take and sift them, keep with all their imperfections Jesus was Jos what is worth keeping, and then with so able to instill in them confidence in the breath of kindness blow the rest their hidden possibilities, that He could away." entrust the entire future of His Mission Again, true friendship, like true love, in their hands. The presence of the never "alters when it alteration finds." Christian Church today and the record Indeed it must actively seek out it has written into nineteen hundred changes and leave room for building years of glorious service, is proof of the these into the emerging pattern. Bern- inexpressible qualities of deep friend- ard Shaw with characteristic wit, say: ship that was present in the Master's "The only man who behaves sensibly love for these friends. is my tailor; he takes my measure every What did their friendship mean to time he sees me, whilst all the rest go Jesus? Many times in the Gospels we on with their old measurements, and catch hints of Jesus' deep gratitude for expect them to fit me." (from Man, their friendship. They were the one and Superman) earthly comfort He had after he began You can add many other qualities His public ministry. He insisted that that have gone into your own friend- they were more than servants or dis- ship experiences. But we must turn ciples: "Henceforth I call you not serv- heavenward to see what divine insights ants . . . but I have called you friends." can be added to our earthbound lives. (John 15:15) Throughout they were (Don't let me create a false sense of constant companions, so that when the division between heaven and earth. The last night came, His heart overflowed Divine-Human encounter takes place in with unspeakable longing, as he said our hearts. All I am suggesting is that, to them: "With desire I have desired to in Whitehead's phase: "Education con- eat this passover with you before I sists of the habitual vision of great- suffer." (Luke 22:15) ness," and we have that vision con- One cannot read the seventeenth stantly before us in the Life of Jesus, chapter of John without catching the in whose Light our earthbound lives deep impression of personal affection are constantly judged.) and undying gratitude which Jesus had That Jesus was friendly to every per- for the human companionship of His son He met is a commonplace, and disciples. One cannot watch the growth it is a refreshing experience to read of the early Church under severe perse- again of the many encounters that cution without the vision of undying took place between Him and those He loyalty which such friendship called out befriended. But the most instructive of these ordinary men. area in which to explore is His relations Unquestionably these same avenues with those in the inner circle of friends. of friendship with Christ are open to His life, as are all lives, was like a us today. He was speaking to us over magnet that drew out of the mass those the heads of his personal friends as He with special affinities that naturally declared: "I have called you friends." responded. But His was an instrument His magnetic power is greater today divinely attuned, an attractive force even than it was in olden times, and that drew men of good will by means his voice is clearly challenging our of wisdom, kindness and power. The world: "And I, if I be lifted up, will magic words He used were, "I am the draw all men unto me." What a friend Way, the Truth and the Life. Follow we have in Jesus. Me!" your explo- To those who followed, only twelve Frontiers in Friendship for you remember, of whom three, Peter, ration. James and John were deepest in His 1. Fellowship. Friendship. Look these October, 1951 The Reveille 11

up in the dictionary. Each may be the stewardship has come to mean a lot outcome of the other. How? more than keeping pigs. 2. Ought we to be careful in choos- I suppose the clearest, most precise ing our friends? Are we to make cer- question we can ask in this realm is, tain that they are sincere Christians "what are you doing with the creative before admitting them to our intimate powers God gave you?" If you are circle? Look at this in the light of the creating wealth is it for your own com- example of Jesus. fort and security, or is it to enable you 3. Can you find evidence that the to serve others? If you are equipped disciples treated Jesus as comrade? Was with keen intellect, are you using it to this good or bad? enhance your own reputation or to 4. Criticize this statement: "Familiar- teach virtues? If you are gifted in art ity breeds contempt." or music, are you applying it to frivol- 5. Is the price we may have to pay ous ends or using it to bring beauty to for friendship among other races life? If you are a clever shoe builder, worthwhile? is your skill being used to earn a living 6. Can we be friends with Russians? or to mend shoes to the glory of God? 7. If Jesus came to your campus look- You see, all of life is sacred, or else ing for His friends would he knock on God wasted an awful lot of materials your door? and time when He could ill-afford the 8. What is the best test you know for waste. There are lots of things in the true friendship? world that we prize highly. What is Resources. that reward you get if you discover in 1. School of Jesus, A Primer of Dis- Uranium your backyard? But think cipleship, by G. R. H. Shafto of the reward that would come to one if 2. From Friendship to Marriage, a of us we discovered dedicated, crea- Guide to Youth in His Search for tive talents that would bring Peace to Friends and a Life Mate, by Roy our troubled world. No, you wouldn't A Burkhart win the praise of men—the peace- is 3. Jesus and the Disinherited, by maker popularly known as a trouble- Howard Thurman maker—but millions of little children call 4. Jesus—The Son of Man, by Kahlil would grow up to you blessed. Gibran Don't you see that in our day and world afford the loss of 5. In the Years of Our Lord, by Man- God cannot any uel Komroff single spiritual force, and dedicated is 6. Contemporary Thinking About personality the only force He has Jesus, by Thomas Kepler ever used. How then can you set aside An Anthology any segment or portion of life and call it your very own? It belongs to Heaven STEWARDSHIP or it belongs to Hell and not even the What are we to do with the insights cleverest philosopher has been able to that come from Worship, with the new locate a neutral ground on which to dignity that comes from Sonship, with stand. You are either saying "Thy will the new sense of confidence and power be done," or "My will be done," the that comes from Friendship with one leading to salvation and the other Christ? This is the most important to damnation. question of all. This view of things certainly raises Stewardship is not quite the word we a lot of disturbing questions. My wife need here although it includes some of says that some of my time belongs to the qualities we are seeking. Perhaps the family; my employer says that you can supply a word that includes some of my time belongs to his busi- trusteeship, workmanship, craftsman- ness; the radio and movie say that my ship and lifesmanship. A Steward leisure time belongs to them; the meant originally a sty ward and you Church says that Sunday morning be- can guess what that meant. However, longs to it; the college says that class 12 The Reveille October, 1951i |tl

time belongs to it; and so on. our role as a Christian citizen in our The government insists that some of democracy. We are on our way to dedi- my money belongs to it; the family cating three-fourths of our national in- asks for its portion; the merchant has come and all of our youth to the de- his price for the things I must buy; the fense of Democracy, and yet how many doctor and the dentist must be paid of us are prepared to carry Christian for services rendered; the Church wants responsibility into our role as citizen? its tenth; the landlord his fourth; and (This goes for our professors as well!) so on. Is it conceivable that God must wait The Rotary Club needs talent on its around until we get good and ready to program committee; the Church School end the segregation that blindly dis- needs teachers and officers; the profes- criminates between first and third-class sor wants correct answers and original citizens? Where is our Christian De- research; my children want stories mocracy that we would defend? What read to them; my business take its toll are other areas that need exploring? of creative energies; and some BSU Another critical area into which we person is always after me to draw a need to take our stewardship of learn- poster or participate in a discussion; ing is in understanding Christianity. and so on. This ought to have been mentioned As an end result of all this we suffer first. You and I have no idea how from spiritual schizophrenia. Our sense ignorant we are of our religion. We of true values becomes so confused that have substituted, and still are, intel- we acquire a split soul. One segment is lectual curiosity for intelligence, activi- reserved for prayers at meal-time (for ty for discipline, suspended judgement the sake of our Mother's memory) and for conviction, and emotional excite- for the Church hour on Sunday morn- ment for hard facts. You can never ing. The other is fluid-drive, geared into build a Christian life apart from the the world and able to follow its con- accumulating data, anymore than you tours and detours with scarcely a shock could build an airplane without going to our sensitivities. This bifurcation of all the way back to Euclid. As Christ- the spirit afflicts man like a disease and ian students we need to do some first- shatters all hope for union with God. rate investigation into what we believe What is the answer? The answer is and why. a new sense of integrity wherein life I think this is a good place to end our becomes whole and life with God its study guide with some questions that goal, and moral purpose and passion have been put to some four thousand the means to that one end. students with what shocking results Where do we begin? Most of us are only you can imagine. See how you students now in college. Our mission as measure up. Christian students ought to be made 1. Name six people who knew Jesus very clear and unambigious. We have personally in His earthly life. accepted the role of steward in the 2. What are five events in Jesus' life? field of learning. Our first step is to 3. What do you think was Jesus' most learn what our job is to be, and we de- important teaching? cide that within the will and purpose of God. This one step will require more 4. Why should we have a Church? exploration than we have heretofore 5. Do you think there is anything re- been willing to make. Dedicated voca- quired of you in attitude or conduct tion is at the heart of Protestantism. because you are a Christian? If so, Another task is that of understanding what? Jctober, 1951 The Reveille 13

TWO AMERICANS IN GUAYABO

Tom and Ann Garrison

Where is Guayabo? Even if we tell cold sardines and beans. Since the you it is in Central America you cannot water is pumped to the houses by locate it on the map; so far it doesn't electricity, the ants have a picnic with exist. Every day, however, we are help- the dirty dishes—not tiny Stateside ing to build the Guayabo that you will ants, but vicious stinging ants. soon find on the map of El Salvador. There are the lighter sides of our In fact, it will be one of the outstand- life here which make each day worth ng spots in this smallest of the Cen- living. Most of our laughs come from tral American Countries. the peculiar customs of the peons and It is already marked indelibly on our their encounters with "these gringos minds. Let us tell you how it looks now locos". One lady in camp was busy kill- at the very beginning of the great ren- ing flies all morning with a fly swatter. novation that will soon be talked about Finally she spied a bee, which caused in all the Latin American countries. her to hesitate. The houseboy, seeing Guayabo is two hours from San Sal- her hesitation, reached for the swatter. vador, the capital city of El Salvador, She handed him a flit gun and said, not air time or as the crow flies, but as "Here, use this." (Of course he didn't we travel by cars, jeeps, and trucks over understand a word, but he realized a dirt road. The road was blasted out what she wanted.) He grabbed the flit of the sides of endless miles of moun- gun like a hammer, swung and hit the tains by expert engineers but it is bee broadside. His mistake was so worse in parts than any country road funny that it was some time before she we ever traveled in the States. In the noticed that he had also knocked a dry season it is covered with a four- hole in the screen allowing even more inch blanket of dust. You soon learn insects to swarm in. that even in intense heat you breathe When we learned that a local maid more comfortably if you keep the car would cost us only 20 to 40 cents a day windows closed. In the rainy season the from six in the morning until late at greatest danger is mountain slides. night, seven days a week, we decided Without warning they cascade down that perhaps we could afford to have the sides of the mountain to cover the one. We learned from our experience roads with tons of dirt and rocks. that you get about what you pay for. One night we were caught in a ter- One maid had never seen dishes, sheets, rific storm while driving back from a beds like ours, electric stoves, water week-end trip. While stopped by one piped to the house, tile floors, etc. Her landslide, we narrowly escaped being people ate only rice, black beans, tor- covered by another. That same night tillas, fruits, and occasionally a little we were forced to wait for two hours dried meat. (In direct contrast to these to ford a river that had risen six feet in peons are the wealthy coffee plantation thirty minutes. Normally this river is owners, whose homes in San Salvador nothing more than a small stream. never have less than six bedrooms and We have not found life in this con- are works of art in every sense.) struction camp to be dull at any time. The peon women wash clothes in the It is nothing unusual to be in the river by scrubbing them on the rocks. middle of a shower and shampoo—and Consequently, they let the spigots run

off goes the water ! And this is the ideal for an hour or two while they wash place to learn to cook. You put a cake clothes, using two or three boxes of soap in the oven, and just as it begins to powder by pouring it on the clothes and rise the electricity cuts off and stays letting it run on out the drain. We off until you have finished a meal of finally learned to give them bar soap —

14 The Reveille October, 195i«t but soon our clothes began to wear thin to educating their plantation labor. where they had been rubbed so hard. The Catholic church is predominani An electric iron is still fascinating to in El Salvador. It provides the basis foi them. They use hollow metal irons, with the many holidays that come from th( charcoal fires built inside the iron. The saint's days. On the more important fire burns while the clothes are being days the statues of the saints in al ironed. their resplendent glory are taken froir Modesty, as we know it, is just non- their niches in the church and borne existant. Children up to six years old in religious procession on the shoulder; wear little or no clothing. When a baby of the devout through the streets ol gets hungry the mother feeds him on San Salvador. This all takes place the spot. Also, you don't find "powder amid the constant boom of firecrackers rooms" in the stores or filling stations. which the churches make and sell. Al Why do you need a special room when most everyone gets roaring drunk, even there are streets everywhere? In the in the processions. As a result, there largest and most modern park in the are many fights. center of San Salvador there is a con- But back to Guayabo. We have given crete structure to comply with the you a vague description of Guayabo as needs of the populace but few take the we found it, but we have failed to tell trouble to use it. you about the Guayabo that you may One of the cruelest customs here is read about. A high concrete dam isjj that of calling a justice (usually a under construction in a gorge of the young law student) to witness the scene River Lempa at the Guayabo Rapids. of an accident or illness before a doctor Until others can be built the whole or any other person can touch or treat country will derive its electric power injured persons or property. Also ev- from this dam. It will be the pride of ery person involved in an accident has a country that now has very few of to remain in jail until it has been de- the advantages that we accept as every- cided who is at fault. After one has day conveniences. This is indeed a step been released from the jail, the usual forward in Central America. Life will procedure is to be de-liced. become easier for the few people who The entire county is patroled by can afford to use electricity. But what pairs of National Guards who try to about people like these as Guayabo maintain law and order. Since their who barely live from day to day? It only form of transportation is walking, is the hope of the planners that with if they cannot decide on the guilt of the construction of other dams like this a person, they have to walk the suspect one, all the people will find life easier. to the nearest headquarters, which may All in all, working in a foreign land be twenty miles away. A prisoner's on a gigantic project (from the view- thumbs are tied together in front or point of the Salvadoreans), such as a in back, depending on the extent of his hydroelectric dam, has been a never-to- crime. be forgotten experience for us. From it El Salvador has only two classes we have derived useful information the extremely wealthy and the poor. both in construction methods and in Consequently, those who have the insight into the lives of a people with money and power to help educate the a different background and education. people are not overly concerned. They If we survive this experience we will find it more convenient and "smarter" feel qualified to cope with any future to send their own children abroad to situation or location in which we might school. They see no rhyme nor reason find ourselves. October, 1951 The Reveille 15

ALOHA FROM HAWAII By Beverly Neilson

How difficult it is to capture the sionaries In Hawaii are sincere, hard- ;pirit of our growing work in Hawaii working and capable men and women ind so present it to you in words that who because of their attractive per- ?ou will see it as it really is and come sonalities draw people to them and know something of the wonderful thus to Christ. Deople of the islands, — their culture, Getting to know the people of the ;ustoms and manner of life. The islands islands meant more to me than I can jf Hawaii are breath-taking in their express in words. We worked with more oveliness with their high peaks, deep Japanese than any other racial group. /alleys, exotic flowers and waving palms It was seeing the joy that came to the ill surrounded by the beautiful blue different individuals as they accepted Abaters of the Pacific. Here the pattern Christ and forsook their idols that Df life is developing into that of an made me conscious of the fact that in iverage American community. The peo- my own Christian life I had taken too ple are largely Oriental in race. More much for granted. Many of the Christ- than half are Japanese while the others ians suffer mental and physical perse- are made up of Chinese, Filipinos, cution because they are the only Christ- Koreans, Caucasians, native Hawaiians ians in their families. In spite of this and Negroes. However, they are all they are radiantly happy and are on American in their loyalties and atti- fire for Christ. Often this radiance wins tudes and have a spirit of friendliness others of their race to Christ. Time and and hospitality. time again as I listened to their testi- Sometime during the last century the monies I wished that each of you might Congregational Church began its work hear them and know for yourselves of evangelization in the Islands and at what Christ means to these who have first was very successful. Unfortunately, paid such a price for their faith. however, they soon turned their atten- One night some of us went to a Bud- tion to the people's material develop- dhist Bon Dance, which is a religious ment to the neglect of their spiritual ceremony to make the spirits of the life. Since then Catholics and Buddhists dead happy. As the people dance the have come to work with the people to spirits are supposed to come into the satisfy their soul - hunger. Southern lanterns which light the park. It is a Baptist missionaries entered Hawaii be- most colorful but weird and heart- cause of conditions which closed the breaking ceremony. For the first time doors to work in the Orient. In the last in my life I saw what idol worship is ten years our work has grown from one and how little it offers the worshipper. to eleven churches plus several mis- The Buddhist leaders realize this too sions, kindergartens and one elementary and are adopting Christian educational school. We now have forty-two mission- methods. They are putting Buddhist aries working on six of the islands. The words to our hymns such as, "Buddha church membership is about 2300. loves me, this I know" and are using In looking back over my stay in some of our scriptures, substituting Hawaii I realize how much it meant to Buddha's name for that of Christ. me as a mission volunteer to live and Before I left the islands I asked work with the missionaries. I came to several of the missionaries if they think know something of the vast need for the summer student program is worth more workers and how well trained the all that it costs. They were unanimous missionary must be. I realized too that in their opinion that it is and each while it is a hard life it is a happy and said practically the same thing about complete one, as is any life which fol- it. They all agreed that it gives a boost lows the leading of the Lord. Our mis- to the work and testified that the young 1

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people in particular look forward to It is surprising to many to learn thi the coming of the students. Miss Jose- the people of Hawaii are as modern in phine Harris, B.S.U. Secretary at the the way they live as we are here on University of Hawaii, says that the the mainland. They should no longer program is worthwhile if for no other be thought of as foreigners or aliens, reason than that it shows the students but rather as brothers and sisters for there what they as young people can whom Christ died. As one speaker on do with their summers. The B.S.U. work the mission field expressed it: "There in the islands is relatively new and as are no such things as Home Missions there is only one student union, it and Foreign Missions. They are alter-^ needs contact with other students and nate heart beats of God and are bound schools. together."

CONVENTION PERSONALITIES Miss Beverly Neilson will report on The following program personalities her work and experiences this sum- have been secured for the BSU Con- mer in Hawaii. vention to be held in Charlotte, Novem- ber 2, 3, 4, 1951. Posters for campus publicity announcing their subjects and BSU STAFF MEMBERS carrying their pictures will be disfr- ATTEND GREEN LAKE buted on the campuses in a few weeks. On June 20 - July 3, Roberts C. Dr. Prank Graham, former President of Lasater, State College; John Davis, UNC, former U. S. Senator, and at ASTC; J. C. Herrin, UNC; and James present is doing an assignment for W. Ray, State Secretary, attended the the United Nations. Assembly at Green Lake, Wisconsin, Dr. George Kelsey, former Dean of the during the Conferences for Baptist Stu- School of Religion, Morehouse Col- dents and the University Pastors (BSU lege, Atlanta, Georgia, and at pre- Secretaries). sent a Field Secretary for the Na- tional Council of Churches. Dr. Kel- The assmbly site, located alongside sey was on the BSU Convention pro- beautiful Green Lake, has been develop- gram in 1947. ed in remarkable manner for the use of Dr. J. B. Weatherspoon, Professor of the American Baptist Convention. The Homiletics, Southern Baptist Theol- North Carolina staff members greatly ogical Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. appreciate this opportunity to share Dr. John Wayland, former Navy Chap- and to exchange ideas about the feat- lain, new pastor of the First Baptist ures and philosophy of the Baptist stu- Church, North Wilkesboro, N. C. Dr. dent programs as sponsored by the two Wayland has endeared himself to Baptist Conventions. N. C. students on numerous occasions. Invitation has been formally extend- Miss Ina Bell Coleman, Missionary to ed for representatives of the American China, on furlough since December, Baptist Student Workers to be present 1P50. for our BSU Convention in Charlotte. Mr. Bob Denny will represent the Nash- There is a good possibility that we may ville office of the Baptist Student return their gracious hospitality at Union. this meeting.

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