May 15, 1969 Arkansas Baptist State Convention
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Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1965-1969 Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine 5-15-1969 May 15, 1969 Arkansas Baptist State Convention Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbn_65-69 Recommended Citation Arkansas Baptist State Convention, "May 15, 1969" (1969). Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1965-1969. 46. https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbn_65-69/46 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine at Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1965-1969 by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ., family had not sprung up over night. The parents had loved their children and looked out for their spiritual, as well as their phys- Personally . ical .and culturaJ wellbeing from the time the chil dren had become a part of the family -circle. More speaking important than what the parents had said, had been their attitud~s as lived out before their chil dren. It is still true, if trite, that the home is the · foundation of civilization. And as the home goes, What it takes so goes society. The children and young people who become embroiled in crime and immoral liv ing fail ·first in the home. (Continued on page 3) IN THIS ISSUE: MIL singers travel separate paths now, page 7, but reunions seem inevitable. DAYTONA Beach was the locale of Easter. witnessi:p.g by Arkansas stu~ents ''doing their thing,'' page 10. · MISSIONARIES· of Arkansas associations may obtain funds for assemblies at Ridg~crest or Glorieta, page 11. LONG range planning is und~rway by S~mth ern Baptists, pag'e 15, including an Arkansas com mittee. I OPPORTUNITIES for the churches, an edi- A friend and I wer~ _'talking the other day about ~orial, page 3, gives a resume of. Presid~nt Nixon's a mutual friend of ours who was being considered suggested role, of the churches m meetmg human for a high position in · his church. We both know needs now; ·· · the man well, and so we were mindful of his· weak nesses as well as his strengths, for· who does not COVER story, page 9. have both Y · ·'- One of the great .B;s's:e,ts of the man in purview, was· something accumulated over half a lifetime ArlanSa~ Baptist not an estate, or a big bank account, but a s·liperb ~ May 15, 1969 Christian family. -Volume 68, No. 20 Somehow, in the midst of our perverse genera Editor, ERWIN L·. McDONALD, 'Litt. D. tions, this man and hi,s wife, both of them Chris Associate Editor, MRS. E. F. STOKES tians and church memb~rs to start with, have been Managing Editor, FRANKLIN I. PRESSON able to bring up sons. · and daughters who are not · Secretary to Editor, .MRS. HAJtRY GIBERSON only an honor to their. parents but. also. to their Mail Clerk, MRS. WELDON TAYLOR church and to society. as a whole. / 525 West Capitol ~venue, IJttle Rock, Arkansas 72201. Published This', most people will agree, is no small • weekly except on July 4 and December 211. Second-class postage ac}l.ievement for the times in which we live. For, paid at Little Rock, Arkansas. Individual subscription, $2.75 per )lear. Church budget, 16 cents Pel' f<;>:r every wholesome influence · parents can exert month or $1.92 per year per church family. Club· plan (10 '!r ni~>re paid annually in advance), $2.25 per yeal'. Subscriptions to foreJgn personally upon their ~)l.ildren, there are innum address, $4.75 P.e.r year. ·Advertising rates on request. erable evil influences b<;>:~nbarding them every way Opinions expressed in editorials and signed articles are those of the writer. Member of Southern Baptist Press Association, Associated ' t4ey turn. 'r . Church Press, Evangelical Press As~oclatlon.. As· we considered ,t.liis man's family, we were Abbreviations- used in crediting news Items : BP Bantist Pressl CB Church Bulletin; DP Daily Press; EP Evangelical Press; LC .L<Ocal able to see some of tne secrets of his success. One . Corresponcjent; AB Associatlonal Bulletin; EBPS European Baptist thin.g was obvious 1f:r:om the, beginning:----03uch a Press Service. Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE ~.....,.. ________.__. _______. Editorials Opportunities· for the churches • r Help from the churches to meet human needs be provided families with the low-est cash income, is now being both demanded and requested. :lstim~ted to be about 300,000 persons. Others of A newly formed black militant organization in the poor families would be assured enough· stamps New York City \s demanding "reparation's" in the for an adequate diet, at no more than· 30 percent amount of $500 million for Negroes from white of their total cash incomes. churche!' and synagogues, allegedly for the short Another part of the program will be an ex- ' comings of the churches in race relations. - pansion of nutrition education. This will include Along with this call, now being seconded by courses f~om elementary through medical schools. Negro militants in Little Rock and possibly in oth More funds will be available to train persons to er pla~es, goes a call to. Negroes to seize all re diagnose and treat malnutrition. ' ligious agencies and hold them "in trusteeship" It ·is predicted that the President"s proposals until the money is forthcoming. ' on hunger will receive quick action in Congress. \ . This hair-brained request falls into the same Church groups will be on the list of those in senseless category as the showing of firearms by vited to take part in a· White House conference on black militant.s in their temporary take-over of food and nutrition, expected to be called soon. Cornell University. The church "demand,' ' along with the flashing of arms, will doubtless hurt Here is a "great and effectual door" opening rather than help race relationS'. to the churches to cooperat~ with the government in an effort to solve problems of common concern It is unfortunate that irrationaT and unreason~ to the churches and to the government. And since ing action by a few radicals can often pull down the churches would be assisting on a strictly vol the house on multitudes of the innocent. untary and .cooperative basis, the issue of separa . ' . The rabble must be dealt with when they resort tion of church and state, as we understand it, to lawlessness and anarchy. But the fact that a would not be at stake. few ~ egroes are· resorHng to blackmail tactics in ·we.· sincerely trust that our Ba-ptist churches an effort to extort from the churches what they will be ready and eager to have a part in this claim the churches should have been giving out of great humanitarian Undertaking. comp~ssion floes not free the churches of their ob- ,---------------------------~---,----~ ligations to the poor and needy, regardless of WORDCHECK: subtle, .an adjective meaning: color. 1. delicate; thin; fine; 2. f~nt; mysterious; 3. hav The positive approach for the churches is sug .ng a keen, qul'ck mind; discerning; acute ; 4. sly; gested in a request reportedly from· President cr~fty; tricky ; 5. skillful ; clever ; expert, is pro Nixon, asking tb'e churches to join with the gov nounced sut' el. ernment and with cornrp..unity organizations in general to help win the battle against hunger and What it ·takes malnutrition. This 'was voiced by Clifford M. Har (Continued from page 2) din, secretary of the U. S. Department of Agri Th.e average parent who works for a living has culture, in his recent appearance before a Senate more time to call his own now than ever before. committee on nutrition and related human needs. Bu,t the. extra hours, like water poured i:n.to a rat Mr. Hardin said that churches definitely would be hole, are often expended for no good purpose or asked by the Nixon administration to take part in reason. , the drive. A man who had a boy to 'go wrong was skilled President, Nixon is receiving .applause from at training birddogs. A newspaper reporter went ·Democrats as well as from his fellow Republicans JUt to do a story on. the man and his hobby. When for his proposal to increase by more than $1 bil asked for the secret of his ·success as a dog train lion the federal food programs for 1970, bringing er, the man replied: "It takes lots of patience and the total for all the programs in feeding poor a lot of time to train a dog.'' persons to the largest in history, $2.5 billion. Under the Nixon plan, free food stamps would ~.. ~~~JJ~--~ MAY 15, 1969 Page Three The people speak~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. Assessing values tod~y Some things are more important than .l::!rick and mortar can ne:ver contain the others.' There ~re p_riorities. Determin church-only people can do that. ing such priorities is our responsibility. What we' decide. is eternally important. Perhaps some churches could leave off the steeple status symbol as a testimony Buildings are important. that they have placed their money and emphasis . oru "priorities." Wouldn't that Programs are important. be a great 'sight--steepleless churches The church is important. all over America ? But a church is not a place, it's an Someone is bound to ask, "Why?'1 event--:-the !!Vent of Christ in the lives What an opportunity to witness about ,of people. People are life's greatest "pri the people whom Christ has raised high orities." er than all church steeples-about God's unique "structures" built on the Founda The church must learru that it lives tion of all creation." Beautiful!-George only as it dies; that is, as it gives · its A.