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.UME 46 LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS. SEPTEMBER 25, 1947 NUMBER 38
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What a wonderful change in the world will be wrought, When Baptists all learn how to tithe, We will then reach a goal for which long we have sought, When Baptists all learn how to tihe.
CHORUS When Baptists all learn how to tithe, When Baptists all learn how to tithe. Oh, the dollars will roll, bringing joy to each soul When Baptists all learn how to tithe.
By our schools and our hospitals then we will stand, When Baptists all learn how to tithe, We will build them and make them the best in the land When Baptists all learn how to tithe.
Not a child will be homeless or wanting a friend, When Baptists all learn to tithe, And. the old preachers' sorrows will all have an end, When Baptists all learn how to tithe.
Not a soul will be left to its darkness and woe, When Baptists all learn how to tithe, But of God and His love every creature shall know, When Baptists all learn how to tithe.
-MRs. C. D. CREASMAN PAGE TWO ARKANSAS BAPnST EXCUSES A Devotion by the · Editor "And they all with one consent began to CHRISTIAN HORIZONS make excuses." The story is told of an oriental who went to his neighbor to borrow· an ax: "I am very sorry, my friend, that I cannot lend you my "Blessed is the man whose skylight is undimmed ax, but you see I am expecting company for by the dust of doubt or sin of disobedience." dinner today and I will need the ax to eat the soup with." A friend remarked: "That was a ridiculous reason to give that man for not Normal Environment: DanielL. Huntwork, Christmas stamp bear the picture of Jesus lending him your ax." "My dear brother," pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Milwau Chnst instead of the likeness of the beloved exclaimed the ax owner, "one excuse is just kee, and his wife cancelled their 30-day vaca but fictitious Santa Claus." as good as another when you don't want to tion plans when they discovered he "couldn't ''I'm not reflecting on good old Saint Nick," lend the ax." quite' make the grade" in paying his $250 Richmond wrote. "I just feel that if there world mission pledge. The excuses listed in the parable by Jesus ever was a time for greatness - a time to up are as ridiculous as the excuse of the oriental Pastor Huntwork worked the 30 days in a hold the name and teachings of that Man of for 'not lending his ax. Excuses are only factory to earn the $250. His job was screw Galilee- that time is now!" "inclinations" posing as necessities. It is sur ing wingnuts onto bolts, inspecting welds and Mr. Richmond, who has been publicized prising how quickly and unhesitatingly people operating a buffer. He worked five nights a throughout the nation for his outstanding build up little circumstances into mountain week, punching out at 1 a. m. It was a week work with his free rural library, is the founde:.: ous difficulties when they want to use them before any workers learned he was a clergy of "Wilderness White Christmas," an annual as excuses. man. event on Wilderness Library's calendar which One man must attend to his business, as if "I wanted it that way," he said. "We reli has now become Ozark Mountain folklore. that forever prevented him from seeking sal gious workers live too sheltered lives. We for vation. Another person must seek pleasure get there are some words in our language that and relaxation, as if that were just ground are in common usage in the factory. Summer Missionaries: Three hundred col lege students from campuses in every South for refusing the invitation of saving grace. "Everyone in Christian work should get ern state served this summer as associate mis Still another loves his family and home, his out and work with his hands in normal en sionaries to regular workers of the Southern wife and children, as if that were sufficient vironment, so he.won't get too far away from Baptist Home Mission Board. "It is our hope," reason for declining the invitation to the these problems. He should do it every three said Dr. Courts Redford, associate executive feast of God. or four years." secretary of the Home Mission Board, "that While it is true that God's invitations do this program will help mission volunteeers to collide with our wishes, pleasures, purposes. Strength Through Persecution: At the Co discover their aptitudes and interests. At the and engagements which are sinful, on the penhagen Congress, Samuel Vila, of Spain, time, the help given the missionaries on the other hand His invitations do not collide with told of persecution in his country during the field and the results in soul-winning are our necessary and wholesome pleasures and civil war, when worship was forbidden. Bap stimulating and encouraging." employments of life. It is a perversion of tists entered closed chapels and stood for the God's provision for our needs to offer these entire service so as not to disturb the dust on things as the ground of our refusing His in the pews and furniture in that inspectors de Discrimination: A Negro said: "If you vitations. termined the use of the building by the dust. discriminate against me because I am dirty, Our business, if it is honorable, our pleas Since September, 1945 the churches have I can make myself clean. If you discriminate ure, if it is wholesome, our home, if it is God been open, and now they are filled at every against me because I am bad, I can reform honoring, will be better and richer and nobler service. It is not uncommon for penitents to and be good. If you discriminate against me if we respond to God's invitation. interrupt the preaching to confess Christ. because I am ignorant, I can learn. If you "And they all with one consent began to discriminate against me because I am ill make excusses. The first said unto him, I mannered, I can improve my manners. But have bought a piece of ground, and I must Real Post-War Hero: "The Story of Dr. if you discriminate against me because of my Wassell," Navy physician, whose exploits early needs go and see it: I pray thee have me ex color, you discriminate against me because cused. And another said, I have five yoke in World War II won him a personal com of something Nature gave me and over which mendation from President Roosevelt, is ready I have no control." of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee to add a post-war chapter. Dr. Corydon Was have me excused. And another said, I have sell, rear admiral retired, of Hot Springs, and married a wife, and therefore I cannot come" Mrs. Wassell, will sail from Los Angeles, Octo "Faith is the Victory": President Harry S. (Luke 14:18-20). ber 18 to take up missionary hospital work Truman has endorsed the 17th annual obser on the little Hawaiian island of Molokai. vance of Religious Education Week which will ARKANSAS BAPTIST Dr. Wassell, a former Little Rock physician, be marked throughout the country Septem 213 RADIO CENTER, LITTLE ROCK has been living in Hot Springs since his re ber 28 through October 5 with these words: Official Publication of the Arkansas Baptist State tirement. Getting a bit restless, he went to "Never before has there been as much need Convention Little Rock to see the Episcopal bishop and as today for teaching youth that spiritual B. H. DUNCAN______EDITOR lONE GRAY______.EDITORIAL ASSISTANT I explained that he would like to do some work growth is the goal of all history. Continued for the church. He will serve without pay moral development is possible through in Publication Committee: Reece Howard, Brinkley, as a physician in a 32-bed hospital .. Chairman; Charles F. Wilkins, Newport; C. E. Law struction in the doctrines of the fatherhood rence, Little Rock; Bruce H. Price, Texarkana; J . p of God and the brotherhood of man. This is Emory, Story. Prohibition: Representative Joseph R. Bry the faith we live by and nothing can break Entered Post Office, Little Rock, Arkansas, as sel' · son, of South Carolina, told the 2,000 dele that faith." ond class mall matter. Acceptance for mailing special rate of postage provided in Section 11~ gates to the World's WCTU Convention, meet , October 1, 1913. ing in Asbury, N. J., that forces favoring a Ring in the Votes: In an effort to get Individual subscription $2.00 per year. Church Bud return to national prohibition are gaining in voters to go to the polls on election day, the gets 11 cents per month or $1 .32 per year per church this country. He added that a steady increase Ministerial Association of Uniontown, Pa., family; Fam1ly Groups (10 or more paid annually In of dry territory under local option has been advance) $1.50 per year. Subscription to foreign ad rang church bells and broadcasted church dress, $2.50 per year. Advertising Rates on Request. proceeding ever s~ce repeal. Some 20,469 music and hymns over amplifying systems. The cost of cuts cannot be borne by the paper option elections have been held since repeal The program was part of a campaign to out and drys have won 12,519 of them. except those it has made for its individual use. law liquor sales in the city. The association, Resolutions and obituaries published at five cents led by President Carey s. Osborne, pastor of per word. One dollar minimum. Christ Stamp: Ted Richmond, director of Great Bethel Baptist Church, initiated local Articles carrying the author--'s---- by-line------do not------neces- Wilderness Library, Sherman, Ark., has wl"it option petitions this summer and obtained sarily reflect the editorial pol1cy of the paper. ten President Truman and Postmaster Gen enough signers to get the issue on the election eral Hannegan suggesting that "the proposed day ballot. ' SEPTEMBER 25, 1947 PAGE THREE
more during the 12 months period and Okla homa had 16. Texas led the entire South with 38. A total of 112 churches out of 26,401 in the Southern Baptist Convention reported bap tisms of 100 or more persons on profession of faith in 1946. These 112 churches, with a God Is Sovereign Further, and as stated by Professor Law combined membership of 306,603 baptized a rence, "the success of the Christian church total of 15,068 persons. It was to be expected that the release ot is not contingent or preventing wars or sav South Elk Horn ChUrch, Elk Horn, Ky., atomic energy would set off a volley of theo ing man or society from destruction," nor is had the largest number of baptisms in pro logical interpretations of this amazing new "the validity of the Christian faith . . . im portion to church membership: 635 members, discovery. Pastors, evangelists, and theologi periled even if the whole world be destroyed." · 226 baptisms. Highland Park Church, Chat cal professors have searched the Bible, par On the other hand, it is quite true· that " it is tanooga, Tenn., led the entire South in num ticularly the book of Revelation, for some God who in one of His final mighty acts ber of baptisms with 371; Bellevue, Memphis, clue as to the meaning, purpose, and ultimate brings history to an end." The "blatant self Tehn., is second with 354. end of atomic energy in the divine economy. assertion" of man cannot overpower the sov We Southern Baptists boast of our exange ereign will of God. The searchers have come forth with many. Iism. There is ground for spiritual elation in strange and divergent views and pronounce Making man a free moral agent was just our achievements. We are doing a great work ments. Some see in the atom bomb the as much an act of sovereign power on the along all lines of Christian endeavor. But too ''handwriting" on the wall for the whole part of -God as was the act of creating man few of our 6,000,000 Southern Baptists are do-. race. There are those who view the atomic in the first place. But in making man a free ing the work. If 6,000,000 Southern Baptists bomb as the instrument of warfare in the moral agent, God did not abrogate His sov were actually enlisted, all phases of our work battle of Armageddon, which they believe to ereignty. If God were less than sovereign, would be multiplied several times. be in the not too distant future. Some ad ·He would not leave man free. vance the idea that if the world is destroyed For instance, should we not expect every It is true that, "wicked men defy God's by atomic energy, it is but the working out of Christian to win at least one soul to Christ purpose and His will is distorted and dis God's will and plan to bring the world to an during a twelve months period? If that stand obeyed," in the pursuit of selfish and sinful end. Others see only the arrogance of man were re~ched, the baptisms in every church interests. The only thing that has prevented in the use of atomic energy for destructive would equal the number of members on the the destruction of the world long before now ends. The thought is advanced that man is church roll each year. At that rate we would is the intervention of sovereign grace. The getting ahead of God and may destroy the be able to carry out the commission of Jesus race, left to itself without the intervention of world before God is ready for it to be de in our generation and so preach the gospel sovereign grace, would soon sin itself to ex stroyed. to all the world. tinction. In geReral, the discussions of and the the Evangelism is strongly emphasized among We do not know whether, in the plan of ories advanced concerning the release of us. But why are we not winning more peo God for the consummation of this age, God atomic energy arrange themselves into two ple to Christ? The answer to that question will flllow man, in his wreckless use of atomic mutually exclusive schools of thought. Pro is obvious and simple. The predominent num energy, to bring about the destruction of the fessor W. Burnett Easton, Jr., of Lawrence ber of our people depend upon church evan world; or whether He will hold in check this College sums up the reasoning of one group gelism as distinguished from personal evan destructive power wit;h which men ·are now in this manner: "God did not allow man to gelism. They depend upon the total pro dealing. discover atomic energy until He was ready gram of the church to win the lost to Christ that man should discover it. Whether it is It may be said with finality that men can and it never occurs to them that they ·are God's intention to use this means to bring take neither the control nor the final consum personally and individually responsible for this world to an end, or to lead it into a new mation of the world out of the hands of God. winning lost souls. era of creativity, it is impossible for us to While we are waiting on the will of God, those The church is a powerful agency for evan say . . . But we can say that whatever God who love and follow Him must be busy carry gelism and its impact upon the lost must not intends He will accomplish, and that His pur ing out the commissions of our Saviour and be discounted. Yet the influence of the church poses are good and righteous altogether." go into all the world and preach the gospel to as an evangelistic agency should not be sub every creature. Professor Roger L. Shinn summarizes the stituted for personal evangelism by each in opposite view: ''It seems to me that there is dividual Christian. But just that is done by a tremendous difference caused by the fact Are We Evangelistic? the vast majority of our people. Therein lies that it is now man who threatens to undo the the weakness of our evangelistic efforts. history ordained by God. In Biblical pro Southern Baptist churches reporting 100 or phecy and apocalypse, it is God who in one more baptisms in 1946 are listed by states in of His final mighty acts brings history to an the current issue of the Quarterly Review. Accomplishment end. Now it is man who in blatant self-as There are four states which do not have a A young man sauntering along was whist s~rtion, in fear-nourishing pride, threatens single church reporting as many as 100 bap to take his destiny into his own hands and tisms during the year. They e.re: · Arizona, ling carelessly. A little boy near by asked: •hurl himself to destruction. This is the mis California, Tilinois, and Maryland. The Dis "Is that the best you can whistle?" ·erable arrogance of the creature who never trict of Columbia, New Mexico, Mississippi, "No," answered the big boy, "but can you learned to serve his Creator, the final blasph and Virginia report' only one church each beat it?" emy of man who thought that he could be which baptized 100 or more persons during God." the year. The little bay said he could and proceeded to show him. When he had finished he said There is truth on each side of the argu In North Carolina there were two churches to the big boy, "Now see if you can beat that." ment. It is true that "whatever God intends which baptized more than 100 persons. In He will accomplish." God is sovereign and Missouri there were three; in South Carolina The big bey wl1istled again, much better omnipotent. He has survived the upheavals four. The report includes five churches in than before. '·.--ow do you like that?" and catastrophes of human history, and we Florida, six in Alabama, seven each in ;Ark "Well, that's all right," replied the little have reason to believe that He will survive ansas and 'Fennessee, and eight in Louisiana. boy, "but if you can whistle that way, what the atomic age with His purpose and plans. Georgia had 12 churches baptizing 100 or are you whistling the other way for?" PAGE FOUR ARKANSAS IAPTIS'T
NOTES OF ADVANCE Thirty-four of the 36 deacons of First Church, Little Rock, have pledged a tithe of their income to the church for the associa tional year beginning October 1 New Hope Church, White River Associa First Church, Wilton, had 14 additions, 11 tion, a pastorless church, had five additions for baptism, in revival services with Mission • • • by baptism in revival services in which J. T. ary H. B. Donnell, Little River Association, More than half the active membership of . Richardson and Associational Missionary doing the preaching. There were 23 conver Washington Church, Littl:e River Associat•on, Claude Crigler had charge. The church is sions in a Vacation Bible School held in con pledged to tithe their income for at least three erecting a new building. nection with the revival. Dean Newberry, months at recent evangelistic services in Jr., is the pastor. which Rev. Erwin L. McDonald, of Southern • • • Seminary, Loui:;ville, Ky., did the preaching. Troy Church, Hope Association, had 11 ad • • • ditions by baptism in evangelistic services in The paper office is in receipt of resolutions • • • which Pastor R. F. Eaton was assisted . by adopted by First Church, Russellville, on the First Church, Strong, R. 0. Ekrut, pastor, Pastor Bruce H. Price, Beech Street Church, resignation of Pastor Fritz E. Goodbar, who already has 90 members who have pledged to Texarkana. Pastor Eaton taught "Building a has been elected vice-president and business tithe their income for a. period of three standard Sunday School," to 50 workers fol manager of Central College. Pastor Goodbar months. lowing the revival. has been with the Russellville Church nine • • • years. The resolutions say: "During the First Church, Baton Rouge, La., has en • • • years Pastor Goodbar has served as our pas Ira Patishall of El Paso, Tex., has become listed 1,003 members to "test the tithe" the tor, this church has prospered in every de last six months of 1947 . .. associate pastor of First Church, Forrest partment, materially, financially, and spiritu City. Mr. Patishall is well known in Arkan ally; our church plant has been enlarged and • • • sas having served as educational director in made more attractive; our membership great Immanuel Church,_ Little Rock, W. 0. Immanuel and Second Churches, Little Rock, ly increased, our Sunday School and Train Vaught, Jr., pastor, already has 1,090 tithers and as pastor at Lewisville, Nashville, and ing Union built up; and above all, the spirit but hopes to boost the figure to 2,000 on Fordyce. He left the Fordyce pastorate to ual life of the church quickened. In every Tithers' Enlistment Day, October 5. become educational director at City Temple activity of the church, Sunday School, Train Church, San Antonio, Tex., and later he went ------000~------to El Paso, Tex., as pastor of Temple Church. ing Union and every phase of the Young Peo ple's and Women's work, this church has had New Bethel Church, near Osceola, had 20 He will have charge of music and education additions, 17 by baptism, in revival services at Forrest City. Minor E. Cole is pastor of the untiring and unfailing labors of Mrs. Goodbar. She has been a wise counselor, a with Evangelist Homer Martinez, San An the Forrest City Church. great leader." tonio, Tex., doing the preaching and Charlle • • • W. Shackette, Louisville, Ky., directing the • • • music. One young lady surrendered for First Church, Glenwood, had 50 additions, Rev. James H. Thomas, Nevada, Mo., sup 33 by baptism, and three other professions of special Christian service. Curtis H. Downs is Plied the pulpit of First Church, ·Dumas, Sep pastor. faith in evangelistic services with Pastor Jes tember 14. Mr. Thomas is available for sup sie ·Reed, Park Place Church, Hot Springs, ply work or the pastorate. • • • doing the preaching and Deacon Earl Gaither, In 1940 Perry Hayden heard a sermon on of the Park Place Church, directing the mus • • • • John 12:24. Since it was wheat-planting time ic. The church does not have a pastor. Rowe's qhapel Church, Mt. Zion Associa- in Michigan where he lived, he decided to tion, had 30 additions, 23 for baptism, during, plant a cubic inch of wheat, pay the tithe Of • • • revival services in which Pastor H. M. Rob the harvest to his church, replant the nine H. L. Lipford, who was forced because of ertson, Whitton Church, did the preaching tenths, and continue this for six years, then ill health to resign the pastorate of First and his daughter, Ruby, played the piano. give the land a Sabbatical year of rest. De Church, Earle, where he had served nine Pastor Carl Bunch directed the music, picting the six years of sowing, harvesting years, is much improved and is now available and tithing, and portraying many of the for supply work. With continued improve • • • famous men who cooperated in the venture ment, he hopes to enter the pastorate again A study of the 69 churches in the Southern is the new film, "God is My Landlord." It soon. He may be contacted at 1015 North Baptist Convention with more than 3,000 can be secured for free showing from Dynamic 26th St., Fort Smith. members shows that they gave $9,010,807 in K:ernels Foundation, 537 S. Dearborn St., • • • 1946 for their local work and $3,345,230, or Chicago 5, Til. 27.1 per cent, for missions and benevolences. , Plum Bayou, Harmony Association, had 63 First Church, Dallas, gave 57.2 per cent to . . . professions of faith, 20 uniting with the missions to lead the South in percentage for Rev. C. P. Wa'llters, 74, of North Little Rock, church for baptism, 12 additions by letter missions. died September 14. He had spent 50 years in and two· rededications in revival services in the ministry, serving in Arkansas and Louisi which Pastor Lloyd Sparkman, Southside • • • ana. Church, Pine Bluff, was the evangelist. Mr. New faculty members at Ouachita College • • • and Mrs. Hazel Lowery, First Church, Pine include Dr. James L. Blakeney, generali coun Bluff, had charge of the music and directed selor for the student body; Mrs. J. B. Buch Arkansas gave $10,270.20 to Southwide· the work of the young people. The revival was anan, student secretary; Tommy Copeland, causes during August, according to the re held in the new church building. A. F. Rob assistant in biology; Miss Mildred Davis, as port of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. Of this amount inson is pastor. sistant in business administration; Emory McKenzie, assistant professor of English; Mrs. $10,104.72 was given through the Cooperative • • • Harma McKenzie, assistant librarian; Mrs. Program and $165.48 to designated causes. New Hope Church, No.1, Black River Asso The Southwide total was $523,407.23. ciation, had 20 additions by ·baptism in re Duncan Mitchell, instructor in piano; Mrs. vival services with Pastor Arnold Teel doing Richard Petty, instructor in biology; Miss · • • • Margaret Riddle, librarian; Miss Erma Sim the preaching. The men of F4:st Church, Nashville, enter- · mons, assistant in English; Mrs. Dan Thomas, tained the men of First Church, Hope, with a instructor in English; Mrs. Cleve Turner, as watermelon ·supper recently. sistant dean of women, and Marcus Kaufman, Pastoral Changes instructor in mathematics and physical edu • • • c. w. Tapley from Big Creek Association as cation. W. 0. Carver, professor emeritus of Com missionary. . . .. parative Religion and Missions at Southern Blooming Grove Church, White River As R. Wilbur Herring from San Marcos, Tex., Seminary, Louisvl'llle, Ky., has been named sociation, had a rev1va1l which resulted in six acting head of the Department of Theology to Calvary Church, Little Rock. ·professions of faith. The church is pastor of the seminary, filling the vacancy caused Dean Newberry, Jr., from Ben Lomond, less, but Missionary Claude Crigler led in the by the resignation of Dr. H. W. Tribble to be Brownstown, and Paraloma Churches, Little making of plans to begin repairs and redecor come president of Andover Newton Theolo River Association. to First Church. Wilton. ation of the church. gical School, Newton Centre, Mass. SEPTEMBER 25, t 947 PAGE FIVE Arkansas Welcomes Dr. Johnson, Signal LeTourneau Foundation Buys Pine Lake Annex Baptist Leader, to Fayetteville Church The LeTourneau Foundation has purchased the 444-acre Pine Lake property from the Walter L. Johnson, pastor of First Church, Baptist State Hospital for an interdenomina Philadelphia, Miss., has accepted a call to tional Christian camp for young peop1:e, ac First Church, Fayetteville, effective October cording to an announcement made by W. c. 1. Dr. Johnson, a native Kentuckian, is a Blewster, of Magnolia, chairman of the hos graduate of Georgetown College, Georgetown, pital's Board of Trustees. The property, Ky., and he studied for six years at Southern where the hospital has operated a convales Gtminary, LouisvilTe, where he received the cent home, is 17 miles south of Little Rock. degrees of Bachelor of Theology and Doctor of Philosophy. The purchase includes a large stone build ing, four modem houses, a large administra Dr. Johnson comes to Arkansas highly re tion building used as a nurses' home, several commended by Southern Baptist leaders as a smaller structures, a number of barns and great organizer, a prodigious worker, a strong other buildings, an 18-hole gdlf course, a lake denommationalleader, and a real missionary. covering nearly 40 acres, and facilities for He served the Foreign Mission Board for four various forms of recreation. years, studying in Mexico and teaching Greek New Testament and religious education in the The LeTourneau Foundation is a non-profit mission seminary at El Paso, Tex. He has religious and educational corporation headed been active in denominational affairs, and is by R. G. LeTourneau, internationally known at present a member of the Board of Trustees industrialist and Christian worker. Mr. Le of Blue Mountain College, chairman of the Tourneau is president of R. G. LeTourneau, Mississippi Baptist Committee on Steward Inc., which operates factories in Longview, ship and Evangelism, a member of the Tex.; Peoria, III.; Toccoa, Ga.; Vicksburg, Southern Baptist Convention Committee on Miss.; and Sydney, New South Wales, Aus Evangelism, and also a member of the Con tralia. vention's Committee on CorreTation. The Foundation has for the past decade Dr. E. P. Alldredge writes: "Dr. Johnson operated Bethany Camp at Winona Lake, is a rare combination of superb gifts. He is Ind., each summer. Mrs. LeTourneau, who cne of the greatest New Testament scholars Personal Witnessing has personally directed· that camp, wanted a in any pastorate in the nation. If you were larger one farther south. Bethany Camp was to name the three greatest New Testament Reaches One in Four sold at the close of the 1947 season. Greek scholars among Southern Baptist Pine Lake was butl't in 1947 by the Arkansas pastors today you would have to include this In giving a summary of his first year's wnx:k Shrine organization as the Shrine Country · deeply consecrated and humble man of God." at First Church, Des Arc, Pastor Ernest Baker Clu!J. Some years later the late Dr. John R. Dr. G. S. Dobbins, of Southern Seminary, reported that he made 80 personal visits to Brinkley purchased the site from the Shriners says: "Dr. Johnson made an outstanding lost people with the definite aim of explain and converted it into a hospital. For the last record of achievement while in the Seminary. ing the plan of salvation and urging them to few years it has been used as a convalescenc He was a Fellow in the Department of New trust the Lord as Saviour. Out of the 80 con home by the Baptist Hospital. tacts, 20 made profession of faith. Pastor Testament under the Seminary's great and Tllere were several prospective buyers who distinguished scholar, A. T. Robertson. It Baker comments: "It is interesting to note that one out of each four persons personally wanted the property for commercial purposes, was my privilege to hold a meeting, in his but the Board of Trustees of the hospital ac church more than once, both before and after contacted gave their hearts to che Lord. If we see them, some of them will hear the cepted the bid of the LeTourneau Foundation he became pastor; hence I know first halid in t.llat it will be used for Christian purposes. something of his constructive leadership. He Word." ------000~------will be an asset to Arkansas Baptists." The church has had 54 additions during the past year, with 28 of them for baptism. The First Church, Mena, had 23 additions in re Pastor C. Z. Holland, First Church, Jones vival services in which Pastor T. H. Jordan, boro, comments: "It has been my' privilege Arkansas Baptist has been put in the budget and goes into the homes of all resident mem First Church, Van Buren, did the preaching. to know Dr. Johnson since our student days One young man surrendered to the ministry. at Southern Seminary. As a student he did bers. A Butane heating system is now being installed. Pastor Jordan writes: "Pastor James A. an excellent work. His work at Philadelphia Overton is one of our very best preachers and was characterized by thoroughness in every During the year Pastor Baker made 636 pastors. He is greatly loved by his people. detail. He led a great church in evangelism sick calls, held 759 services in homes, visited He has led the church in building two Sun aud. consecration. I predict that he will meet 1,382 homes, made 80 soUl: winning contacts day School annexes, and it is now ercting a ~he great challenge of our fine church that where he witnessed 20 professions of faith, mission building in a needy section of the ministers to the University of Arkansas conducted 19 funerals, attended 16 associa town. It will be one of the most beautiful faculty and students. Dr. Johnson's coming tional meetings, two state meetings, the church edifices in the city." to Arkansas will add strength to our Baptist Southern Baptist Convention, and made eight leadership." visits to the school and five to the hospital. • • • Humphrey Church had 13 additions, nine Dr. Johnson went to the Philadelphia ------~uoo~------Church in 1942 when the membership was for baptism, in revival services in which Pas New Hope Church, near Sparkman, honored tor R. D. Harris did the preaching. 769. Since then 535 have united with the its college young people at special services church and the present membership is 1,039. September 7. The church has three young • • • The Sunday School enrollment has grown people in Ouachita College. They are Evelyn Rev. C. L. Randa11, South Pasadena, Calif., from 516 to 901 including 159 in a mission Deaton and Mary Elizabeth Selph, volunteers expects to visit in Arkansas soon and is willing which was begun this year. for mission work and Bob Nash, a ministerial to assist in a revival meeting while here. The financial record shows large growth. student. John Eason preached on "Christ By October 1 of this year the building fund Lifted Up." It was his first sermon. Roy • • • B. Hilton is pastor of the church. Pastor Charles D. Tibbels, Black Rock and will have risen to $60,500 from $1 ,500 in 1942. Clear Springs Churches, Black River Associ During three of the five years the Sunday • • • ation, reports that both churches have had a School has been recognized as Advanced First Church, Searcy, had a 14-day revival good year. Black Rock had a 10-day revival Standard by the Sunday School Board, one with Cecil H. Franks, Falls Church, Va., doing which resulted in 17 conversions, 13 addi of three or four in the Southern Baptist Con the preaching and Frank Adams, Paragould, tions by baptism, two by letter, and one by vention. During three years Philadelphia led directing the music and led the young people statement. Rev. Bennie Pearson, Memphis, the churches of Mississippi in Sunday School who came 30 minutes early to the services to study course awards. Tenn., did the preaching. Clear Springs had discuss practical problems. Young people 22 conversions in a revival with Pastor Ralph Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have two children, occupied a special choir at the evening ser Cadwell, Vanndale Church, doing the preach Paul, 18, and Kathleen, 11. vices. W. R. Vestal is pastor. ing. PAGE SIX ARKANSAS BAPTIST
YOUR TITHE WILL DO THIS • • •
SuccESS in the tithing campaign will remove Southwestern Seminary's shack ling physical handicaps, enabling us to fulfill our God-given mission of training a great company of consecrated men and women for the work of evangelism at home and abroad.
E. D. HEAD, President. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth Hall, Southwestern Seminary Fort Worth, Texas
SOUTHWESTERN Baptist Theological "musts" for the Seminary in the training Seminary this fall enters the fortieth year of her large student body. One is the of its inspiring history. During her years Scarborough-Truett Memorial Building, of service she has trained young men and honoring two great Texans who contributed young women for religious work at home so much of their lives to development of and abroad, a recent tabulation showing the institution, and the other is for the that 250 foreign missionaries and 193 home School of Religious Education, dedicated to missionaries have gone from her halls. En preparing leaders for all educational work rollment last session was 1,376. in the churches. Your tithe will make these Two new buildings are considered buildings a reality.
AMilliON SOUTHERN BAPTIST ,1/cloberfj ~5~ f\ TI T H E R S F0 R lJ HR IS l ...TITHERS'~~~·~' ENLISTMENT CAMPAIGN Benefiting: All local, state, Southwide and worldwide causes. "And prove me now, saith the Lord.!! PAGE SEVEN SEPTEMBER 25, 1947 Will Baptists Match Their Opportunities?
By DUKE K. McCALL dows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, to the Lord. The emphasis is not upon the that there shall not be room enough to re extraction of dollars but upon the infusion How long will the Atomic Age last? Dr. ceive it," of dedication. Only a high spiritual exper Karl Z. Morgan, nuclear physicist who worked This three-month tithing emphasis will do ience and a sensitivity to the needs of a lost on the atomic bomb project at Oak Ridge, many things: world will enlist tithers. Tenn., is quoted as speculating: "The Stone Age lasted a hundred thousand years. The For one thing, Southern Baptists are now A permanem resUlt of this effort to enlist Iron Age spanned a thousand years. The giving approximately $25,000,000 to all reli all Baptists to tithe for at least three months Machine Age has been with us just one hun gious purposes each quarter of the year. An , will be the undergirding of the expansion of dred years." Then he asked, "Will the Atomic estimate based on government figures indi our witness in the years ahead. Having proved Age last only ten years?" cates that a tithe of Southern Baptist income the Lord and found him faithful, we will also for October, November, and December would . test the tithe as the expression of Christian Civilization Can Be Saved be $125,000,000. Thus, this three-month stewardship and thus experience the spirtual One . . . two . . . three . . . the years are tithing program is potentially an effort to blessings promised. Then multitudes of us slipping past and with them the opportunity secure an additional $100,'000,000 to be will want to continue to measure our giving for Christians to spread the saving knowledge used in the local churches, for state causes, to Christian causes in terms of tithing there of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Time and the and for worldwide witness on the basis of the by assuring that our expanded Christian wit tides of evil wait for no man, but tithing present Cooperative Program distribution. ness can be maintained. Christians can seize time by the forelock and The most important result of this three What of the Need force the tides of evil to subside. Through month tither's enlistment appeal will be the tbe leaven of Christian character our civili development of the spiritual life of the indi Is there a need for such a special tithing zation may yet avoid the fate of Sodom and vidual Christian. Here is an appeal to each appeal as this? Local churches answer: "We Gomorrah. one to consecrate time, talent, and treasure (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) A Christian, as a recipient of the unmerited favor of God, is under the compulsion of the time in which he lives. He must match the opportunity of his days with a standard of Christian stewardship acceptable unto God Are We Proud Of Our Record? and adequate for the spread of the gospel. We know that the tithe-one-tenth of a man's income or increase-was the first divine In the chart below, based on figures collected by the United Stewardship standard for stewardship and remains a goal Council, we can discover just how much we are giving to the cause of Christ at yet to be reached by the average Christian. home and abroad ... Are you proud of this kind of a record? Some one has indicated the various levels of giving as: "The tip level, where you drop in a nickel or a dime as a gratuity to God $PER MEMBER for His services; the entertainment level, 0 10 20 30 40 50 where you pay when you go to church as you ~~~~~~·~~§§'·~~~· .~~§- ~ · pay when you go to the ball park but have no FHuRcH oF N,AZARENE 1 e hHt_.a. obligation if you do not attend; the emotional level, where you give only as and if you feel OHIO ('V~) FRIEND~ I like it; the Bible level where tithes and of ~~~~~~~~-.--- ferings are presented as a regular proportion REFORMED IN AMERICA I ate recognition of God's ownership and our stewardship." ~~~~~~~---UNITED PRESBYTERIAN ~- Thus far the cause of Christ has been ad vanced by our tips rather than by our tithes. Southern Baptists are now giving approxi EVANGELICAL CHURCH mately two per cent instead of 10 per cent of their income to the Lord's work. PRESBYTERIAN, U.S.A. {rz.c.tth)
Actually multitudes of the 6,000,000 South PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL SOUTHERN BAPTISTS ern Baptists do give their tithes and offer ings to the Lord's work. The need is not to AUGUSTANA LUTHERAN among the ask these Christians to give more but to ask I I Denominations the others to come up at least to the standard AMERICAN LUTHERAN r of the Old Testament, a standard which met the favor of Jesus Christ. Concerning those UNITED BRETHREN I• who tithe but overlooked justice and the love I I I of God, he said, "These ought ye to have NORTHERN BAPTIST Gifts per Member done and not to leave the other undone" All purposes By JoHN CAYLOR Mexican Baptist Church of Harlington, Tex., have increased our building indebtedness $10,- and Mrs. Valdivia will do kindergarten work. 000,000 in the past two years and that is but Many denominational leaders returning Miss Daffie Boone of Ashboro, N .C., has the ·beginning as building restrictions are from the congress of the Baptist World Alli been appointed to serve in the Friendship further relaxed." Southwide agencies answer: ance in Copenhagen expressed themselves to House at New Orleans. "We were surveyed by the Executive Commit the editor as to the need of home missions. Rev. and Mrs. C. K. Rand are student mis tee which placed a total of our need for build In countries where home mission work is sionaries in New Orleans. ings, equipment, and endowment at $21,000,- not emphasized, the Baptists are losing mem 000." State conventions answer by pointing bers. Where home missions is promoted Books and Magazines to special campaigns for colleges totaling vigorous1'y, local churches are growing and $40,0'00,000, for orphanages totaling $2,000,- interest in foreign missions is increasing. During the first months of 1947, 104,000 000, for hospitals totaling $18,000,000. This books have been distributed by the Home three-month tithing emphasis proposes to The inevitable will happen when the home Mission Board. Several reprints are now in base is neglected. One of the best ways to answer all these cries for financial assistance process. The 1948 graded series consisting of at once. guarantee the future of foreign missions is to five new books is now being processed. The promote a vigorous, live, local church program. primary book is in printer's proof; manu Tithing would transform o.ur Southern Bap Home Missions is the link between the work script for the intermediate book is in readers' tist foreign mission effort. Instead of 560 at the home base and on the foreign field. hands; the adult manuscript is being typed; missionaries, there would be support for 4,500 As Dr. H. C. Goerner says we must make part of the manuscript for the young people's missionaries. This is based on the fact that America Christian if we are to win the world, book is in hand; and the junior manuscript a tithe of Southern Baptist income would and we must evangelize the world if we are is expected momentarily. channel $19,000,000 through the Coopera to maKe and keep America Christian. tive Program to our Foreign Mission Board, The October issue of Southern Baptist with the Home Mission Board receiving $7,- Home Missions at Ridgecrest Home Missions will consist of 115,000 copies. 000,000, and $2,000,000 going to each seminary ------~ooo~----- every year. At the same time, the work of The home mission program at Ridgecrest our local churches could be multiplied by two, was of interest to a great number of people Trinity Association and the work of our state mission boards by this year. Held in August, the meeting miss three. ed the attendance of a number of people who Has Active Churches What would happen if Southern Baptists would have been vitally interested in the pro By Louis A. GusTAvus, Missionary caught the vision of the increased power of gram because revival meetings kept them the forces of Christ backed by tithing Chris away. Corner's Chapel Church, organized in 1941 tians? In order to reach for evangelistic inspira with 14 charter members, now has a mem In these days our need .of God and God's tion a larger number of ·southern Baptists, bership of 139. It has a $3,000 church build dependence upon us for His purposes are home mission week has been moved up to ing with no indebtedness and has a monthly united. Time magazine reported that a sense June 1-8 in 1948. The program committee budget of $175. Pastor J. M. Wilkinson gives of the tremendous responsibility thrust upon has met and outlined a program of emphasis his full time to the ministry of the church. them forced the Civilian Atomic Energy Com upon rural missions and evangelism. It i1; Corner's Chapel is one of the few churches mission into a deep hush at its first meeting. hoped that the inspiration of that meeting of the state that can boast a Sunday School The new chairman of the Commission, David may contribute largely to summer revivals in and Training Union attendance above its en Lilienthal broke the silence by saying, "I rural churches as well as to evangelism in rollment. The Sunday School has an enroll have tak;n the oath of office many times in a:n the field. ment of 92 with an average attendance of 95. my life but never have the last four words of Some of the questions raised in other reli The Training Union has an enrollment of 69 that oath meant so much to me. I think you g,i.ous bodies will be answered affirmatively and an average attendance of 75. The Train would like for me to open this session by re by Baptists in the home mission Ridgecrest ing Union is Standard with an average grade peating them- 'So help me God!'" program by speakers on mass evangelism, of 73 per cent. Christians and noli-Christians are united personal soul-winning, the evangelist's mes Work at Greenfield Church began with the in such a plea for God's presence in the plans sage, the new birth, and church-centered organization of a Sunday School and a re now being made for the peace of the world. evangelism. vival in 1937. The mission became a church God pleads for our participation in His re in 1939 with a membership of seven. The demptive plan, saying, "Ye are my witnesses." Baptist Chaplains present membership is 79. The church has a God needs our faithful stewardship for the The Chaplains Commission of the Southern modern building erected at a cost of $6,000. ushering in of the kingdom of the Prince of Baptist Convention reported to the Septem There are 10 tithers at Greenfield and the Peace. We need God or all our councils and ber meeting of the Home Mission Board that monthly budget calls for $75 with $11 going plans and programs and devices of ec~>nomics it had endorsed nine men for chaplains in for missions. Osborne Justice is the half and statesmanship are doomed to failure. the Army Reserve, five for regular Army, one time pastor. Measuring our share of the load by the for Naval Reserve, four for regular Navy, one Average Sunday School attendance is 51. tithe, let us become in truth "laborers to- for Veterans' Administration, and one for Two sisters have a record of having not miss . gether with God" that· all men may say at National Guard. It is reported that chaplains ed a Sunday School period in 10 years. Bobby last, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in are still needed in the various services. Sue Scoggins' record is still unbroken. With ear,th, as it is in heaven." For every Southern an average attendance of 35 in Training Baptist that means a pledge to tithe for at In the Western States Union, the yearly grade has averaged 79 per least three months or tithe for life. "Prove me The Cooperative Missions Department has cent. The church has an active WMU or now ... saith the Lord." been authorized to hold a special conference ganization. ------0001----- for workers in California, Arizona, and New ------0001------Mexico next spring. The first attempt at a First Curch, Norphlet, Loyal Prior, pastor, A summary of the work of Missionary E. western conference was made in May of this had 90 additions, 49 for baptism, during the H. Acuff, Bartho1omew Association, for Aug year when workers met in Prescott, Ariz., first 11 months of this associational year. ust shows that he traveled 1,685 miles, for a home mission conference. Eight of these, four by baptism, came during preached 52 times, held four revivals, wit a one-week revival in which Pastor H. B. Till nessed 18 conversions, taught one Sunday Two extra workers will be employed in man, First Church, Conway, did the preach School class, conducted one funeral, visited California for the rest of 1947 in response to ing and J. T. Stocks, Smackover, directed the 75 homes received 22 subscriptions to the Ar a special designation froni Woman's Mission music. kansas and collected $197.29 for as ary Union for that purpose. B~ptist, * * * sociational missions among other things. ~elV Missionaries Mr. Howard Standrich, 85 years of ag,e, his wife, his daughter, his son-in-law, and his • * • Rev. and Mrs. Ralph Arms were elected by granddaughter- all living in the same home Evangelist Purl Stockton, Little Rock, did the Home Mission Board to serve in Taylor - were baptized by Missionary Ottis Denney, the preaching and directed the music in a and Roundrock, Tex., in the Mexican field. following a revival at Moore Church, Newton revival at Lake Charles, La., which resulted Rev. Isaias Valdivia becomes pastor of the County Association. in 33 conversions. SEPTEMBER 25, 1947 PAGE NINE San Francisco August 29 to China; Miss Katherine Skinner to Mexico August 25; Rev. and Mrs. Stephen P. Jackson from New Or leans August 18 to Brazil; Miss Sophia Southern Baptists and Foreign Missions Nichols, Rev. and Mrs. Oz J. Quick, Miss Irene Branum, Rev. and Mrs. J. Winston Crawley, M. THERON RANKIN E. C. ROUTH Rev. and Mrs. J. Glenn Morris, Rev. and Mrs. Executive Secretary Editor, The Commission S. c. Jowers, Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Snuggs, Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Herring, and Mrs. G. W. Strother from San Francisco September 5 by boat to Shanghai; Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Pool Baptist Work in ]apq,n Copenhagen; also, by Miss Kate Ellen Gruver from New Orleans September ·16 by boat to of Nazareth, who is home this year on fur Nigeria, West Africa. Secretary Baker J. Cauthen sends a report lough. of impressions on our work in Japan after a • • • visitation of the Japanese churches in com Southern Baptist Relief Center Recent arrivals from mission fields are: pany with Missionary Edwin Dozier. The Georgia Mae Ogburn from Chile, now at 3011 Japanese people appreciate the kindness and At the meeting of the Relief Committee of the Foreign Mission Board September 11, the Valley Street, Meridian,· Miss.; Rev. and Mrs. friendliness of the American soldiers and do P. D. Sullivan from Brazil, now at Martin, noi; hesitate to talk with them. name of the relief center at New Orleans, maintained by Southern Baptists, was -chang Tenn.; Rev. and Mrs. J . A. Lunsford from Much damage was done to our Baptist ed to southern Baptist Relief Center. This Brazil, now at 719 Creath, Jonesboro. work during the war. Eight church buildings phase of our relief work will be coordinated ------0001------were destroyed; but the school plants at with the relief program of the Baptist World Fukuoka and Kokura, the first for boys and Alliance, promoted through the Relief Com When You Say You Tithe, the other for girls, were damaged only slight mittee of the Alliance, of which Dr. Paul ly. The college, seminary, boys' school, and Caudill of Memphis is chairman. TITHE women's training school at Fukuoka have a By Loum D. NEwroN combined enrollment of 2,400 students. The Our Baptist people who have visited Europe girls' school at Kokura has a student body of in recent weeks and have seen the suffering Some years ago, when a group of Southern more than 800. in nearly all the countries visited, are of the Baptist pastors were discussing sermon topics opinion that we must do far more for our fel and treatment, Dr. F. C. McConnell, pastor The 16 churches with which Southern Bap low Baptists in war-stricken lands. We must tists have been identified in Japan withdrew of the First Church, Anderson, S.C., was ask not let them perish from cold and hunger. ed for his outline on tithing. He replied: from Kyodan, or the Union Church; and have We must increase our shipments of clothing organized a Japan Baptist Convention. Jap through the facilities offered for distribution "When you say- you tithe, tithe!" anese Baptists are hopeful and courageous. of relief, particularly among our fellow Bap There was a moment of suspense, smiles. tists in Europe. And then it began to dawn on the group that * * * Dr. McConnell had stated the whole case in Secretary Cauthen expresses the opinion The most effective methods for implement ing this program will be worked out in con one short sentence. I have repeated that that we must send to Japan the missionaries sentence many times, and it always registers. now under appointment as soon as possible, junction with the World Baptist Relief com mittee and information given to Southern Almost the identical group that heard Dr. Mc and within the next five years appoint at least Connell make the statement the first time 60 new missionaries. We have been able thus Baptists through various channels of pub licity. were together on the Queen Elizabeth, return far, on account of housing conditions, to send ing from Copenhagen. We asked him if he only three to Japan since V- J Day, but we * * * had a sermon for the tithing campaign this hope that a number of other missionaries Treasurer Buxton's report submitted at the fall. He said he did. We asked him for his will be in Japan by the end of the year. September meeting shows receipts of the outline. He replied: Southern Baptists were slow, so slow, about Foreign Mission Beard for the first eight getting into Japan, and then with relatively months of $3,689,904, compared with $3,264,- "When you say you tithe, tithe!" few missionaries. God has given us another 561 the corresponding period last year. The God Keeps The Books opportunity and we must not fail this time. receipts through the Cooperative Program for August were $320,646.04, compared with $269,- Mr. David Johnston, one of our young men • • • 064.85 for August, 1946. at Druid Hills, had a special assignment in The Japan Convention is planning a pro research out on the Pacific Coast this summer gram of advance. The Baptists of Japan * * * for which he received a slight extra stipend wm, of course, take the leadership in their Secretary George W. Sadler is spending in his university work. Returning to Atlanta evangelistic, educational, publication, medi several weeks visiting our mission fields in for a few days with his parents, he said to cal, and orphanage work. But Southern Bap Nigeria. He will probably return the last of me: ' i : .i tists must reinforce them in every way pos October. Secretary Rankin returned from sible. the Baptist World Congress with the convic "I made a little extra money this summer, and I am happy to bring you my tithe of this * * * tion that the Copenhagen meetin~ gave new extra earning. I have tithed every dollar God Baptist Work in Palestine courage to European Baptists and gave our own people a deeper realization of our obli has entrusted to me. I remember what you At the September meeting of the Board a gation to minister unto European Baptists in said at the new member meeting the Friday new missionary, Finlay Morrison Graham, their great need. Miss Marjorie Moore visited afternoon after I joined the church- that God was appointed to Nazareth, Palestine. He our mission fields in Italy and Spain after keeps the books." was born and reared in Scotland. He has a the Copenhagen Congress and will give to "I Don't Argue With God" Master's de,gree from Glasgow University and Southern Baptists through The Commission is a thorough-going Baptist. During his ser interesting stories concerning our work in An 80-year-old deacon, encouraging his vice in the Royal Air Force during the war Europe. young pastor to present the tithing campaign he became deeply interested in working with * * • thi1: fall, concluded: the Moslem Arabs. Secretary Everett Gill, who will bring to the "I've been tithing every dollar God entrust Last year when he was released from ser October meeting of the Board a full report of ed to me for 67 years. God says it is right. vice he returned to Palestine and began mis his two years' residence in Latin America, is My heart tells me it is right. I don't argue sion work among the Arabs "with a few pray greatly encouraged over the prospect of our with God. Business men, farmers, young peo ing friends to back him." Nine months after work in all of the Latin American republics ple, housewives-everybody can tithe. Every attending the language school in Palestine which have been entered by Southern Bap one should tithe. My prayer is that everyone he was preaching to the Arabs in their own tists. There are many adversaries as well as "ill tithe." language, winning their hearty commenda open doors, but we are confident that God will ------000------tion thereby. match the faith of Southern Baptists by His grace and power if we do our full duty. Brumleys Chapel Church, near Conway, While in school he met Mrs. Julia Hagood, had 14 additions, 13 for baptism, in revival whom he married September 1"0. They plan to • • * services led by C. A. Maule, Jr., with J. Gur do evangelistic work in Transjordania. Mr. Recent departures are: Miss Eva Sanders ney Lowe, Neosho, Mo., directing the music. Graham is heartily commended by Secretaries and Miss Mary Evelyn. Fredenburg, from New A Vacation Bible School was held the last Rankin and Sadler and Pastor Theodore F. York September 2 by boat to Lagos, Nigeria, week of the revival. The church is expected Adams, who had conferences with him in West Africa; Dr. and Mrs. John Bryan from to go from half-time to full-time. PAGE TEN ARKANSAS BAPTIST Baptists Turn Night Club Into Church By MARGIE P. McCALL study, finished with knotty pine, PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Heroes of Faith By w. M. SEAY Beaufort, S. C. ~eligicuJ ~t/uctLticn Faith is that strong energy of soul Godward by which Christian EDGAR WILLIAMSON, DIRECTOR men and women not only live tri R. 0. BARKER T. D. McCULLoCH umphantly but also by which Sundau School Superintendent Student Union Secretary they die gloriously. So did the RALPH W. DAVIS M Rs . B. W. NININGER heroes of faith celebrated in the Training Union Director Church Music Director 11th chapter of Hebrews. They Radio Center Building, Little Rock wrought and fought valiantly, and ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ''died in faith." That makes a dif ference. That lets in the light. mended for this purpose. Below That gives power to our soul October Calendar of Events are the names of some good ones: wings. That brings in fragrance Aeolian Collection Anthem Book on the breezes. That azures the For Sunday School Mission Day the last Sunday in II (Lutkin) for SAB. sky with fadeless blue. That tells October. Concord Anthem Book, No. 1200 the enchanting story of light and Associational Work Activities for Associations lDavison) for SATB. life and love. I. Educational activities: 1. Hold the associational execu Junior Choir Church Year Mission Department Workers Count Orphanage Board and are designed to serve the needs of the children of the state 586 Professions of Faith in August Asks N arne Change who need our help. We now ad By L. B. SNIDER mit any normal white child whose needs we think we can meet. We August has been a splendid We are making an effort to de month for the workers of the Mis have no age limits for the admis velop a program of care at the sion or disposition of children. s!on Department. These evange Department of Arkansas Baptist Children's Cen lists, associational missionaries, ter which in quality of service ren Children are now admitted with missionary pastors, and others re dered will be second to none any or without their guardianship. We port 586 professions of faith, 192 where. All aspects of our policies require guardianship only when additions by letter and otherwise, MISSIONS and program are child centered our having it is in the interest making a total of 778 additions and designed to meet the chil of the child. during the month. dren's needs. ---0001--- Below are brief summaries of C. W. Caldwell, Supt. The name of a child caring or Small Churches the reports from different workers. organization should ·serve the As:,jociational Mis-.ionaries children's needs and for this reas Need Preacher on our Board of Trustees is sug Twenty-three missionaries are Offerings for state By M. E. WILES ' missions ______$ 81.63 gesting that the name of our or Rural Evangelist aided by the Mission Department. ganization be changed to "Arkan The reports from 22 of them for Other offerings ------155.53 sas Baptist Children's Center." When I went to Columbus I August are summarized as follows: D. C. Bandy, Rural Evangelist The legal name of our institution found the church there without a Revivals ------46 was "Arkansas Baptist Orphans' pastor, but the people were ready D. C. Bandy came into the state home," and not "Bottoms Bap for a revival meeting. We had ex Sermons preached ------591 August 18. He spent a few days tist Orphanage." tra large crowds every service. At Professions of faith ------303 with the superintendent and Mis first the people thought they were Additions by letter, etc. _____108 sionary J. J . Franklin in a revival Not many of the children we too busy to try to have day ser Total additions ______"______411 at Beck's Chapel in Arkansas Val serve are actually orphans and vices, but eventually we persuad 'ley Association. The sermons he the terms "orphan" and "orphan ed them to try it. Missionary-Pastors preached there captured the ·hearts age" constantly remind them of We had 35 additions to the The missionary-pastors are of his hearers. 'Then he went to their dependency, and for these church with 33 of them coming those whose salaries are being a mission point near Lake Village reasons our Board felt obliged to upon profession of faith. Among supplemented by the Mission De where he set up a church budget drop these terms. Since Arkansas those baptized were a mother and partment. There were 27 of them and led the church to call a Baptists own and operate the in four of her children, four sisters in Aug.ust and their report is as pastor. His address is 712 Park stitution, we thought the term and a brother from another fam follows: Avenue, Hot Springs. "Arkansas Baptist" should by all ily, two brothers from another, means be a part of its legal title. Sermons preached ______290 and a mother and daughter from Ottis Denney, Pioneer Missionary The word "center" was chosen in Professions of faith ______127 In Newton County another. It was one of the finest preference to the term "home" meetings I have been in. · Additions by letter, etc. ____ 45 Church visits made ______13 because, in the first place, a chil A committee went with me to Total additions ------172 Homes visited ______50 dren's institution is not a family home and cannot be made one, Washington in the interest of at Committee meetings ______17 Superintendent C. W. Caldwell and institutional care of children tempting to form a pastoral field Community surveys made 2 is ·not and cannot approximate with the two churches. They are Attended Ridgecrest Conference 10 Financial programs planned 4 family living. only about miles apart and on rural churches. both of the churches need a res Churches visited ______8 Mission Sunday Schools· In the second place, the term ident pastor. organized ------2 "center" was preferred to the Mission Points visited ------1 We presented to the deacons a 2 term "home" because our organi Community surveys ______1 Revivals held ------suggested church budget, which is Sermons preached ______3'0 zation offers a broader service to children than mere institutional something they have never car Financial programs planned 2 Professions of faith ______13 care. We provide both institution ried out .successfully before. A Revivals conducted __ _ __ 2 Additions by letter ______1 special offering of $226.60 was Sermons preached ______23 al and foster home placement Offerings for Cooperative services. The term "home" refers made for state missions. Professions of faith ------32- Program ------$48.52 exclusively to institutional ser Columbus Church is more than Additions by letter, etc. ____ 10 vices for children and is, there 50 years old, and it has been one Offerings for state Hugh Cooper, Pioneer Missionary fore, too narrow to describe all of the outstanding churches of missions ______$106.87 in Rocky Bayou Association the services we render. Hempstead County. Mrs. J. R. Autrey, widow of the late Dr. J. Other offering,s ______44.00 Church visits made ______11 A third reason for our choosing Mission points visited ______3 the word "center" instead of home R. Autrey, is still a great worker M. E. Wiles. Rural Evangelist Revivals held ______3 is that this is the term that is in spite of ill health. She has been the musician of the church Revivals held------3 Sermons preached .------45 being used by progressive child Professions of faith ______24 for many years and is still· at the Sermons preached ______42 caring organizations everyWhere Volunteers for ministry _____ 1 which offer the same type of ser job. Professions of faith _____ 52 Offerings for state vices we give. Our Board is ask If any one should know of a Additions by letter ______7 missions ------$15.00 ing our State Convention for ap really good preacher who would Financial programs planned 3 Offerings for Cooperative proval or disapproval of the afore love to take on two good half time churches and live in a small Church building improve- Program ------$35.00 mentioned new name at its next Other collections ------$90.00 session. village among some of the best ment ------2 people in the state, please send Communities surveyed _ 1 .Joe Fred Luck Toward commemorating the great services of Mrs. G. w. Bot the name and address to Dannie· Offerings for state Joe Fred is chaplain of the Hami1Jton,, Columbus. missions ______$387.38 toms to our institution, our Board State Sanatorium, Booneville, and has named our beautiful new ad R. A. Hill. Rural Evangelist his report for August is as follows: ministration building the "Bot Patients visited ______950 toms Memorial Hall." New or Existing Attended Ridgecrest Conference on rural churches. Prayer and Scripture at Our policies have recently been Church Buildings bedside ------15'0 revised and they are now flexible Revivals held ------2 Welfare cases ------20 Financed Sermons preached _ ___ 22 Sunday Schools held ______10 (Anywhere in Arkansas) Professions of faith ______28 The Place Where Arkanaaa Preaching services at People Meei Additions by letter ______20 Sanatorium ______32 Jack Kavanaugh Co. Total services held ______47 ROSS AVENUE BAPTIST Financial program planned 1 Professions of faith ______7 CHURCH Realtors Church fields formed __ 1 Ross and Moser 213 w. 4th. Little Rock, Ark. Pieces of literature HOMER B. REYNOLDS, Pasior Church buildings improved 1 distributed ------700 SEPTEMBER 25, 1947 PAGE THIRTEEN OUACHITA BAPTIST COI.I.EGE Met in Little Rock, Thursday, September 11, to study an emergency at Ouachita- 850 students have enrolled. More want to enroll. Ouachita can never . again be a small college. How can we meet this permanent emergency? THE BOARD CAME TO THESE CONCLUSIONS: 1. Since school men in general agree that an enrollment of 1,050 is the most economical and the best working unit, we should help Ouachita care for that number. 2. To care for 1,050 students, two more buildings are needed now- one for the science hall and library, and the other a boy's dormitory. These buildings were unanimously voted by the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, but the need today is much greater than when the Convention started the Mil ion Dollar Campaign. During last year we erected three large buildings-a girls' dormitory, an apartment house, and a classroom building besides 43 apartments. 3. More teachers, more buildings, and more equipment are nec essary if we keep Ouachita's doors open to all who want to enter. In recent years the student body has increased 300 per cent, the number of teachers 20 per cent, buildings and equipment about 50 per cent. ' 4. A committee was appointed to confer with Dr. Otto Whiting ton and others in regard to the best plans for completing the Million Dollar Campaign and for meeting the emergency at Ouachita College. The illness of Dr. Whitington, director of the Campaign, is regretted. From the hospital, Dr. Whiting ton asked that plans be made for completing the Campaign. For Catalogue Write Registrar Ouachita College · Arkadelphia, Arkansas PAGE FOURTEEN ARKANSAS BAPTIST ~ ...... el ..... JOa"ll find friendship • • • at the other end, trouble! It's a policemua'a BILLY. * Jle never b1o1rS his horns- but they keep people out of his wa:yl He'a a BILLY· GOAT. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THEM? iC The words may be French but the prices are all-too clear English! Tbia ill a BILL of Fare I This one* abcnn ;rou the biggest value you can buy. • It stands for a dependable low-cost aerY&Dt who can preserve, prepare and cook your food; light, heat and cool ;roar boue; lio the cleaninc and the laundr:y- keep time, entertain the famil;r, and help do a dozea other jobs. For the average family, every dollar on it buys more than TWICE as much electricity as a dollar bought 20 yean IICOI Of c:oane 7011 bow what it ia-:your ELECTRIC BILL! This one seems smaller an the time. Hard to get, but easy to get rid of. It's a Arkansas Power & Light Co. dollar BILL. HELPING BUILD ARKANSAS SEPTEMBER 25, 1947 PAGE FIFTEEN that is, if one time can be better Full-Time Rural Satisfaction in Inner Self than another. Literally the "best time" to serve God is the, present, Church Is Model for that is all that we can lay Is Fundamental Test of Life claim to. No man knows what By H. W. JoHNSTON shall be on the morrow. Life is By R. pAUL CAUDILL little more than vapor that ap Hopewell Church, Current River Association, is certainly entitled The chief purpose of the author peareth for a little while and then Sunday School Lesson vanisheth away (James 4:14). to the title, "The Model Church." of the Book of Ecclesiastes, says · It has gone from fourth-time Dummelow, "is evidently to offer For September 28 The recent world war demon preaching to full-time and is the men counsel, the result of his own strated the strength of youth only full-time country church in experience, as to the priniciples on Eccl. 1:2, 17; 2;1, p, 24; 12:1-8, when coordinated and applied in the association. C. F . .Gwinup is which they shall order their lives." 13-14 a given direction. The generals, the capable pastor. "Our rule," says he, "must be to and the men who drew the blue alternate wholesome labor with print for victory were men of se Hopewell has one of the very reasonable relaxation, assured nior years. But the real battle was best Training Union organizations that, although the ways of God's er of the field, our carnal, finite fought by young men. It requires in the state. The adult depart judgment are obscure, all well temples fade and give way to age young life to stand the gruelling ment is Standard, and other de doing shall in the end be shown and decay. Even mirth with all of hours of long flying on bombing partments are working toward forth as approving itself to the its boastful pleasures stands emp missions. The strength of young that goal. The Sunday School has divine judge." ty at the bar of divine judgment. men likewise was required in the been Standard for several years. "I searched in my heart how to infantry as it made its way The Cooperative Program and The book as a whole is some associational missions share gen what different from the other cheer my flesh with wine, my heart through snow and mud and rain books of the Old Testament. The yet guiding .me with wisdom, and and heat and cold in mortal com erously in the church's budget. gaze is turned "inwards" and the how to lay hold on folly, till I bat. The church is a living example c matter of existence is presented what a rural church can and does might see what it was good for In a similar way t)le work of do for the glory of God and for as "a puzzle beyond our powers the sons of men that they should the kingdom of our Lord demands the whole program when it really to solve" (Dummelow). Neverthe do unto heaven all the days of the consecration of young life. tries. It has an evangelistic spirit less, the book abounds in advice their life. I made me great works; When the powers of body and that wins people to Christ and to for the conduct of life, and some I builded me houses; I planted me mind and soul are failing it is too the church. of the lessons will remain fer all vineyards; I made me gardens and late to render the type of service time as worthy objectives for life. parks, and I planted trees in them that one day might have been ren --- 0001-- Vanity of Vanities of all kinds of fruit; I made me dered in the name of the Lord. pools of water, to water therefrom Men Back Campaign Man's life, being brief at best, the forests where trees were rear The Whole Duty of Man MEMPIDS, Tenn.- Make it 30 Per Cent or 40 Per Cent, if not 50 Per Cent or 60 Per Cent, FOR COOPERATIVE PROGRAM In Your Church Budget for 1948 ------~------Missions is not a "'Side Show" Missions is Primary and Fundamental ------~------The COOPERATIVE PROGRAM is Foreign Missions, Home Missions, State Missions, the Orphanage, the Colleges, Hospitals, WMU, Sunday School work, Training Union work, Brotherhood work, BSU work, the Arkansas Baptist, Negro work, Ministerial Relief, Ministerial Education. Is it not Big Enough to Merit MORE THAN 15 PER CENT OF YOUR CHURCH BUDGET? Tithing Movement Gains Momentum C. P. Walters Passes Away We believe that we have not seen any When you read this article, we hope .that Rev. C. P. Walters passed to his reward on movement take hold of our leaders more you will have received the shipment of tracts Saturday, September 13. He has been a long quickly than the "Prove Me" movement has and cards that you ordered. We wanted you time resident and pastor of various Baptist to know that we are doing our very best. done. Several years ago, we promoted a churches in Arkansas. He has been retired Most of you are aware of the difficulty that for sometime and has been in poor health. tithing campaign strenuously every autum we now encounter when we try to get ma- He left a host of relatives among whom is for several years. We enlisted many, many terial delivered to us. · his preacher brother, John T. Walters, of thousands of tithers in the. state. We believe that there will be 50,000 new Louisiana. After the war started and material pros tithers, but we shall not be satisfied with perity increased our people seemed to be sat that number. Remember the slogan, "Every isfied without taking a great interest in the Baptist A Tither." Another Pastor Gone practice of· tithing. This three month "Prove October 5 is the day. Maybe you are going Pastor G. H. Ussery of Perryville recently Me" Campaign is reviving the interest of our to make September 28 Enlistment Day in passed to his reward. He has been a useful people in the teaching and practice of tith your church. Give your people great enc~our man in kingdom work. Brother Ussery was ing. agement, and urge them to commit them pastor of Second Church, Monticello, for The demand for literature and pledge cards selves to the practice of tithing. some time. He did a real constructive work has been enormous. We placed large orders If there are any who hesitate, insist that in the early period of the life of that church. for tracts and posters and cards, etc. We they try tithing for three months. Then in He was also missionary in Delta Association bave been forced to make two additional or sist that they keep it up. The Lord will ful for some time. Then he was missionary in ders for these materials. Some days the fill His promise, and it shouldn't be difficult Little River Association from which position orders have been so numerous that one per to persuade the people to be permanent he went to Perryville several months ago son was kept busy wrapping packages and tithers. where he served as pastor until his death. getting them ready for the mail. Brother Ussery was an earnest preacher, As we write this article, we find ourselves "There's something wrong with the Cath and the people appreciated his ministry. The in a tense predicament. A number of orders olics,'' is the headline of a little announce-· people at Perryville demand good preaching, are on the desk, and we are completely out ment put out by the Catholic Information and Brother Ussery was a successful pastor of pledge cards. A week ago we placed the Society of Little Rock. Many will admit that there. Among the relatives is his preacher order, but we have not yet received the cards. this is true. Doubtless there are many, many son, Calvin, who until recently has been pas We are hoping that they will arrive before Catholics who know it is true. We say that tor at Glenwood. We shall greatly miss any of our churches are inconvenienced by there is much wrong with the Catholic total Brother Ussery for his place will be ·hard to the delay. itarian system, and man-devised dogmas. fill.