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4-29-1971 April 29, 1971 Arkansas Baptist State Convention

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Mt. Tabor's dilemma Dr. Ashcraft's recent editorial wins the praise of a reader, who describes the executive secretary as a Mt. Tabor Baptist Church cele­ "prophet." The People Speak begins on Page 4. brated her 100th birthday April 18: A missionary with an unusal hobby forms the basis And the church's recently refur­ for this week's cover story. A feature on John D. Floyd, bished, one-room "plant" was over­ generously illustrated, begins on Page 6. flowing. People came from over Arkansas and from a number of Three Arkansas couples are among the 27 persons different states for the big event. appointed to overseas mission posts for the Foreign The remoteness of the church, Mission Board. Page 10. in rural Garland County, gives it A missionary from Peru and a defensive star of the a most unusual and beautiful set- Arkansas Razorbacks will be program personalities for ELM ting, far from the asphalt-concrete the RA Congress. Page 13. jungles of "modern, progressive" Midwestern Seminary announces appointment of life. Here there is no buzz and hum of freeway traffic. No mile-long freight trains, no thundering transport a special faculty for a new degree program. Page 14. trucks belch their exhaust fumes into the ozone. The Historical Commission has elected Lynn E. May Jr. as the new executi~e secretary. Page 14. Here the countryside still stands, decked out As an aid for those planning to attend the in its natural beauty of forested hills and vales Southern Baptist Convention, a city map and mot~l- and streams. The royal dogwood, king of spring, reigned everywhere, arrayed in gorgeous, white­ hotels are listed on Page 17. · petaled robes. And the myriad of other trees and "God can take this disease (cancer) and turn it into shrubs native to the locale were seemmgly answering a glorious victory for himself," so writes Missionary M. the call of the dogwood, fast putting on their Casteel in a moving article," As I face death", Page 18. own spring finery.

The voice of Nature, whispering in the breezes that stirred the thickets, seemed to be saying, be she should move her church house now ,to "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the a new site, to begin her second century. world, and they that dwell therein" (Ps. 24:1).

In the midst of all of this, the kinds of pollution­ contamination we have in town seemed far away. Here the great ecology concern is always the danger of forest fires.

The Mt. Tabor Church faces a tantalizing di­ lemma. Now equipped with the finest meeting place it has had in its 100 years, it has the fewest people living in its community. According to acting pastor Joe Melton, a Mt. Tabor native son, there VOL. 70 APRIL 29, 1971 N0.17 are now scarcely 30 people living within a radius ERWIN l. McDONALD, Litt. D...... Editor of 2V2 miles of the church. MRS. E. F. STOKES ...... Associate Editor MRS. WILLIAM L. KENNEDY ...... Managing Editor There's a lot of sentiment in the old song MRS. HARRY GIBERSON ...... Secretary to Editor about "the church in the wildwood." But the prime MRS. WELDON TAYLOR ...... Bookkeeper consideration in the location of a church is people. MISS LINDA FLESHER ...... Mail Clerk For the church of the Lord Jesus Christ is not wood 525 West Capitol Avenue Littl e Rock, Arkansas 72201 . Published weekl y except o n Jul y 4 and Decembe r 25. Secono1- class postage paid at Little Rock, Arkansas. or stone or brick or countryside, but people. And the Individual subscriptio n, $3 pe r year.'Church budget, 18 cents pe r month o r $2.16 pe r year mission of the church is the mission of the Lord him­ pe r church famil y. Club pl an (10 o r mo re paid annuall y in adva nce!, $2.52.pe r Yfar. Sub­ self - "to seek and to save that which was lost" (Lk . scriptio ns to fo re ign address, $5 per year. Ad verti sing rates o n request. Opinions ex pressed in editorials and signed art icles are those of the writer. M ember of 19:10). Southern Ba P.ti st Press Associati o n, Associated Church .Pr ess, Evangelical Press Assoc- iation. · Abbreviations used in crediting news it e ms: BP Bapti st Press; CB Church Bulletin; DP Mt. Tabor Church has a great history. (Read Da il y Press; EP Eva ngeli cal Press; LC Local Correspo nde nt; AB Associati o nal Bulletin; about it, elsewhere in this issue.) But it may EBPS Euro pean Baptist Press Service. Page 2 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE _____,. ______The editor's page School-busing and our human relations The transporting of children to schools outside accept it as such. their immediate neighborhoods leaves much to be Despite all the epithets hurled at it from time to desired. ·This is particularly true when the children time, the U. S. Supreme Court, under our national have to leave home early and return home late, to form of government, continues to be the final author­ meet bus schedules. No doubt ·many parents who ity as to what constitutes constitutional law. This is a have been opposed to sending their children to dis­ fact that we must accept, whether or not we like de­ tant schools have opposed busing quite aside from any cisions handed down by the Court. And there does racial angle. . not appear to be any prospect of "doing away with" But with the housing pattern being what it is, par­ this important division of our government, as irate ticularly in the .South, where most communities still citizens sometimes suggest. have separate and distinct white sections and Negro There are some things individual citizens cannot sections, there has been a contention that nothing do anything/ about. But race relations as such is not short of busing can accomplish racial integration of one of them. In the final analysis, it is the attitudes the public schools. Now the U. S. Supreme Court, in and the actions of each and all of us toward people a unanimous decision, has held that busing of children that determines whether we shall live together in har- · to schools outside their local communities can be mony and mutual respect. This is true regardless of done to achieve racial balance. the decrees of even the highest court. And, in the President Nixon had let it be known for sometime matter of school-busing, it applies to children as well that he personally was opposed to busing of children as to parents and grandparents. to achieve school integration. But now that the Fortunate are those children whose elders en­ Supreme Court has handed down its ruling, Mr. Nixon courage them to make the best of a bad situation - has - wisely, we believe- proclaimed this as a part even court-decreed busing for racial balance in the of the "law of the land" and is urging the people to schools.

Helping people read Handling 'hot potatoes' How about helping somebody learn how to read? Fifteen hundred Americans-1000 young people The Greater Little Rock Literacy Council offers and 500 adults representing the "power" people in the special opportunities for volunteers in the Little Rock country-recently met in Estes Park, Colo., for the f.irst area. Because there are now more people wanting to White House Conference on Youth. According to a learn to read than there are teachers to instruct them, Baptist Press report, the agen·da included the subjects Mrs. Paul V. Galloway, co-chairman of the Literacy of war, poverty, race relations, education, the draft and Council, with her associates, has scheduled two work­ national service, the environment, drugs, foreign shops. The simple "each one teach one" methods relations, the economy and employment, legal rights devised by the late Dr. Frank C. Laubach will be taught. and justice, and values, ethics and culture. And with these methods, anyone who can read can Recommendations of the conference will be soon be qualified to teach someone else. presented to President Nixon and the nation later. A daytime workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to The approach of "come, let us reason together" 1:30 p.m. each day, May 5 and 6. A nighttime work­ makes a lot more sense than unreasoning compulsion shop, for those who cannot attend the day workshop, and violence or threat of violence. The Baptist em­ . will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. on the nights of May phasis on free speech

be replaced with 'soci'al action' and can't lick'em, join'em!' This fulfills The people speak things which are more 'relevant'. Scripture, for Paul predicted that men in Moreover, we are told that the the latter days would not endure sound 'A prophet in the land' preaching of the Gospel, by which God doctrine and would turn away from the has been pleased to 'save them that. truth and be turned unto 'Fables' II Tim. believe', I Cor. 1:21, is no longer 4th Chapter. The guest editorial by Dr. Ashcraft in effective, and that it should be replaced To hear a voice like that of Dr. the April 15 issue of the Newsmagazine with . 'involvement', 'social action', etc. Ashcraft advocating common-sense, and deserves a rating of 'excellent'. How Additionally, we are told · that the realistic thinking is almost like hearing refreshing to hear or read something traditional hymns of the church, and the Jeremiah of old say, "Stand ye in the that makes sense in this day of music that motivated our fathers as they ways, ·and see, and ask for the old paths, modernism, liberalism, permissiveness passed through fiery trials, is. not for our where is the good way, and walk and de-ification of immature youth. age, and it is to be replaced by the 'jesus therein, and ye shall find rest for your Qne of the problems of the day is that Rock' music with amplified instruments, souls-" jer. 6:16. Yes, with 'quack' the wrong people are being heard to and booming jungle-beat drums. social and religious doctors clamoring much. On every hand there are These Prophets can be seen on for our attenton it is good again to hear 'prophets' with easy solutions to hard television, in the newspapers, on the the voice of a prophet in the land! problems, short-cuts to Utopia arad sure­ streets carrying 'peace' symbols and -Walter H. Watts, P. 0. Box 662, Fort fire panaceas for what ails us. Some of signs. But like the false prophets of Smith, Ark. these 'prophets' tell us that the solution Jeremiah's time, they are proposing only to the problem of crime is leniency surface remedies for deep problems tow·ard criminals, that the best deterrant saying 'peace, peace, when there is no Welfare suggestion to communism is to get friendly with peace' Jeremiah, 6:14 But woe to those To reduce the welfare rolls we will them, that the best way to help youth who disagree with these prophets, for have, to start making investors out of get an education is to let them help you are 'reactionary', and over 30! the people that are working. There make up the curriculum of the schools. Far too many of our religious and are too many of these people who work They also tell us that the gospel, which educational leaders have made a craven for years and end up with nothing, they Paul said is 'the Power of God unto surrender to these false movements and then go on relief.- William R. Sullivan, salvation', is not for our age, and should philosophies on the theory that, 'if you Box 250, Vale, Ore. 97918 Page 4 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE The people speak No serious war-caused damage to Help for migrants East Pakistan property of Baptists Dear Fellow Arkansas Baptists: Your response last year to our Pas­ RICHMOND (BP) - Damage to Bap­ youngest children left their home in tor's plea for articles to be used by the tist property because of fighting in East Faridpur, East Pakistan, on the morning migrant station-located in our town was Pakistan has been slight, said two South­ of April1. They described the area as overwhelming. Once again it is the sea­ ern Baptist missionaries just returned quiet, but not calm. There was no fight­ son of the year for these agricultural to the United States after evacuation ing but the people there were begin­ workers to be passing through our city, from the war-torn country. ning to arm themselves with whatever and once again we are reminded of Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Jones, mis­ they could find, Mr. Jones said. their physical as well as spiritual needs. sionaries to Pakistan from Delaware Jones had been serving as director The Baptist Women of our church Ohio, and Woodbury, Tenn., said in an of the Christian Industrial Center in spent many hours sorting, packaging, interview here that at least two Bap­ Faridpur. Work stopped at the center labeling and delivering the articles that tist reading rooms just outside Dacca, during the third week in February, and we received from churches located all Pakistan, had been damaged slightly. the school closed officially on March over the state. In return, we have re­ Pakistan, since March 25, has been 8. ceived kind words of thanks from the the scene of fighting between the Pak­ managers of the station as well as let­ istani armed forces and supporters of Only a few days earlier, Sheik Mujibur ters from some of the migrants them­ an independent Bengali state. Rahman called for a non-cooperation selves thanking us, and you, .for your Mr. and Mrs. jones and their three movement. Rahman is the leader of efforts on their behalf. the Awami League, chief supporters Once again we would like to ask for of the independent state proposed for your help in filling this need. Our plans Leisure magazine Bengali. Under this order, schools, this year are to fill individual plastic business establishments and other in­ bags with a towel, washcloth, comb, popular with Clabe stitutions were closed March 1-25, just toothbrush and toothpaste along with Clabe Hankins is doing a lot of before intensive fighting erupted. a tract and a Spanish Testament. We bragging these days on People, The two older Jones children, home would like to encourage any church the new Sunday School Board organization, Baptist Women's group, for a long Christmas holiday, were sche­ monthly magazine designed "to duled to return to a Christian boarding G.A., or Acteens to join us in this worthy be read by Christian adults during project. school in West Pakistan March 8. It was their leisure time." (If you will March 12, however, before they were Your articles should be limited to the take it from Clabe's wife, Sal, above items. However, if you prefer able to begin their journey back to "there:s probably not a Southern school. to send donations of cash, we will pur­ Baptist anywheres with half as chase these items here in Hope, thereby much leisure as Clabe." The Joneses and two other Southern reducing the cost of postage. Please Clabe would be far too modest Baptist missionary families left Dacca send all items to: First Baptist Church, to say it, but the june issue of April 4 for Karachi, West Pakistan. , Third and Main, Hope, Arkansas, 71801. People features the old fellow Be sure to include your return address himself, along with his timely com­ They attempted to contact their two so that your gift will be acknowledged. ment on - of all things - collect­ older children who had returned to the -Mrs. C. M. Rogers Jr., President, Bap­ ing books as a hobby! Murree Christian School near Rawal­ tist Women, First Baptist Church, Hope, One nice thing about book col­ pindi, East Pakistan, but communica­ Ark. lecting as a· hobby, says Clabe, is tion by telephone was impossible. They that "when you an' your wife is were not sure if the children had ar­ Senior citizens leavin' on vacation an' you air . rived safely. organize new class havin' t' take all th' stuff she thinks The joneses proceeded to Teheran, she might need on th' trip, yore Iran, where they sent word for the two The Senior Citizens Class of First hobby don't require no extra lug­ children at Murree Christian School to Church, Lake City, was organized in gage space." And Clabe says this fly to Iran. The family was reunited in january to meet the need of those who makes his hobby "decidedly so­ Teheran. From there they made ar­ could not climb the stairs. operier to sich things as golf, rangements to come to the U. S. for a Mrs. john Murphy, teacher, reports fishin', huntin', etc. All you need short furlotJgh. They are now in Wood­ that enrollment has grown to 14, with is a empty poke or two," he says. bury, Tenn. attendance on Easter Sunday totaling "In book collectin', you don't 16. The oldest member is 82; the young­ have t' spend a lot of time gettin' Mr. and Mrs. James F. McKinley, both est 73. The group now has its own yore trophies mounted," says of Kentucky, have been seen in Feni preaching services at 9 a.m. followed Clabe. "You jist leave yore books and are safe, according to a cable. re­ by Bible study. jimmy Davis is pastor. layin' aroun' fer a few days an' ceived here by John D. Hughey, the th' fust thi'lg you know, frien' SBC Mission Board's secretary for About people ______wife finds a place fer them." Europe and the Middle East. Pleasant Plains Church, Indepen­ Clabe says that, with a book, Mr. and Mrs. jones do not plan to dence Association, has licensed Dickie "you don't even haft t' stay awake. return to East Pakistan. After they com­ Sutter to the gospel ministry on April Like th' man sent up fer jugglin' plete a short furlough they will begin 8. th' books, you can go t' sleep in a new assignment in Taiwan, where Miss Bennie Carol Burgess, First th' middle of a sentence." jones will teach in a Christian board- Church, Hamburg, is the recipient of We'd like to tell you more, but ing school. . · a National Merit Scholarship. She will we must be careful not to violate Their new assignment was not based receive $6,000 for four years college People's - and Clabe's- copy­ on the conflict in Pakistan but was made right.- ELM expense. before its eruption, Jones said.· April 29, 1971 Page 5 Picture an American in a bright orange jacket guiding his motorcycle around some of the rough spots on a Philippine highway. Pulling to a stop, he parks beside a small church and starts talking with the Filipino pastor. It's all part of the routine for Southern Baptist missionary John D. Floyd, who often uses a motorcycle in making the rounds of his large evangelistic area on the island of Mindanao. The orange jacket signifies John's membership in the "Screeching Eagles," a motorcycle club of llligan City, where . the Floyds live. A motorcycle enthusiast since high school days, John serves. as the club's chaplain, even though he doesn't have time to make many of their trips. John's other community activities include the !ligan City Rotary Club. At one recent meeting, fellow club membeFs were so impressed when John gave. the invocation in the Cebuano dialect that they applauded at the end of the BRIGHT ORANGE JACKETS add color to the "Screech­ prayer. ing Eagles" Motorcycle Club as they go on outings. The The people of !ligan, a busy industrial town of some club's members include a doctor, an engineer, and others 40,000 on the northern coast of Mindanao, consider the · for whom the cycle is a regular means of transportation. Floyds and their two children, Betsy, almost 14, and John Paul, 12, as part of the community. The missionaries' home, a co(Tlfortable two-story residence, is always open for informal visits by both church members and other friends. And John has an easy-going friendliness, often accompanied by joking banter, which quickly puts visitors at ease . Since coming to !ligan in 1966, he and Helen have helped to establish four churches and five mission points Cover Story in that area. In addition, he has carried major responsibility in such nation-wide undertakings as the 1968 New Life Cru­ sade and a current stewardship campaign. A native of Arkansas, John has spent half of his 36 years Miss·ionary- either as a pastor or as a missionary. He married Helen Ruth Nutt, a fellow Arkansan, while both were students at Ouachita College (now Ouachita University), in Arkadelphia. ls After serving in Arkansas and Kentucky churches, John attended Southwestern Seminary, Ft . Worth, where he earned a good living on the side as a salesman and sales Screeching Eagle manager for various firms. ' He credits this sales experience with helping to By Bob Stanley overcome any fear he might have had as he approached the task of opening up Southern Baptist work on the northern coast of Mindanao. Visiting regularly and seeking out sympathizers, he soon had set up Bible study groups five nights a week in !ligan. All of the groups met together on Sunday-first at the Floyd's house and later in a rented

AS MOTORCYCLE CLUB MEMBERS AND FRIENDS bow their heads, john Floyd asks the Lord to bless the food pre­ "HOME" for the Floyds is this two-story residence, com­ pared for one of the club's recent meetings. Members' wives pleted just before the family went home for their first fur­ frequently go along on the outings, riding behind their hus­ lough. It follows one of the standard house plans used in bands. most of the mission residences in the .Philippines. Page 6 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE JOHN D. FLOYD Southern Baptist Missionary John D. Floyd has been an evangelistic worker in !ligan City, the Philippines, since October 1965. He studied lan­ guage in Man ita before beginning his work. Floyd was appointed a missionary by the Foreign Mis­ sion Board in Ju ly 1965. At that time he was pastor of Den­ man Avenue Church, Lufkin, Tex. An Arkansan, Floyd was born in Lockesburg and grew up in Hot Springs. He was graduated from Ouachita Baptist University, with a bachelor of arts degree and then studied at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, for a semester before entering the U.S. Army. During his student years he had pastorates at churches in Ben Lomand, Yocana, Mena and Sparkman, Ark., and Camino, Calif. While serving in the Army he was pastor of BETSY'S NOW LEARNING AS STATION TREASURER, a church in Elizabethtown, Ky . to make some of her own john spends some time in Upon discharge from the Army after ZV2 y_ears1 he en­ clothes, under her mother's his office at home keeping tered Southwestern Seminary. While a student there he was guidance. Someday, if her the records straight. He pastor of a church in Decatur, Tex., for 1V2 years. He became desire to be a doctor is at­ just took on this new job,, pastor of the Lufkin church in November 1962, shortly be­ tained, she may be taking since the previous treasurer fore he was graduated from the seminary with the bachelor another kind of stitch. for missionaries in Northern of divinity degree. Mindanao and Visayas (No­ He is married to the former Helen Nutt of Mineral minvis Station), Mrs. Char­ Springs. They have two children, Betsy, born in 1957, and lotte Martin, is preparing Paul, 1958. to go home on furlough. building, until the congregation became strong enough to form a church. In undertaking the work, John and Helen leaned heavily upon the promise in Philippians 4:19: "But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." John says that he has not always known how to depend upon the Holy Spirit for strength and guidance. At one time he was trying to do it in his own strength. "But one day, as a result of some experiences I had, " john says, "I realized the truth of God's promise, and I said, r 'All right, God, you just do what you want through me from now on.' II MOM'S THE TEACHER in the Floyds' one-room.

"school. II Classes are from 8 to 12 each weekday morning, with homewor~ during the afternoons. john Paul was asixth grader this year, and Betsy was completing her eighth grade work. Next year she is scheduled to attend Faith Academy near Manila.

SINCE HELEN IS CHOIR D./RECTOR at the /ligan City Baptist Church, informal practice sessions around the family STANDING ON A HILL where /ligan City's municipal piano are fairly common. Left to right behind Helen are building is located, john and Helen Floyd can see the spire daughter Betsy, Mrs. Teofista Bagares, journeyman Linda of the /ligan City Baptist Church in the distance (center Caster, Mrs. Nita Augostino, john Floyd, Mrs. Selena Gener, photo, near Helen). and Mr. Loloy Bagares. April 29, 1971 Page 7 John and Helen found a new peace and freedom in this dependence upon the Lord. "God gave us a liberty in serving The cover him," he says "I didn't have to do anything on my own any more. He could meet my needs. The Lord delivered me from the feeling that I needed to perform for him to get the glory." Although they had felt for some time that God might be leading them toward missionary service, they did not feel a specific call until John was serving as pastor of Denman Avenue Church in Lufkin. Baker ). Cauthen, executive secretary of the Foreign Mission Board, spoke at a district meeting in nearby Nacogdoches and invited all those who did• not feel called to mission service, but who would be wflling to go if God called, to express this willingness in a public commitment. Both John and Helen responded to this invitation, and, as john says, "began to pray seriously about his call to mission service." ' "Then as we prayed," John recalls with a gleam in his eyes, "God impressed us that if we just kept on praying seriously we'd soon be too old for appointment. So we de­ cided to do something about it." They filled out the necessary forms, and in 1965 were appointed to do evangelistic work in the Philippines. "As our ship left the pier in San Francisco and we saw the gulf between us and the shore widening," John remembers, "we had that normal uneasy feeling in the pit of our stomachs. But we stood there as a family and thanked God for giving us this opportunity to serve him." · After arriving in Manila, the Floyds completed the nine­ month language course in six months and then used the last three months in study particularly designed to help them in MOTORCYCLE MISSIONARY john Floyd, shown here their witness in Iligan. with son john Paul, serves as chaplain of the "Screeching "When we came to lligan," he says "we weren't under Eagles" Motorcycle Club, one of three such groups in 1/igan any pressure. We could use the language, and the Lo r.d just City. For some members, the cycles are their chief means met our needs." ' of transportation; for others, cycling is strictly a hobby. John, Life in lligan is busy but pleasant for the Floyds. Since a motorcycling enthusiast since a teen-ager, brought his there is no American School, Helen teaches both children at B.S. A. 650-cc. cycle with him from the U. S. to assist in visiting home in a one-room "school" they built behind the house. mission points in his area. Members of his former church, This occupies her week-day mornings. She directs the choir Denman Avenue in Lufkin, Tex., aided in the purchase. at the lligan Church and is active in the local WMU, but still finds time for the women's auxiliary of·Rotary. Both Betsy and John Paul share in the challenge of the family's missionary work. Betsy, who dedicated her life to missions even before the family went overseas, thinks maybe the Lord wants her to be a missionary doctor. John Paul finds opportunities to witness for Christ among his friends in lligan. At the age of 9 he was already holding "Sunday School" for children who would gather on the beach behind their home, In the 1968 Crusade seven of his friends that he had encouraged to attend the services accepted Christ. "It was mainly because of John Paul's witnessing that the young man who tends our yard was won to Christ," John relates. "Now that same man has started a church in his home, and 36 people have come to know the Lord through GETTING A . LESSON ~in him." AN ACTIVE ROTARIAN, Since returning from furlough last May, John has helped simple automotive me­ John Floyd (/eft) looks over to supervise the neighboring evangelistic areas of other chanics, John Paul helps his the local Rotary Club publi­ missionaries now on furlough. He recently became treasurer dad clean the battery ter­ cation with club president for his station (composed of missionaries in Northwest minals on their Volkswagen Gerardo B. Padilla, Vice­ Mindanao and the Visayas). Microbus. john often uses mayor of 1/igan City. john As Cebuano consultant for the Philippine Bible Society the bus to help transport is frequently called upon to he spends some time going over translations. And recently people to church and to give the group's invocation. much of his energy has been directed toward preparation of Bible study points. tion. materials for the 1971 -72 stewardship campaign, for which he is coordinator. During .April and May he was scheduled to lead stewardship clinics in te n differe nt areas of the "But when we feel the pressure building up," John says, Philippines. "we just know that he's on the throne. The pressures build With all of these activities, some problems might be up, but they don't have to stay there. This is what makes life expected. yielded to the Lord exciting." Page 8 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Revivals First Church, Cabot, May 2-9: Harold 1-- D. Corder, pastor, Jesse Reed, evan­ gelist, Gene Layman, Springdale, music; 4 by baptism, 3 by letter. · First Church,.Caobot, May 2-9: Harold O'Bryan, pastor, Russell Clearman, Gaines Street, Little Rock, evangelist, Mark Short, Paris, Tex., music. West Side Church, Little Rock, March 28-April 4: R. A. Hill, pastor, Jesse Reed, evangelist, Ray McClung, music; 9 by baptism, 2 by letter, many rededica­ tions. First Church, Hamburg, April 5-11: Klois L. Hargis, pastor, Bill Shaw, Dallas, evangelist, Steve Taylor, Greenville, · S. C., singer; 42 conversions, 2 by letter, 3 for special service. Calvin C. Ussery, Hickory Street Church, Texarkana has been evangelist in two recent· revivals: First Church, Wake Village, Tex., 23 professions Emmanuel Church, Ardmore, Okla., 27 professions. OSCEOLA GROUNDBREAKING - The building committee for East Side Calvary Church, North Little Rock, Church, Osceola, does the honors at recent groundbreaking ceremonies marking April 4-11: William L. Kreis, pastor, start of a $27,000 project to seat 172. Left to right are Earl Duke, Associational Mis­ Dennis Baw, Irving, Tex., evangelist, sionary, john Gearing, johnny Carter, Viii Blaylock, Pastor j. C. Nannie, john Pad­ George Ray, North little Rock, singer; gett, Walter Carmer and Burnis Davidson. The church is only 15 menths old and 40 by profession, 12 by letter. has 85 members. First Church, Hampton, April 11 -18: john C. Robbins, pastor, Ed Vallowe, evangelist; 25 by profession, 8 by let­ Ouachita's Tom Jones Deaths _____ ter. sets shot-put record In this column will be reported deaths Crystal Hill Church, Little Rock, April (not obituaries) of members of Arkansas 12-18: Glen Hicks, pastor, Paul Huskey, Tom Jones, Ouachita University, has Baptist State Convention churches. First Church, Norfork, evangelist, Ken­ broken the state shot-put record with Those reporting deaths should do so neth Davis, music; 11 professions, 9 for a throw of 60 feet, two inches. promptly. Give name, age, date of baptism. Jones' record-breaking heave came death, name of church, position. in a meet at Southwestern Louisiana State University recently. HONG KONG (BP)- Dr. Lam Chi Miss Kerr crowned A 6-7, 265-pound senior, Jones is the Fung, 79, prominent Baptist layman, former AIC record holder in both shot­ died April17 at Hong Kong Baptist Hos­ Miss Ouachita 1971 put and discus competition. pital. He had been seriously ill after suffering a stroke last month. Marvin A. Ryan, choir director of Runners-up to the title are Holly Mount Zion Church, Mount Zion As­ Hicks, Nashville, Tenn., first runner-up: sociation, for 47 years, March 17 at age Kathy White, Delhi, La ., second runner­ 74. up: Giner Murdock, of Atkins, third Roy E. Reed, 64, deacon and trea­ runner-up; and Ouida Eppinette, North surer of Pine Church, Hot Springs, April Little Rock, fourth runner-up. 17. A member of the Garland County The New Miss OBU is a junior School Board, he was a retired postal elementary education and advanced employee and grocer. speech therapy major and is the Mrs. Dixie Bell Crow, 81, member daughter of Rev . and Mrs. Andy Kerr, of of Monticello's First Church, April 18. Jacksonville. She is a granddaughter of She was the widow of William Thomas Mrs. Ruth Moran., Little Rock, and the Crow. late Clifton Moran, and of Mrs. Goldie Mrs. Kate Tyler Riley, 89, Little Rock, Kerr,. jacksonville, and the late L. N. widow of jesse N. Riley April 17. She Kerr, Sr. She succeeds Margie Royston, was a member of Second Church. Hope, as Miss OBU. Mac Givens, 92, a staunch supporter Miss Kerr was selected by a panel of of the assembly at Siloam Springs, judges from a field of 13 contestants. March 26. A retired farmer and school Miss Kerr judging was based on beauty, modeling, teacher, he was a member of Highfill talent competition, and interviews. Church. He had helped the conven­ Miss Charlotte (Casey) Kerr, Miss Kerr will represent Ouachita in tion acquire much-needed property Jacksonville, was recently crowned Miss the annual Miss Arkansas pageant, to be at the assembly in recent years. Ouachita University. held 'in Hot Springs in july. Continued on Page 11 April 29, 1971 Page 9 Arkansas couples named missionaries New pastor arrives By Southern Baptist Mission Board at First Church, Crossett Homer W. Shirley Jr., formerly pastor Three Arkansas Baptist couples were Mr. Maness received the A.B. degree of Third Church, among the 27- persons appointed to from Howard "Payne College, Brown­ Malvern, has arrived overseas mission posts by the Southern wood, Tex., and the B. D. degree from on the field at First Baptist .Foreign Mission Board, in Midwestern Seminary, Kansas City. Mrs. Church, Crossett. a special meeting in Freedom Hall at Maness is a graduate of Northwest A special cele­ the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Cen­ Missouri State College, Maryville. The bration was held on ter, Louisville, Ky. couple has a daughter, Melanie jean, April 25. The Shir­ These appointments increase to 2,500 aged 16 months. Mr. Maness has been pastor of First leys first Sunday in and the Southern Baptists under ap­ Crossett, concluded pointment of the Foreign Mission Church, Dell, for two years. Prior to that he served as pastor of Lone Star with a reception in Board, for service in 76 political and Mr. Shirley the Fellowship Hall geographical entities. Church, in Northern Missouri, and of following the evening worship service. The Arkansans and their fields are: Whitton Church,_Tyronza. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice L. Caldwell, The Edward L. Smiths are natives of Monticello, to Peru; DeQueen, where Mr. Smith was born Mr. and Mrs. Wayne E. Maness, Dell, on Sept. 25, 1932, and Mrs. Smith, the Mrs. Smith is a state approved Sunday to the Philippines; former Charlene Clements, on Aug. 5, School Worker. Mr. and Mrs. E.dward L. Smith, Alma, 1933. The Smiths have a son, Charles Edgar, to Botswana. Mr. Smith graduated from Ouachita 12, and a daughter, Kathryn Louise Other new missionaries are: Mr. and University and Golden Gate Seminary (Kathy), 9. Mrs. Herbert L. Barrett, Kansas City, and has been pastor of First Church, formerly of Roach, Mo., to Taiwan; Mr. Alma, since November 1968. Former Pictures of the newly appointed Ark­ and Mrs. Thomas L. Cole, Pleasureville, pastorates include Vandervoort, and ansas missionaries arrived too late for Ky., Argentina; Mr. and Mrs. ). Virgil First Churches at Dierks, Beebe, and this issue, but will be carried next week. Cooper, Summit, Miss., Korea; Miss GraveLRidge (North Little Rock). -ELM Louise Donaldson, Campbellsville, Ky., Brazil; Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Golmon, Louisville, Malaysia-Singapore; Mr. ·'Beacon lights of Baptist history and Mrs. D. Fredrick Harner, St. Joseph, Mo., Brazil; Mr. and Mrs. James C. Shelly Jr., Louisville, formerly of Flor­ A tenacious spirit ence, Al'a., Brazil; Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Sherer, Ft. Worth, Japan; Mr. and By Bernes K. Selph Mrs. Leo E. Waldrop, Ft. Worth, Sur­ iman; and Mr. and Mrs. Larry C. Yoder, The tenacity with which William Carey pursued his aims before he left England Danville, Va., Belgium. for the mission field undergirded him for the vexatious problems in India. He had Mr. and Mrs. William L. Womack, hoped to support himself and his family by cultivating the soil. Liberty, Mo., were employed as mis­ Before he could get located, hinderances and disappointments beset him at sionary associates for Guyana. every step. The East India Company threatened to send him home. His money was Mr. Caldwell will be resigning, ef­ spent. Two children fell ill. He heard little but reproaches from his wife. Little fective July 30, as executive director wonder he wrote "dejected" in his journal, or that after a 16 mile walk in the sun'to of Arkansas Baptist Family and Child borrow money he would express "of being very weary." Care Services, to accept his new post. But all this while, he seized every opportunity of learning the language and talking with the natives. Daily he visited public places to proclaim the Gospel Caldwell is a native of Star City, where message. Finally, he moved 40 miles east of Calcutta to take a few acres of land about he was born june 7, 1935. He has the a quarter of a mile of impenetrable forests and swamps, a fertile region, but infested B.S. in Education degree from Arkansas with pirates and wild beasts. With his gun he felLe d the wild hog, dee r, and fowl for A. & M. College, Monticello, and has the table. Here he built his bamboo house, and here the Bengalese flocked about the master in science and social work him for protection. from the University of Tennessee. Even then, it was a disaster that brought relief. A boat sank near Calcutta, Mrs. Caldwell, the former Martha carrying passengers who were friends of Dr. Thomas who had gone out to India with Baugh of Star City, received the A. B. Carey. Carey wrote a letter of con ~olation to his friends in England which renewed degree from Arkansas A. & M. College. an old acquaintanceship. Ultimately this led to Carey and Thomas' being appointed Both of the Caldwells studied at South­ as supe rinte nde nts of two estates, as Indigo planters, at 250 pounds per year, with western Seminary. the promises of a share in the profits. Mr. Caldwell has been in his present It seems ironical that in the light of such financial plight Carey would receive a position for a year and prior to that letter of caution about monetary gains and love of money. Well-meaning friends in was for four years superintendent of England wrote "lest he should allow the spirit of the missionary be swallowed up in Arkansas Baptist Home for Children, the pursuits of the merchant." Then the humble man wrote home that, after a bare Monticello. subsistence, all his money was spent in the translation of the Bible and a school. "I am indeed poor, and shall always be so until the Bible is published in Bengalee and The Caldwe lls have a son, Marcus, Hindoostanee, and the people want no furthe r education."* . ' 11, and a daughter, Nancy 5. Mr. Maness was born in Kansas City, on April 9, 1941, and Mrs. Maness was *Th e Centenary Volume of the Baptist Miss ionary Society, 1792- born near Kansas City, on June 11, 1941. 1892, (Th e Baptist Miss ionary Society, London, 1892) p. 57 Page 10 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Contracts to be awarded for Mt. Tabor Church new .Baptist Medical Center observes centennial Mt. Tabor Church, in Buckville As­ The board of trustees of the Baptist federal Health, Education, and Wel­ sociation, which observed its centennial Medical Center Systems is ready to fare Department, which is providing April 18, was organized April 8, 1871, award contracts for the construction some Hill-Burton Act funds. according to a brief history of the of a new Baptist Medical Center com­ church prepared by ). C. Melton, Hot plex in western Little Rock. Board chair­ The contractors already have opened Springs, who has served as supply pas­ man R. A. Lile announced April 22 that permanent offices on the site, at the tor of the church for the past two years. contracts would go to the Frank intersection of Interstate 430 and the Minutes and official records of the ). Rooney Company of Miami and Mem­ Wilbur D. Mills Freeway. The architects church are complete except for the phis and to the Gus K. Newbert Com­ expect that construction can begin in period 1874-1888, Mr. Melton reports. pany of Chicago which jointly submitted 30 days. It will take about 30 months Charter members were George W. the low bid March 17. to complete the project. Powell, Thomas Ratliff, William . D. The bid of $25,287,000 was the low The Baptist Medical Center was for­ Smith, Marion Ratliff, Mary Ratliff, among four bids, but was about $5 mil ­ merly owned by the Arkansas Baptist Elizabeth Adams, Mary Powell, S. M. lion above the estimate and stunned State Convention. Smith, M. Gamble,). C. McClure, Mary Medical Cen~er Systems officials, Lile McClure, Sue Ratliff, and julie Ratliff. said. The presbytery for the institution of The trustees trimmed $2 million from the church was composed of John Spur­ costs and borrowed $3 million in ad- lin and john ). Adams, ministers, and ditional funds to meet the price. u1e News about missionaries jessie A. Muse, clerk. said that the amount of the basic con- Mr. and Mrs. c. Turner Hopkins, According to available records, re­ tract had not been determined, but Southern Baptist missionaries to Nigeria, ports Mr. Melton, himself a former that it would be about $23,300,000. are the parents of a fourth child, Martha pastor of the church, approximately 700 The total cost will be about $26.8 mil- Alice, born March 31. Hopkins was born persons have been members of the lion, which includes some $2.5 in hos- in Memphis and reared in Marianna. church. There is no way of knowing how pital equipment and $300,000 ,in kit- Mrs. Hopkins, the former Carlene many others were received into the chen and food service equipment, but Densford, lived in Memphis until her church during the period for which excludes land and fees. late teens when she moved with her there are no records. Although ~he general c~ntract bids . _ family to Marianna. Now on furlough, Besides Mr. Melton, former pastors excee~ed estimates, evaluation showed Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins may be addressed include: ). P. Emery Story, now 93, who the pnce per square foot. to be l?wer at 2549 Harvard, ~emphis. preached at the morning worship than

Great Preaching, Evangelical Messages Letting your boots grow by Contemporary Christians, ·edited by By Iris O'Neal Bowen Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Viola Blake, Word, 1970, $4.50 With our four granddaughters growing and outgrowing, Featured are sermons from the last 20 hand-me-down time rolls around pretty often. to 30 years, on such basic themes as God, Michele had just become the proud recipient of a pair Christ, sin, repentance, forgiveness, of white boots that Cousin Patricia had flatly . refused to newness of life, the Holy Spirit, and the wear when her mother bought them for her a year ago. promise of Christ's second coming. Suddenly Patricia decided those boots were made for keeping and she struggled desperately to get them on * * * her feet, with notable lack of success. However, when the time came for her to go home, she had the little Expository Sermons on the Book of boots clutched to her breast. Daniel, Vol. 2, Chapters 1-3, by W. A. '"No," her mother told her, "they are too little for Criswell, Zondervan, 1970, $3.50 you, now. So we are giving them to Michele." In 11 sermons, Dr. Criswell analyzes Mrs. Bowen "But, Mother," Patricia pleaded, "couldn't we just take the early life and testimony of Daniel them home with us and let them grow?" and makes pointed applications to the I guess we all learn pretty early in life that ~>nee you out-grow your contemporary Christian. boots, you will never be able to get into them again. As Christians, though, we sometimes like to keep trying to wear our * * * little boots! When we were baby Christians we wore little soft booties like mothers used to knit or crochet. But we were not really walking yet, Love and Liberation, Up Front with just "lap babies" as far as Christian service was concerned. the Feminists, by Lisa Hobbs, McGraw­ Then came our first real shoes, which were also quite soft, but supported Hill, 1970, $5.95 our growing feet. And we wore holes in the toes, for we were crawlin,g! More and more women are placing Soon we were toddling around the Kingdom and we got put in hard-soled their human rights "in the forefront of t.heir demands, willing to fight for these shoes and walking became very important. We got lots of falls and we learned how to sit down easy, but if we were growing and learning as rights," says Mrs. Hobbs, herself a wife, mother, and professional journalist. This we should, we passed through the "floo.r-baby" stage to "porch-baby," and, book is a must for any who are at all finally, to "yard-baby." Now, as mature· Christians, we "must put away childish things" and interested in the woman's liberation walk with purpose along the road of Christian service. All our "little fellow" movement. habits, pursuits and pleasures-these boots are too little for grown-up Christians! * * * For Blacks Only, Black Strategies for Change in America, by Sterling Tucker, Eerdmans, 1971 , $4.95 Violence, whether from whites or blacks, is not the proper approach to a solution in the continuing civil rights revolution, says Author Tucker, head of Urban League Field Services. In this book, Mr. Tucker explains how whites and blacks, working together, can successfully attack problems of e ducation, employment, crime, housing, police relations, and political power. * * *

Now Is the Time, A New Populist Call to Action, by Fred R. Harris, McGraw­ Hill, 1971, $6.95 "We want to live in a society which believes in something, which stands for something, in which there are some obvious values and ideals; and we are 25 MILLIONTH TEV COPY PRESENTED- Porter W. Routh (center) executive tired of having so little power in helping secretary of the ~buthern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, accepts the make decisions." This, says Author symbolic 25-mi//ionth copy of GOOD NEWS FOR MODERN MAN (Today's English Harris, Democratic U.S. Senator from Version) from Jarpes Nettinga (right) head of the American Bible Society's national Oklahoma, is what Americans of all distribution program. The copy was presented by the Bible Society to the SBC " in walks of life are saying all across the recognition of Southern Baptist use of TODA Y'S ENGLISH VERSION and generous country. He bel i ~ves that there is · a support of the Bible cause." Also participating in the presentation was Ed Cunning­ "progressive majority" who can lead in ham, Lexington, Ky., the Bible Society's special secretary for program and promo­ "putting America back together again." tion. (BP Photo) * * * Page 12 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Brotherhood BUS OUTREACH MINISTRY CLINIC Razorbacks to be Congress speakers

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Program personnel and features Leaders include individuals from School outreach. What about new or Mr. Field Mr. Ditmore churches and areas involved in the bus used buses? What is the difference in Bobby Field, defensive back for the outreach ministry. Hear the following a trip and outreach bus? Buy or rent? Arkansas Razorbacks, and Steve panel of leaders speak and respond to Consider ' insurance and other budget Ditmore, missionary from Peru, will questions, discuss needs and problems: matters. What should be the relation­ speak at the Royal Ambassador Ben Smith, minister of education, Beckley ship of the Sunday School officers and Congress. The congress is to be held on Hills Church, Dallas, Tex. the bus officers? May 7-8, at Geyer Springs First Church, Chester Vaughan, Baptist Sunday School These are some of the questions and Little Rock . Board, Nashville, Tenn. needs that will be discussed at the clinic. Mr. Field, defensive back and three- Garland Morrison, pastor, North Main Sales representatives of new -and used year letterman for the Razorbacks, is a Church, Jon esboro buses will be available for personal native of Farwell, Tex. He is a past Carl Bunch, superintendent of missions, Mt. contact from Ward School Bus Mfg., president of Fellowship of Christian Zion Association, Jonesboro Inc., Conway, and All-State Supply Inc., Bernard Spooner, minister of educ;:ation, hi h f k Little Rock. At etes at t e University"d o Arf W"lansas. Trav1s - Avenue Ch urc h, Ft . wor th , Tex. He h as serve d as pres1 ent o 1son Robert James minister of edus:ation First Return this form to Sunday School Sharp House, the athletic dormitory. He __ Church, Ft. Smith ' Dept., Baptist Bldg., 525 W. Capitol, is a senior and will be graduating in A new color movie of the bus ministry Little Rock, 72201, and the packet will June. He has accepted a position on the of First Church, jacksonville, Fla., will be reserved in your name and avail­ coaching staff of the University of be viewed. · able ·at the clinic, or the packet will Alabama. Beginning next fall he will be a There will be a registration · fee of be mailed to you after the clinic. You freshman football coach for the $3 for each person in attendance to may include $3 with form, or pay for university. He will be sharing his cover the cost of program and a packet the packet at the clinic. Christian testimony with those attending · of printed materials. Individuals may attend without' re­ the congress. Program features will include dis- turning this form, however returning Mr. Ditmore travels on foot, by canoe, cussions on what, when, who and how the form will guarantee a packet at the bus or airplane through desert and of this new methodology in Sunday clinic. jungle and from small vjllage to large cities to reach the Peruvian people and witness to them for Christ. He and his Additional packets will be available at the clinic. family are stationed in Piura. He is by no means confined to one Name small area but serves 300 miles of coastline and a 180-mile stretch into the Street mountains. Ditmore says his challenge for mission service came from the wife of a Korean City Zip pastor when he was in the U.S. Air Force and stationed in Korea. She asked him Approximate number of persons to attend from our church point blank, "When are you going to become a missionary?" Ditmore, a native of Lefors, Tex., lived amid fighting between Paki.stani armed were ·safe there. Mr. and Mrs. James E. in Texas, Arkansas ·and New Mexico forces and supporters of Bengali Young, Mr. ilnd Mrs. Donald W. Jones while growing up. He is a graduate of independence, according to John D. and Mr. and Mrs. W. Trueman Moore East Texas Baptist College and Hughey, the Foreign Mission Board's left Dacca April 4 for Karachi, West Southwestern Seminary. His messages secretary for Europe and the Middle Pakistan. The Moore and Jones families will be a challenge and inspiration to East. proceeded to the United States; the those who hear him. Make plans now to The Thomas E. Thurmans and Carl F. Moores are in Ft. Smith where their attend the congress. -C. H. Seaton Rythers are still in Faridpur. addres ~ is 1016 N. 36th Street. The "Communication with the areas in )oneses are in Woodbury, Tenn. Missionary families which they are located have been The Young family remained in Karachi broken down, but it is assumed they are at the Murree Christian School. remain in Pakistan all right," Hughey said. A cable dated The R. T. Buck'leys, the latest Southern Three Southern Baptist m1ss1onary April 9 informed Hughey that the James ·Baptist missionaries to leave East families have remained in East Pakistan F. McKinleys had been seen in Feni and Pakistan, flew to Lahore, West Pakistan. April 29, 1971 Page 13 reaffirmed the Statement of Baptist Lynn May named executive secretary Faith and Message, and pledged ~'to carry out our assigned programs con­ Southern Baptist Historical Commission sistent therein;" and voted to meet next year, April 17-19, here emphasing NASHVILLE (BP)­ ville, called the election of May "an the theme, "Baptist History and the The Southern Bap­ historic occasion," and described the Social Revolution." tist Convention's new executive as "a man of utmost The resolution honoring Woolley Historical C o m­ integrity who has performed his duties paid special tribute to his role as manag­ mission has elected as research director for the commission ing editor of Volume Ill of Encyclopedia lynn E. May Jr., in a superlative way." of Southern Baptists, calling it "the research director In other major actions, the com­ crowning achievement of his life." The for the commission, mission adopted a 1972-73 budget of volume is s.cheduled to be released May as the agency's $138,000; authorized a self-study of 24, just prior to the 1971 Southern Bap­ f o u r t h executive the role and work of the commission; tist Convention. secretary. Dr. May During annual sess1on here, the commission also adopted a resolution Midwestern Seminary special faculty of appreciation for the late Davis C. Woolley, who headed the commission chosen for new degree program as executive secretary from 1959 until Today." During this term Robert G. his death Jan. 15, 1971. Much of the ,;: two-day commission session was de­ Fulbright, supervisor of the preschool voted to observance of the 20th anniver­ and children's section of the Sunday sary of the commission's organization, School Board, will teach a two-hour and to tribute paid to its leaders. course, "The Christian Education of The commission unveiled a portrait Children." of Dr. Woolley, presented to Mrs. During the sixth term (Feb. 1-25, Woolley an illuminated scroll of the 1972) a two-hour course, "The Christ­ text of the resolution and a symbolic ian Education of Youth," will be taught copy of Volume Ill of Southern Baptist by John D. Hendrix, editor, Contem­ Encyclopedia; and heard two major porary Issues, young adult section, addresses on the life, work and con­ Dr. Cowling Church Training Department, Baptist tributions of the late commission sec­ Sunday School Board. retary. next year - a new feature included The chairman of the department of in Midwestern's re-structured degree music, William Jewell College, Wesley May's election as executive secretary Forbis, will teach a two-hour course of succeeding Woolley, with whom he program called "The Midwestern Plan" - will bring one guest professor to the "Church Music" for the ninth term had worked for 12 years, was effective campus to teach a full load during the (May 2-26, 1972). immediately. Under Midwestern's new degree A committee headed by Robert entire year and several others who will teach within the framework of the new, plan, both master of divinity and master Baker, professor at Southwestern Sem­ of religious education degree candi­ inary, Ft. Worth, nominated May for one-month, mini-term system. R. Othal Feather will serve as a full­ dates will be required to engage the position. Baker said the committee in supervised ministries. The "Pastoral had considered two dozen persons in time professor for the year in the field of religious education. Feather recently Ministries Seminars" will meet weekly the light of previously-drafted quali­ on a schedule to be determined by the fications for the jpb, and felt May had retired from Southwestern Seminary as professor of education administration. pastor-instructors for a period of four all of the qualifications. Baker described terms (16 weeks). The periods will be Olan H. Runnels, pastor, Swope him as "competent, experienced and Aug. 31-Dec. 21 and Feb. 1- May 26, dedicated." Park Church, Kansas City, Mo., will and the seminars are to be conducted For the past 15 years, May has been teach "Contemporary Personal Evan­ by the following pastors: Dr. Runnels: research director for the commission, gelism" during the first term (Aug. 31- Elwyn Hays, pastor, Englewood Church, and has given interim staff leadership Sept. 24). john Havlik, an associate dir­ Kansas City, Mo.; and Ernest White, for the denomination's historical agency ector in the Division of Evangelism of pastor, Wyatt Park Church, St. Joseph, since Woolley entered the hospital in the Home Mission Board, will join with Mo. September, 1970, with cancer. john Bisagno, pastor of First Church, P. J. Newsom, a Baylor University A native of louisiana, May is a grad­ Houston, Tex., in teaching "Evan­ graduate and minister of music, North­ gelism," the third term (Oct. 26-Noy. uate of louisiana College (Baptist), Pine­ gate Church, Kansas City, Mo., will 19). Havlik will teach the first three ville; Vanderbilt University, Nashville; conduct the seminary choir and teach weeks and Bisagno the fourth week. and New Orleans Seminary, earning "Choral Methods." bachelor and master of arts degrees, Next January 4-28 will feature two All M. Div. degree students will be bachelor of divinity and doctor of visiting professors. Dale Cowling, required to complete a course in clinical theology degree~ . pastor, Second Church, little Rock, pastoral orientation in a hospital set­ Before joining the commission staff will teach a one-hour course entitled, ting. Several chaplains in area hos­ in 1956, May was pastor of Baptist "Personal Spiritual Disciplines," which pitals have been engaged to instruct churches in lake Charles, La.; Tallulah, will be an effort to inform and inspire students in this program. Hospitals com­ La., and Hazelhurst, Miss. the student in developing their own mitted to participate in the program at W. Morgan Patterson, chairman of spiritual lives. Cowling will also teach a this time are: Baptist Memorial and the commission and professor at South­ two-hour course on "The Ministry Trinity lutheran, St. Joseph Mo., State ern Baptist Theological Seminary, louis- of the Church: Being the Church #2, and North Kansas City Memorial. Page 14 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Program outlined for SBC U. S. churches to assist Woman's Missionary Union in crusade in Spain MADRID, Spain (BP)-Pians for one ST. LOUIS, (BP)-"Committed" will be Church, El Dorado, Ark.; Claudia jones, of the largest evangelistic crusades in the theme of the Southern Baptist Girls in Action-Mission Friends director, the history of predominantly Roman Woman's. Missionary Union annual Texas WMU, Dallas. Catholic Spain have been announced meeting scheduled ·here for three Speakers will include Ruth Provence, by the Spanish Baptist Union and World sessions on Monday, May 31, just prior executive secretary, South Carolina Evangelism Foundation, Inc. to the Southern Baptist Convention, WMU, Columbia; Harper Shannon, W. H. (Dub) Jackson of Abilene, Tex., June 1-3. pastor, First Church, Dothan,. Ala.; Mrs. director of World Evangelism F9unda­ Mrs. R. L. Mathis, Waco, Tex., WMU Robert Buice, WMU leader, Dale tion·, said the nationwide crusade by president, said the goal of the meeting Cowling, pastor, and Jasper McPhail, Baptists was made possible by the will be to secure commitment to church member, all of Second Church, religious liberty law passed in Spain missions around the world and in local Little Rock, Ark.; Russell Dilday, pastor, three years ago. churches. Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, Jackson, a former Southern Baptist An "Hour of Commitment" on Atlanta; Mrs. David Hicks, WMU leader, missionary to Japan, said about 200 Bap­ M.onday evening will climax the First Church, Oxford, Miss.; Kathryn tists from 10 churches in Texas, New meeting, Mrs. Mathis said. This will call Bullard, Baptist Women director, North Mexico and Tennessee have already WMU and church leaders to pledge Carolina WMU, Raleigh; James Pleitz, said they will go to Spain to participate their best efforts to mission study, pastor, First Church, Pensacola, Fla.; in the crusade next Oct. 13-27. jackson mission action, and mission support Kathryn Carpenter, executive secretary, .sai.d the evangelistic work done by the through praying and giving, Mrs. Mathis Louisiana WMU, Alexandria; Baker J. volunteers will not conflict with the said. Cauthen, executive secretary, SBC work of Southern Baptist missionaries. The commitment service will be based Foreign Mission Board, Richmond; Mrs. Juan Rodrigo, chairman of the evan­ on music led by Claude H. Rhea Jr., dean Oliver E. Gilliland Jr., missionary to gelism committee of the Spanish Bap­ of the School of Music, Samford Indonesia; Landrum Leavell, pastor, First tist Union, requested 50 evangelistic University, Birmingham, Ala., and by Church, Wichita Falls, Tex.; Porter teams from the u. s·., including two Gene Bartlett, state music secretary for Routh, executive secretary, Southern for the Canary Islands, which are under the Baptist General Convention of Baptist Convention Executive Spanish control. Oklahoma, Oklahoma City. Committee, Nashville; Arthur B. Jackson said at least 20 U.S. churches Three addresses will lead into the Rutledge, executive secretary-treasurer, are needed to help sponsor the cru- commitment section of the program. -- Home Mission Board, Atlanta, Ga.; and sade. · W. L. Howse, director of .the Education R. F. Smith, . pastor, First Church, Calling Spain, "one of the greatest Division of the SBC Sunday School Durham, N.C. open doors we have today for preaching Board, N'ashville, will speak on the need Each session, Kenneth l. Chafin, the gospel, he said Baptists from the U. for commitment to the work of local director of the Division of Evangelism S. ought to send evangelistic teams to Southern Baptist churches. for the SBC Home Mission Board, will serve in all of the more than 100 Spanish Mrs. Mathis will deliver a plea for lead a multi-media presentation on Baptist churches and preaching points." dedication to world missions, and Mrs. evangelism. The crusade will differ from many Robert Fling, president of the Statewide Missionary speakers include Webster evangelistic campaigns in that the great WMU organization New York, will guide Carroll, Uganda, and Robert C. Davis Jr., majority of those from the U. S. will be a meditation, "Personally Committed," Vietnam. lay people, including teenagers. Each as well as closing the two earlier Wendell Belew, director of the of the teams will be headed by a pastor, sessions. Megumi Matsumura, Japanese Division of Missions for the SBC Home however. student at Samford University, will be Mission Board, will speak on WMU's Twenty years ago, Baptists In Spain organist for the three meditation role in missions in the United States. · numbered only 1,500 in 14 churches, periods. Each session will begin with a concert none of which were self-supporting. Each morning, afternoon and evening by ministers of music from Tennessee, Today, there are 60 churches with a session will feature reports on directed by Louis 0. Ball Jr., chairman of total of 6,000 members in a nation of successful, innovative missions work the department of music, Carson­ about 35 million people. through WMU, Mrs. Mathis said. Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn. Jackson also met recently with Bap­ Entitled, "Dimensions of Success," the tist leaders in West Germany and Russia feature will include presentations by 21 to discuss plans for a major crusade in persons, including WMU leaders, Baptists consider need Germany and for an exchange of lay­ pastors, and denominational leaders. men between Baptist churches in Russia The "success stories" will be told for new Beirut College and the U.S. infor.mally from a battery of BEIRUT (BP)- A study group has been microphones, followed by dialogue, o rganized in Lebanon to investigate Mrs. Mathis said. Alma Hunt, executive possible establishment of a Baptist col­ secretary of WMU, will recap the lege at the site of the Arab Baptist The­ churches, Mrs. Fuller said. They found presentations and give the national ological Seminary near here. that the rising level of education in the picture of WMU progress. In its first meeting the group discus­ general population is surpassing the Speakers for the presentations will be sed the need and feasibility of such an level of education of local pastors, said Mrs. Bruce Andrews, Wheaton, Ill., institution, according to Mrs. Frances Mrs. Fuller. WMU director of the Metro Chicago Fuller, Southern Baptist missionary press The seminary usually has 12 to 15 Baptist Association; Mrs. Hubert representative. students while its facilities can accom­ Drumwright, former WMU director, The proposal to establish a Baptist modate 50 boarders, Mrs. Fuller added. Broadway Church, Ft. Worth, Tex.; Don college grew out of the seminary fac­ Faculty members estimate that, with B. Harbuck, pastor, and Mrs. T. Shad ulty's exploration of its failure to pro­ adjustments, 100 day studen~s also could Medlin, Baptist Women president, First vide educated leadership for Baptist be accepted. ' April 29, 1971 Page 15 Court rules on Sunday Church Music conference School Board tax case NASHVILLE (BP)-The Southern to meet following S.B.C. Baptist Sunday School Board is subject to ST. LOUIS, Mo. (BP)-The Southern The cantata will be presented by the taxation on those portions of its Baptist Church Music Conference will combined junior choirs of First Church, Nashville properties which are not used meet here for sessions following the Ferguson, Mo., and First Church of St. strictly for religious purposes, according Southern Baptist Convention, with a Johns. to a Chanc~ry Court ruling here on April jammed-packed program beginning A musical drama entitled 15. Friday mor.ning and ending at noon "Immanuel," by Phillip Landgrave, In a decision on an appeal by the Saturday, June 4-5. professor at Southern Seminary, Sunday School Board and the During the 1Y2 day meeting, church Louisville, will also be premiered. Music Metropolitan Government of Nashville mus1c1ans from throughout the for the drama will be performed by the on a ruling by the State Board of Southern Baptist Convention will hear a combined choirs of Walnut Street Equalization, the court ruled that a half-dozen addresses, almost as many Church, Louisville, Hurstbourne portion of the activities of the Baptist concerts by Baptist choirs, and the Church, Louisville, and the orchestra of Sunday School Board are purely and premier of three commissioned works Southern Seminary. exclusively religious and that a portion for the meeting. Four other concerts are scheduled . .of the activities may not be so classified. Three music worship periods, a They will be presented by the William Those activities which are purely and composer's symposium, a lecture­ Jewell College Choir; the Missouri exclusively religious were ruled to be demonstration, banquet entertainment, Singing Churchmen directed by Bob exempt from property taxes. and four division conferences for special Woolley; and· Bisonettes of Oklahoma The ruling stated that the publishing interest groups will be other program Baptist University, Shawnee, directed by of non-religious, secular materials and attractions. Mrs. Mary Kay Parrish; and the Sixteens, administrative activities not directly The conference will be held at First of First Church, Abilene, Tex., directed related to a religious purpose are not Church of St. Johns, a suburb of St. by Bob Burroughs. · purely and exclusively religious and shall Louis, Bob -Burroughs, president of the The three music worship periods will be subject to taxation. conference and minister of music at First be led by the Church Choir of First The ruling was critical of the State Church, Abilene, Tex., has announced. Church, Tulsa, Okla., directed by Jim Board of Equalization for hearing the Principal speakers for the meeting will Davis; the Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday School Board's case on the same be Cecil Sherman, pastor of First of Eastwood Church, Tulsa, directed by day it heard the Methodist Publishing Church, Asheville, N.C.; Donald Orr, Bill Littleton; and a special House case and for handing down li'Tusic missionary and professor at the congregational ' worship experience identical opinions in both cases. The International Baptist Seminary, Cali, writ·ten by Milburn Price, Furman court stated that the State Board of Colombia; Donald Allured, minister of University, Greenville, S.C., and Equalization made no apparent effort to music for First United Methodist performed by the choir of First Church, relate its general findings and Church, Lake Charles, La.,; Burroughs, Raytown, Mo. conclusions to particular properties of who will deliver the annual president's The annual banquet for the the Sunday School Board. It further address; Sara Walton Miller, church conference will be held Friday evening indicated that the State Board's ruling drama worker from Houston; and Loren at Holiday Inn, North, with referring to printing operations were Williams, music specialist for Broadman entertainment by The Naturals, of not applicable since the Baptist Sunday Press, Nashville. Mis~issippi College, Clinton, Miss., School Board does no printing. Sidney Fox, p'rogram specialist for the directed by Jack Lyall. Later in the The ruling also held that the law is Follett Education Corp., in Thousand evening, a general session will meet at clear that it is the use of the property, Oaks, Calif., will present a lecture­ the St. Johns Church. rather than ultimate use or profit or demonstration in the closing session c::>n Departmental conferences will be competition, which is the test to be used "The Musical Liturgy for Today in Pop. held for the conference's local church in determining if an institution is Music." division, education division, exempt. Guest Composer Samuel Adler, denominational division, and wives' The case was remanded to the professor of Composition at· Eastman conference on Friday afternoon. Metropolitan Board of Equalization for School of Music, Rochester, N.Y., will Headquarters hotel for the determination of the "proper portions lead the composer's symposium during conference will be the Holiday r'nn, of the properties of the Baptist Sunday the opening session. Selected choir for North,' located about 20 minutes from School Board which are subject to the symposium will be from Maplewood downtown St. Louis by expressway, and taxation." Church, St. Louis, Mo., directed by Carl about five miles from the host church, Moman. Burroughs said. Death forbidden topicl A cantata and an anthem commissioned especially for DES MOINES (EP) - The subject of presentation at the conference, and the BULLETINS dying has replaced sex as society's most world premier of a musical drama, will PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (BP)-The first forbidden topic of discussion. be unveiled during the meeting. Dabid Belgum, Iowa City, stated be­ Ukrainian congregation to affiliate with The anthem, "How Great," written by the Southern Baptist Convention fore 100 ministers attending clergy day William ]. Reynolds of the Southern dedicated its new facility here recently. at Iowa Lutheran Hospital here that Baptist Sunday School Board's church Ukrainian Baptist Church, now three the subject of death "used to be openly music department, will be performed by discussed in our society but sex was years old, hopes to become an the William jewell College Choir, international center with other ethnic obscene." Liberty, Mo., directed by Wesley Forbis. Belgum, a University of Iowa religion groups using its !>uilding for services. professor and associate professor of is dying and wants to talk abo~t Already the infant church supports a medicine, said "now sex is openly dis­ his death and its implications for h1s Polish mission and has begun work with cussed and dying is obscene." family often is unable to find anyone Portuguese and Spanish speaking As a result, he said, a pers.on who willing to listen. people. 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April 29, 1971 Page 17 the doctor entered and declared, "Mr. The Christian faith gives this assurance Casteel, I have bad news and there is no of eternal, never-ending life. easy way to tell you. You. have cancer." My perspective of life is strangely He mentioned several methods of different now. Prior to this illness my treatment and seemed in a hurry to continual thanksgiving to God was leave. As he left, I was calling Barbara, largely ritualistic. Now, when I thank and enjoyed · my dinner as she was en him for each new day, it comes from the route to the hospital. innermost part of my soul. The song of My wife and I discussed the the bird outside my window is more imminency of death and how difficult it melodious and inspiring. The sun is is to accept separation after a marriage brighter; the moon clearer, the noise of As of only 15 years and my absence from children at play is a welcomed sound. our young children and their growing Christians are rewarded for the good up without a father. But the thought they do. Here again our reaction is never occurred to either of us that we based upon our concept of rewards. A could not or would not accept these reward is all too often thought of as I crushing facts. something tangible which is good and We were not angry with anyone and profitable. Indeed, I have already been least of all God. rewarded in many ways. For example, Our attitude is based upon our we are told that in the normal lifetime of concept of God as a personal, all-wise, a missionary, he may expect to establish ever-present, comforting and sustaining six or eight new churches. The Lord has face Being. Having believed this for most of richly blessed my humble efforts in that our lives, we were better fortified to we have seen the beginning of a dozen accept this grim prospect without anger churches and 2,000 persons have and with an attitude of profound trust. professed faith in Christ as Saviour. Being human, we did wonder why the Treasured rewards death problem had not been discovered But God's most treasured rewards are sooner. I had been examined by not seen by the human eye - they are numerous specialists and had been in eternal. Therefore, if I am not healed and out of the hospital for over a year. and I do in fact succumb to this disease, But the diagnosis had been difficult as this in eternal terminology will be my ' the early symptoms were misleading. greatest victory, my finest hour. For me, Now, after having read more about death has no sting; the grave wins no this type of canc::er, we are able to victory. It will merely be a change of sympathize with the many doctors who residence, a departing for my eternal attended me but were unable to make a home. diagnosis. We certainly are not angry I feel most fortunate to have had some with any of them - we only pray that advance warning. The Lord has given.me through God's wisdom medical science the opportunity and insight to get my will be successful in its quest for a cure By Albert M. Casteel will in order, to make arrangements for for this dreaded disease. my funeral and burial, and to obtain for Albert and Barbara Casteel have been Divine healing my wife all the information concerning missionaries under the HMB since 1958. We believe in divine healing and we benefits upon which she and the When the disease was di.scovered, the are convinced that God does heal - children can depend for their material couple was in Louisville where he had. even cancer - if he so desires. We existence. been studying at Southern Seminary. furthermore believe that God can take I am happy that I will not leave this The diagnosis was made at Baptist this disease that I have, seemingly a burden to her at a time when she will Hospital. Presently they live at 3002 chastening defeat to many, ana turn it have all too many decisions to make. Dudley Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee into a glorious victory for himself. Also, Knowing that the end could come any 37212, while Casteel undergoe~ there are new means and methods by time has challenged me to give special treatment at Vanderbilt Universit~ and through which we can serve the and concentrated teachings to the Hospital. Lord and our fellowman. children and express certain last wishes We accept my illness as a unique to other members of the family. Most opportunity for service. During these people die without having the long months we have had many opportunity to do these things. privileges to extend our ministry by Honor due Lord expressing our faith in · the Lord to the If my attitude and faith is many who have visited my bedside. commendable, the honor is due the Letters go out daily giving voice to the Lord whom I have·tried to serve. If such assurance we have that God is with us, an assurance is desirable, it is readily that he has never left and will never available to anyone who has the volition leave nor forsake us. We also tell of to humbly cqnsign his life to Jesus Christ God's goodness to us by tape recordings by faith. No, I am not angry with God. which are exchanged with friends. It is truly marvelous to be able to say: Many have written asking my attitude Life itself is the greatest miracle. Since "For no one of us lives and equally no toward life since, at the age of 40 and the Christian thinks in terms of eternity, one of us dies to himself alone. If we with a devoted wife and four lovely he does not concern himself too much live, we live for the Lord and if we die we children, my year-long illness is with the brevity of a life span - be it 40 die for the Lord. Whether therefore we diagnosed as incurable cancer. years or 80. How can this brief live or die, we belong to the Lord" My dinner tray had just arrived when pilgrimage be compared to eternity? (Romans 14:8, NEB). Page 18 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE English see need for Brazil missions New Christian communities are grow­ ing in Brazil almost faster than it is pos­ sible to train leaders, a missionary told the British Baptist Missionary Society. The need for more missionaries there is urgent; because the gospel is spread­ ing like a prairie fire, the missionary continued. The added .missionaries would help train Brazilians to become pastors or to Heacock Pylant Means become pioneer evangelists. The state­ ment was made at the meeting of the Three Southwestern Baptist Theolog­ Curry School of Expression, Boston, society's general committee in London. ical Seminary graduates whose acco­ Diploma of General Culture; W.M.U. The committee also learned that in plishments include preaching, teaching, Training School, Louisville, bachelor the Bolobo area of Congo, 1,165 con­ writing, denominational work and for­ of missionary training; Texas Christian verts were baptized last year. Member­ eign missions service will be honored University, Ft. Worth, bachelor of arts; ship of congregations in this region as 1971 Distinguished Alumni at the and Southwestern' Seminary, master of now has reached close to 10,000. Southwestern alumni luncheon in St. religious education. Last-minute gifts enabled BSM to Louis june 2. She and her late husband worked end its fiscal year with a surplus of al­ Joe Davis Heacock (MRE '39, DRE '50), with state missions in rural Virginia, most L8,000 ($19,000), the Baptist Times, Agnes D. Pylant (MRE '29), and Frank K. leading five churches to become self­ weekly London-based denominatio.nal Means (ThM '38, ThD '45) will be award­ supporting. They headed a mountain newspaper, reported. (EBPS) ed the seminary's highest recognition school in Virginia, then taught together of graduates. for seven years at Wayland College. Madrid church houses Heathcock, dean of the School of Dr. Means is secretary for South Religious Education since 1956, has been America for the Foreign Mission Board. Spanish Baptist Seminary on the faculty since 1944. He is a native In this capacity he administers the work The Spanish Baptist Seminary, which of Birmingham, Ala., where he earned of more than 600 missionaries assigned is moving from Barcelona to Madrid, -.the A. B. degree from Howard College in nine countries. will use facilities of a Madrid church (now Samford University) in 1928. His A native of Harwood, Mo., he at­ for the time being. alma mater honored him with a doctor tended Kansas City Junior College and Beginning in October 1971, classes of humanities deg~ee in 1960. graduated from Oklahoma Baptist Uni­ will convene temporarily in the build­ Mrs. Pylant, a 1929 master of religious versity with the A. B. degree and from ing of Immanuel Baptist Church, in the education graduate, is the second wo­ Southwestern Seminary with the Th .M. eastern part of Madrid, just off the main man to be designated a Distinguished and Th. D. degrees. He did further w,ork highway to the city airport. Immanuel Alumnus. Floy Barnard was honored at Southern Ser:ninary and was awarded serves an English-language congrega­ with the award in 1967. the honorary doctor of laws degree tion, made up mair;Jiy of American mili­ Mrs. Pylant's education indludes: byOBU. tary personnel and their families. Meanwhile, seminary officials are still seeking a permanent site. Several spots around Madrid are being con­ sidered, a c c o r d i n g to Gerald Five Baptist publica~ions win A. McNeely, seminary director. (EBPS) Associated Church Press awards Pastors conference PHILADELPHIA, Pa . (BP)- Five South­ Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, set for New Orleans ern Baptist publications were among Richmond. Floyd North is editor. The The ninth annual pastors conference award winners in competition spon­ Commission also won two awards for will be held on t)Je campus of the New sored by the Associated Church Press, general excellence and best article or Orleans Seminary, July 12-16. with three winning the highest awards series of articles. The conference, which will feature given. The top "Award of Merit" for excel­ lence of editorial advocacy was pre­ studies in the Old and New Testaments, The Baptist Record weekly state news­ sented to The Illinois Baptist, edited discussions, lectures, and sermons, will paper published by the Mississippi Bap­ by Robert ]. Hastings, Carbondale, Ill. also provide time for library study and tist Convention, won fo.ur different Baptist Standard, weekly newspaper fellowship for those who attend. Of awards in the news journal category, of the Baptist General Convention of interest to pastors' wives who come including the top "Award of Merit" Texas, won three awards : for general with their husbands will be daily sessions for general excellence. Edited by joe excellence, best use of photography, led by Mrs. Marjorie C. Rowden, T. Odie, jackson, Miss., the paper also and excellence of editorial advocacy. director of public relations at William won awards for best reportage, best John Hurt, Dallas, is editor. Carey College, Hattiesburg, Miss., and a use of photography, and for excellence Home Missions, monthly magazine former-missionary. of editorial advocacy. Landrum P. Leavell II, pastor of the published by the SBC Home Missions First Church, Wichita Falls, Tex., and The top "Award of Merit" for best Board, won reco·gnition for excellence president of the Southern Baptist use of photography in the magazine of editorial advocacy in the magazine Pastor's Conference, will speak at the category went to The Commission, category. Walker L. Knight, Atlanta worship hour each evening. monthly magazine published by the is editor. April 29, 1971 Paga 19 Children's nook __------"------

ONE of the strangest but most useful animals is the About four million camels are known to be in the camel. For thousands of years, it has meant life to world today. Most of them live in northern Africa, desert dwellers. These people drink the thick, Arabia, and India. cheeselike milk, use the fat from the hump for butter, We read in the Old Testament that Pharaoh and eat the meat of young camels. They male-tents, presented camels to Abraham and that Job had six blankets, and clothing from its hair. When the camel thousand camels. Scientists believe the first camels dies, they use the hide for sandals and water bags. lived in North America many, many years ago. These The camel can carry a man or several hundred were small, humpless animals about the size of rabbits. pounds of freight across the hot desert sand. That is Nobody knows just why they disappeared. why it is often called the "ship of the desert." A few years before the War between the States, sixty Its broad two-toed feet keep it from sinking into the camels were brought to the southwestern United sand. Its eyes are shaded by overhanging lids that States. When the war broke out, some of the camels protect them from the. windblown sand and glaring escaped. A few wild camels were still around as late as sun. The nostrils have slits which keep closing and 1907, but none have been seen since. opening like tiny venetian blinds. Theji~ keep out the Camel corps serve as active military units for service sand, yet allow the animal to breathe. in the desert in various countries. Each soldier of the Camels eat almost anything found on the Sahara Camel Corps has two camels. One is in pasture desert-dates and crushed date stones, twigs, thistles, while the other is on patrol. Twice a year they change and thorny bushes. During the summer, however, places. Without this six months' vacation the camel there is little food for the camel on the desert. would die. · The Arabs start training young camels to go without With the coming of the automobile and the airpla'ne water for four' days. By the ti'me they are full-grown, to the desert, the camel began to lose its popularity as a they can go for a week or more without food or water. means of transportation. Even the horse seems to be The necessary water is drawn from the tissues and from preferred. If a horseback rider becomes lost, he can the fat in the hump. When water is again available, the give his horse the reins and it will find its way back. The camel will replace that which it has lost, sometimes as "ship of the desert" doesn't have that much sense. And much as twenty-five gallons, all at one drinking. As the nobody wants t9 stay lost on a sea of sand. fat is restored by normal eating, the hump gradually swells until it returns to its regular size. (Sunday School Board Syndicate, all rights reserved) SHIP OF THE DESERT By Edna A/strom

Page 20 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sunday School lesson God's call to ethical living International May 2,1971 By Vester E. Wolber . Amos 5:4,6,7,10-15,21-24; Religion Department, Ouachita Baptist University 9:7,8,14,15

These · passages from the fifth and justice in the gate (in courts) and the order. Social service is not the gospel, ninth chapters of Amos set out God's Lord might see fit to spare the remnant but the gospel does contain social demands for ethical conduct. From the of Israel (v. 15). implications; and when the gospel is call of Israel at Sinai, God had made 3. Trust in God and not in religious turned loose in the social order it ethical demands on his people. In his ceremony (21-24). God said to the ferments like yeast and seeks to Sermon on the Mount, Jesus carried leaders of Israel "I despise your feasts, permeate and transform the whole. forward these same moral standards and take no delight in your solemn Society is jointly occupied of the forces with the statement that unless his assemblies," and said "I will not accept of God and the forces of evil, each disciples exceeded in righteousness them." seeking to unseat the other. greater than that of the scribes and Why did the Lord refuse to respect a Jesus taught in the parable of the Tares Pharisees they could not enter the ritual which He had established through that His kingdom will not be able to Kingdom (Matt. 5:20). Moses, and why did He say "Take away eradicate the kingdom of evil until the The people of God are always from me the noise of your songs"? The end, He also taught that, despite · its •confronted with two ent1c1ng answer is obvious from the context: they joint-occupancy by the two kingdoms, temptations: to substitute ceremony for had substituted ritualism for spirituality, the social order when carefully prepared spiritua'lity, and to divorce religion from and had divorced their religion ·from its can produce an abundant harvest of morality. Both of these problems existed ethical demands. choice fruit (Matt. 13:18-23, 36-43). in Bethel where Amos went to do battle 4. Let justice and righteousness prevail with them. (v. 24). Here is the thesis of Amos: it calls Warning and promise (Ch. 9) Challenges and demands (Ch. 5) for justice and fair play in the social The ·two passages from the ninth The passages to be studied in this order. chapter do two things: they warn that chapter issue God's challenge to seek Spiritual religion is like a liquid in the Lord was determined to destroy the the Lord and pursue goodness, while form and is able to fit into the cultural sinful nation of Israel, and they promise demanding that social justice and · - molds of any society, but once that that destruction will not be total. A community righteousness prevail. established sets about to establish its remnant of the house of Jacob will be 1. Seek the Lord and stop trusting in own molds. It is .exceedingly intolerant preserved. Bethel (5 :4,6). Amos called on his people of ethical diviations from its true norm. to "Seek God and live" rather than trust When ethical teachings of the. Christian Although the captivity of Israel by the in the religious institutions of Bethel religion and ethical practices of the Assyrians in 722 B.C. brought to an end because they were already marked for Christian people are se riously the nation of Israel. Judah surviveGl and destruction (v. 5). contradictory; tensions develop in the when it finally fell a remnant returned to The prophet touched a tender spot in Christian community and in the society rebuild the temple. Perhaps some of the Israel when he charged .them with of which it is a part. descendants of the northern nation "temple trust"-a weakness which has While it is true that Christ changes joined with them. cropped up many times in human society by changing individuals who history. Late in the following century, make up that society, it is also true that Only a spiritual remnant of the Jeremiah stood on the temple steps in one of the primary means which He descendants who returned actually Jerusa lem and warned Judah against employs in changing individuals is th~ir returned unto the Lord, and Paul was trusting in the temple to provide involvement in changing the social quick to identify himself with that true security. He told them to go look at remnant (Rom. 11 :1-4). God has 'never Shi loah where God ruled all Israel abandoned His people, but He cannot through the great Samuel: it had been The Outlines of the International Bible Lesson for adopt any person who refuses to accept demolished, just as the temple at Christian Teaching, Uniform Series, are copyrighted the true light of His ultimate revelation by the International Council of Religious Education. Jerusalem would be destroyed. At the Used by permission. in Christ. dawn of the Reformation period Martin Luther found that men were trusting in their authoritative church to protect them in this life and in the life to come. ARE YOU CALLED INTO FULL-TIME He called on them to trust in Chris.t rather than in Rome for their spiritual The Robert G. Lee Chapel CHRISTIAN SERVICE? security. )/ceding thorough training in Bible, homiletics, church 2. Seek after good and not evil (10-15). administration, evangelism, Christian history, religious Amos told the fat cats of Bethel that they education, church music, and related subjects? hated the man who stood for justice, Wanting these only in a and abhored the one who spoke the Southern Baptist school? truth (v. 10). Thus they turned justice But lacking either your high school or college credits, or otherwise preferring not to under· into wormwood (bitterness) and take the college and seminary, seven-year route? trampled righteousn ess under foot (v. 7). Three-year, seminary-type courses. Fees only, no tuition, for student wives. Greed for stone houses and pleasant SUMMER SESSION, MAY 24- JUNE .18 vineyards possessed the judges, and BAPTIST BIBLE INSTITUTE bribes COI"ltrolled their courts (11,12). Uniquely plannr.d for ones The messenger for the Lord called on 1306 College Drive rvirhout collt•ge d egrees Graceville, Florida 32440 the city dads of Bethel to establish April29, 1971 Page 21 Sun~ySchoollaun~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A nation against God life and Work May 2,1971 By C. W. Brockwell, }r. jeremiah 2:1-19;3:6-5:31 Minister of Education, Calvary Baptist Church, NLR "Think" · became an identifying the ones she replaced. dragged it through the halls of watchword for a major c.orporation in "The sins of Judah· had brought about prostitution in the name of idol worship. the United States a few years ago. It was an abominable situation in'the land. The They had disgraced him before all the not a new word for it had filtered down land had become polluted with idolatry nations. Slowly, God's anger grew in through history from God's throne. One and immorality. Few people of our day intensity until he was ready to let them day that very idea passed through Judah. understand the relation of idolatry and perish at the hands of a godless people. jeremiah broadcast it but it fell on deaf immorality. The fallacy of idol worship is Yet his one promise to, them was to stop ears. This lesson is a review of what God more than the fallacy of bowing down to his anger from destroying them. They said to his people in their moment of sticks and stones. The folly of idol ignored him. deepest rebellion. worship is that it has no ethical or moral "Oh, my rebellious children, come compulsion because there is no back to me again and I will heal you The honeymoon is over personal God of character and holiness from your sin," was God's last plea. Only once since the beginning of time to serve as a constraining force to And that goes for us all! has God taken one man (Abraha.m) and righteous living. Man becomes like that through him created a nation (Israel). It which he worships. Christians are to be was a beautiful thing-so simple and so holy because the God whom they CHURCH FURNITURE important. Israel was nothing but slaves worship is holy. The greatest sin of with a pocketful of promises until God Judah's day was not the name by which sent Moses to deliver her and joshua to she called her God but the perverted lead her. Like a new marriage, God and At character which she developed because Israel had everything going for them. of the worship of 'gods which are no Then Israel, barely into Canaan, decided god'" (Fred Wood). A God was old fashioned and not good jeremiah illustrated this with the enough for modern times. So she turned pjcture · of the broken cisterns. The Price against ·him. Have you ever heard of people rejected the spring of fresh water such a thing? (Jehovah worship) for the convenience It would be like a child accepting the of cistern water (idols). jehovah provisions of his parents and then Any Church Can Afford demanded moral and spiritual discipline turning against them in adulthood. but idolatry appealed to their basest It would be similar to a citizen using desires as a means of worship. As a WAGONER BROTHERS his freedom of speech to incite. hatred consequence, God did not take away for his country. MANUFACTURING CO. their right to worship idols but he did It would be comparable to an Write or Call take away their right to do it in the land employee giving away confidential of plenty. The choice is very clear: Phone OR 5-2468 information about his employer while worship God in freedom or worship BOONEVILLE, ARKANSAS still on the payroll. idols in slavery. Or worse. You see, God works so much in the The incredible invitation No man can escape the compassion of background that we may easily appropriate his accomplishments as our God. You may escape his fellowship ~ut very own. Then we get restless for a never his love. Israel and Judah went as far as any change and decide to switch our nation could go. They desecrated God's allegiance. . name and defiled his investment in them you )II provtde How ridic.ulous! How utterly insane! by calling upon false gods. It was Yet we do it all the time. We pray for enough to justify any punishment. Yet ·beautiful blessings (like rain) and then ignore God as the source of it. Indeed, the God offered forgiveness. MUSIC honeymoon is over! Incredible timing. God offered forgiveness at the height of Judah's sin. for your church .. Something exchanged for nothing She had no desire to change, felt no Jeremiah called it like it was. Israel .. . when you avail yourself need of God, knew no sense of guilt. But of Houck's complete Church gave up the only one who ever cared God offered forgiveness! Did not jesus Music se rvices. Satisfy your anything for her. Egypt could not care offer forgiveness when they were musica I needs in an atmo· less about the happiness of Israel. The crucifying him? God does not wait for sphere of friendly know-hpw Canaanites could not stand Israel's with complete church-oriented reform. He is ready to forgive long facilities. You and your music intrusion into their territory. Only God before we are ready to seek forgiveness. committee have only to call­ cared when they were slaves in Egypt. Incredible promise. God's people had or come by! Only God cared when they wandered in done all they could think of to hurt God. S erving Mu.~ ic Since 1897 the wilderness. Only God cared in their They had taken his help, taken his I march into Canaan. What a great God! guidance and even taken his name and But Israel promptly gobbled up false MUSIC CO. religion like it was going out of style. She This lesson treatment is based on the Life and Work Curriculum for Southern Baptist Churches, copyright fell into the quicksand of idolatry and by The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist LITTLE ROCK • FR 2·2259 sank out of sight. She was no better than Convention. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Page 22 ARKANSAS BAPTIST NEWSMAGAZINE Index The unsaamly Attendance report A smile or two April 21, 1971 8-Baptist Medical Center contracts let, p.11; Beacon Lights, p. Sunday Training Ch. 10; Bookshelf, p. 12. Church School Union Addns. C-Casteel, Albert M., "As I face death," p. 16; Clabe in People Alexander, First 45 23 magazine, p. 5; Cowling, Dale on Midwestern Seminary special Basic economics Alicia 56 44 faculty, p. 14. Banner, Mt. Zion D-l?nmore, Steve misSionary to speak, p. 11. "I think," stated Junior with that voice 32 F-f•eld, Bobbv on RA program, p. 13; Floyd, John, Missionary Berryville on motorcycle, p. 6-8. of authority, "That two people can live First 145 37 j- Jones, Tom sets' record, p. 9. Freeman He ights 124 34 K--Kerr, Charlotte Miss OBU, p. 9. as cheaply as one." l - Lake City's First Church's Semor Citizens class, p. s. Rock Springs 81 60 M-Mashburn, Deborah, scholarship winner, p. 11; May, lynn, "Of course," replied his tired father. Blytheville, Calvary 243 120 named to historical post p. 14; Missionary apfointments (3 Camden, First 423 75 Arkansas couples), p. 10; Mt. Tabor celebrates, p. 1 . "Your mother and I live on just about 0-0secola's East Side groundbreaking, p. 9. the same amount of money it takes to Cherokee Village 105 24 2 S-Shirley, Homer W. at Crossett, p.11. Crossett 534 141 W- Woman's viewpoint, p. 12. keep you." Mt.Oiive 317 154 ElDorado * * * Caledonia 40 33 Ebenezer 153 52 How to get rid Neat trick Temple 42 30 Farmington, First 116 54 of your pastor Aboard ship a magician was Forrest City, First 527 315 10 By Arthur House Stainback entertaining the guests-all except a Ft. Smith parrot hanging nearby. Even when the First 1156 466 9 Jefferson City, Mo. Grand Avenue 648 255 3 How to get rid of your pastor? magician made a pigeon disappear, the Moffett Mission 42 The answer is simple. Do it the same bird shouted "Faker!" Haven He ights 288 161 3 Suddenly an explosion destroyed the Phoenix Village 138 75 1 way you went about calling him. Gentry, First 187 74 1 Usually, when a church is seeking a ship, and the parrot landed on raft Gree nwood, First 261 112 6 pastor, they select several of their most occupied by the magician. After two Hampton, First 182 9B 30 days of merely sitting and staring at the Hardy, First 44 22 2 spiritual and dependable members. This Harrison committee usually spends much time in man, the bird finally spoke up! Batavia 76 35 2 prayer and searching the facts. The "All right, you win! What did you do Eagle Heights 218 54 with the ship?" He lena, First 253 78 church should also want to hear what Hope, First 370 143 the proposed pastor has to say. The Hot Springs * * * lake Hamilton 103 27 entire church membership joins in lakeshore He ights 126 53 6 prayer. They move only as they feel the Naturally, Mountain Valley 62 39 Lord leads. When they have prayed and Jacksonville Father: "Now, children, who was the Bayou Meto 130 60 4 feel God's leadership, a man is most obedient last week and did First 346 98 1 82 recommended and called as pastor. everything motherasked them to do?" Second 213 Now, on the other hand, in getting rid Jonesboro Children: "You were, daddy." Central 439 187 4 of your pastor, would you select a Nettleton 250 113 2 committee of known critics and * * * l ake Village, Parkway 64 28 1 little Rock complainers? Would you ask for rumors On little eat's feet Crystal Hill 158 90 • 9 and gossip without facts? Would you Two Indians watched the white men Geyer Springs First 671 248 1 building a lighthouse. One night after it life line 602 165 2 also want to hear the pastor's side? Woodlawn 150 66 2 Would you spend time on the phone was completed, the Indians t0ok up luxora, First 72 27 plugging a candidate rather than time in their accustomed stations as a thick fo'g Magnolia, Central 603 206 3 . started to roll in. Marked Tree, First 176 62 prayer? Would you call secret meetings Melbourne and work to build up a quorum of folk "Ugh," said one Indian to the other, Be lview 113 55 3 no one knew were members until that "light shine, bell ring, horn blow, but First 179 53 3 Monroe 72 15 3 fateful night? Would you ask those who fog come in just the same." Monticello seldom attend, never work and rarely North Side 112 77 * * * Second 218 87 2 give to either be on the committee or Murfreesboro, Mt. Moriah 45 24 2 vote for a pastor? Lucky numberl North little Rock The answer is simple. There are two A woman telephoned a friend and Calvary 362 174 asked how she was feeling. Gravel Ridge First 148 94 methods suggested. Use the same l evy 3B2 163 procedure to remove a pastor that you "Terrible," answered the friend. "My Park Hill 713 170 used to call one. head's splitting and my back and legs are Sixteenth Street 58 33 killing me ... and the house is a mess Sylvan Hills First 263 82 Paragould, East Side 245 115 and the children are simply driving me Pine Bluff crazy." Centennial 197 82 7 First 672 146 4 "Listen," the caller said, "go and lie Green Meadows 57 20 down. I'll come over right away and Second 162 64 cook lunch for you, clean the house and South Side 629 168 4 Oppe lo 17 14 take care of the children while you get Tucker 16 13 some rest. B.y the way, how is Sam?" St. Charles 73 20 "Sam?" the complaining housewife Springdale Be rry Street 109 58 4 asked. Elmdale 439 90 LIKE SWEET ONIONS? NEW "Yes ... Your husband." Mission 12 Texarkana, Hickory Street 286 B3 23 BLUE RIBBON ASSORTMENT "I've got no husband named Sam." Mission 46 600 SWEET ONION PLANTS "My heavens!" gasped the first Van Buren, First 413 168 with free planting guide $4.20 woman, "I must have dialed the wrong Jesse Turner Mission 8 postpaid fresh from Texas Onion numbe r." Chapel 44 Plant Company, "home of the Vandervoort, First 49 15 There was a long pause. "Are you still W arren sweet onion," Farmersville, coming over?" the other woman asked, Immanue l 258 98 Texas 75031 Westside 68 3B hope in her voice. . West Memphis, Van. Ave. 104 65 April 29, 1971 Page 23 In the world of religion ______Private colleges 'in the red' The Association of American Col­ leges, after surveying the nation's pri­ vate colleges and universities, reports Swiss council plans charter meeting; that the ave'rage private institution in every region of the country is "firmly Swiss Baptist Union participating in the red" and will "not long be able to serve higher education and the nation with strength unless significant The charter meeting of the new Swiss in Switzerland. In cantons where Protes­ aid is soon forthcoming." national church council will probably tants hold the majority, the official Among church-related institutions, take place in July. The Swiss Baptist church is Reformed. It is the Roman Seventi1-Day · Adventists support their Union has voted overwhelmingly to Catholic Church in cantons where its colleges "more handsomely" than any become a charter member of it. members are a majority in the popula­ other denominational body, providing tion. A spirit of openness has been visible over $1 million a year, on the average, In some cantons, more than one in all discussions held so far, it was re­ to each of their institutions. ported. church is regarded as official. "Not surprisingly," the report states, The new national church council "theirs· is also the largest contribution Along with Swiss Baptist Union would embrace all four language re­ in terms of support as a percentage of (1,500 members), the following also gions _(German, French, Italian, Ro­ current fund expenditure. It is nearly will become charter members-Swiss· mansch) of Switzerland, although the 12 percent of the budget." Reformed Church (3 million members), Swiss Baptist Union is concentrated The report said that the second largest Roman Catholic Church (2.5 million in the German-speaking portion. supporter in terms of average dollars members), Old C a t h o I i c Church The council's executive body would per institution is the Southern Baptist (30,000), and Methodist Church (17,000) . have 10 members each from the Re­ Convention, which supplies its institu­ The Salvation Army has also been par­ formed and Roman Catholic Churches, tions an average of $282,000 per year. ticipating in discussions. and two each from other member de­ "Its place," the report states, "would There is no official nationwide church nominations. (EBPS) be supplanted if contributed services, and important form of 'church' support afforded Roman Catholic institutions, were included in this tabulation. In any event, on the basis of support as a per­ centage of budget, second place belongs to the Church of the Nazarene, which provides its colleges nearly ten Gallup shows unrest Priest excommunicated percent of their current fund budgets. "Five denominations average over among clergymen in secret marriage $200,000 per year in support to their SAN FRANCISCO (EP)- A well-liked colleges and eight denominations pro­ PRINCETON, N.J. (EP)- Nearly four vide over five percent of the current out of every 10 young Protestant and Roman Catholic pastor, Robert F. Dur­ yea Jr., was excommunicated and dis­ operating fund budgets of the colleges Roman Catholic clergymen have con­ related to them." sidered leaving the religious life, a missed from leadership of the thriving, 4,000-member St. Peter's Catholic The report was prepared by William Gallup poll shows. W. ]ellema, AAC executive associate Church Pacifica here when church and research director, and involved The proportion of disillusioned and authorities discovered he had been 733 of the nation's 762 private colleges bewildered ministers is even higher married for nearly seven years. (six in 10) among young jewish clergy­ and universities. men. Duryea and his 30-year-old wife have a five-year-old son, Paul, named for The poll quoted a Methodist minister the present pope. from Virginia as saying' "The laity has grown complacent. They have become Parish lay leaders and other clergy a hindrance to the true aims of the expressed shock at the discovery but church. They want a social club rather some members of the church said his than an active and challenging organ­ "leadership in our community· as. ization." a married priest has been excellent." Duryea, 49, was vice president of the A Catholic priest in Ohio said: "I Priests' Synod of the San Francisco Arch­ feel unworthy to guide people - I diocese and an elected member of the could make a better contribution out­ Archdiocesan Council of Pastors, be­ side the church." sides pastoring the thriving church. Said an Illinois rabbi: "My role seems A statement by the 15-member parish to be an exercise in futility - I hate council said: "Because of our exper­ the loneliness." ience with Father Duryea, we feel that Questions in the postal survey com­ the church's rule of celibacy which pleted last month were answered by deprives our community of a minister 2,517 clergymen. The results under­ such as Father Duryea should be score a major problem in religious cir­ changed as soon as possible." cles today - the diminishing ranks of trained leadership. One estimate is that at least 3,000 Protestant ministers, or one percent of the total, are leaving four per cent of all priests in the U. S. the church each year and approximately are dropping out annually.