August 1, 1946 Arkansas Baptist State Convention
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Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1945-1949 Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine 8-1-1946 August 1, 1946 Arkansas Baptist State Convention Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbn_45-49 Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Mass Communication Commons, and the Organizational Communication Commons VOLUME 45 LITTLE ROCK. ARKANSAS. AUGUST 1. 1946 NUMBER 3C Dr. R. Paul Caudill, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Memphis and Sunday School lesson write1· for the Arkan sas Baptist, is on a six-weeks air tour of South Ame1·ica, surveying Southern Baptist Mission w01·k and opp01tunities. In this Commercial Appeal photo, Dr. Caudill illustrates the route of his journey. The trip is unde1· auspices gf the Foreign Mission Board, but is being financed by his chu1·ch and is the first of seveml such tours of va·rious parts of the globe con- templated on succeeding summers. · PAGE TWO ARKANSAS BA Twentieth Century Christianity THE HEARER IS RESPONSI~ LEADERS INSPECT ONE HUNGRY WORLD A Devotion by B. H. Duncan, Hot Sprins The Baptist Foreign Mission Board "When any one heareth the word of on July 15 received its first detailed re kingdom." port of the relief and rehabilitation sur The sower went forth to sow. It is assu vey being conducted by its executive sec that he did his best and then awaited th retary and secretary for the Orient, who scrutable processes of nature. Both the s left the States June 25. "Dr. Cauthen and the seed are presumed to be -all th and I reached Shang):lai at 6:15 a. m. expected of them. today (July i) ," Dr. Rankin writes. "By noon we were in a meeting of the All The point of the parable is the resp~ China Baptist Promotion and Relief bility of the soil, in this case the heare Committees. · . As I talk with them, the gospel message. Given a diligent s I find a question that insistently de and perfect seed, still one is not assur mands an answer. 'How can we, who harvest unless the soil is taken into ace have suffered so little and who have The soil must provide the conditions nece so much, help you?' to germination and the plant food nece "China today is a scene of ceaseless for growth and maturity. confusion. The current of life is sweep "And great multitudes were gathered ing this mass of people along at a mad gether unto Him" from. different classe rate, The tensions of trying to keep human society, from different trades from drowning are terrific. Stores are The baptist1·y is all that was left of the First professions, representing every degere of filled with food, clothes, and other ne Baptist Chw-ch of Fukuoka, Japan. The houses man virtue and achievement, frailty and cessities of life. Those who have money - shown in the picture have been built since the wm·. pravity-this was the soil into which can survive, but those who have not All over the war-stl'icken areas around the world the sowed the seed of the Kingdom. What ch' perish without the notice of the crowds. same picture of destruction and desolation may be had this seed of producing a harvest? It is our job to hunt down through this seen. may be certain of this: that no harvest mass of survivors and help the thou be produced except in those lives whose s sands who are perishing." The duty of Southern Baptists to restore their demolished property on foreign fields and to p1'Dvide respond and yield themselves to the life Dr. Rankin reports that many of the their missionaries with adequate facilities for their ers of the word of God. Baptist workers and their families are work and worship is imperative. This is our great getting enough food to keep them from Two words define the responsibility of day of opp01tunity on our mission fields. We must hearers: receptiveness and responsive! being objects of government relief aid, not, we will not fail. but they are living far below a normal The whole life should be open to receive or healthy level. "The energies of their word of God just as the furrow is ope1 lives are almost wholly consumed in making Rankin states. "Residences, churches, and receive the seed. And all one's power: their means cover their needs. This is true schools in the Shanghai and Canton areas body, mind and soul should respond f1 of practically every Baptist worker in China have been put into condition for use. The cost and without reservation to the demand -preachers, teachers, and all. of doing this is tremendous because of the the word of the Kingdom. "Through relief committees of the Baptist fearfully high prices and the lack of materials. "But he that received seed into the 1 conventions and associations in various parts But the on-going of God's Kingdom cannot ground is he that heareth the word, and of China, we plan to reach out to destitute be delayed because of expense," declares the derstandeth it; which also beareth fruit, people without regard to their religious con executive. bringeth forth, some an hundred fold, s nections," Dr. Rankin continues. "The money Dr. Rankin and Dr. Cauthen had priority sixty, some thirty" Matt. 13:23. will be used to feed the hungry and provide on Navy air transport by virtue of the fact ----000>---- the destitute." their trip was in the interest of relief and Rehabilitation of homes and ef church work rehabilitation, the second highest rating. They The Bible story in colored motion pict will be undertaken as rapidly as possible, Dr. also had divine priority. Some high-ranking is the .A-merican Bible Society's aim to J Americans in China this year have been com modern demands for visual education. pelled to wait as long as six months for pas duction will start with the Gospels. Rea sage from Shanghai to Canton; the mission of the Kings James text will be the only board secretaries made it the day they asked ration. The productions are sponsored jo for transportation, July 10. Passengers en by the Society and the Charles Anson l route to the Orient in May and June were ae Memorial Foundation. layed a week or more by preparations for the Bikini test; the secretareis spent a day in Honolulu and a day on Guam, according to schedule, going straight through to Shanghai. ARKANSAS BAPTIS 213 RADIO CENTER, LITTLE ROCK They will continue to survey needs in the Official Publication of the Arkansas Baptist Orient until late fall, when Dr. Rankin will Convention. Dr. Rankin Dr. Cauthen return to the States. C. E. BRYANT------· ED lONE GRAY_ ___ _ _ _.. EDITORIAL ASSIS' Publication Committee: C. W. Caldwell, FoJ Chairman; H. E. Wllliams, Pocahontas; Ernest 1 CENTRAL COLLEGE Salem; R. M. Abell, Jasper; Ralph Dodd, Stut' A Christian Institution I . M. Prince, Paragould. Entered Post Office, Little Rock, Arkansas, a1 CO~AY,ARKANSAS ond class mall matter. Acceptance for ma111ng a cial rate of postage provided in Section 1198, INVITES GIRLS OF ARKANSAS ber 1, 1913. 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But this family heard Southern Baptists' No Time to Sleep He Puts Men to Work plea for relief of the world's starving people, Pope County drys have not been willing to Dean Edward R. Welles of St. Paul's Epis They had no money, but they wanted to help. it on· their laurels since their overwhelming copal Cathedral at Buffalo, N. Y., figures that "We have no money," the woman told the ·ctory in a local option election some few women outnumber men in his congregation president of the Baptist W.M.S., "but we won eeks ago. Eternal vigilance, they sincerely by a ratio of about 3 to 1, and he's set out to der if canned food would be acceptable? My elieve, is the price of continued victory, and do something .about it. A lay team of 100 husband and I have discussed it, and we'd men is at work "to try to sell the rest of the they have published an advertisement in that like to give 100 quarts of canned vegetables men on the idea of coming to church regu ussellville paper with the pledge and preach and berries from our garden." ent. larly." In addition, the cathedral will pub She went on to explain that the gift must The words of that advertisement are so lish a magazine "for men only" and will run newspaper and radio advertising "slanted" be conditioned on whether the church could worthwhile to all Christian citizens of all buy the tin cans to be used.