"THE STANDARD JULY 15, 1968 • God's DEW Line D The Bible, Science and Creation • Why Harvest Curriculum? Directory Baptist General Conference Letters relative to missionary matters and all contributions designated for missionary purposes should be addressed to BAPTIST GENERAL CONFERENCE The Reality 5750 N. Ashland Ave.. Chicago, 111. 60626 Tel. (Area Code 312) 275-3590 BOARD OF TRUSTEES LLOYD W. DAHLQUIST. General Secretary Of Your Love' EDWARD J. HALES, Director of Stewardshiv HOME MISSIONS GORDON H. ANDERSON, Secretary HARVEY R. HILL, Assistant to Secretary ROBERT E. NORSTROM, Director of Promotion OVE guides us in two ways. "For the love of Christ GEORGE SALSTRAND, Church Capital Funds controls us," says Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:14. Here L FOREIGN MISSIONS it is His love for us which draws us to Him. FRANKLIN NELSON. Secretary In 2 Corinthians 8:8, using the Phillips translation, we DALE BJORK, Administrative Assistant ALBERT J. BERGPALK, Associate Secretary read, "Here is a way to GARNET O. JENKINS. Associate Secretary prove the reality of your PUBLICATIONS love." This is our love in ORIEL L. HANSEN. Business Manager, Secretary response to His. DAVID OLSON. When men are motivat­ Editor, Christian Ed. Publications DONALD E. ANDERSON, ed by the love of Christ Editor. THE STANDARD for them and their love BIBLE SCHOOL & YOUTH WORK LAWRENCE F. SWANSON. Secretary for Him it will provide a GUNNAR HOGLUND. Youth Director new dimension to the L. TED JOHNSON, practice of Christian stew­ Children's Work and Camping ardship. Giving of one's MEN'S WORK self and one's resources is LLOYD MATTSON. Secretary not to be measured on the WOMEN'S WORK DOROTHY DAHLMAN, Secretary basis of external need. MARY LOU REYCRAFT, Associate Secretary Budgets, emotional ap­ PASTORS' RETIREMENT PLAN peals and dramatic presentations may have their place but H. WYMAN MALMSTEN, Administrator they do not adequately represent to me what I must do be­ 3949 Bethel Dr.. St. Paul. Minn. 55112 fore God. The only proper answer to my need to give is based on what God has done and will do for me. Our great­ All correspondence related to the educa­ tional program or financial contributions to est concern is not what is your share of the budget, but it should be addressed to what is God's share of your income. Christian stewardship BETHEL COLLEGE springs from a life motivated by love. 1480 N. Snelling Ave., St. Paul. Minn. 55101 "Let Love Guide You" is the theme for the first Confer­ Tel. (Area Code 612) 646-4501 CARL H. LUNDQUIST, President ence Every Member Call program. It is solidly based on WALTER W. WESSEL, Acting Dean scriptural principles and is worthy of consideration for use BETHEL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY in your church. 3949 Bethel Drive, St. Paul. Minn. 55112 EDWARD J. HALES, Tel. (Area Code 612) 633-6880 Director of Stewardship CARL H. LUNDQUIST. President GORDON G. JOHNSON. Dean VANCOUVER BIBLE INSTITUTE 15100 66A Ave. R.R. No. 14 North Surry, B. C. Tel. (Area Code 604) 596-7105 COMING NEXT ISSUE: Report of Davenport Conference THE STANDARD Introducing— . • T & HaafflMMl <"i||| mi'lr H Official organ of the Baptist General Conference JULY 15, 1968 VOL. 58, No. 15 In this issue: 2. 'The Reality of Your Love' Edward J. Hales 8. God's DEW Line Robert V. Bahr Robert V. Bahr God appoints His watchmen in the spiritual warfare 16. Let Love Guide You Edward J. Hales OBERT V. BAHR, Bethel Seminary senior from British Columbia, Steivardship is response, not duty haRs a special interest in the neglected peoples of North America. He taught 23. The Bible, Science and Creation—How to for a year on an Indian reservation Interpret the Evidence Millard J. Erickson in northern British Columbia where A chapter from the new book The New Evangelical he observed and responded to the Theology plight of the Indians. Mr. Bahr became a Christian dur­ 25. Why Harvest Curriculum? Lloyd D. Mattson ing his senior year in high school Answers to a very important question through the faithful ministry of the youth group at Delbrook Baptist 27. Distinctives of the Pastor's Instruction Class Church, North Vancouver, B. C. Soon Another in a series of Christian education agencies after he sensed that God was calling him into the ministry. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1963 with a B.A. The following year he went on Introducing 3 Bethel College and Seminary . 18 to secure a teaching degree. Then in Editor's Notebook 4 Conference Women .... 23 the fall of 1964 he took a position Editorial 5 Conference Youth 21 teaching on the Indian reservation. Book Review 6 Conference Men 21 Mr. Bahr enrolled in Bethel Semi­ Stewardship 7 In Brief 22 nary in 1964 and hopes to complete his studies there next spring. He Church News 10 TIPS 25 will then return to Canada. Bible School 11 Church Directory 29 While attending Bethel he spent Home Missions 12 Classified Ads 30 an active year and a half as youth Foreign Missions 14 Religious News 31 director at University Avenue Con­ gregational Church, St. Paul. Cur­ rently he is pastor of Valley Bap­ tist Church, Lakeland, Minn. Mrs. Bahr, Marleen, is a graduate of the School of Psychiatric Nursing THE STANDARD Editorial Committee: Donald E. Anderson (Editor), Oriel L. Hansen in British Columbia. .They have a (Business Manager), David Olson, Lorraine Culver, Robert Hamlett. daughter, Lynette Dawn, age one year. Department Editors: Robert E. Norstrom (Home Missions), Albert J. Bergfalk (Foreign Missions), Perry Hedbetg (Bethel College and Seminary), Lawrence F. Swanson (Bible Mr. Bahr, who wrote the sermon School), Gunnar Hoglund (CYF), Lloyd Mattson (Men's Work), Dorothy Dahlman (Wom­ for this issue, was recently the re­ en's Work), David Olson (Tips). cipient of the first annual Maurice A. (Duff) Wessman Memorial Scholar­ Photo credit: page 27, H. Armstrong Roberts. ship, a scholarship established by the family and friends of Mr. Wessman to encourage students for the parish Published every other Monday by Harvest Publications, 5750 N. Ashland Avenue, Chicago, III. 60626. Telephone 275-3590. Subscription price: one year in U. S. A. or foreign countries, $3.50. Printed ministry. • In U. 8. A. Second Class Postage Paid at Newton, Kansas 67114. JULY 15,1968 EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK A world of people since the be­ ginning of time have contributed their words and works to the stream of history. Influence does not cease The Touch of a Life with death. The word influence means "to flow in." Good influence on our lives can be cancelled with HE NEW YORK TIMES Magazine heart massage without delay. De­ one careless act of our wills when T said 18 years ago of Helen Keller spite the massage and electrical we respond in the wrong way to sel­ who died last May: "All who come defribilation the heart would not fish motives or negative sugges­ near her are affected. No one is pick up its own rhythm and we con­ tions. The individual has the two­ quite himself. People mount to tinued with deteriorating hopes. fold responsibility of sifting the levels they had not thought them­ After the better part of an hour, as good and true from all the flow of selves capable of reaching. She I was taking my turn at the mas­ ideas that have come from time is without doubt under the impres­ sage, one of the team said, 'We past and incorporating them in the sion that most of us are better than might as well quit' and hardly had formulation of this his own life and we are. As Jo Davidson used to say, he mouthed it than I retorted with character, and then to contribute 'We are all good when we are with your old chapel aphorism, 'It is al­ his influence to the shaping of other Helen.' " ways too soon to quit'—and to my­ people's lives. Mankind does not A good life can have remarkable self added your benediction, 'Now have within itself the resources to shall we pray.' At this point the lift itself above helpless depravity. influence, just as one evil life can electrocardiogram spontaneously re­ God has intervened with the incar­ undo the good work done by many verted to a normal rhythm, and nation. To gain benefit from the people. pulse and blood pressure were life and work of Christ we must be An enduring eulogy has been bounding. We continued with the more than a little influenced by written of John Calvin by Bancroft: operation, and now five days later, Him; we must allow Him to be our "And so he continued, year after this patient is about to be discharg­ very life. Thus we may be what He year, solitary and feeble, toiling for ed. You might pass this on to the has directed us to be in our relation­ humanity, till after a life of glory, chapel group, but for professional ship to the world—the salt of the he bequeathed to his personal heirs reasons it had best be incognito." earth and the light of the world. • a fortune in books and furniture, in stock and bonds, not exceeding two hundred dollars, and to the world a purer reformation, a republican ethics is associated from the start spirit in religion, and the kindred And In with religious faith, goodness "for principles of republican liberty." its own sake" is interpreted uni­ Calvin's writings have shaped a versally as meaning "for the sake world of theological thought. of man." So it is not unnatural for This some ethical thinkers to think they Arnold Toynbee dedicated his have a duty to attack religion, or monumental history "To my Mother, for some antireligionists to take up for making me an Historian.