Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine Arkansas Baptist History 3-19-1964 March 19, 1964 Arkansas Baptist State Convention Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbaptnews Part of the Christianity Commons, and the Mass Communication Commons Recommended Citation Arkansas Baptist State Convention, "March 19, 1964" (1964). Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine. 127. https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbaptnews/127 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arkansas Baptist History at Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. For more information, please contact [email protected]. By Ralph A. Phelps Jr. ,. Three crosses stand on Calvary's hill Amid tumultuous shouts below. Three men die slowly on their trees In bitter anguish, sufferirut so. A robber hangs for crimes he's done And, unrepentant, makes no plea For mercy as he slowly dies, A sinner damned eternally. A second convict also dies But pleads for grace: "Remember me!" A wasted life and nothing more Than Jesus' love to set him free. A guiltless, blameless, perfect man- The third between the convicts stands. The cross of Jesus towers high And lifts the world with nail-pierced hands. Three crosses loom ,against the sky­ A sinner lost, a sinner saved, And one who died for sin (Praise God!) To free my soul which was enslaved. ~hoto by Louis C. · William, Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST Arlansa~ Bapfisi--~-'-------EniroRIALs ~ prove their point. · ' · The ministers-four )3aptists, one Nazarene .and one Methodist-went. together to verify re~ ports that there was g·ambling and liquor sell~ng Houston or Memphis? in certain private clubs in their county. Accordmg to a report in The Christ1.an Index, Atlanta, their efforts resulted in the confiscation of 16 slot ma­ THIS is the question, as the Executive Com­ chines and ''several cases of whiskey,'' in two mittee of the Southern Baptist Convention looks week-end raids they led. for a meeting place for the annual meeting of The action came after Dr. Stanley R. Hahn, SBC for 1969. Having eliminated consideration of pastor of Dublin's First Baptist Church, wrote in other possible sites, the Committee ~ must recom­ his weeklv church bulletin an article declaring that mend -either Houston o.r Memphis for the 1969 slot. machines, "filthy magazines,., and whisk~y , meeting, in time for approval b~ the Convention sales and ''dirty movies'' were flourishing in the at Atlantic City, N. J., this spnng. city. ( Meeting places and dates previously approved Circuit Court Judge Harold E. Ward re-con­ are: 1965, Dallas, June 1-4 (where, incidentally, vened the Laurens County grand jury to investi­ the seating capacity is only 10,000); 1966, Detroit, gate Dr. Hahn's charges. Following the raids he May 24-27; 1967, New Orleans, May 23-26; and led, Dr. Hahn said: "V.le are ready with the full 1968, Jacksonville, Fla., May 21-24. facts to back up our statements.'' Since Memphis expects to have a new and ade­ Although preachers are not primarily police­ quate auditorium at its fairgrounds by ~he time· of men-either spiritual or otherwise-it is refresh­ ·our 1969 meeting, and since Houston IS already ing to hear of these brethren who take seriously adequate, we'd say the Committee will not go their citizenship as well as their oo.ll to preach wrong either way it decides. the gospel. Will this splendid example be worth anythmg \ to us here in Arkansas, where the underworld con­ tinues to thumb its nose at law enforcement, with Two men honored its wide-open operations in Hot Springs T · TWO prominent Southern Baptist Convention • leaders will b.e given special recognition for long Lessons tn bombs and distinguished years of service, at a session of I ·the Southern Baptist Convention at Atlantic City, "DYNAMITE will not stop the cause of in May: right," declared Pastor J olui Cross, of the Negro Courts Redford, of Atlanta, who will retire at the end of 1964 as executive secretary of the Home Mission Board; and ,C. C . .Warren, of Charlotte, N. C., who this year completes a dual assignment Jrb,~ llpfilt ,E~:.· ·~:~::. ·;:::. .... as chairman of the committee,planning SBC ac;tivi­ Evangelical . Press Ass'n ties during the Baptist Jubilee Advance and chair­ March 19, 1964 Volume 63, Number 12 man of the movement to ·establish $0,000 new SBC churches and missions during this church extension Editor, ERWIN L. McDONALD, Litt. D. project ending this year. Associate Editor, MRS. E. F. STORES . Plaques will be presented to Dr. Redford and Managing Editor, MRS. TED WooDS Dr. Warren, in the re'cognition exercises. Field Representative, J. I. CossEY Secretary to Editor, MRS. HARRY GIBERSON Mail Clet·k, MRs. · WELDON TAYLOR· 401 West Capitol . Little Rock, Arkansas Published weekly except on July 4 and December 26. Preacher (policeman' Second-class postage paid at Little Rock, Arkansas. Individual subscription, $2.26 per year. Church Budget, 14 cents per month or $1.68 per year per church family. Club plan (10 or more paid annually in advance) $1.76 per year. Subscriptions to foreign address, $3.76 per year. Advertising rates on request. -BLASTING gambling and liquor selling in the Articles carrying the author's by-line do not nece8Sal'ily reflect the editorial policy of the paper. dry county of Laurens, Georgia, six Dublin, Ga., AbbJ>eviations used in crediting news Items: BP Baptist Presij; CB Church ministevs tecently assumed the roles of police to Bulletin ; DP Daily Press ; EP Evangelical Press. MARCH 19, 1964 · ) Page Thre~e :Baptist church bombed in Birmingham, Ala., last ity that makes the irony and gives it its force. Did year-a bombing that took the lives of four girls no one smile as the story was told~ Did no one attending Sund~y School. see the irony with delight¥ Could any one, on the Speaking to the Aqvisory Council of Southern other hand, forget iU A modern teacher wo-q~d Baptists for Work with 1:-1 egroes, in Nashville, re­ have said, in our jargon, that the Pharisee had cently, Mr. Cross listed these other lessons as no sense of proportion-and no one would have learned from the bombing, still unsolved: thought the remark worth remembering.'' Laws of themselves do not eradicate hatred; Anyone who reads Matthew, Mark. and Luke When the gospel is not made relevant, it ceases with a relative I freedom from presuppositions to be effective in the hearts and minds of people. might be expected to see that Christ laughed, and Gifts to the bombed church total over $186,- that, He expected others to laugh, says Dr. True­ 000, exclusive of insurance, and every cent re­ blood. Anyone reading this new Trueblood book ceived has .been receipted, the pastor said. He will be delighted with its new perspective. thanked Southern Baptist churches and individu­ One point Dr, Trueblood makes that we should ais in Birmingham who responded to the tragedy. not overlook is that the humor of Christ is not an He said he continues to receive threatening let­ end in itself-even His "fun" fitting into the ters and insulting telephone calls. never-~ailing emphasis on the great plan of re· demption. Certainly the preacher who uses hi~ public speaking time, whether as preacher or after­ dinner speaker, merely to "be funny" without ever getting around to the message God has given him to deliver, is out of bounds. ~Humor of Christ' INCE I frequently attempt to make use of IN THIS ISSUE: humor in this column, it is encouraging to see aS new book by Elton Trueblood, the noted Quaker Bible scholar, entitled The HumQr of Christ, just , published by Harper and Row at $2.50. 'IT seems that it is ·a mutual love affail' be­ "To many readers," says Dr. True blood, "the tween Arkansas and the J. H. Streets. TQday as idea of Christ as humorous is sur-prising o.:r even Mrs. Street takes off f9r her new home on the mildly shocking." He shows that many of Christ's campus of New Orleans Seminary she bids fare­ teachings that are either incomprehensible or in­ well to her Arkansas home but not he'r Arkansas defensible if they are taken seriously, are bril­ friends (page 6). We are happy to report that Mrs. liantly clear if they are understood humorously. Street's column will continue to appear weekly in As just one example cited by Dr. Trueblood, the Arkansas· Baptist Newsmagazine. take what Christ said about the Pharisees ''strain­ * * * ing at a gnat and swallowing a camel.'' Dr. True­ Site for the i969 meeting will be a matter for blood thinks ''swallowing a c;amel is funny in any the SBC Executive Committee to recommend at language.'' He quotes from another writer, T. R. Atlantic City this spring. On page 3, the Editor Glover, who helps to bring out the humor as he looks at the matter of Houston or Memphis. pictures what would happen if a Pharisee actually * * * s:wallowed a camel: Our Sunday School lesson author takes the sub­ " ... he sets about straining what he is going ject of this week's study an:d composes a poem to drink-another elaborate process, and the series which you may want to clip and file. See ''Three of sensations, as the long hairy neck slid down the Crosses'' on page 2. throat of the Pharisee-all that amplitude of * * * loose-hung anatomy-the hump-two humps­ MAY 18 is the date, 9 :30 a.m.