The Baptist Record May 19. 1977

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Signs Central

Hills Contracts

Earl Kelly, right, executive secretary-treasurer, Mississippi Baptist Convention
Board, on Wednesday, May 11, signed the contract documents for grading, grub-
bing, and clearing at Centra! Hills Baptist Retreat near Kosciusko. Colvin Mann, left,
from Reynolds Engineering Company delivered the documents to Kelly's office. They
were the first contracts to be signed in the process of the Retreat’s construction.

Church’s Privileges

Withdrawn

COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) — Partici-
pation in annuity and state- Baptist
executive hoard privileges has been
withdrawn from Oak Hills Baptist
Church in Cincinnati because it is ‘‘out
of fellowship in practice or doctrine.”

The executive board of the State
Convention of Baptists in Ohio took
, unanimous action here on this recom-
mendation from a study committee
headed by Arthur L. Patterson, pas-
tor, First Baptist Church, Mason,
Ohio, in the Cincinnati area.

Patterson said the committee had'a
cordial meeting with Oak Hills Pastor
Allen Falls and one of the church
deacons but discovered through the
conference there is ‘‘too much di- ~

us.” The

vergence of doctrine between us:
discussion closed with a prayer, he ad-
ded.

Oak Hills Baptist Church, he re-
ported, engages in tongue speaking,
and has practiced alien immersion.
and foot washing as church ordi-
nances.

The church had previously been
voted out of membership in Cincinnati
Baptist ASsociation at its 1975 annual
meeting.

In Ohio

Asked about another Cincinnati
church dismissed from the association
at the same time, Patterson, said,
“Sayler Park Church has withdrawn
from us’’ (the state convention).

By contrast Oak Hills Church hoped
it could remain a part of the state con-
vention despite it’s divergent prac-
tices, Patterson indicated.

The executive board, by adopting its
committee recommendation, will also
propose to the state convention that
messengers from the church in ques-

tion “‘not: be seated until conditions |

have been corrected.’’

This action by the Ohio convention
éxecutive board should not be con-
fused with a cotistitutional amend-
ment pending-before the state-conven-

tion. The amendinent offered last fall
by outgoing convention president,
Paul Payne of Huber Heights (Day-
ton), pertains to the same issue. ~~
Payne’s amendment would have the
convention refuse to seat messengers
to the annual meeting if they come
from a church which has been voted
out of membership in an association.
The extension of other state benefits

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Conference On Churches

‘axation Slated

Nationally -
leaders

- WASHINGTON (BP) —
are ‘address a national
fist Conference on the Churchelvend

Taxation hére Oct. 3-5, according to
James E. Wood Jr., executive director

of the Baptist Joint Committeeon Pub- ©

lic Affairs.

Among these invited to address the
conference are Vice President Walter
F. Mondale; former Vice President
Hubert H. Humphrey; and William P.
Thompson, stated clerk of the Pre-

sbyterian Church, U.S.A. and presi-
dent of the National Council of
Churches. -

Leo Pfeffer, a author

church - state lawyer and a member of ©

the Jewish faith, has been asked to
speak on The Special Constitutional
Status of

Charles M. ¥ , S. J., professor
in Fordham University Law School,
has been asked to talk on “Definitional
Problems with Respect to ‘Church’
and tion in the In-

said.
In announcing the conference on

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taxation, Wood said, ‘“Today a crisis is

~ €merging in the United States with re-
_Bard to tax exemption and religion.”

- He explained that there is no crisis

over any possible sweeping removal

eftax exemption of religion as such,”

t that two major’ questions are

1. Should religion that attempts to
influence public policy be taxed; and
2. Does the state of any of its agen-
cies have the competence to define the
Nature of religion as the basis for de-

cen eligibility for tax exemp-

?

_ The First Religious Liberty Confer-
ence on Taxation sponsored by the
Joint Committee was in 1960 on

"The churches and American Tax Pol-

icy.” Wood said that there have been
$0 many developments in the 17 years
Since that first conference that it is
=" take a new look at the prob-

} For instance, in 1960 there was no
such thing as churches paying taxes to
the federal government, he said.
“Now, as of Jan. 1, 1976, the churches
- started paying taxes on their unre-
lated activities.”
- “In 1960,” he continued, ‘‘integrated
auxiliaries of churches was not even
heard of and anything related to the

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churches was accepted by the gov-
ernment as religious: Now that is not
true, and the government through the
Internal Revenue Service has sought
to define what is and what is not a re-
ligious activity.

“In 1969, the questions related to the
obligations of churches as tax exempt
organizations but now the questions
revolve around protection of the
churches from government,”’ he con-
cluded.

These problems gave rise to the
theme of the conference in October,
“Taxation and the Free Exercise of
Religion,” Wood said.

The following speakers have ac-
cepted assignments at the conference:

Dean Kelley, the executive for re-
ligious and civil liberty in the division
of church and society of the National
Council of Churches, will on,
“Why the Churches should Not Be

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Taxed.” He is the author of a new book
by that title. : :

__ Rep. James C. Corman,(D.-Cal.), a
; member of the Committee on Ways
and Means of the House of Representa-
tives and an expert on church - state
relations, will be the speaker at the

is the former chief of staff of the Con-
gressional Joint Committee on Inter-
nal Revenue Taxation.

Rep. Barber B. Conable Jr. (R.-
N.Y.) is the ranking minority member
of the House Committee on Ways and
Means and is the author of bills on lob-
bying activities of nonprofit organiza-
tions. He will address the conference
on “Attempts to Influence Legislation
and the Loss of Tax Exemption.”

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C. M. Day, Temperance
Leader, Dies At Age 76

, CM. oe Sree 2 ee
director of temperance work for
Mississippi Baptist Convention Board,

Four To Receive Doctorates

From Mississipp1 College

A former Mississippi First Lady,
two ministers, and a dentist
will receive honorary degrees as Mis-
sissippi College stages its 151st com-

fing a1 pi the ackoon Cty Aa

Those receiving the honorary de
grees include Daniel C. York, doctor of
science; Mrs. Carroll O. Waller, doc-
tor of letters; Franklin D. Pollard,
doctor of divinity; and G. Barry Land-
rum, doctor of divinity. Landrum will
also be delivering the commencement
address

York, a native Mississippian, at-
tended the University of Mississippi

SBC Faces Wide
Range Of Issues

June 14-16 At Kansas City

By Robert O’Brien

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) — The
Southern Baptist Convention June
14-16 will emphasize the denomina-
tion’s goal of evangelizing the world by
the close of the century and confront a

from home.”

budget
and discuss business and resolutions in
between a series of speakers and pre-
sentations.

But, in an attempt to show that
Southern Baptists do not intend to try
to lure any existing Baptist churches
away from other organizations in
Canada, the board recommendation
also states:

... No worker whose salary is paid
wholly or in part by any SBC agency

with Southern Baptist work.”

The board will not suggest that mes-
sengers from some 35 Canadian Bap-
tist churches affiliated with the

of a motion
that the

’

grave concern over morality in televi-
sion ip to Foy
Valentine,: the commission's chief
executive.

The commission will also mail a
“Help for Television Views” packet to

hearing
ing of network programming,
tensive study of the subject of televi-
sion and morality. —
Prediction Difficult-
Although it is difficult to predict

The IRS has drawn widespread op-
position over a ruling that church-
, child care

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York Mrs. Waller
and went on toearn the doctor of dental
science degree from Atlanta-Southern
College, now a part of Emory Univer-
sity in Atlanta. Because of failing
health, York was not able to continue
in private practice.

After being forced from his ‘‘cho-
sen” profession, York began to prom-
ote programs of reforestation for the
small timberland owner and sought to
educate people in the prevention of
forest fires.

In 1975, because of his belief in Chris-
tian education, Dr. York deeded to
Mississippi College 7,400 acres of tim-
berland with a value approaching $2
million.

Mrs. Waller, a Jackson native, re-
ceived her B. A. degree ‘with distinc-
tion’’ from Mississippi College in 1948.

: Landrum
She was selected by the students as
‘Most. Friendly’’, ‘‘Most Charming,’’
and ‘‘Most Versatile,” and was also
named to Who’s Who in American Col-
lege and Universities. Following
graduation, she assisted in the purch-
ase and management of her mother’s
dress shop and later served as a fa-
culty member in health and physical
education at Belhaven.

Her marriage to William Lowe Wal-
ler, and his, subsequent election to of-
fice, gave Her an opportunity to re-
search and restore the Mississippi
Governor’s Mansion which led to its
designation as a Registered National
Historic Landmark—the second gov-
ernor’s mansion in the U. S. to be so
designated.

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Home Board Names

Mississippi Couple

Tate

, ATLANTA — Robert and Ruth Tate
of Gulfport, Miss., have been ap-
pointed missionaries by the Southern

where he will serve as direc-
tor of Christian social ministries for

Associations, an appointment made by
the HMB of Christian So-
cial Ministries and the Mississippi.
Convention.

ee

R a

Hammer, elected to the new post
during the May meeting of the board’s
executive committee, succeeds War-
ren Rust, who accepted a post as assis-
tant director of the department be-
cause ‘of health problems.

In another action, directors elected

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tion of Southern Baptist missionaries
Kenya,

Dr. Samuel R. J.
Baptist
at Nairobi Airport on

have made
Four missionaries have
All charges were . Three

in remote areas of Ethiopia.

Plane Arrives In Kenya
As Evacuation Begins

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (BP) — An airplane belonging to the organiza-

as evacuation of some mission‘personnel from this country began.
Cannata Jr., missionary in Addis Ababa, told Southern
Foreign Mission Board officials the plane left that city and arrived
May 11, piloted by Southern Baptist. missionary

grrested and detained fer 16 Gayo in carly Aertone

charges.
flawn by Kirkland, has been used to fly mis-
sionaries to conduct clinics and do other typés of community development

died May 16 at his home in . He
was 76. oe

Funeral services were May 17 at
12:30 p.m. at Wright and Ferguson
Funeral Home in Jackson. Burial was
in Clinton cemetery.

Day is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Mary Jane Hale Day, and two sons,
Charles M. Day Jr. of Jackson and L.
H. Day of Hattiesburg. There are sev-
eral grandchildren.

He was a native of Cherry Creek and
attended public school at Ecru. He was
gratuated from the University of Mis-
sissippi and taught school at Hur-
ricane, Peoples, and Ripley.

He received Th.M. and Th.B. de-

= grees from Southern Semina

t andat Liberty and while he was pastor

at Durant he organized the Mississippi
Church Council for Alcohol Education
in 1955. This was a cooperative effort
between Baptists, Methodists, and
Presbyterians. In 1960 he was
employed by the Mississippi Baptist
Convention Board as director of tem-
_perance work and retired in 1965.

Mrs. Day told the Record,
“‘Hefought alcohol with all his might.”

News Concerning Work
~- of the
Mississippi Baptist

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Convention Board
is on

Page 3 Each Week

in Ethiopia arrived safely in Nairobi,

it increasingly difficult for the mis-
to reports.

was
firearms technicality.
detailed for 48

missionaries were

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Thursday, May 19, 1977

~ New w Foreign Missions |

‘Work Areas Approved.

By Susan Cahen

RICHMOND (BP) —
ward the goal of missionaries in at
least 125 countries by the end of the
century, the Southern Baptist Foreign
Mission Board recently approved
work in five new areas.

Southern Baptist missionaries al-
ready have begun building an active
programs of witness in one new mis-
sion field, Rwanda; afd the board
gave approval in its April, 1977, meet-
ing to enter Bolivia, South Africa, the
Seychelles Islands and the Cayman Is-
lands.

Only one, the Cayman Islands, will
be immediately listed officially as one
of the political and geographical en-
tities where Southern Baptists have
missions work. The others will not be
added until personnel are assigned to
them, said J. Winston Crawley, direc-
tor of the board’s overseas division.

Crawiley's office keeps the official
tally of Southern Baptist mission fields
overseas as well as a count of missio-
nary personnel serving in them. As of
April 27, 1977, the board had 2,716 mis-
sionaries in 86 countries.

The board also heard reports of mov-
ing ahead with efforts to open work in
Swaziland. Approval to enter that
country was given by the board in

April 1975.

Active Baptist work began in
Rwanda, approved as a mission field
by the board in March, with the arrival
of the Earl R. Martins in Kigali, the
capital. in early April: At first, the
_Martins will be engaged part time in

study of the nackoks language.
(Thai and French, in which

all

y 'y missionaries
in Tanzania and Kenya, will begin
their ministry with seven congrega-
_ ‘tions in the Kigali area. No established
churches are there. An estimated 200
additional Baptists have moved to the
area, but have no one to work with
them.

The Martins will do general
evangelistic work, literature and
youth work, with needs
the thrust.

Southern Baptists were invited to
work in Rwanda by the Baptist Union
of Rwandaj(national convention) and
by the Danish Baptist Union, which
has work in-the-country. Rwanda is a
landlocked country bounded by
Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania and Zaire.

The work of Southern Baptists in
Rwanda will be a “supplementary,
cooperative venture with the groups
inviting us,” says Davis L. Saunders,
the Foreign Mission Board’s secretary
for Eastern and Southern Africa.

The Martins were assigned to
Madagascar before their transfer to
Rwanda, but they were never able to
get government permission to enter
that country. Madagascar is no longer
officially listed as a Southern Baptist
mission field.

The Herbert W. Neelys have been
transferred from Rhodesia to the
Cayman Islands. They will be
stationed on Grand Cayman, the
largest of the three-island group,

Japanese Baptists Visit Mississippi

Southern Baptist missionary Mike union and nine Japanese Baptist leaders
are pictured as they recently visited the Southwest Mississippi area. They are on a
two-week tour of Southern Baptist churches. They visited First Church of Summit

and interviewed Larry W. Fields, pastor;

Curtis Brewer, minister of music and Phil

Walker, associate pastor. They interviewed Dan West, Director of Missions for Pike
Baptist Association. They also visited Thompson Church in Amite County and inter-

viewed Jimmy Smith, pastor.
Ohio.
Withdraws

(Continued from page 1)

’ and privileges would be barred.

In effect, state participation would
hinge on associational participation,
according to wording of the Payne
amendment, which would haye tq be
approved at the next session of the

convention to become effective.

However, the executive board deci-
sion on Oak Hills Church makes state
convention action independent of the
action of the association. ~

Annuity privileges-apply fo the de-
nominational retirement and insur-
ance programs maintained by the
Southern Baptist Convention Annuity
Board. State convention contributes
up to $200 per year on the funding of the
basic of retirement plan for pastors.

Buenos Aires—The International

Baptist Theological Seminary began
its new Seton neneenee year here by opening
its doors to over one hundred students,
one of the highest enroliments in the
institution's history, to Fr-
ances E. Roberts, Southern Baptist
missionary press representative.
Twenty-eight of the students are single
women, 25 are single men and 57 are
married.

Taxation

Conference

(Continued from page 1)

Also invited to address the confer-
ence are Jerome Kurtz, the new com-
missioner of the Internal Revenue
Service, and a speaker from the Guild
of St. Ives, an organization of Epis-
copal lawyers in New. York who

jalize in taxation and the

The Sixteenth Religious Liberty
Joint Com-
mittee bg re in the — Inn,
fone Arlington, Va., across
ee oe overlooking
Invitations to the conference have
been sent to a large number of Baptist

Richmond (BP) — The Southern
Baptist Foreign Mission Board're-
leased $5,000 for immediate relief in
Recife, Brazil, hit by the Second major
flood since 1975 of the overflowing
Capibaribe River.

Missionaries reported that the latest
flood was not as bad as the one in 1975
in which 89 persons were killed and
55,000 left homeless. Estimated in-
juries and deaths total for the latest
flood were not available.

working with a number of Baptists on
Retin cont Sena

Cayman Islands, sa
Bryan, the F
—-

er pastor, working primarily on
Cayman Brac, has maintained a close
relationship with missionaries of our
board throughout the Caribbean,’”’
Bryan says. Until now, those who have

ion Board's
America and the

«gone have been short term personnel.

Now an invitation has been extended
for a permanent career missionary.

The new work on Grand Cayman will
be an outreach of the association on
Cayman Brac, although distance will
preclude more than a limited partici-
pation.

In South Africa, the Baptist Union of
South Africa has extended an invita-
tion for Southern Baptists to work
among the more-than four million
“eoloureds”’ (persons of mixed race)
in that country. Three couples have
been requested initially, one in
theological education and te in
evangelism and church development.

In Swaziland, South African Bap-

tists asked Southern Baptists to as-
sume responsibilities for an English -

language congregation in the capital
of Mbabane. South African Baptists
have filled this need for the past, two
years. Swaziland is enclosed on the
northwest and south by Transvaal and
on the east by Mozambique and Natal.

In the Seychelle Islands, work will
begin on the main‘island of Mahe; with
emphasis on a youth ministry in Vic-
toria, the capital. These islands are lo-
cated east of Northeast Tanzania.

One of two Baptist groups at work in
Bolivia has invited Southern Baptist to
initiate work in that country. The invi-
tation came from the Baptist Conven-
tion of Bolivia (related to Brazilian
Baptist work) which sponsors a school
of more than 1,400 students and a
riverboat ministry. Five missionary
couples are engaged in convention
work.

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World Of Religion

cults poses a serious
ligious liberty, not only for cult mem-
ber's but also for those in other groups,

a Baptist executive said here. James
E. Wood Jr., executive director of the
Baptist Joint Committee on Public Af-
fairs, said in a statement released
here: “The current phenomenon of
deprogramming of adherents to vari-
ous religious cults, such as the Unifica-
tion Church, Hare Krishna and the
Church of Scientology, among others,
must be viewed as constituting serious
violations of religious liberty. “‘De-
programming is, in fact,” Wood con-
tinued, “incompatible with all of the

ppt freedom of speech, free-
dom of press, freedom of assembly,
and the right to petition the govern-
ment for redress of grievances.”

Taejon, Korea (BP) — A Korean ap-
pellate court here has upheld a lower
court decision in the November trial of
Southern Baptist Missionary Rolla M.
(Ronnie) Bradley, following an appeal
by the prosecutor. In the original trial,
Nov. 1, 1976, the lower court found
Bradley negligent and fined him ap-
proximately $200 in the traffic fatality
case. His license, which has since been
returned, was suspended automati-
cally. Bradley was aecused of negli-
gence when his car supposedly sides-
wiped a drunken pedestrian and
caused his death in February 1976:
Other than establishing that Bradley’s
car was in the general vicinity of the
accident, all evidence was cir-
cumstantial, according to Hays.

.“‘Neither Bradley nor the Korean pas-
tor riding with him was aware an acci-
dent had occurred,” Hays said.

Nashville (BP) — The Southern
Baptist Extension Education Associa-
tion changed its name to the Southern
Baptist Adult Education Association
and elected officers, during their an-
nual meeting here. Elected president
was Walter Draughon Jr.; dean of
Baptist Bible Institute in Graceville,
Fia.

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Hurry Kor Rooms

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) — The
Southern Baptist Convention Housing
Bureau has begun assisting persons
seeking rooms to make direct contact
with Kansas City hotels aiid motels.

According to a stipulation of the
hotels and motels, all rooms specifi-
cally blocked for the SBC annual meet-
ing, June 14-16, have been returned to
the hotels and motels.

Necochea, Argentina—The Mar and
Sierras Assocition recently held its
first Woman's Missionary Union
(WMU) retreat at the new campsite in
Quequefi near here. Twenty-eight
women attended, representing four
churches and mission points in the
southeastern part of the province of
Buenos Aires.

SBC Faces Issues

(Continued from page 1)

tee and other costs, such as the ex-
pense of the annual SBC meeting and
contributions to the Baptist World Al-
liance.

Other business items include sev-
eral recommendations by the Execu-
tive Committee for changes in the
SBC’S constitution, bylaws, and busi-
ness and financial plan.

Conform To Practice

Several such changes would alter
gender designations to conform to
practice that men and women are elig-
ible to serve as officers and board
members and benefit from SBC prog-
rams. :

Other suggested changes (in Article
VI of the constitution) would reduce
from 18 to 12 the number of trustees
who may serve on an SBC general
board from the city or vicinity of that
board’s headquarters, and reduce
from 5 to 3 the number of local trustees
who may serve from the same church.

As for institutions and commissions,
the recommendation asks that
maximum allowable local trustees be
reduced from 10to8, with no more than
2 (rather than the current 5) from the
same q

Another suggested change in Article
VI would reduce from-500,000 to 250,000
the number of members a
state convention must have ( the
25,000 member total stipulated in
Bylaw 20) before being eligible for an
additional ive on an SBC

ditor and study the agencies’ audits,
and add the Southern Baptist Founda-
tion as a suggested place for agencies

to deposit securities.

Besides Sullivan, sinctepgers will
vote for successors to two other SBC
officers who have declined to run for
additional terms. They are Clifton J.
Allen, 75--.year ~old retired editorial
secretary for the Sunday School
Board; who has served 13 terms as re-
cording secretary, and W. Fred Ken-
dall, o- year - old retired executive
secretary of Tennessee Baptists, who
has served 12 terms as registration

secretary.

Messengers will also vote on Los
Angeles as a proposed site for the SBC
annual meeting in 1961.

Resolutions
Requested
In Advance

ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas. — Per-
sons planning to submit resolutions to
the Southern Convention have
been asked them in advance to
the chairman of the Resolutions

“Persons who want rooms should
move fast in contacting the Housing
Bureau at 1221 Baltimore, Kansas
City, Mo. 64105,’’ said Billy D.
Malesovas of the SBC Executive
Committee, who serves as convention

manager.

“Return of the rooms to the hotels
and motels doesn’t mean the rooms
won’t be available,’’ Malesovas
explained. “‘It just means they will be

‘available to other people, too.”

Before June 1, he said, the Housing
Bureau will take telephone reserva-
tions at (816) 221-5242 for only two
hotels — the Hilton Airport Plaza Inn
and the Marriott Hotel, KCI Airport —
and ali other reservations in writing
only.

After June 1, all reservations may be
made by phone — “‘but that’s cutting it
very close,’’ Malesovas said. ~

Although he urged persons attend-
ing the SBC not to wait, Malesovas said
a hotline will be established at the SBC
registration desk, which opens aboit 9
a.m., June 13, at H. Rode Bartle Hall in
the Kansas City convention center, to
assist in finding rooms. It will go direct
to the Hotel and Motel Association of
Greater Kansas City.

As of May 5, 6,002 rooms had been
assigned to SBC attenders out of 6,649
rooms available, Malesovas said.

MC Doctorates

(Continued from page 1)

She is a member of the First Baptist
Church, Jackson.

Pollard, pastor of First Baptist
Church, Jackson, graduated from
Texas A and M University in 1956 and
received the master of divinity degree
from Southwestern Seminary, Ft.
Worth, in 1959.

He was pastor of Shiloh Terrace

Canyon, Tex.; a trustee at Howard
Payne College, Brownwood, Tex.;

esident of the Texas Alumni of
Sewenen western Seminary; a member of
the Executive Board of the Baptist
General

Washington (BP) — The U. S. Sup-
feme Court will not hear a case
brought by the Roman Catholic bishop
of Gary, Ind., against the National
Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for
seeking to unionize lay teachers in
parochial schools. By declining to hear
the case, the Supreme Court did not
rule on the substantive First Amend-
ment issues: raised in a supportive
American Baptist brief. The justices’
action means that before the Gary
bishop is allowed to argue the case on
its constitutional merits, he must first
exhaust the ‘‘administrative re-
medies” available to him.

Detroit (BP) — A Southern Baptist
deacon and his wife rallied local
churches and enlisted other support
here to send 12 tons of food, clothing,
furniture and other goods by truck to
flood victims to Pikeville, Ky., in
mid-April. The Pikeville residents
were glad for the help, but it was “‘just
a drop in the bucket compared to the
staggering needs,” Melton said. The
project began with Baptist. layman
Ralph Melton, a deacon of Grosse
Pointe Park Baptist Church near De-
troit.

Bangalore, India — The ministry of
Baptist Hospital here touched the lives
of three persons from the village of
Mandebele. Now, Mandebele has an
active Christian witness and two
neighboring villages have requested
that it be extended to them.

Holiday Inn

Cancels Rooms

For Educators

NASHVIBLE (BP) — The annual

Southern Baptist Convention have
been shifted from New Orleans to
Mobile because the Holiday Inn - East
Highrise in New Orleans cancelled
previous confirmed rooms.

The ASBCS, made up of 71 Southern
Baptist educational institutions from
California to Virginia, will now meet in
Mobile (Ala.) College, June 27-29, and
the commission will meet there, June
29-30. The original dates were not
ch

‘Tm at the Holiday Inn’s
action,” declared Ben C. Fisher,
executive director - treasurer.of the
Education Commission. ‘They cost us

a great deal of time and money and

broke a commitment with us. We had
been working on this with them for a
long time and had written confirma-
tion for 100 rooms.

“In view of our past good experi-
ences with the Holiday Inn, we were
greatly disappointed at their foul-up,”’
Fisher said. He expressed apprecia-
tion for the assistance of William K.
Weaver, president of the Baptist col-
lege in Mobile, “for helping us work (
out arrangements on short notice” and
said he was looking forward to the
meeting in Mobile.

Fisher and George Capps, the com-
mission’s associate executive direc-
tor, said the Holiday Inn got a new
manager during the negotiations whd
claimed the hotel was overbooked.

“He caricelled our rooms in order to
confirm rooms for the Lions Interna-
tional,”’ Crore said.

Home Board Names

Mississippi Couple

(Continued from page 1)
John D. Meredith of Atlanta as coor-
dinator of planning and budgeting, re-
placing Tommy D. Coy who resigned
in April to accept the position of direc-
tor of counseling for the Christian
Broadcasting Network.

In February, Rust took a three-
month leave of absence for health
reasons. He moved to Phoenix, where
he was ‘“‘able to make real headway
toward improvement of his. health,”
said Loyd Corder, director of the divi-
sion.of associational missions.

“However, Warren’s condition re-
mains chronic and his doctors have re-
commended that he not come back to
the work he was doing. We are pleased
that he will be able to continue to work
in the area of metropolitan missions,”’
Corder added.

Rust, who will serve in the Western
United States, will live and work in
Phoenix. He will give half his time to
writing materials, articles, and books
dealing with missions in the metro set-

Rust came_to the Home Mission
Board in 1971 as director of metropoli-

tan missions. Previously, he was pas-.

tor of churches in St: Louis, Tennessee
and Kentucky.

Hammer, ‘who joined the board in
1975, was associate director of metro
missions before he was transferred to
the evangelism staff in February.
Previously he served as Urban
Strategy Council-coordinator for the
Baptist General Convention of Texas
and a staff member at Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary. He has
also served on church staffs in Texas
and Missouri.

Meredith will develop and maintain
a planning and budgeting process
within the Home Mission Board and
provide consultative services to the
regional coordinators and state con-
vention leadership in planning and

- budgeting. He is a graduate of Ok-

lahoma State University, Georgia In-
stitute of Technology, and the Defense
Language Institute:

Directors also were told E, Warren

“The Human Dimension,” a South-

ern Baptist Radio and Television

series of half-

hour dramas and documentaries,

deals with people where they are to-

day. The series has received critical
acclaim and industry recognition.

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Woolf, director of the personnel divi-
sion, has been named acting director
of missionary personnel, replacing
Cecil Etheredge, who has been re:
signed in the department.

Four persons, including the Tates,
were named missionaries.

One person was named missionary
associate and, 23 mission pastors were
approved to receive aid. Thirteen of
the 23 will receive language pastoral
aid and 10 church pastoral aid.

Bolivar
To Dedicate

New Building

e

Bolivar Association will hold dedica-
tion services for a new associational
office building Sunday. Open house for
the new building will begin at 2:30
p.m., and the dedication will get under
way at 3:30 p.m., according to an an-
nouncement by Odis Henderson, di-
rector of association missions.

The new 1,200-square foot building is
located at 222 North Fourth Avenue in
Cleveland. It contains two offices, a
reception area, and a work area. The
84 by 162 foot lot provides paved park-
ing for 12 cars.

Mayor Martin King of Cleveland will *
represent the city during the dedica-
tion service. Tim Nicholas, associate
editor of the Baptist Record, will rep-
resent the Mississippi Baptist Conven-
tion Board. James Hurt, pastor of
Immanuel Baptist Church in Cleve-

‘ Jand, will represent the association.

Hurt is chairman of the Executive
-Committee of the Mississippi Baptist
Convention. Board.

Jimmy Dukes, then a pastor in
Cleveland, was chairman of the com-
mittee which secured the site for build-
ing. Otxers were Macklyn Hubbell,
pastor of First Baptist Church, Cleve-
land, and T. C. Wood Jr. and Vern
Daniels, both laymen.

Richard Westbrook, a layman, was
chairman of the property committee
which developed the facility: Others
were Hubbell; Glenn Byrd, pastor of
Benoit Baptist Church; Dale Wilson,
pastor of Trinity Baptist Church; Mrs.
James R. Hawkins; and Kenneth
Pittman and James Stanford, both
layman.

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Miss Hines
Macklyn Hubbell, pastor of First

Baptist Church, Cleveland, will serve
as retreat pastor; and Martha Hines,
church soloist and professional musi-
cian from. Spartanburg, S. C., will
bring theme music interpretations
May 27 to 28 at the Single Adult Retreat
in Meridian.

Hubbell will speak four times on

“Lessons from a Bible Single.” The
theme music interpretatioiis will be on
“Touch Life.”’. Miss Hines will also
present music entertainment at a fel-
lowship supper on Saturday night. —

The session will begin at 8 p.m. on
Friday with Tim Holcomb, minister to
singie adults, First Baptist Church,
Jackson, anda Meridian singles group
leading in fellowship time.

Features of the meeting will be mul-
tiple Touch Life Conferences led by
Ms. Ann Alexander, Single Adult Con-
sultant, Nashville; Mrs. David (B. J.)
Dean, Avocational Adult Worker,
Mobile; L. Dan Grubb, Chaplain, East
Mississippi State Hospital, Meridian;
J. Clark Hensley, Executive Director,
Christian Action Commission; Mrs. J.
Clark (Margaret) Hensley, housewife
rand family life consultant, Jackson;
Holcomb and Mrs. Holcomb (Janice),
housewife and mother; and James
Travis, Chaplain, University Medical
Center, Jackson.

‘The Saturday morning conference
will begin at 8:30. Special attention
will be given to “need” and “‘organiza-
tion’’ areas. Lee Prince, pastor of
Union Avenue Baptist Church, Mem-
phis, will be the resource person for
teachers and department.workers for

» single adults. Serre
’- The retreat is open to never’- mar-
rieds and formerly - marrieds, church
leaders who work with singles, pas-
tors, and staff members.

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retaries’ Association was organized
during the Secretaries Conference
held at the Baptist Building in
Jackson on May 2 and 3. It is the first
association of its kind in the state.

Secretaries Organize

The Mississippi Baptist Sec--

Ruth Keyes, pastor’s secretary,

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_. Mississippi Baptist Convention Programs, Conferences, white ses =
Christian Action—Sunday School &

Hubbell To-Speak
At Singles Retreat

Room reservations must be made
directly with the Holiday .Inn North-
east in’ Meridian. The $9.50 registra-
tion fee for the conference includes the
two Saturday meals (lunch and sup-
per). The retreat closes with the
Saturday night fellowship supper, but
there will be a special program on
‘Sunday morning for those who desire _
to stay over, adjourning at 9:30 a.m.

The retreat is sponsored by the

Action Commission, J. Clark

School Department of the Mis-
sissippi Baptist -Convention Board,
Bryant Cummings, director.

Drumvwright To
Lead Bible Study

At Ist, Florence

Hubert L. Drumwright, Dean of the
School of Theology and Professor of
New Testament at Southwestern
Seminary, will lead in a Bible Confer-
ence at First, Florence, May 20-22. The
theme for the conference will be
“Christian Truth for Today’s World.”

Pastor Bob Hutcherson said, ‘‘All
who are interested in a time of intense
study and application of Biblical truth
under one of the ablest expositors in
our denomination are invited to at-
tend. ”

Drumwright, much in demand as a
conference and convention speaker
among Southern Baptists, is a native
of Oklahoma, but grew up under the
ministry of the late Geeree Truett in
First Church, Dallas. He is a graduate
of yd University and Southwest-

ern Seminary, holding both the B.D.
and Th.D. from the latter. In addition,
he has studied at Princeton Seminary
and done post doctoral research in the
American School of Classical Studies,
Athens, Greece. His published writ-
ings include books and articles. He has
also served as translator of the Gos-
pels of Matthew and John for The New
King James Bible (Thomas Nelson

iy). :

The first session of the conference at
Florence begins Friday; May 20; at
7:30 p.m. Saturday session will also
begin at 7:30 p.m. Drumwright will
preach at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Sun-
day, May 22.

Calvary Church, Jackson, was
élected president; Mary Ray, sec-
retary, Rankin Association, Pearl, is

-first vice-president; Dot Smith, sec-

retary, Church Administration - Pas-
toral Ministries Department, Missis-

~ sippi Baptist Convention Board,

Officers of the newly organized Mississippi Bapuet Sebeaderes Mlieeaaten
are, left to right: Nora Melton, secretary-treasurer; Dot Smith, second

vice-president; Mary Ray, first vice-president; and Ruth Keyes, president.

Lucy Hoskins, center, consultant, Church ‘Administration Department,
BSSB, answers questions for Evelyn Redd, left, secretary, Sunday School
Department, MBCB, and Edna Ohm, church secretary, Bel Aire, Gulfport.

Jackson, is second vice - president;

- Maureen Allen, secretary at First,

Enjoying the lunch were these Acteens and their leader, Mrs. Jewel Davidson,

Midway Church, Meridian. -

Acteens Attend First
State-Wide Conference

“This Is Our Day’’ was the theme for

Youth, Grace Memorial Baptist
Church, 3

interesting features on: Acteens
Member Handbook, with
six/three/and one pills; Accent, the
magazine used by Acteens, described
as a ‘Big ACT’; and Direct
Evangelism with a live interview with
two Acteens.

Throughout the weekend Acteens
and their leaders were challenged to
live in the world as servants of Christ
and Acteens were charged to lead in
the sharing of His love in our world.
Barbara Joiner, Acteens leader, First,
Columbiana, Alabama, led in the clos-
ing meditations for the conference.
Talitha Edwards, Grenada, our Na-
tional Acteens Panelist, shared her
testimony about being an Acteen and
what it has meant to her life.

Guirch Logan led in fin the Bible

study at each session on the book of
Esther. Foreign missionary to Spain,
Mrs. Indy Whitten, shared about the
work in Spain-and-the new freedom

and Nora Melton, financial secret-
ary, Alta Woods Church, Jackson, is
treasurer

secretary- :

The Secretaries Conference was
sponsored by the Church Administ-
ration - Pastoral Ministries Depart-
ment, MBCB, Leon Emery, director.

Lucy Hoskins, consultant in the
Church Administration Department,
BSSB, Nashville, and Macklyn Hub-
bell, pastor of First Church, Cleve-
land, were among the program per-
sonalities.

Emery had previously appointed a}
committee to draw up a tentative
constitution for a secretaries’ as-
sociation and,to nominate the first
officers.. Committee members were

Greenville; Olivia Killebrew, ‘sec-
retary, Gulf Coast Association,
Gulfport; and Mary. Ray, secretary,
Rankin Association, Pearl.
Membership in the association will
be open to all secretaries and other
office staff of Baptist churches in
prose ; all secretaries and other
of all Baptist denomina-
tional agencies, Sptitations, de-

work is comparable to that of a
church ;

secretary. .
Generally, the purposes of the or-
ganization will be to identify and
properly relate the various roles of
Baptist secretaries; to promote a
close relationship among secretaries
phone ipo churches and > yl
organizations; to dev: a
better understanding of the work of
the church or church-related secret-
ary; to provide training/improve-
ment opportunities. . .; to provide an
ity for fellowship and ex-
change of ideas; to upgrade the
status of secretaries .. . and to en-
courage interest of others in religious

vocations.

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found there for Christians.

Paul and Fran Vandercook, mis-
sionaries on the Gulfcoast
told of their work and mission oppor-
tunities here at home. Another guest
missionary was R. T. Buckley, mis-
sionary to Bangladesh who encour-
aged the Acteens to live their Christian
lives everywhere; at home, school and
in their communities.

SAC brought many memeries . . :
lunch on the beach, tour of the new

Seaman’s Center, missionaries, hear:

ing Acteens speak and share what they
were doing, learning about how God
can even use us, Acteens where we are
now . . . Acteens living in God’s world!

Committed To

Allen 0. Webb, pastor, Ingalls Av-
enueChurch, Pascagoula states “95%
of our Sunday School officers and
- sees teachers are com-
mitted to obtain a
) Sunday School
* Leadership Dip-
} loma before Oc-
| tober 1, 1977.”
©) A comprehensive
») schedule has been
arranged whereby
each of the six re-

quired courses will
be offered three times before Sep-
_ tember 1977. As of April 1, 14 courses
have been offered with 56 persons par-
ticipating in at least one of the courses.

“Each worker with a Sunday School

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May 23 First Greenville
May 24 First Oxford
May 25 First Columbus a

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Summer Camp At Garaywa

Are these activities becoming a bore to
the girls in your church summer after
summer? Try something different this
year! Something like . . . involving
GAs and Acteens in MISSIONS camp-
ing at Garaywa!

Camp Garaywa, owned and oper-
ated by Mississippi WMU, offers a
missions camping program for ten
weeks beginning May 30 through Au-
gust 5, involving GAs and Acteens in

developing a missions awaréness of
their own.

During a week at summer camp,
girls learn about how they can become
involved in mission work through their.
church program, the community,
state, and around the world. Home and
foreign missionaries share informa-
tion about their field of work and how
God called them into their special area
of telling other “hates about the love
of Christ.

‘The theme of this summer’s prog-
ram is “GROWING IN CHRIST.” The
day always begins with God as each

girl has her own ‘quiet time’ and the
day ends with God as each camper
participates with her cabin group in
devotion. Each day of camp brings
new and different experiences for the
girls in the atmosphere which
Garaywa creates because of the em-
phasis on MISSIONS.

The staff consists of a camp-director
(state Acteens consultant, Mississippi
WMU) and 29 college young women.
Missionaries are on the grounds each
week and share in the total program of
Garaywa. The program features mis-
sion study~in small group activities,
personal visits with the missionaries,
and Bible study in the out-of-doors led
each morning by the counselors. There
is also music, crafts, drama, nature
study opportunities, recreation, fun,

«games and outdoor cooking... .«

Publicity and registration infor na-
tion have been mailed to all associa- °
tional and local GA and Acteens lead-
ership. For additional information
write or call, Mississippi WMU, P. O.
Box 530, Jackson, Mississippi 39205,
telephone, 354-9704, Ext. 280.

I hope to see every GA and Acteen at
summer camp at Garaywa this year!

SNORE
95% Of Ingalls Avenue SS Officers Are

Seek Leadership Diploma

Leadership Diploma”’ is the goal
which Richard Collum has set as
minister of education. He further em-
phasizes that ‘‘adequate training

Under the diréction of Ron Miller,
Church Training director, training op-
portunities are provided for all other
church leadership.

E. Stanley Williamson Dies ;

NASHVILLE (BP) — Funeral ser-
vices were held here for E. Stanley
Williamson, who was director of ste-

wardship devel for the South-
ern Baptist Stewardship Commission
and a former management employee
of the denomination’s Sunday School
Board.

Williamson, a native of Anaconda,
Mont., died here Saturday, April 30,

SENIOR ADULT
FELLOWSHIPS

A Feature Of “Senior Adult Week In Mississippi,’’ May 22-28, 1977

BRING YOUR OWN BROWN BAG LUNCH —
DRINK AND DESSERT PROVIDED FREE

The accent is on fun and fellowship with some serious matters inter-
spersed like developing a philosophy for aging and for a senior adult
ministry in a church; physical fitness for senior adults; resources for senior
adults and leaders of Senior Adult Ministries.

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LOUIS SCHOLLE, Chairman, Division of Education and Psychology, and
Director of Educational and Clinical Programs In Gerontology, Blue Moun-
tain College.

BOB SESSOMS, Consultant, Church Recreation Department, Baptist Sunday
School Board, Nashville, Tennessee. _

Ce aera

KERMIT S. KING, Consultant for Senior Adult Ministfles, Mississippi Baptist
Convention Board.

CLYDE BIZZELL, Associate Pastor, First Baptist Church, Pensacola, Florida.

May 26 Calvary Jackson
May 27 Temple Hattiesburg
9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

PROGRAM LEADERS

1977, after learning several months
ago that he had cancer.

A former pastor, minister of educa-
tion and film producer, he wrote sev-
eral books, the latest. of which was pub-
lished in 1975 by Convention Press, ti- ~
tled, “How to Get Your Job Done in the
Church.”

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Editorials -

The Canadian Matter

Progress comes when churches
unite in Bold Mission

Through the years there has come

X pressure from one source or another to

extend the mantle of Southiern Baptist

work into new areas for one reason or

another in the way of direct, organiza-

tional affiliation with the Southern
Baptist Convention.

In the past, generally, these efforts
have been fostered in the interests of
Baptists worshiping in states of the
United States or its territories. Such
efforts have caused some amount of
discussion but have finally resulted in
Southern Baptist work being found in
all 50 states.

Such an effort has been under way
for the past year at least, for it was
during the convention last year in Nor-
folk that a motion was made to study
the possibility of extending aid to Bap-
tists in Canada who it. Some

to that motion is that for

senaertene betes Canin

churches cooperating with the North-
*

west Baptist Convention, which en-
compasses the work in Oregon and
Washington. At this point there are
some 35 churcheS so affiliated with the
pec Convention, and as a mat-
ter of fact, the president of that state
convention is the pastor of one of the
Canadian churches.

There has been sentiment in favor of
seating from those Cana-
dian churches at the Southern Baptist
Convention.

Such action would be a mistake, un-
less we would desire that the Southern
Baptist Convention would become a
sort of miniature Baptist “World Al-
liance.

It could be pointed out that the con-
fines of the United States should repre-
sent only an abstract boundary that
should not be used to hold back the
spread of the gospel as carried out by
people of the Southern Baptist Conven-
tion. There has to be a line drawn

somewhere, however, and this seems
to be the proper place. We cannot take
in the entire world as affiliates of the
Southern Baptist Convention.

Our constitution would not allow
such at this time, but constitutions
can be amended. It does not seem,
however, that an amendment allow-
ing messengers from outside the Un-
ited States and its territories to be sea-
ted would be proper.

We can help, and this will be discus-
sed at the Southern Baptist Convention
in Kansas City. Last year the matter
was turned over to the Foreign Mission
Board for study. Thé board will
back a report this year that will call for
help but no affiliation.

This is wise and should be accepted.
Through the years to come, however,
as we are giving aid in whatever form
it might be, let us be on guard to be
sure that our aid doesn’t sway our
judgment as it concerns affiliation.

. ° Associational Emphasis ___

We are observing this week, all ac-
ross the Southern Baptist.Convention,
Associational Kc It is fit-
ting that there should be a time of cal-

ling attention to the work’ and the role..

of the association.

The writer will not attempt to define
what association missions work should
be, for it doubtless will vary from as-
sociation to association as it is seen by
the directors of missions and their
executive boards. This is instead a
work that is carried on in the name of
the Lord the coordinated and
cooperative efforts of the churches in

The Acts In Ethiopia

ing to the name list in
J the back of the writer’s Bible, the
ot name, Rhoda, appears only once in the
Bible. It was in connection with a con-
dition very. similar to the one we have
been reading about in Ethiopia in re-

cent days. ea
Rhoda is mentioned in Acts 12:13.
Readers will recall that John’s
brother, James, had been put to death
by Herod; and this seemed to please
the Jews, so he decided to move on. He

. put Peter in prison.

The church entered into prayer for
Peter, and the scripture says the

prayer “without ceasing.”
Hestilined sonte fool Gina ini sadn
for Peter, but the night before he was
to put his plan into action he lost his
prize. Peter was asleep and bound by
two chains and lying between two sol-
djers. An angel of the Lord came in, a
light shined, the angel woke Peter and

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Gr

What do Baptists believe about ordi-
nation of women? The answer depends
upon which Baptists one is talking ab-
out.

This is not a facetious reply. It is the
way it is. The principle of freedom and
,independence practiced by Baptists
allows for considerable diversity in be-
lief and practice. This rules out identi-
cal answers for all Baptists to many

questions.

This diversity is illustrated in diffe-
rent reactions to two Kentucky Baptist
churches which have ordained women
to the ministry. In one case the

church is being dsiciplined;
other instance apparently no

in the

“as complicates

Cooperation is a key word through-
out the entirety of Southern Baptist ef-
forts. and it is particularly true as it

pssociations. This is the de-

-nUyiwational effort closest to the

lined by the churches through the as-
sociations.

This week the second annual
statewide planning for as-
sociational officers. has been held at
Alta Woods Church in“Jackson. This
meeting provided opportunities for
those church members who have been
elected to responsibilities in the as-
sociation missions effort to gain in-

said in effect, ‘Get up and let’s get out
of here.”’ The chains fell off, and they
left ,

Peter thought he was dreaming, but
the gate to the city opened itself, they
went through if, and the angel left. He
knew then that the Lord had freed him.
He went to the prayer meeting where
the church was praying for his release.

Rhoda met him at the door.

Our missionary Sam Cannata had
much the same experience. He had
been detained by the Ethiopian gov-
ernment for seemingly no reason.
While other missionaries in Addis
Ababa along with Baptists all over the
world were praying for his release, he
was released. He immediately made
his way to the meeting place.in Addis
Ababa where the prayer meeting was
in session. It had been going on for 24
hours.

Perhaps the Baptists ip Addis Ababa
Guest Editorial

e -. Ordination Of Women By Baptist Churches

serious consideration has been given
to reprimanding the church.
Ordinarily a local church which is
considered to be from Bap-
tist doctrine is by the dis-
trict association if it is disciplined at
all. State conventions and the Southern

to withdraw fellowship

the

sight into the needs of their positions
and to better understand how to go
about fulfilling those needs. Associa-
tion missions work is the first wave of
attack on missions needs outside the
local church. It is the people of the
church actively involved in

the gospel beyond their walls.

It is also the first pojnt of the fusing
of cooperative efforts that go beyond
the local church. It is vital.

The writer has established a t
deal of interest in and sympathy for
the work of association missions over
the years. My father retired in 1970
after serving 22 years as association
missionary in Arkansas.

f

had more faith even than those men-
tioned in the account in Acts. The First
Century Christians didn’t believe
Rhoda when she told them that Peter
was standing outside the door, where
she had left him because she had been_
so excited she had neglected to let him -
in.

The scripture declares that they
were

We have the chronicle: of prayers
being answered since the beginning of
time. We know our God is faithful and
hears our petitions. We have just had a
dramatic example that almost paral-
lels the account in the New Testament.

Ladies and gentlemen, we can
change the world. We serve the same
Lord as did those First Century Christ-
ians. His power is still available when
we make ourselves available to use it.

In Ethiopia we have recently ob-
served ademonstration of such power
in our own time.

he addressed intended for each local
church in its particular situation and
environment or are these instructions

intended for all churches of all times?

If the New Testament js taken liter-
ally, there is little if any support for
ordaining women. There is no specific
reference to women’s being ordained
for preaching and only one or two
questionable references to a woman as
a deacon. Romans 16:1 refers to
Phoebe as a servant of the church at
Cenchreae. The same word (diakonos)
is used of Phoebe as is used in |
Timothy 3:8 for those qualifying as
deacons. A less ible argument is
that I Timothy 3:11 refers to. women
who quality for deaconship instead of
to wives of deacons.

If the instructions of Paul apply onl
to the specific churches in their par-
ticular day and situations, Baptist
churches today need only to be guided
by the general principles enunciated in
the New Testament. But even then it is
hard to make a strong case for women

signs to men. While women had prom.
inent parts in the ministry of Jesus and

dren, and who practice what they
preach. Colleen gave up a movie.
career to marry Louis, who is now
senior pastor of the National Pre-
sbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.

THE GIFT OF LOVE by R. L. Mid-
dieton; Broadman; 124 pages; $3.95.

The author examines the meaning of
love and what it can do. He writes of
simple truths that can transform self-
ishness into selflessness and hate into
love.

SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD, by
Dale Moody; Broadman; 241 pages;

The author explores the biblical
concepts of the Holy Spirit in their his-
torical and literary context. The first

describes three major stages
in the Old Testament understanding of
spirit. The remainder examines the
person and work of the Spirit in the
New Testament. He urges the reader
to study the Bible for himself to dis-
cover the role of the Spirit in the
church and in the life of the believer.

THE HEART OF PAUL by Ben
Campbell Johnson; Word Books,
Waco, Texas; 174 pages; $5.95.

This is Volume One of a relational
paraphrase of the New Testament and
includes the epistles of Paul.

God’s word dealing with angels and
the great importance of them. The
book relates to the reader how sig-
nificant angels are in biblical history,
in contemporary experiences and in

Clarke College

the ages to'come. We are led beyond
the dimension of angels into the pre-
sence of the One who created them for .
His own. pleasure and to servé as
ministering servants to those re-
deemed by the blood of the Lamb. Here
is insight, information, enlighten-
ment, and affirmation.

Excellent Steward

By Chester E. Swor

Although invited several times ear-
lier, I did not find it possible to visit
Clarke College at a time suitable to the
college schedule and mine until this
spring, 1977. My days there with the
happy “family” of the college were so
uniformly delightful, that Icame away
with a deepened appreciation of the
college and of its truly excellent ste-
wardship of the mission entrusted tq it.

I feel sincerely that Clarke College
has been a most excellent steward in
these ways:

1. It has ‘taken care’’ of its mission
of Christian education in a truly excel-
lent manner. Its teachers are splen-
didly prepared in their fields of in-
struction with the result that the
academic quality of the teaching pro-
cess in the college is definitely
superior. The graduates of Clarke
have performed at an excellent level of
academic acceptability in senior col-
lege throughout our state and in other
states. The academic quality of the
college has been ted with that
‘‘pricelesg plus’’ of the Christian
philosophy and-spirit — and never
more now.

2. Clarke College has been a good
steward in caring for and in develop-
ing the young people committed to its
care. In addition to providing
aeademic excellence, the college has
surrounded its students with the finest
of inspiration for Christian develop-

cerning covering women’s heads in
church and not permitting women to
speak in church or teach.
This may be inconsistent but it holds
nevertheless. Ordaining women as
or deacons will not be wide-
spread among Baptists for a long time
if ever. But more and more churches
will be ordaining women, especially as
deacons, in coming years. When they
do, some will be disciplined by fellow
Baptists and some will not. That’s the

Baptist way.

_ By C. R. Daley, Editor
- Western Recorder

ment of the whole personality. Ad-
ministration, faculty, and staff evi-
dently feel a warm and genuine con-
cérn that every student enrolléd shall
have the finest of personal counseling
and the day-by-day awareness that the
college genuinely loves and cares for
students as distinctive individuals.

3. The college has been a very good
steward of the financial investment of
the prysenes Baptist Convention
and of ends who have given
personal toward developing an
attractive and adequate plant. Be-
cause several years had elapsed since
my last visit to the Clarke campus, I
was highly and happily impressed of
the attractive and apparently
adequate nature of the buildings and
grounds. Any Mississippi Baptist
would be impressed and pleased with

the physical appearance of the entire

plant; and, should your travels per-
mit, even with a detour, your visiting

God! Let,me praise You by .
impr my corner of Your

creation

By filling this little world
of mine

With light, warmth, goodwill
and happiness.

Faces And Places

By Anne Washburn McWilliams

the campus, you, too, would be h hap-
pily impressed by the excellent ste-
wardship of the college in the use of its
capital funds. .

4. Clarke has been an excellent ste-
ward of the confidence and trust of
Mississippi Baptists and has tried to
the limit of its understanding, ability,
and commitment to be a church - re-
lated junior college of the finest qual-
ity, sending back into the mainstream
of Baptist life men and women whose
heads, hearts, and total personalities
have been enriched for nobler living
and serving in both church and com-
munity.

Therefore, I left the Clarke College
campus at the conclusion of a superla-
tively happy series of meetings with
students and faculty with the happy
feeling: This college has been as excel-
lent steward of its mission and re-
sources as any church - related college
in our land!

time.
Like the women at Broadmoor, Aunt
Lura Ear! is always one of the first to
arrive at a home after there has been a
death — the kitchen, wash-
y lending.an under-
standing and sympathizing ear.

In times of emergency, she doesn’t

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 84-year-old gay she’s sorry and then go away and
Nobel prize winning doctor who has forget you and your troubles. She stays
spent much of his life in cancer re- to show you she cares. When Daddy
search, published this prayer at the was critically ill and Mama got sick at
end of his book, The Crazy Ape. the same time, it was Aunt Lura Earl

A folder that came in our mail the who came to help take Mama to the
other day said that Szent - Gyorgi as- hospital. Now that Mama lives alone,
cribes his longevity to eating and her sister - in - law calls her almost
exercising wisely and moderately. He daily to ask how she is and if she needs
lives in Massachusetts by the sea and anything.
swims regularly, even in the brisk | When I was a child, I didn’t know
days of the New England autumn. I many whomen who could drive. Aunt
suspect too that he owes his
to the fact that he loves his , and community to learn. If Daddy hap-

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Pastof David “Grant
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church family, the response in supply- Sunday, no mat

believable. I have gone into these sick she feels,
homes and seen mountains of all kinds
of food. Our women have never consi- 70.
dered themselves above pitching in her to slow down, but'l can’t
and ig, whether it be running a she pays him much a’
vacuum ‘cleaner, washing dishes, extrovert, she likes to talk
serving tables, or holding a hand of a
heartbroken person. These serv:
are rendered day or night

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Doubles In Six Months

Mississippi Baptist Medical Cent-
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“The demand for CDU services has

been great, statewide and outside the

state-as well,” said Pryor, ‘and this

expansion comes as a response to this
demand.”

William Crooks, director of the unit,
who formerly headed a similar unit in
Omaha, said “‘It won't be long before
we are using all 56 beds at the current
rate of admission.” .

He said the unit has treated about 250
people since it opened on September 1,

* 1976, with patients coming not only
from Mississippi but from surround-
ing states as well.

“We have doubled our treatment
staff,” he said. ‘‘We have a full-time

Colonial Heights .

Breaks Ground

Colonial Heights Church, Jackson,
broke ground April 24 for a new building
that will house auditorium, offices, and
additional Sunday School space. Left to
right: Len Turner, pastor; Ralph Rives,
chairman of deacons; Robert Forten-
berry, chairman of the Survey Planning
and Building Committee.

Concord Homecoming

Coneord’s homecoming and dedica-
tion services are planned for May 22.
The guest speaker will be John D.
MacLaren of Brewton, Alabama. Sun-
day School will begin at 10 a.m., morn-
ing worship at 11 a.m., dinner at 12
a.m., and the afternoon service at 1:30
p.m. -

ees,

ment for WMU, SBC.

C. J. Olander is now interim
pastor of First Church; Tchula,
for the third time since he was 78.
C. C. Bath, Tchula pastor, res-

“igned recently to move to the pas-
torate of Port Gibson. Olander has
been pastor of the Tchula Church
twice. Jn January, 1917, before
World War I, he soos tt od =

army chaplain.

as pastor in 1936 and re-
mained until 1945. He says, “‘Life
begins at 80, and I am only a tod-
dier, nearly three years old!”

Edgar Wolfe, new pastor at
Grandview, Meridian, was or-
dained to the ministry 1 24 at
ci ma et Grandview.
f Jim Meadows,
at Long
Creek, gave
the charge to

Weman’s Missionary Union, SBC, recently conducted its first na-
tional seminar for selected Mission Friends workers. Among those
‘selected to attend the Birmingham meeting were Waudine Storey, left,
(state GA/Mission Friends director in Mississippi) and Julia Otis,
shown with Evelyn Blount (center), director of Field Services Depart-

chaplain and a part-time psychologist,
and we have fake sreloe artnd
the clock,”

The unit offers a course of treatment
lasting about 35 days, including deto-
xification followed by intensive in-
patient treatment, with follow-up

~care-as long as needed.

“We. have had good luck with our
staffing” said Crooks, ‘and every-
thing has exceeded expectations. The
expansion has gone smoothly, and we
are excited about the future.”

He said referrals can be made not
only by physicians but by clergymen,
courts, industry, businesses, friends,
family, Alcoholics Anonymous and

Representatives of the Mississippi
Baptist Medical Center and the
Jackson Council on Alcoholism visited

John E. Gore,
Retired Pastor
Dies At 85.

John Ellis Gore, 85, well-known Bap-
tist minister and preacher of-B0T Jef-
ferson St., Clinton, died early Satur-
day, April 30, at Hinds General Hospi-
tal.

Funeral services were held Monday,
May 2, at Midway Church, Jackson,
with the pastor, W. Benton Preston,
and Herman Milner, pastor cf Van
Winkle Church, officiating.

Survivors include his wife, the
former Maude Price of Clinton; ten
children, Mrs. Oscar Weed of Pen-
sacola;.Albert Gore of the Canal Zone;
Granville Gore of Jackson; Dudley
Gore of Ashville, N. C.; John Gore, Jr.,
and Samuel Gore of Clinton; Mrs. H.
Dee Smith of Shreveport; Tnomas
Gore of Arlington, Va.; Bill Gore of
Natchez, and Daniel Gore of Houston,
Tex.; two sisters; one brother: 31
grandchildren; and 25 great-
grandchildren.

Gore was a native of Hohenlinden,
Webster County, Ms., a son of the late
Albert C. Gore and Ella Ellis Gore. He
was a Purple Heart Veteran of World
War I, having served overseas with the
U.S. Infantryin France. 4

He was a 1925 graduate of Missis-
sippi College and in 1927 finished
Southwestern Seminary in Fort
Worth.

His early church, ministry was in
pastorates in Texas and New Mexico,
until 1931 when he returned to Missis-
sippi. His Mississippi ministry- in-
cluded pastor and association missio-
nary work in Webster, Chickasaw,
Calhoun, Yalobusha, Bolivar, Leflore,
Sunflower, Newton, Rankin, Coaho-
ma, Quitman, Tunica, Jasper, and

_Hinds counties.

Michael S. Hunt, pastor of Gore.
Springs Church, has been selected
to appear in the second edition of
Who’s Who in
Religion. He is
a“graduate of
Mississippi
State Univer-
/ sity and New
) Orleans Semi-
nary. Son of
| Mr. and Mrs.
Allen Hunt of
Starkville, he
is married to the former Marcia

similar units in other states the
planning stage for the Jackson facili-
ty.

Somehow I feel quite confident on
Friday the 13th while I am writing this.
I’m not too rebellious by nature, but I
have always rebelled at superstition.

When I was.a very small girl, I delib-
erately stepped on every crack in the
walk, inspite of dire warnings that I
would become a rotten egg. Every
time I saw a ladder, I walked under it.
Seeing a black cat never upset me; I
just made sure I stood still long enough
for it to walk across my path. Dropping
the dishrag and spilling salt bothered
me about as much as dropping the
hand towel and spilling the pepper
(except pepper made me sneeze
more). The only superstition that ever
seemed almost reliable was that an
itching nose foretold company; but,
then, we’ve always had so much com-
pany at our house, that I’m not sure. It
seems that a nose that doesn’t itch
foretells us much company for us as an
itchy one.

When students ask me if I am
superstitious, and I answer a truthful,
“No,” they invariably say, “I am. Why
aren’t you?”

Probably the reason is that I had so
many good Christians teaching me
about God and his care for me when I
was barely old enough to understand
what they were saying to me. There
was no room for the power of a black
cat or the strength of a ladder, or the
control of cracks in the walk. Those
were not the beings that I learned
about and put my trust in. An abiding
faith in God has not ever made room
for them. ~

So Friday the 13th is just like any
other Friday for me. I even plan to
begin a painting project when I’ get
home after school. n

Let’s Set The
Record Straight

Mrs. Fran Rodgers is the wife of T.
Deane Rodgers, assistant executive
director of the Baptist Children’s Vil-
lage. The word “assistant” was acci-
dentally omitted in the May 12
“‘Names in the News”’ item about Mrs.

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Larry Taylor is chairman of the Blue
Mountain College trustees, not.Leroy.
Taylor as the May 12 Baptist Record
stated in the first editions to leave the
press. This error was detected and
corrected, however, before all the
week’s Records had been printed.

Liberty (Carroll)
Dedicates
New Building

Liberty Church of Jefferson Com-
munity in Carroll County decided it
was time to build class rooms and fel-
lowship area to meet the needs of
growing attendance. On Sunday, April
3, the completed building was dedi-
cated

The pastor, Gus Garrett, preached
the message of challenge to the mem-
bers and the associational missionary,
Lavon Hatten, led in the prayer of de-
dication.

The new fellowship area was then
used for an old fashioned church din-
ner and all the people were invited to
look over the building containing sev-
eral class rooms, the 30 x 40 fellowship
area, kitchen, and restrooms.

Members of the building committee
were: M. H. DuBard, J. K. DeLoach,
W. M. DeLoach, S. S. DuBard, Mrs. C.
D. Whitfield, C. J. Blair, Mrs. N. H.
Heath, Mrs. C. O. Turnipseed, J. T.
DuBard, Jr., S. D. DuBard, and Gus
Garrett, pastor.

Revival Dates

Woodhaven Church, Ocean Springs :
May 22-27; Sunday services at 11 a.m.
and 7 p.m.; during the week at 7 p.m. ;
Bob Hornor, pastor of Arlington
Heights\ Church of Pascagoula,
evangelist; Claude H. “Pop” Stone,
Sr., of Gulfport, directing music; Cur-
tis I. Miller, pastor.

Rolling Creek (Clark): May 22-27;
Frank Harmon, pastor of Magnolia
Street, Laurel, evangelist; Arlis
N , music director; services at 11
a.m. 7:30 p.m. on Sunday; 7:30
p.m. Mon.-Fri. ; Jimmy Stephens, pas-
tor.

Revival Results

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Shurden is an assistant professor at
Mississippi College in the Division of
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received the B.A. degree from Missis-
sippi College and bachelor of divinity,
master of theology, and doctor of
philosophy degrees from Southern
Seminary. He is married to the former
Irene Long of Greenville; they have
one daughter, Sandra.

Greg Powell, a graduate of Clinton
High School, will graduate this month
from Hinds Junior College, and enroll
at MC this fall. He is a former youth
counselor and canoe instructor at
Camp Piney Woods. He has served as
assistant to the activities director at
Morrison Heights Church, Clinton. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert
Powell of Clinton.

Truth To Sing
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Truth is coming to Ripley on May 24.
This touring music company of 19
members will appear under the spon-
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thursday, May’l9, 1977

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The Steering Committee for the building fund campaign of First, Raleigh, includes
Hubert Parks, Mrs. Clyde Garner, Curtis Gable, Clyde Garner, Mrs. Olen Tadlock, and .
Prentice Stuart. aed

First, Raleigh -
Ends Campaign

7

Perry

Wyatt
Bob Wyatt, “Together We Build” campaign director of First, Raleigh an-
nounces that the seven-week campaign to raise money for the church’s new

multi-purpose building was a great success.

Wyatt states that the campaign’s aim was to reach every family and give them
an opportunity to be part of the building progfam, and about 93% of the church
families responded to the building fund. This is a 150-week program that calls for
the whole church to give whatever they can give above their regular church gifts.

The minimum goal was $78,000; the sacrificial goal was $85,000; the Hallelujah

goal was $93,900. As of Sunday, May 1, the church families had given or pledged

$97,420.

The real victory is that 101 pledges out of 187 families were returned signed.
Another 22 families gave a donation and 25 more will give later. These facts tell of

real victory.

Robert H. Perry is the pastor. Clarence Cutrell of the Mississippi Baptist
Convention Board was the general director of the program.

South Alabama Bus Conference

The South Alabama Bus and Chil-
dren's Church Conference will be held
at Dauphin Way Church, Mobile,
Alabama, May 23 and 24.

Program personalities will include
Bobby Welch, pastor, First, Daytona
Beach, Fla.; Larry Hipps, bus minis-
ter, West Rome Church, Rome, Ga.;

Jerry Vines, host pastor; R. O. Stone,
minister of music at Dauphin Way;
and Bobby Smith, bus minister at
Dauphin Way.

Sessions will be held Monday even-
ing, Tuesday afternoon, and Tuesday
night. The conference fee will be $5 per
person.

Fens.

MacGormanTo Teach Romans

At Morrison Heights Church

J. W. MacGorman, author of Ro-

meet in the sanctuary for this stud
Sunday at 9:40 a.m. and 6:15 p.m.,
Monday and Tuesday at 7 p.m., and
Wednesday at 6:15 p.m. Other age
groups will have separate studies,
MacGorman has taught since 1943.
He holds degrees from the University
of Texas, Southwestern , and
Texas Christian University with a
Ph.D. from Duke University; His
travels include the ‘Bahamas, South
America, Lebanon, West Africa, the
Holy Land, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
A native of Nova Scotia, Canada, he
is married and has two daughters and
four sons. In addition to the study
course book on Romans, he has written
The Gifts of the Spirit and the Gala-

tians section of the Broadman

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Commentary.
The public is invited.

Blessitt Offers School

For Street Minstries

Arthur Blessitt, Southern Baptist
“minister of Sunset Strip”, will lead a
University in Street Ministries istri Los
Angeles, July 17-24. 2 :

The week-long session will include
practical application by actual wit-
nessing on the streets and in the night
spots of Hollywood. There will be clas-
ses and laboratory experiences in
street ministries, street preaching,
street witnessing and working with

street E

Alsd included are classes in night life
ministries, such as night club
evangelism, ministry to entertainers,
addicts, and how to start coffee house
ministries.

Tuition fee will be $25. FBC Mar
Vista, Gwin Turner, pastor, at 11811
Venier Blvd., LA, Calif., 90066, will
make motel reservations for those

Jupiter Homecoming

Jupiter Church (Simpson), Bob
Stewart, pastor, will observe
homecoming and ground breaking on
May 22. Services will start at 10 a.m.
with Sunday School, followed by morn-
ing worship at 11. W. C. Hallmark will
bring the message.

There will be dinner on the Ground
with an ‘afternoon ground breaking
ceremony for a pastorium. Paul
Roberts will bring the message in the
afternoon services. The church is
three miles west of D’Lo.

Sunday School Lesson: Life And Work For May 22

asking and a limited number of homes
will furnish free rooms.

A special three week extended: ses-
“sion of the course will be offered to a
small number. Blessitt will train those
people under his direct supervision in
the night spots of Los Angeles and Hol-
lywood

Register at Arthup Blessitt Street
University, 10525 Venice Boulevard,
Los Angeles, Calif., 90034.

“Vancleave To
Pay Tribute
To R. L. Vaughn

As a part of the continuing celebra-
tion of the 75th anniversary of Van-
cleave Church, the members will ob-
serve R. L. Vaughn Day on Sunday,
May 22. Vaughn, now retired, has
served as pastor in various churches in
the Jackson County area for over 50
years.

The 11 a.m. worship service will fea-
ture a “This Is Your Life’ program

honoring Vaughn. Dinner will be

served on the church grounds. Special
afternoon activities are being planned.

Pastor Felix V. Greer, Jr. states,
“God has greatly used the long minis-
try of Brother Vaughn to bless
thousands of people in Jackson County
and beyond..”’

Relationships In Church Family

By Bill Duncan, First, Long Beach
I Timothy 5:1-25

The New Testament suggests that
the church is a family. In I Timothy 5
we see that the fellowship of the church

is to be guided by

the respect that

should be shown in

7 wef the family. These

* principles become

the guidelines for
proper _ interper-
sonal relationships.
Any organization or
family can expect

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arise among its members.

The basis of respect in the church is
recognition of the older generation. It
is natural for each generation to be
critical of that which went before and
that which is to follow. The church is
the home of the grace of God, a place
where impatience and hypocritical at-

thusiasm with the stability that comes
only through experience.

The pastor must respect the older
members of the congregation as he re-
spects his own father. He must not use
his pulpit as a secure fortress from
which to hurl harsh and violent reproof

the older, more conservative

verse, the pastor to remember
that his affection for the younger
women must be within the bounds of
perfect prioriety and purity. ~

It is always necessary to rebuke
anyone with the proper spirit. Some
people have a problem in speaking a

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the church would support must meet
certain qualifications such as to care
for the sick, to be hospitable, and- to
have a servant’s spirit. The role of the
church - supported widow was to be
that of a constant pray-er and constant
loving helper for those in trouble. The
younger widows were ‘encouraged to
marry, rear a family, and make a
home. Paul urged the younger widows
to avoid actions that would bring criti-
cism on their church.

The church needs to have practical
regulations for the life and administ-
ration of the church. Paul was an es-
tablisher of the churches. He labored

to support himself. However, he was
the first to urge that the position. of
pastor was entitled to prestige, honor,
and adequate financial compensation.
He urged not only a paid ministry but
an adequately paid ministry. A good
minister of Christ should be provided

with the means of meeting his obliga-
tions, that the church might not be de-
spised by unbelievers.

In the case of church discipline, Paul
advised that there needed to be two
witnesses. This was to be sure that the
cause of criticism was not a false
charge. P: ity must not be shown,
for ultimately all must stand before

the judgment seat of God.

The pastor should be carefulin elect-
ing leaders of the church. His own pur-
ity is bound up in the careful selection
of those who serve as leaders in the
church. Those who persist in sin are to
be publicly rebuked.

The purose.of church discipline was
to make the sinner aware of the con-
sideration of his ways and to awake the
church to the seriousness of sin. The
church must never give the impres-
sion that it condones sin.

Paul urges the young pastor to ad-
minister his office without favoritism
and without prejudices.

Sunday School Lesson: International For May 22

Guidelines To Faith

By Wm. J. Fallis
James 4:1 to 5:6
Paul was not the only“New Testa-

question as to whether they were
Christians; James called the church

the answer in another question.

uncontrolled cravings are at war
within them. Instead of the Spirit,
self-indulgence dominates them. Typ-

ical parallelism of Hebrew poetry
shows up in the first part of verse 2
with the meaning that when his read-
ers coveted something and could not
have it, they were ready to kill. Even
when they pray, they do not receive
because they intend to waste what they
seek in self- ;

Verse 4 in the best Greek manus-
cripts has “’adulteresses”’ only, but the

here refers to all who are opposed to

ties. To make more vivid their repen-
tance, they should weep instead of
laugh and change their ‘‘gladness into
shame.’’ They must renounce their ef-
fort to be friends both with the world
and‘yith God. He would respond by
lifting them up; he would recognize
‘true humilitry; another guideline to
faith.

DEPENDING ON HIS WILL (vv.
13-17)

Moving abruptly from one subject to
another is characteristic of James; so
these verses are not related to’verses

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_. Devotional
| A Child Of The King |

In this world some have more than others in the things of material value.Some ‘
are born into families of poverty while others are born into families of prosperity.

I am so glad that we all have offered to us in Christ the riches of His grace. “We
joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have
now received the atonement” (Rom. 5:11). It is also stated in
Romans 8:15 that “Ye have received the Spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” o

I. I am a child of the King in salvation. ‘But as many as
received him, to them gave he power to become the Sons of
God, even to them that believe on His Name."’ Which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
man, but of Ged” (John 1: 12-13). “The Lordis my lightandmy ©
salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my ©
life; of whom shall I be afraid?” (Ps. 27:1). “The Lord
reached down in mercy and salvaged me fromthe pits of sin and placed my feet
upon the Solid Rock. And he hath put a new song in my Mouth; even praise into
our God’’ (Ps: 40:2-3).

II. Lam a child of the King in protection. ‘I am the door : by me if any manenter
in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” (John 10:9).

“‘As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father; and Tlay down my life
for the sheep” (JOHN 10:15). Pie

There is no way that the evil one. Satan, can get to my security in Christ. I have
been born into the family of God and I have all the security and protection which
the Power of God assures. “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto
salvation ready to be revealed in.the last time” (I Peter 1:4). . .““For I know
whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have
committed unto him against that day”’ (II Tim. 1:12b).

II“ am a child of the King in production. The only way that I can accomplish
anything pleasing unto the Lord is to allow Him to work through me.

“T am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and Lin him, the
same bringeth forth much fruit: for without.me ye can thing’ (John 15:5).

We find all our source for power in Jesus Christ. The life of reproduction is
fgund in Christ. ‘ Pt

ow and then, we all favé te come under the pruning knife of the discipline of
God in order for our lives to be productive. The Holy Spirit will not work through
dead branches. We find that the new branches are whefe you get the most fruit.

“For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are
God’s building” (I Cor. 3:9). :

“Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it,
because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of
what sort it is.”

IV. I am a child of the King in provision. ‘‘And these things write we unto you,
that your joy may be full’’ (I John 1:4). ;

Jesus told his disciples that He was going to prepare a place for them. ‘And if I
go and-prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; +
that where I am, there ye may be also’’ (John 14:3).

‘‘Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27b).

So then, everywhere we go and in all that we do, we need always to remember
that we are children of the King: Bring honor and not shame to His name. Whose

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child are you?

Off The

Record

A little boy who had been used to
receiving his older brother’s old toys,
and clothes recently remarked: ‘Ma,
will I have to marry his widow when
he dies?”

Teacher: Students, I’m letting you
out of class fifteen minutes early to-
day. Please leave quietly, so as not to
wake the other classes.

Every morning for 11 years a man
awakened at six and took his dog for a
walk.

Suddenly the dog died.

The next morning the fellow woke up
at the same time, stared at the ceiling
for a moment, then nudged his wife.

« Hey,” he said, ‘you wanna take a
walk?” Mi

Angel Martinez To Preach’

In Smith County Crusade

Angel Martinez will be the
evangelist and Jimmy Snelen of Dal-
las will be the music evangelist for the
Smith County area crusade, May 29-
June 3. Services will be held at the
football stadium at Taylorsville, Sun-
day through Friday nights at 7:30 p.m.

Morning services will begin“at 10
a.m., Tuesday through Friday at the
Union Baptist Church, Smith County.

‘Thirty-three Baptist churches are
cooperating. All denominations are

Winters

Martinez Snelen

invited,’”’ says Charlie Bryant, Smith
County director of missions.

Carey To Award Doctorates

The William Carey College Board of
Trustees has announced that three
honorary doctorates will be presented
at commencement, May 21. These will
include: Judge James P. Coleman,
doctor of laws degree; Mrs. Fr:
Winters, doctor of humane letters de-
gree; and Otis Seal, doctorof divinity

degree.
Coleman, who will deliver the an-
nual commencement address, is a

sippi life. Born in Ackerman, he is ‘a
graduate of the University of Missis-"
sippi and holds the LL.B. degree from
George Washington University.

was named to the state’s

to a four-year term in the legislature.

He is the only man in his-
tory to serve in all three br: of
state government. In August, 1965, he
was rer uvoncene
for the

SF Fadl i an Bi
married to the former Margaret De-
nnis.

Mrs. Frances Winters, fa-

Princeton. She has done additional
graduate studies at Columbia Univer-
sity, Western Reserve University, and

the University of Louisville.
In ration with her husband, she
co-fou the School of Church Music

at Southern Seminary in Louisville,
Kentucky. She served at Indiana Uni-
versity as assitant to the dean of the
School of Music, before joining the Wil-
liam Carey College faculty in 1958.
Otis Seal of Meridian is pastor of the
Calvary Church, where he has served
since 1957. A graduate of Mississippi
State University he was involved in
graduate studies at Southwestern
Seminary and New Orleans Seminary.
we . the U. S. Infantry during
d War II, he spent three-years in
Africa and in Italy.
He has been a member of the Missis-