Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, April 26, 1963 Page: 2 of 8
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A good method, we feel, of placing
many good books written by men cl-
our brotherhood into the public libraries
of our land, would be to have local
congregations conduct book drives
among their local membership. These
books could be bought individually (or
in some cases we’re sure the books •
could be used—but definitely in excel-
lent shape) and contributed as a group
effort to the local library.
Or individual Christians could be
urged to select certain books and buy
them personally for the library.
In some cases the library might be
willing to purchase a good selection of
representative books by our brethren
with their own funds. Individual
libraries will have different policies on
this matter.
Another suggestion would be to have
individual Bible classes in a congrega-
tion—from the youngsters on up—
compete in a contest to see which class
cpuld donate more books. A project
like this could assume many forms.
The end in mind is the main thing how-
ever.
We would like to hear from Chronicle
readers on this proposal and idea. May-
be with a little initiative we can reach
another segment of. persons towith some
adequate information about the church
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Brother Arthur Turriff of Dallas has
an idea that there is yet another way
that local congregations may reach lost
souls—an avenue which we have over-
looked.
Brother Turriff, for many years a
seeker for the New Testament church,
spent a great deal of time during these
years studying and looking for informa-
tion in public libraries. Where else to
go, he reasoned, to find some sort of
unbiased information about the various
religious bodies and their teachings?
He felt, as do many persons, that
be would like to study the different
religious groups himself in books and
other materials, without having to per-
sonally encounter members of the
various religious groups.
But, he says, in all his searching
in public libraries he cannot remember
having once found any periodical, book
or informative work telling about the
Churches of Christ and their plea.
This of course leads us to the con-
clusion that a tremendous evangelism
avenue has been skipped—our public
libraries! There are many ways that
books about our faith, history and plea
can be put into the public libraries.
Perhaps the best way to begin would
be to pay a visit to the local librarian
and talk the situation over with him
or her.
THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN
'I Will, if You Will'
Doesn't Get Job Done
By Bob Wear
Chronicle Staff Writer
It seems that most of us know about what needs
to be done to maintain the basic principles of a vigorous
and substantial society. Our behavior, however, often
gives the impression that most of us are waiting for
others toVnake the first move.
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A heartening trend among churches
of Christ in the years since World War
11 has been the upsurge.of mission in-
terest and concern. And have you
noticed the striking advances being
made in our methods and techniques
of mission work even in the past two
years?
Anyone in this brotherhood who
spends his time in thinking about and
studying how the Lord wants us to do
mission work, can usually find someway
to go to work for His cause.
There are many evidences of this
interest, and one which is worthy of
mention is the “Museum of Missions”
project being conducted by Fred L.
Casmir at Pepperdine College in Los
Angeles.
Information—1 ye«r (U.S. and Canada),
sxcept foreign misslon-
whu. boat-mail subscriptions
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monthly SO-up; congregational
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ddiUon to regular rates. Subscrip-
lude complete name, gddress, city.
. Renewals and changes of address
expiration date if known. Allow four
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thinking is not effective, but
diligent working is effective.
Worthwhile accomplishment
demands intelligent planning and
energetic working. Whatever is
done, we must do it.
The idea here, of course, is to col-
lect in one place information, pictures,
books, slides, artifacts, diaries and
other materials of pertinent interest to
the history and current work of the
missionaries of the churches of Christ
around the world.
A project like this is a lonely one.
We, who have tried to compile various
lists along this line, know the co-
operation (or lack of it) one gets when
he tries to accomplish a goal like this
one.
The editors of the Christian Chronicle
would like to commend Brother Casmir
and his plans for the Museum of Mis-
sions. We hope Others will help him
with it and contribute materials to it.
(Contact: Prod L. Casmir, PeppordNie"
seem to want all of the possible
government services and finan-
cial aid we can get, but we
resent having to pay the bill for
such government actions.
We want high quality educa-
tion for our children, but we
have been and still are reluc-
tant to put forth maximum ef-
forts to sustain such educational
opportunities. In most directions
we look, it seems that we can
clearly see the lack of balance
between expectations and accep-
tance of responsibilities.
We talk and write about all
of the action needed to solve
our problems and improve our
situations. This is easy to do
and we seem to have some
sound ideas about what needs
to be done.
We must remember, however,
that "ideas are such funny
things; they never work unless
we do.” Too jnany of us seem
to feel that some how, we do
not know how; and in some
way, we do not know the way;
everything will come out al-
right.
There is, however, i
this Pollyanna viewnf
as we know, nothing
pens to turn out alrigl
do not happen until
makes them happen.
32 Are Baptized
In Mobile Series
MOBILE, Ala.—Thirty - two
persons were baptized and 51
restored in a meeting at the
Plateau Congregation in Mobile
March 10-17.
V, P, Black, minister with the
Plateau dnnrh for the past
10-1/1 years, was the speaker
He is ahm serv-
ing as an elder at Platen,,
sone and state,
weeks for
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Managing Editor.
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seem to
waiting
each other to
act. C o n s e-
quentlv, only
a small per-
centage of the
people are try-
ing to do the
majority of
the work nec-
essary to meet
t Wear the challenges
which are thundering in our
ears.
There is too much of the spirit
of, "I will, if you will." Too
many of us today are asking,
"Why don’t they do something?”
We near individuals accusing
other individuals of neglect and
indifference; however, the ac-
cuser is oftentimes as much at
fault as the accused. He knows
what needs to be done, too; but
is not doing it.
This spirit is also found in or-
ganizations and institutions.
They find fault with and blame
each other, when they, with one
accord, should be facing up to
the job that needs to be done.
The energy they waste in
faultfinding should be put to
work.
Homer said, "Light the task
where many share the toil.”
This is the spirit we need in
our communities, in our nation
and in the church of the living
God.
We must accept the respon-
sibility that rightfully belongs to
us. You and I are equally obli-
gated to be upright and hon
orable persons. In keeping with
our respective abilities, we are
equally responsible to serve our
Communities, to be good citizens
and to maintain effective govern-
ment.
No one has the right to say to
his neighbor, "these obligations
are your’s, and none of mine.”
We must share them. We seem
to be losing much of the wil-
Bngness to -accept-the-obliga-
tions which go with the bless-
ings we expect and usually de-
mand. for the
For example: many of us
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Nichols, James W. Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, April 26, 1963, newspaper, April 26, 1963; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1313027/m1/2/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.