Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1961 Page: 3 of 8
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Mr
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Huntington
(Editor's note: A group of Tok-
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Also as a result of these two
I contacted his
and Mrs. Arthur
was able to bap-
Thirty-Two Baptized
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio —
Thirty-two were baptised and
29 restored to active work dur-
ing an evangelistic meeUng re-
cently concluded here by W. A.
Bradfield. Henderson, Tenn.
Charles Rickman is evangelist
conversions,
parents. Mr
Spence, and
tize them alter two Home Bible
classes His mother was of the
Jewish faith and was born in
New York City: his father, a
native of Baltimore. Maryland
and comes from a Catholic fam
ily. They have lived here on
the Island for about 35 years
It was certainly a thrill to see
these two fine couples obey the
gospel
They arc thrilled to have
learned the truth and are try-
ing to interest their neighbors
and friends to study Another
great thrill was to baptize, re-
cently. Tech. Sgt. Lionel A.
Edwards He was born in New
York City and has been in the
service for 20 years and is sta-
tioned here on the Island at
Suffolk AFB About two months
ago. I baptized his wife and
two children.
The past two years have been
the most thrilling years of my
life. I have been privileged to
study with people from all walks
of life. Among the many con-
tacts are business people, pol-
icemen, doctors, lawyers, school
teachers, denominational
preachers, shop keepers, and
laborers of every class. I have
taught almost all nationalities.
It is true that we have «0 na-
tions represented on Long Is-
land.
preach regularly here at
Church of Christ.
We are meeting in a basement.
The association of the fine con-
verts is a constant source of
blessings to me.
Before coming to Long Island,
I lived in Abilene, Texas, where
I had a well established busi-
ness and was a deacon with
City. They are natives of Puer-
to Rico
- Recently my milkman and
his wife. Mr and Mrs. Earl
Spence, obeyed the Gospel af-
ter two Cottage Bible Classes.
They have three fine little
girls, ages' 1 12. 6. and 8 years
of age Spence is a native of
Long Island and his wife is a
native of Germany where her
parents still live She wanted
her parents to learn about the
Church so 1 have obtained
tracts in the German language
from Otis Gatewood for her to
send to them
others have been
P>ere were two school
went to Long Island lest
■ yoar on a unique mission. These
I man desired to establish New
■ Testament churches on Long
I Island and they planned to use
.1 Ito personal evangelism of
W "cottage meeting" approach al-
I most exclusively. One of these
I men, H. L. Farris, has been
I unusually successful in this ap-
I preach. The following article,
I although written more in the
I farm of a personal letter, tells
I of this work )
By H. L. Farris
HUNTINGTON Long Island.
■ N Y —Id like to tell you about
'« my work on Long Island since
I 1 arrived here two years ago
I This work i- made possible by
I the Iowa Park Church of Christ,
I Iowa Park Tex George Bailey,
I minster of the College Church
I si Christ. Abilene. Tex., who
I recently completed a gospel
I meeting here on Long Island,
I was so thrilled over this work
I that he 'ai l I should re > »r!
’1 tn the brotherhood and perhaps
I interest more people to go into
I personal work
Personal work and particular
I ly ‘‘house to house teaching"
I has been my method of evan
I (tlizing [ have had
I L. three to four classes
I iays ;
I t>ge Bible Classes,
I the Lord s help,
I teed H7
I Rars
I The truth has been planted
■the hearts of hundreds of
J~*r-S by teaching from house
I Jl.“°Usc handing out tract*
I Mid encouraging people to lis-
■n to the Herald of Truth. All
■Ny contacts have not accept-
B the truth, but they have
taught. With the Lord’s
I £lp "hole families have obeyed
I ’“gospel
I to aT esPecialb’ happy about
I *l***,"’n”nntional preachers
I a.,, z,ave obeyed the Gospel:
S u ^'in-ton and his wife,
I Bv«> r !.le Sca”- who is a na-
o> Haiti Scott is intelligent
I anti SPnal(S three languages flu-
y Both of these men preach
*r us often
MJft7uhearinS on,y one les-
*ey tho * and her son
famii.fi°sPel A complete
I*leiphi ° six and a teen-age
aftpr k°r t>oy were converted
fcZs earinK lwo lessons. Three
a5° a man and his wife
r ” ’he Gospel and they
six nice, well-behaved chil-
i tact/0!^ house to house con- .
banti’».a arran«ed a class and
Nan 7i j a lady who was 90
j-°,d she had been listen-
Z-./he Herald of Truth for
,era| years
• Many
*jched __
_ kr»^ierL.Mr-. and ^re. J°e VU- --------
***». who teach In New York at Middletown.
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the Woodlawn Church of Christ.
I was in charge of their “Per-
sonal Work Program.”
I
Farris' Success
on Long Island
Shows Worth of Personal Work
117 baptized through efforts
j
1.
I
W. L. Farris and Family
. . . success in living room evangelism
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By Bill McCown
Chronicle News Service
ADANA, Turkey—Mixed into
the disappointments and diffi-
culties of the life and work
of the missionary are many
interesting and sometimes hu-
morous incidents. One such
took place the other day here
in Adana
I have cultivated the friend-
ship of a young Turk, Bay Er-
gerzer Karafekin. This young
CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE _____________ R j
Turkish Missionary Encounters
Humorous Problems in Language
How Do You Commit a Bumblebee?0
/
THE WEEK
secured
man works in the "Kitap Duk-
kane” (Book Store andf Office
Supplies) where I trade. He
has studied English at the Turk-
Amerikan Dernegi. and is inter-
ested in improving his English
through conversational practice.
Since I am desirous of getting
all of the practice that I can
in using Turkish, we have ar-
ranged a period of one hour
together each day. In these ses-
sions he uses English and 1 use
Turkish.
To facilitate our exercise, we
have been reading both from ... ________.______
the Bible and from Bible liter- tained to Jesus* teaching coo-
ature. This accomplishes a dou-
ble purpose both of us get
practice in the language which
we are trying to master and
this young man gets an intro-
duction to the Bible.
As we have read together,
he has interrupted our reading
on many occasions to inquire
into the meaning of that which
we have read together.
Sometime ago I
through the American Bible So-
ciety some very colorful book-
lets containing the Sermon on
the Mount in Turkish. Yester-
day as I was reading from this
Turkish account of the Sermon
on the Mount, Ergerzer inter-
rupted my rvding. He wanted
to know what this meant about
the man committing the “bum-
blebee?” I was at a loss for a
moment, for my Turkish is not
yet quite good enough for mo
to translate freely.
I read back a bit and deter-
mined that the passage per-
-----------------
n iTiitf: of
ceroing adultery in the heart
I then asked Ergerzer which
word he was translating “bum-
blebee?” When he pointed out
otient
wary of a n«
'oesn't
Things
tan cannot be
tns who have
I Christians k
hri’ is found j
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inner so he'll i
t to God "1
avoid a condei
pf the great M
t people are I
ter than slotM
h Satan suj
makes us
"mature"
ice these pot
■enough to acref
I for presen<
Ing goes wel*
le. but the i«<e
Br too many *•
I spirit of *•;
reak. When th
> cease Io
rit of cannfj
tie hope for
therefore •*
t alive, and t»
daily rfne*,j
its is one «JR
i the < hrisWM
ike the leni "I
care enouS* I
concerned ’I
ivide the le’^l
needed at I
®realed S
the peopk *
who
>1® and
®. L,stJB£ •
is not *
y rep®*"* j
y of liv«£*
t daily
iut popul,r£j
ition
p sin but vt
lie to "every f
to strengthea
■tion when Si
frous, implaa
ill. We must
THE WORLD VIEW
■
Ji
L 1
many
should'we *Ku«rd sgsinst
overcome the » ces of good
No doubt there were those who
thought that we had better keep
our missionaries in Jerusalem
rather than send them to Anti-
och Wait until conditions are
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4-i-;---d|
It was the
great
l>ose
sus
the
t o
greater
some might have said No great-
er r. i.. ';e could we make than
to make the mistake of having
a quarrel between the present
and tiie past and forget the
future.
Anyone who reads the Bible,
even casually, must feel that
here is a book with its eye on
the future from the first page
until the last page. The Revela-
tion closes with the great look
to the future. Abraham steps
out in the early pages of the
Book of Genesis with his eye
to the future.
We need the wisdom and the
insight to evaluate the possi-
bilities for mission work in our
day. Arriving in Seoul. Korea,
just two days ago was a young
woman who had finished her
Ph D Degree and had com*
to accept a position with George
the word, we took the dictiM-
ary and determined that th*
word in the Turkish “zina” baa
two meanings: 1.) bumblebee;
2 * adultery
So. where my friend thought
that the man committed "bum-
blebee,” he actually committed
“adultery.” After explaining to
my young friend the meaning of
the term "adultery,” and point-
ing out that God intended for a
man to have but one wife, we
better in the Roman Empire, moved briefly into a considera-
pur-
of Je
to des-
I troy sin end
the works of
, the devil,
and when we
can trust
him for for-
| giveness we
’ are on
road
toward
Rogers To Sweefwafer
SWEETWATER, Tex. —Patil
E Rogen, formerly minister
for the chureh to SUUwatoe,
Okla., recently moved hit fam-
ily t* Sweetwater, Tex., to be-
gin as preacher for the eth aad
Elm St. Church of Christ here.
Hb address is 1509 McCaul-
ley, Sweetwater. Rogers for-
eterly worked as a missionary
in Italy.
' on
in the future.
living
Let Us Forget The Past,
And Look To Our Future
By A. R. Holton
Chronicle Staff Writer
SEOUL. Korea—It was Paul’s
great admonition to the breth-
ren that they should forget the
things in the past and press
toward the mark of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus.
The church had come to the
time when no doubt many indi-
viduals had made mistakes Af-
ter the first great success of
the preaching of the Gospel
there came various complies
tions and troubles Paul gives
his admonition in order that our
mistakes might not be a mill-
stone about us It was never
intended that failures and mis-
takes be permanently against
us
Peabody College for Teachers
in their extension work in Kor-
ea. This woman, a member of
the church, no doubt will find
one of the greatest opportuni-
ties of her life to serve men
and to serve God in this new
position.
Some years ago we would
never have thought of this as
being an open door for the
church. I saw it over and over
in Washington, D. C., that men
who came to serve in the gov-
ernment could carry with them
a great influence for the church.
And so coming\ to Washington
were dozens of young men and
women, members of the church,
who were finding a place in
the government.
These young people formed
the very backbone of the church
in the Washington area. The
entire Atlantic Seaboard is in-
fluenced by this kind of people.
The American personnel in Kor-
ea is getting larger in number
all the time. Not only is this
true with military personnel,
but business and professional
people are also coming to Kor
Our churches back home need
to mobilise this great force and
help these young people to be
more effective for the cause
of Christ. Yes, let us not quar-
rel between our present situa-
tion tad the past. Let us for-
thia quarrel and took Io
future.
The Christian
Citizen . . .
(Coot.)
phistication, wholesome patriot-
ism suffers, personal religious
devotion decreases, family ties
grow weak, human .dignity de-
clines and life, in general, be-
comes second class.
We must not allow ourselves
to succumb to this pernicious
influence. It is growing because
of the support it gets from
materialism which is so preva-
lent in our present-day social
order. Let us fortify ourselves
against these threatening ene-
mies and actively fight against
them. Dynamic Christian
thoughts and Actions will pro-
vide the mart Effective antidote.
The survival of all those
things which are essential and
important to substantial human
society is dependent upon peo-
ple who care about their sur-
vival. When enough people care
enough, there is hope.
Holton
pressing
things ir._____
While living in Nashville.
Tenn . I found one of the com-
mon difficulties with many peo-
ple was their inability to ac-
cept the forgiveness of sin They
would continually recall t o
themselves the mistakes that
^Winston Churchill has said,
"If we open a quarrel between
the past and the present we
shall find that we have lost
the future” This wise sa. ing
is in keeping with the scrip-
ture. One of the great diffi-
culties here in Korea just now
is that the present and the past
have a quarrel and it is evi-
dent on all sides that in this
way we will lose the future. This
not only happens in govern-
mental affairs but it happens
many times in the church.
Especially in mission work
should we guard against com-
paring the present with the
past There are many open
doors for the Church today
the need to press on to enter
these open doors is as great
as it has ever been. There are
those who tell us that maybe
we should recall our mission
aries until conditions are bet-
ter foreign lands. .
This is one of the great ways Mt
that the forces of evil would the
tion of polygamy, which is a
legal practice in Turkiye.
According to Turkish law. a
mar. may have as many as
four (4) wives. However, he is
required to make equal provi-
sion for all of them and can
show no partiality between
them Since this is a very ex-
pensive indulgence, not many
have four wives I do know of
several men who indulge ia
two.
We are praying that oppor-
tunities like the one we have
with Ergerzer wiM be multi-
plied and that we can continue
to use the Bible in our prac- .
tice sessions, thus teaching
God’s truth to these people.
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