Christian Chronicle (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 25, Ed. 1 Monday, June 22, 1970 Page: 1 of 8
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Vol. XXVII Juno 22, 1970 No. 25
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This Week
Overheard during time for
church collection: “Hey, Ed, I
need change for a fifty." "Here,
are two quarters okay?"
wild oats." commented the late
Fred Allen, "then go to church
on Sunday and pray for a crop
failure."
“When I look at the congre-
gation," said one preacher, “I
ask ‘Where are the poor?’ When
I look at the collection, I ask
'Where are the rich?’".
By Ralph Sweet
An elder for a large church
says the congregation is so pe-
nurious that w hen the song leader
asks them to turn to page 100,
they automatically turn to page
99. They think it saxes one per-,
cent!
year’s preaching school list is
more complete than last year
which accoupted for some of the
increase.
The number of Bible chairs
thinking in terms of part-time
religious work, rather than full-
time work." A
The constant stream of inqui-
ries coming from congregations
for ministers indicates that the
number is "far from adequate,"
he added. “The increased num-
bers reported in the statistics
of this year are certainly not
grounds for thinking that the
to seek pity of special consider-
ation and who relates his calam-
ity with total aplomb. But try to
compliment him and hell shrug
Sweet
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Overheard at a finance meet-
ting: “At present prices who can
afford a depression?"
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The Christian Chronicle
will not be published next
week in accordance with
its announced publication
schedule. The next issue ’
will be July 6.
• "We’re a majority in
any crowd!* say the
students at Campus
I have had more trouble with
myself than with any other per-
son I know.— D. L. Moody
Gary Isbell—double amputee
walks tall, proud
SEARCY, ARK.—The true
story of 21-year-old Gary Isbell
is harder to believe thiTh fiction.
It is so full of "impossibles”
that it is almost beyond com-
prehension.
His survival from a farm ma- cept Isbell himself, who has yet
chine accident late last summer
that severed both legs at the hip
is incredible enough to make a
P. T. Barnum blush.
That he is alive ("No one else and turn ’the conversation to
ever lived through it; so I feel
pretty lucky”) is a start. How
he mastered artificial legs in three
months, carried 15 hours of
college credit in the interim, re-
work or otherwise prevent them spend several weeks meandering
from being the effective gospel about the country.
TRAVELING AT a leisurely
pace, hitch-hiking and juggling
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Calif. See page 4.
• Thanks to Ma Bell, a
Pennsylvania church
has an active shut-in
mtototry, page 9.
• Father’s Day was abo
Cherokee Home day.
Seepage*.
the Christian Home for Aged.
Latin American seminar to be
in honor of Pedro Rivas
TORREON, Mexico—The
seventh annual Latin American
Seminar Aug. 17*21 here at the
Torreon Bible School will be in
memory of the late- minister
Pedro Rivas Sr. '
The theme will be “Better Prep-
aration for Better Workers for
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Burton; William E. Nix,
Houston architect; Ellis L.
Durham, project architect and
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preachers they now hqpe to be-
come. It must also be recognized
that many of these young men are fishing gear, they visited friends
and tourist attractions, combed
the woods they both loved, and
fulfilled their wanderlust in visit-
ing from Michigan to Florida.
In August Gary went to Qbn-
rad, Iowa, and started work-
ing on a farm. Two weeks later,
on Aug. 12 at about 7:30 p.m.,
he was driving an alfalfa chopper
when the hay became stuck on the
huge machine’s conveyor belt. As
See Isbell page 7
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Baxter’s report included fig-
ures from 25 Christian colleges, -
21 schools of preaching, and 25
state university Bible chairs.
ALTHOUGH EX ACT figures
are impossible to obtain, said
Baxter, “it is possible to get
some approximation of the num-
ber and to determine general
trends." He said this year’s re-
port is “more complete than
ever before and should give at
least some general indication of
the direction in which things are
moving." /
Christian colleges, with a total
enrollment of 15,015, reported ,
that 1,438 of their men wanted
to preach; Schools of preaching
with 899 students reported 716
had intentions of filling pulpits.
Last year’s figures were IJ 17
for colleges and 426 for schools 'of a new 214-bed addition to said Virgil Maxwell, adminis-
of preaching Baxter said this the Christian Home for Aged, trator.
ConstructiofTbf the new facil-
3 ity will cost $2.5 million and
xwill begin early next year. The
addition v^ill have five floors
and a full basement. The home
is under the direction of the
Central church. - -
Personnel guiding the home
and its building project are A. B.
Banowsky, chairman of the
board; William H. Clift, archi-
tect from the Texas Department
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whether the fish are biting, the
beauty of springtime or the
whereabouts of a former teacher
he admired intensely.
How his world was changed in
moments and how he has reacted,
readjusted and accomplished a
goal is a story of true courage..
After finishing his junior year
at Harding, which included a
season at center field with the
Bison baseball team and a 300
batting average, he decided to
spend the summer "goofing off.”
*1 had worked every summer
Since the 6th grade; so I decided
to have a fliq£," the Wichita,
said.
A classmate, Craig Kesterson,
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ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGl
ABILENE, TEXAS
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“Most of 'us spend the first
six days of the week sowing the Lord."
Cost of the trip and accom-
modations will be provided for
Latin American ministers who
cannot afford it, said Harris
from 179 to 143, men, said
®aXter- . , There are many factors which
ABILENE CHRISTIAN Col- may cause them to go into other also of Wichita, joined him to
. lege, the largest Christian college
with 3,113 enrollment for 1969-
70, had the largest number of
students wanting topreach—335.
Sunset School of Preaching in
Lubbock, Tex., with 170 enrol-
lment topped the preaching
school list with all of is students
wanting to preach. Eastern New
Mexico University in Portales
headed the Bible chair list with
50 students.
Baxter said although “cau-
tious encouragement" could be
taken from the statistics, he
called the results “quite encour-
aging." “Progress isJ>eing made problem is solved."
Goodwin, missionary in Mexico
City. Other participants will ar-
range their own accomodations.,
range their own accommodat-
ions., he said.
Mr. Rivas, veteran Mexican
minister, died last year. Good-
win said the seminar would be... of Health representing Hill-
a “radiating center to pay horn- Burton; William
age to Brother Rivas." * Houston architect;
Jose Luis Avila of Torreon is T J
accepting reservations for tHe member of the Southwest church;
seminar. and L. P. Rutledge, treasurer.
Nearly 2,300 planning to fill pulpits—Baxter
and there is some indication that
the brotherhood-wide concern
over the ’preacher shortage’ is
having some effect" he added.
He also admitted that the sta-
tistics are "stated in' the most
ideal of terms. Not all of the'
young men who now hope to
preach will ultimately preach. Kan., native
And still more names of
churches. Keep them coming.
Tulip
Candor
Hasty
Economy
Gunpowder
Talent
Kent
Marlboro
Chesterfield
Savage
Holy N&ck
Harsh
Asylum Hill
Timewell
Refuge
Nameless Creek
Slush
Country Club
Lovers Lane
Jetmore
Parsons
Diagonal
Fairchatjce
Early ’
Paint Lick
Half Way
Red Boiling Springs
NASHVILLF, Tenn.—Nearly
I 2300 men are preparing to
preach according • to a survey
taken this year at Christian col-
leges and Bible chairs across the .
, a< secular cpllege-, and ugiver-
. , more sities was smaller than in 1968-
than 33 percent from last year’s 69 which accounted for the drop
survey headed by Batsell Barrett
Baxter, head of the Bible de-
partment of David* Lipscomb
Let us endeavor so to live College,
that when we come to die even
the undertaker will be sorry.—
Mark Twain.
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turned to college to complete
degree requirements and main-
tained a perfectly wholesome at-
titude is virtually unbelievable to 1
everyone.
’ EVERYONE, of course, ex-
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$2.5 million grant given for home
HOUSTON, Tex.—A $1 mil- The grant, pledged by the Hill-
lion construction grant has been Burton Foundation, is the larg-
pledged toward the construction est possible under this program.
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Sweet, Ralph & Weed, Michael. Christian Chronicle (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 25, Ed. 1 Monday, June 22, 1970, newspaper, June 22, 1970; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1320871/m1/1/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Advertising%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.