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e From J uly 3 to 14 a Vacation Bible School was conducted at the Calvary

Baptis t Church of Killaloe, Ontario, Can ada with classes held daily from 9 to 12 o'clock. A r egula r attend-a nce of 50 pupils brightened

· the hearts of the five teachers serving on the staff. This was the second successive year for the Vacation Bible School. The Rev. Carl Weisser, pas-tor, took a prominent part in the work of the school.

II • At the annual business

l ·. meeting of the B. Y. P. U. of Neustadt, Ontario, Canada the following new officers were elected: president, George Derbecker ; vice-pres-

iden t, Rodney Helwig; secretary, Do-lores Helwig; assistant secretary, Marie Ha hn ; treasurer, Howard Hel-wig; assis tant treasurer, Homer Hel-wig; p ia nis ts , Marion Derbecker and Lynn Helwig, Jr.; libraria ns, Vera Howard and Erma Hahn.

e Mr. Raymond Dickau of Wetaski-win, Alberta, a graduate of t he Chr is-tian Training Institute of Edmonton, spent t he past summer months serving as pastor of the Baptist Churches of E sk and Janzen, Saskatchewan. His minis try was accompanied by many blessings for the churches and for himself.

e The Mission Cii:cle of the Baptis t Church of Randolph, Minn., reports an enrollment of 18 members. During t he past year l f 2 s ick calls were made. The women are sending Christian liter ature to a ll of the church's young people in the Service. They also par-ticipate in many of the church's activities. The Rev. Ben Zimmermann is the new pasto1· of the church.

The Rev. a nd Mrs. John P. Epp of t he Baptist Church of Chancellor, So. Dak., conducted a Vacation Bible School at Tea, So. Dak., from July 24 to 28 with 30 children in attendance. A number of t hese boys and g irls made t heir confession of Chris t as Savior. The Rev. Ray Allen of Worthing, So. Dak., also assisted. This was the sec-ond consecutive year for a Vacation Bible School in this community.

e The Rev. H. W. Wedel of Victor, Iowa presented his resignation to the Baptist Church of Victor on Sunday, July 30, because of ill health. Mr. Wedel reports : " I have found a group oi loyal Christians here at Victor who have helped to make my last years in t he ministry very happy ones." The Rev. a nd Mrs. H. W. Wedel did not state where t hey will r eside in their retirement following t he close of t hen· active ministry in the Victory church.

e On Sundays, A ugust 20 and 27, t he Baptist Church of Trenton, Illinois

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Commencement P rocession by Students on the Cleveland, Tenne11see.

The World's Greatest Need of Today A Chapel Message Delivered by Dr. ALFRED A. CIERPKE

at Bob Jones College, Cleveland, Tenn.

IN SCOTLAND they tell the story ?f a resolution passed by a town com:ic!l. Firs t, they decided to build a new Jail. Secondly they resolv_e~ to u~e t he materials of the old Jail to build the new one. So far i t is plain enough. But, third they voted to keep the old j ail going until t he new one was r~ady to be used. This may be only a bit of trite humor, but it describes exactly the plight in which we are and the problem before us in building a new world.

If t he question were asked, "What is our greatest need today?"' t hree answers would probably be given a thousand times over. First, we need a better world; second, we need a Christian education ; a nd third, we need a God-given revival.

A Better World We all honor the great Reformer,

Martin Luther , one of the greatest men of religious history. But we do not quite understand him . when . he said: "Let's go afishing a little while, and let God attend the world." With these words he .avoided "the anxiety complex."

George Eliot said: "Every great emotion creates its own world _and h.as its own conscience." That is. gu1te literally true, but it lacks ~he s~1r1t o~ responsibility toward ones ne1g~bot. Gandhi would employ no force; H1tl.er used only force. They are ~he opposite ends of a vast tragedy. It 1s the false-hood of extremes in bui.lding a _new world. "With firmness m the !1gh~: as God gives us to .see the. r1gh.t, prayed Lincoln. He did not h ye with a closed mind, but was watchmg the world in t he gleam of God.

"Give me America, and h.ave the rest of the world!", said a friend of mine to me in California. And I must confess that I felt the same way. But I know now that we both are wrong.

We cannot live in isolation from the rest of t he world. We have a r es-ponsibility toward our fellowmen.

A Lost World The need which I believe to be t he

gr eates t of today is a .. twofold one. First, we need a new vision of a lo~t world.. Immediately some people. w1~l cry out: "Pessimism!" Oh no, it 1s s imply the sensible procedure o~ fac-ing a biblical fact. T here are 1ssues in life which must be faced squarely, and this is one of them.

"But," someone will say, "is not the world getting better? Look at the wonderful achievements of man!" In-deed man has achieved some wonder-ful things in the realm of science and invention but note how these operate today fo; man's own destruction! No-one knows this so well as the young people of the world, t~~ young _me~ of America, who are g1vmg then- lives for a better world to come.

If you do not believe it, t hen follow the judgment of the Bible, which sa~s that we live in a lost world. This world is doomed to destruction because of sin, the power behind all the. de-struction. Can it be that we fa il to understand that four-letter word : LOST? The Lord J esus himseli said : "What sha ll it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?" No greater tragedy t hen this could befall a man.

This leads me to the second phase of our greatest need of today. It is

'l'HE AU'l'HOR P r ofe11sor Alfred A. Cler11ke IH a

m embe r ot the Pilgrim DnptlHt Church of P hllade l1>hla, Pa. He has traveled wide ly throughout the U nited StateH and has v i s ite d many of our churches. For the s ummer of 11143 he was the Germon pa11tor for the Fore11t Park Baptist Chnrclt of For e1tt Park, llllnol•. He 111 now a member of the faculty of Bob Jone11 College at Oleveland, Tenn.

tl~e need of a new vision of God. The Bible . tells us that we can only see God m. J esus Chris t. J esus Chr ist alone g ives the vision of a new world. But we ~annot have a new world with-ou.t haymg new people. But about t his pomt we shall have more to say l ~ter, wh~n we speak about a God-g1ven reVlval.

A Christian Education

This is our second great need of to-daJ'.. .~peaking about the word, "edu-cation , we remember that it comes from ~?e Latin word, "educo", or "edu-catum , and has the meaning " to lead forth," "to inform", and "to 'enlighten the understanding."

Speaking of enlightenment reminds me abou.t what happened in a theologi-cal semmary. One of our professors told us that one of his former stud t got so nervous when taki.ng en s

· t' h an ex-amma ion t at at first he did t know what to do with him 0 :o the student got a number of ne. ay but he could not questions, answer Instead hremember a s ingle

b · e wrote under a tom stone the words. "H . memory. It's buried · , ere . l~es my the r esurrection." · Im wa1tmg for

Our professor kn th· Later he took th ' ew is f ellow. office and had is student into his him for over ~nprhfound talk with student went th our. When the him· "Bill ' e professor said to · ' congratulati 1 y passed. You just ons · ou have questions " n ·11 answered all t he

· 1 Was una f · but he had passed 1 ware o 1t -Speaking about "Ch . .

cation" we rem b nst1an Edu-' em er wh t D F. Kraushaar re . a r. Wm.

Luther an College pha: idei;it . of Texas issue of "Chr' t' said in a recent

is ian Educat' " " O present secularistic . ~oi:i. . ur materialistic educat-' I elat1v1s tic and now called to defe~~n has . left youth, ren and empty. Ed our ideals, bar-are searching for ucators _ev~rywhere

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educat ion a new comprehens ive 'Welt-anschauu~g', a new world view. Secu-larism made this sear ch necessary, but has no solu tion to offer."

The Christian College Dr. Kraushaar's conclusion is . t~at

"we must come back to the Christian College." Said h~ : " We ~elieve tl~.at r eligious faith will furmsh t he. m-spiration for even greater educational achievements in the f uture. In t he face of t he pr esent nat!on~l a nd inter-n ational situa tion, this 1s our only hope." .

We .agree _whol~he!'lrtil1 !'lnd thmk of the followmg d1stmg mshmg marks of a Christian College, as Dr. L. L. Carpenter sees it in his recen t book, "A Survey of Relig ious Education", namely 1, a Christian aim or objective; 2 a Christian viewpoint of philosophy; a: a Christian spirit , atmosphere a nd life; 4, a Christian progra m; and 5, a Christian product .

Education a lone can only remove ignorance. But this is not the b~st preparat ion for the struggles. of h fe to go to school or to college m order to remove ignorance. .

Education must go hand m hand with regeneration. Only in a Christian College can you grow . spiritu~lly - to to a real manhood m Christ J esus. P aul said: " I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the know-ledge of Christ J es us my Lord . . . that I may know him" (Phil. 3 :8) .

And our Lord says : "Search the Scriptures, f or in t hem ye think ye have eternal l ife: and they are they which t estify of me" (John 5 :39) . Christology, the knowledge about Chris t , is the heart of our Christian education. May we all help to make a better world by

- P ho to b y E ll is o. Hi nsey

M ucH is a lready accomplished for t he _King d?m of God. Nearly every con tinent 1s reached. Even t his war helps to enla~·ge t he affairs of Chr ist. Our Chaplains preach the gospel wherever they find a soul· a lso na -tives in far-away isla nds ' hear the gospel th1·ough t hem.

We, usuall y t hink of t he world which everyone encompa sses with his mind a. wo1·ld which we can see on a ma p with the places ~here t he gos pel is preached a nd C~r1stian ity is progress-ing . However, 1s this our ent ire and only t ask ? It seems to me tha t we r ould do a g rea t deal more work abroad if we would unders ta nd the work which ough t t o be done in our vicin ity. Therefore, ther e is a nother !iide of Ch ri st's commission a nd t his ~ic!e let us cons ider. ' The Particular World

There is not only a world consis ting of continen ts, . of n~ tions a nd t ong ues . We t ry to wm missionaries a nd we send them out in order to ~·each the ends of this world. W e have done a good piece of wor k so far , but that is not all t he world !

There is, for. ins tance, a particula r world of unbelievers and wicked men who tr y to s~u~ t~ei r eyes before the t ru th of Chr1st1a n1ty . Now, we can-not be unconcerned a nd let them go their way. It . is our duty to warn them. In Ezekiel 33: 12 we find this

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The Other Side of Christ's Commission

By the Rev. W. J. LUEBECK of Ashley, North Dakota

word: 'Thou son of ma n, say unto the ehild ren of t hy people", and verse 8 : "If t hou dost not speak t o warn t he wicked from the way I will r equire his blood at thine ha nd." We will reach them, not only by preaching and teaching, bu t also by the way of love. There is " the way of love" t o which even the m os t wicked one is open. Love cha nges minds.

Then there is the world of the un-r.oncerned and ignorant, men who a re taug ht by their f ellow-men not t o pay too much attent ion to a ny kind of r e-lig ion. These a re the men of whom God sa id , as of t he people of Nineveh, "wherein a r e more than sixscore thousand per sons that cannot disr ern lie tween their rig ht ha nd a nd their left ha nd." N ineveh was not regarded a-s a far-away island" but as a ch ief city in the world's hear t at that time. Nevertheless, the Lord said to J ona h, "Arise, g o t o Nineveh a nd preach un to it t he preaching tha t I bid thee." So our du ty is to preach t he gospel t o these ignor an t ones at all cost .

Then ther e is the world of the learned, ·of whom we seldom think. They are consider ed as t hose who have the power and wealth, t hose we have to obey. B ut P a ul r eceived the s pecial message in Romans 1: 14, "I a m debtor bot h to the Greeks and to t he Barbari-a ns , both to the wi se and to the un-wise."

On the contrary, we genera lly be-lieve that the g ospel is for the unwise, and we take it f or g ranted that the wise know the g ospel, only that they do not wish t o cha nge t heir minds. nut t ha t is not true. In s piri t ual things they are kept in da rkness as well a s a ll the others . B ut on the other hand, what benefi t could we ga in in reaching them? We would have I hose on our s ide who are the key men in this world. The whole philosophy would be a g r ea t deal more chri stian-ized. Doors would be opened. A Chris t il'l n governor would lead his s ta te with differ ent tendencies. Instead of being oppressed we would have a greater freedom of influence.

The Particular Task Christ 's commi ssion is " to go" and

"to preach". In gener al. man y think that this is qu i te easy. T hey s tart out and pr each wha t t hey believe is right to say. I t seems tha t the apos tles have given us t his patt ern. They went from village to village and preached the message, which they ha d in their minds and hearts . But we over look the fact tha t t hey were with J es us for three years and tha t , before being sent hy J es us , he dismissed them with a blessing g iving to them a special g uid-a nce in t he Holy Ghost and t he power to heal t he sick.

_So we cannot copy their example w_1t~out fur ther contempla tion. As t he d1sc1ples were in the school of J es us, we also have to study t he Scr iptu re and m 1;1ke the experience of the Holy Ghost in order to be skillful and suc-cessful. The particular emphasis is not to preach the g ospel bu t to preach so that r esults a re seen.

J The particular t ask wi th which ~sus commissioned his disciples was ,

fir st, ~o _arouse their willingn ess. It is the willingness to hear , to unders tand, an.~ t~Gccept the gospel. When J esus sat ' 0 ~e and p reach", he meant to ben~t1·ate 1~ to foreign soil, whether it

e 1mto a d 1~erent distri ct or in to the sou of a neighbor .

w~ohvae;er, th a~ r equires skillfulness. people's e_ IJ no_ right to des troy other t hese ill I _us1ons . If we notice t ha t har mful us1~ns of theirs are bad and beg for !~~ _th~m, we always h ave to f . P 11~sion to en ter their wor ld

o v1e_ws, which mea ns that h to gam t hei . t we a ve firs t. We w~ulj·us~i a nd their hea~·t we would use m ~ ~ much more 1f pect. or e ecency and r es-

Training Is Essential To make them willin

learn how t o win t g we ha ve to ttnclerstand a ll g roup hef namely, to preached to J ews i s 0 . men. Paul than he did to the n a. d1ff~rent way of Athens differentfenS/es ! .in the cit y Every group ha ~ an in . Corinth. cation and viewp ~ t its peculiar edu-01n s.

Then we also h cul t ies of th ave to know the diffi-speaking to ~h~ is:oups .. The apostles, to t hem the time '~~· t ried t? explain and while speak in tgrace in J es us, they spoke about J , 0 the Gentiles, there is but one l' 0.d s love a nd that Roma ns they wr ;vmg Goel. To the n_ess _through fai~h e ab?ut righteous -nnth1a ns he Wr ' while to t he Co-These things weo~e on spiri tual gifts . master! ave to know and to

Secondly t he . . ness in th~ hea t arousmg of willing-

. r s of th l " qu1~·es training. Th e 1s teners re-tra ined and P e apostles were lhey had to cl repared for the work and gave the~· t~esus ta ugh t them needed thr ough th e knowledge they cause there were n~ Hol_y . Spirit, be-no t eacher s and b Chns tian schools Th · · no oaks t t h · ' e sp1r 1tua1 g ift a at t ime. protection. But J s were t heir only of me", (Matt esu ~ told them, " learn learn of t hem. ll. 29. ) W e have t o teach!ngs, to und!~ under s tand t heir our t ime, and to J tand t he needs of of men. un ers tand a ll g roups

If J es us reall lhe gospel to ev y empha sized, "Prnach eclucated worlcl e[y creature", then our

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Gideon National Convention at Denver Report by Mr. HARRY GEIS of Okeene, Oklahoma, a Member of the

Zion Baptist Church of Okeene

T HE 45th Annual International Gid-eon Convention met in Denver , Colo-r ado from July 19 t o 24 with dele-g ates present from nearly ever y state of the Union and Canada .

That a ncient Biblical chieftain Gid-eon who bears the name of t he organ-ization a nd his t hree hundred armed warriors were no busier as they wen t int o action against t he taunt ing Baal and his cohorts cent uries ago on the plains of Judea than wer e t he hun-dreds of Gideon delegates to th is con-ven tion in making Christ known to a lost and sinful world.

The Gideons a re the oldest Inter -na tional Christian business m en 's asso-ciation in the world, and s ince t hey come from all evangelical churches they are able to do a piece of work that no sing le church is a ble to do.

The fi rst Bibles were placed in ·hotels in 1908, and s ince t ha t t ime over t wo and a quarter million copies of the Bible have been placed in hotels, schools , hospita ls and other permanen t institutions t hroughout our g r ea t na-tion a nd f oreign countries .

Shortly af ter the present world con-flict s t a r ted, the Gideons received the " go" s ignal from our national a rmy and navy Cha pla ins to a ss ist in a rm-ing our forces wi th the g ospel. So immediately t his g rea t task was under-taken and up to this time over seven a nd a qua rter million New T estament s wit h Psalms ha ve been placed in the hands of our armed forces by t he Gideons throug h the cooper a tion of Christian men and women of all de-nominations, who not only gave liber-all y to this program, but supported it throug h their prayer s . One dollar provides four Testaments or one large complete Bible in t his way.

The theme of t he Gideon Convention was "Jesus Chris t the Only Hope of the World." (Joshua 24:15). The ob-ject ive was "Holding F orth t he Word of Life." (Phil. 2:16) . The them e and obj ec tive were closely a dhered to throughout the convention a nd since the Gideon's objective is evangelism they not only put forth the W or d of Goel which is a means to t ha t end but they los t no time in wit ness ing' for Christ wherever they were.

These men were doing per sonal work a nd dis tribu t ing t r act s and the Word on the tra in a nd buses on the way to Denver a nd continued in this way on the streets buses , hotels a nd cafes. S treet services were held each noon a nd n ight in front of "The Den-ver Post" building a nd on the oh! Courthouse square. More tha n 75 1rnr -sons a lone were sa ved at the Gideon boo~h on . the cour thouse square th roug h testimonies , prayers, songs a nd per-sonal work of t he Gideons.

The meetings opened on Wednesday evening in the Municipal Audi tori um. A rousing evang elistic message was brought by Mr. R .G. LeT ourneau, "the Number One Chr istian layman of

America" and pas t Interna tiona l pres-ident of the Gideons . On Thursday nig ht Mr . A. C. F eigert, one of Amer -ica's bes t layman speakers, brought a challenging message t hat s t irred t he hearts of t he listeners . T he Frida y night progr::m presented a grou p of outs tanding Chris tia n b us iness men from six diffe rent sta les , each g iving a t hrilling test imony of God 's won-derful sav ing and keeping power.

S unday morn ing assig nmenls were filled in more t ha n two hundred churches of Denver and subu rbs. Many souls wer e saved through the m inis t r y

more, flanked on each s ide with huge red sand stone cl iffs a nd w ith t he s ta ge at t he fron t of a nother block of s tone. These g reat r ocks f orm natural sounding boar ds a nd offer ed s plendid acous t ics as well a s a marvelous set-ling. Mr . Will H . H a rdin of Atlanta, Ga., In terna tional T rus t ee of the Gid-eons, was in cha rge of the final ses-s ion .

During the past year t he Gideons en joyed the g reates t dis t ri bution of God s Word and witnessing for our Lord in t he h is tory of t he a ssociation as well as a rich t ime of fellowship,

Go lo Church Sunday· Onl_y one Life · · ttfl · T'will soon be Pq.st 04 Ull ' Only Whats do~e for Christ utill Last ._

Lnr~e Dlllhonrd S IJ,:."ll A lo n g tbe Hlgh,-,,·n y :\te ar Oke ene, Ok.Jn., Pre 1•nretl u '.!1d Cons t ruc ted nt the Exp ense of Mr. Hnrr~· Geh1 of Okee n e, n L e mllui; Me mber of the Gltle on>1 of Olt lnhomn nn1l n lllembe r o f Oke ene•s Zio n Bn11tl>1 t C hurch.

of the Gideons . Also se i·vices were held in t he City J a il and Pcderal IIow;c of Conection . Fifteen persons were saved in one and s ix teen in the other.

Sunday af ternoon climaxed the a tl(l-itorium meetings with the dyna mic Dr. Walter A. Maier of the L utheran Radio Hour, who magn ified our Lord a nd courageously and unhes itatingly recommended this Savior a s the only solution to the problems of life.

On Monday, the last day of the con-vent ion, Colorado Gideons provided 150 car s to accommodate 750 people, escorted by city police and s tate pa-trol on a trip to the Rerl Rooks Am-phithea tre in the Denver Mounta in Pa rk t here to enjoy our final f ellow-s hip and pa r t icipate in a barbecued elk d inner which was enjoyed by a ll.

Sunset inspira tions and conven t ion 0choes were held in this grea t a mphi-thea tre tha t seats twelve thousand or

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h e ld In O e u,·cr, Colorodo, " ·nH one of the moNt 1nOUH! ntOUM P'CHSlous In Ghlt!on blstor,·. \Ve nre lu c.l e bte tl to ill r. Gel,. of Okl'l'n e, O kin., fo r this llluntlnntlnµ; r e:vle \\' o f 1he He t.udontc.

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ATLANTIC CON~[~[N([ T he Vacation School of West New York, N. J., Was Organ-ized Along Military Lines

The Vacation Bible School of West New York, New Jersey was held in July with the pastor, the Rev. Herbert .J. Freeman, serving as director.

H ere are some interesting facts about our Bible school. The total en-rollment was sixty-eight. There are

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fifty-four persons in the picture, in-cluding the director, teachers and helpers. The Vacation School t his year was organized around the mili-tary idea , that is, each person was recruited as a "buck private", a nd made to serve in one of t he five "com-panies" (instead of Beginner, Primary departments.) The use of the military a spect grea tly helped in the problem of discipline. The young people who are in high school served as "cap-tains", and one as the " quarter-master" . The director was the "Com-manding officer", while Christ was kept before the school as their Com-mander-in-Chief.

The closing program was held on Friday evening, July 21, and was called "A Day at T roop School." Those who had eight days of " basic training" (attendance ) at least out of the twelve days during which the school was in session received a certificate and a promotion to "firs t class private". Awards for attenda nce, recruiting others, ha ndwork a nd memory work were given to those who had earned them. After t he prog ram refreshments were served to all as t he ha ndwork on display was being viewed by t he parents and friend s.

Herbert J. Freema n, P astor.

Ministen' Institute at Bradley Beach Was the Finest and Most Profitable for 30 Years

The Baptist Young People's Fellow-ship of New York a nd vicinity was again host to the ministe rs of the At-Jantic Conf erence at their beautifully s ituated a nd spacious summer cottage a t Bradley Beach. It is a part of t he

tradition of our conference, because for more t han 30 years the ministers have held t his institute and have been the gues ts of the young people. F if-teen pastors gave heed to the hearty invitation, and a number of them were accompanied by thei i· wives and fam-il ies. We were also privi leged to have Dr. A. Cierpke in our midst, who made a s top over en route to New York City to attend the Summer School of Union Theological Seminary.

The Committee on Arrangements, the Reverends Frank Orthner, Wm. Kahlert, H. J. F r eeman and V. Pren-di nger, cha irman, had prepared a most s timulating progr am. The timeliness of it is easily apprehended, since the general t heme was "Revit alization". The morning devotions were led by t he brethren Schade, Kannwischcr, Orth-ner and Kaaz. Special issues, touch-ing the essentials of our church life were presented by the brethren Peters, Appel, and Palfenier, dealing with the Sunday School, the Young People's , Work and the Church, respectively.

S ince a ll great movements in Chris-tendom have their roots not only in the infinite resources of t he Lord J esus but a lso in men a nd women conse-crated to the Lord J es us , t he life a nd work of some outs tand ing men of God were reviewed. The Rev. H. J . Free-man presented the life and work of J ona than Edwards, the Rev. Phi l. Potzner that of George Whitefield, t he Rev. H. Kuhl presented Billy Sunday and t he Rev. Wm. Kahlert spoke a bout Ernst Moderson. We had the joy to listen in the evening sessions to t he Rev. F . R. Purdy of Asbury Park and to the brethren Fisher a nd Schmidt.

It has been said t hat this ins titute was one of the finest and mos t profit-able ever held. The undis turbed fel-lowship was only surpassed by the cloudless sky overhead. The some-what strenuous morning sess ions found t heir antithesis in the frolic of surf a nd beach. The ladies t oo revealed their r esourcefulness fo1· r ecr eationa l entertainment a ssisted by Mr. Kah-lert. All in all. it was a t ime of many blessings and fine f ellowship!

R. G. Schade, Reporter

PACl~IC CON~~~~NC~ Reception for Rev. Virgil Savage and Family at the Salishan Mission of Tacoma

On Wednesday evening, July 12, the Calv&ry Baptist Church of Tacoma, Washington was happy to welcome the Rev. Virg il Savage, h is wife a nd twin sons. Mr. Savage is the new pastor of ou i.: Salishan Mission, and the r e-ception was held in the mission build-ing, which was filled with fr iends and members.

The service was in charge of our deacon, Mr. Henry Schmunk. Greet-ings to the new fami ly were extended by t he Rev. E. Bibelheimer, represent-

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FIEl.D ing the Mission workers , by Mr. Fred Stabbert for the Calvar y Baptist Church, by Mr. Young representing the Salishan district, and by the Rev. Wal ter C. Damrau, as a co-worker. Special music was given by the Cal-vary Church choir, and a n instrumen-tal number by the Zielke sisters.

Mr. and Mrs. Savage responded, telling of their love for the Savior and t heir pla n of service in the mis-sion. Their hearts and souls arc in the work and we ask that God will richly bless thei r work there.

Elizabeth Ahrens, Church Cleric

Yncntlon Dlhle Sch ool T c n c h e r " of the 'l'rlult~· Dn11t ll"t C hurc h , Portlnnd,

Ore., " "lth Dr .. John Lcn1o lcl t , Piu~to r

Vacation Bible School Held by the Trinity Church of Portland, Oregon

Two joyous weeks were spent from J une 5 to 16 in working and playing together with the children during t he Vacation Bible School, held by t he Trinity Baptist Church of Portla nd, 0 1·egon.

T he school was under the leader-s~ip of Miss Martha Roth a ssis ted by six teachers and two helpers. Our pastor , Dr. John Leypoldt, was willing to g ive of his t ime in teaching the Intermediates. We had an enrollment of 66 with a n average a ttendance of 47. A number of child ren from t he community who were not attending ch~rc~ were contacted and several are brmgmg their parents and are coming regularly.

. yYe lo!lg to see these fine boys a nd g nl_s bemg won to Ch1·is t while in then· youth. So our a im was to pre-sent the way of salvation to t hem that they may be_ i:eady ~o accept him when ~_he Holy Sp1nt begins to work in their li ves.

J!'.ach cl ay during the devotional pe_r 1 ~d a Feltograph object lesson or rmssronary s tory was given. At the close of each wee~ films on salvation were shown .. Fnday evening closed 01:11· school w1t~ a splendid program given by t he children.

_Above is a picture of our Vacation Bible Sch~>ol teachers. They are from lef t to rrght: Mrs. E C U ·b· I· .t Mrs. Edwin Rocks M;·s ·Hen1 • igB,ei ' t 1 -t D J h ' · ry er-J(ul _er ' r. Mo n Leypoldt, Mrs. Edwin

mgman, rs. Ernest H a d Miss Martha Roth. ger, a n

Ma1tha Roth, Reporter.

September 1, 1944

Junior Girls' Sunday School Class of St. Paul' s Riverview Baptist Church

The girls of the Junior Sunday School Class of the Riverview Baptist Chur ch of St . Paul, Minnesota h ave a class enr ollment of 12 members with a n average attendance of n ine.

The older members of our class have ~ven their hearts to J es us and have become members of the church. We hope and pray that the r est w ill soon follow their example .

Each Sunday we study our regular International Sunday School lesson. For special memory work we have learned certain chapters and verses from the Bible as follows : Psalm 23 and 1 t he Ten Commandments, the Beatit~des, and 1st Cor in thians 13.

Once every quarter we have a question box. Each scholar brings some ques tions wh!ch are answered, and our teacher, Miss Ruth Kurzweg, leads us in the disc1;1ssion. .

Our aim is to bring other gi rls to attend our Sunday School class r e-gularly.

Berniett a Wobig, Reporter. ·

Two Inspiring Religious Paint-ings Are Dedicated by Mil-waukee's Bethany Bapt. Church

Two religious pictures painted by Mr. Alber t Tiemann, Milwaukee artis t, (see "Baptist Herald", May 1, 194_4 ) were dedicated at the Beth~ny B_apt1st Church of Milwaukee, W1sconsm on Sunday evening, July 30th.

One of the pictures depicts the bap-tism of Christ. a nd t~e ot!1er. sh_ows J esus giving his gracious rnv1tabon : "Come, unto me, all ye th~t la~or a nd are heavy laden, and I w1ll give you r est." (Matt. 11 :28.)

The Rev. Martin . L. Leuschn,~r of F orest Par k, III., editor of the Bap-tist Herald" and a fam iliar ~ri~nd to all spoke on the t heme, Pictures Th'at Preach." The warmth, glo~·y _and beauty of these two lovely pamtmgs were depicted. Not only are t~ere humble truths but also nob!~ blessings in t hese fine pictures winch reflect t he artist's spiritual self. Mr. and Mrs William Kehrein of t he Bethany Chu~·ch made these g ifts possible.

Our pastor, the Rev. !".rank ~eninga, had charge of the service which. was well attended by members and friends of the church. The Rev. T. W. Bender of the Immanuel Church of Milwaukee offered the dedication prayer.

Cecilia Borenitsch, Reporter.

Great Crowds Gather for the Inspirational Ontario Conven-tion in Lyndock, Ontario

T he Lyndock Baptist Church of Ontario, Canada is to be commended for the hospitable acceptance of visi-tors and delegates to their midst for

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Sund ny School C l ns:;c of Junior Girls of the Rh·er'\· lcl\' Bnttt-l~t C lturc h . S t. Paul, :lllnn., "\\lith 1'llss Ruth li:urzweg, Tcnchcr, In Buck Row (Ce nter)

the Ontario Convention from June 29 t o July 2. It seemed t hat not only had they arranged for the physical com-forts but with the "Weather Man", for near ly all commented on the ideal weather for such an occasion.

Prof. A. A . Schade arrived on Fri-day and bega n immediately to serve the conven t ion a udience with profound messages. These were a challenge, especially to the thinking youth of to-day, for greater and fuller Christian living. As he outlined the "Place" and " Task" of each young person to-day, each had a clear picture of their individual importance.

Since the pastor-elect, the Rev. A. Stelter, had not arrived in Arnprior, the Rev. H. Sellhorn ably pictured the lasting endurance of the Chmch. The local pastor s also gave their spiri tua l support to such a fitting general theme, "With Chr ist Always," (Matt. 28:20.)

The young people's program of busi-ness and .spiritual welfare showed s trength in Chris tian unity, as they glorified Christ in song and tes timony. which was centered ar ound the pl ay. "The Soldier of the Cross."

The offering of $29.23 did not marl~ the closing of the convention nor t he g iving spirit of the gathered friends but was brought forth with greater effor t in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of t he Lyndock Church.

May God give all the necessar y grace and working spirit to live mo1·p abundantly in Him !

Carl R. Weisser, Secreta r y.

Church Bulletins Some of our churches m1e speclnll;;.

d eslJ:n c d lmllctlns for the s1>eclal cla}-1< of the ycnr or for extroorcllnury oc-c n 11lon!I.

Ne" · or rnn J::ctne nts bn,·e n1ode It po,..-Hlhle to 8UJ•PI~· the m nn1l we the r efor e solicit Inquiries.

If lntt'restetl let '"' send ) "ou a four poge fo lder sbo,,·tn~ 12 dlffe r eut tle:dgns In full color. JnNt ask fo r It,

Yon c nn bn}· 100 blunk8 with front co, ·er l llustrutto n for $1.50 nud n1> to 1000 for $10 .00 nncl the letter cnn b e n8sortecl In any de1!11re tl qunntltlcs. In fee t thnt h• a goocl way to bu y your 11upply .

ROGER WILLIAMS PRESS 3734 Payne .-h ·e., Cl eveland (14), Ohio

The Twenty-First Annual Young People's Convention of the Eastern Conference

The Young People's and Sunday School Workers' Union of t he Eastern Conference held its twenty-fi rst annu-al conference a t the Central Baptist Church of Erie, P ennsylvania on June 30, July 1, and 2. The theme was "Hole! F ast Yom· Freedom". (Gal. 5 :1.)

The inspi rational service opened on Friday evening. Everyone was wel-c0rned , and the address was g iv1m by Professor Assaf Husmann of t he Roches ter Semina ry, in which h e said: "To make th is a Chris t ian world we must have a harvest of souls ."

On Saturday morning we were led by the Rev. Herbert Hiller of Buffalo, New York for our devotional period. "We Need to P r ay" was h is theme.

Ther e were lectm·es and discussions on " Religious Education in the Young People's Society" by Rev. Edmund Keller of El·ie · " The Consecrated Teacher" by Professor Husmann· "De-votional Program in the Young ~eople'.s Society" by Mr . Hiller ; "Mis-s ions m Young People's Society and Sunday School Work" by Rev. Arthur Kannw ischer of Arnold, P enn. This w~s followed by a business meeting with t he results as follows: president, Walter Schmidt; treasurer, Grace Bretschneider; Council Member to the National Y. P. and S. S. W. U., Eliza-beth Kapteina. The Temple Baptist Church of Buffalo will publish the conierence paper for next year.

At t he Saturday evening banquet the gues t speaker was the Rev. Arthur M. Crawford of the Asbury Methodist Church. On Sunday morning a t the morning worship serv ice the message by Professor H usmann was on "Ex-rmplifing Youth" . The clos ing service nt 3 o'clock included installation of officers led by Mr. Hiller , the com-munion service by Mr. Keller and the 111essage by Mr. Kannwischer '.

The conference was well attended by the East ern Conference ch urches, and we want to thank the Central Bapt ist Church of Erie for its hospitality. The 1945 conference will be held in the Temple Church in Buffalo, New York.

June Benke, Secretary.

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Combined Vacation School of the First and Calvary Baptist Churches of Killaloe, Ontario

On Friday, July 14, a large crowd gathered in the Baptist Church of Killaloe, Ontario to review the mental and hand work done in the previous two weeks, by the children of the two churches in Killaloe.

Without a doubt, the work of the Vacation Bible Schpol has its place in every church, and when pursued year after year it grows by the grace of God in earthly numbers. There was a total enrollment of 52 and a n average of over 45. This made an average ·of more than 12 over last year.

The daily offerings given by the children were $9.35, which was desig-nated to the work of missions. The tchool was devided in four groups in which the following teachers worked faithfully : Beginners, Mrs. Paul Webber; Primary, Mrs. Alex Schleen ; J uniors, Miss Edna Verch; and Inter-mediates, Rev. Carl Weisser. A vote of thanks and appreciation is due the teachers for their noble work and Mrs. Weisser in assisting in the work of the first two departments. We are also g rateful to Mr. J.H. Zummach for supplying transportation facilities for the children of the First Church. May God continue to bless his children as they strive to serve.

Carl Weisser, Reporter.

the years past, but humbly we bowed before him and dedicated ourselves anew and prayed for his leadership and blessings in the future.

The early pioneers from Germany settled here in the beautiful hills of Ontario. Soon t hey f elt t he need of churches in which to worship. T he people of the districts of Hagerty, Rockingham, Lyndock and Sebastopol were at first served by one pastor. As the membership grew and the work became to extensive for one man, the field was divided in Oct. 1894 thr ough t he efforts of the Rev. John Baasner. Lyndock and Sebastopol united in ex-tending a call to the Rev. J. Baasner to become their permanent pastor, which he favorably accepted. There were 56 charter members when the Lyndock Baptist Church was organ-ized in the year 1894.

The churches, Lyndock and Se-bastopol , built a parsonage which be-came debt free in the year 1898. Under the efforts of the Rev. Ed. Kneisler the presen t church was built which was inaugurated in June, 1908. Professor A. Ramaker brought the in-auguration sermon. The old church building was sold for the sum of $15.00. The basement of the church was built in 1935 while the Rev. D. Littke was pastor. Approximately $25,000 were laid upon the al~ar ~uring all these years so t hat God s Krng-clom could be built.

The following ministers served this church faithfully: Rev's John Baasner,

T b e Commu n ity Vocntlo n Dibl e School Conduc t e d b y the lUt. Z io n Dnptls t C burch o f J(nm ms n u d Held In the Lyonn School Hou >1e

The Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Lyndock Baptist Church of Ontario, Can.

"Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and for-get not all his benefits." This praise and thanksgiving were f el t by t he L yndock Baptist Church of Ontario, Canada on t he day of its Golden Jubi-lee, July 2nd, held in conjunction with the Ontario Convention. Prof. A. A. Schade of Rochester, New York was the special speaker. All organizations of t his church took part in t he after-n

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Lt. Robert W . Achterberg of Benton Harbor, Mich., I s Killed in Airplane Crash

Lt. Robert vV. Achterberg o f Benton Harbor, Mich., died in an airplane crash near P ine Bush, N. Y., twenty miles west of Steward F ie ld, Newburg h, N . Y., on July 11 , 1944, at the age of 21 years and 26 days. He was graduated from the St. J oseph H ig h School in the Spring of 1941, enlisted ir the U. S. Air Corps on July 6, 1941, entered Cadet training in April 1943, and was grad-uated on April 11, 1944, receiving his "wings" in the U . S. Air F orces and his commission as 2r d L ieutenant.

Since April 26, 1944, he had been fly-ing instructor of our fu ture higher offi-cers at 'vVes t P oin t, Steward F ield, New-

, burgh, N. Y., where in the fu lfi llment of his duty, he foun d his unt imely death. Only recen tly he became engaged to Miss L eona Grieser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Grieser o f our Bento·1 Harbor chu rch.

Dur ing the activity of the Rev. L . Gassner the departed was converted to a living fa ith in his Lord a nd Mast er, baptized by the same in 1932 and added to the. £cllov..1ship. of_ the Benton Har bor Baptis t Church, whose faithful member he remained to the end.

W ith the sudden death of Lt. R. W. Achterberg, his family ar.d friends sus-tained a great ioss. "Bob" was a very beloved youth and an earnest Chris t ian. He had decided to enter the ministry after his di scharge from the U . S . Air Forces. As a frequent contributor to the "Baptist Herald'" he was well known to its readers.

The local paper carried the follow-ing account of the funeral proceedir. gs: "Well attended funeral services were held on Saturday, J uly 15, 1944, fo r L t. R. W . Achterberg, young pilot who crashed t o his death n ear Newburgh, N. Y., last week. The Rev. E. Gut sche officiated at the services in the Clay St. Baptist Church of Benton Harbor for the young flyer and ir. structor. He was assisted by a student from W heaton College, Ill., Edwin Miller, who is a fr iend of the Achterberg fam ily. Mrs. E . Gutsche and Miss Violet Schulz sang, " No Night There," and "Be Still, My S.Oul." At the burial in the family lot in R iverview cemetery in St. Joseph, the American Legion fi rir.g squad gave a military salu te, and the buglar sounded the t rad itional taps. The Mothers of World W ar II and the Navy Mothers attended in a body. Three planes o f the Twin City Wing of the Civil Air Patrol flew over t he cemetery in final formation, sa lute to the flyer, and dropped a parachute-borne wreath over the grave."

After " taps" was sounded, the escort from West Poin t Lt. E . W illingham, presented the m~ther o f "Bob", Mrs. G. Achterberg, wit h the U nited States flag. The departed leaves to mourn his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Ach tcrberg ; his fiance, Leo na Grieser; the brothers. Arthur, Edwin and H erbert Achterberg, the latter scr virg as Staff Sgt. in th~ overseas U. S. Air Forces; the sisters, Edna Achterberg, and E sther Haas; eight nephews, one n iece, many other rela tives and friends. -

E. G utsche, P astor.

Lt. RODE RT A CHTE RDE RG of D e nton Hurbor, J\llchli;uo, "\Vho "\Vos R e cently

J(lll e d In n P lane Acc ident

Vacation Bible School and B. Y. P. U . Anniversary in the Beaver Church of .Michigan

From June 26 to July 7 a Vacation Bible School was in p rog ress at t he Beaver Church near Auburn, Mich. On Sunday, July 9, the children p re-sented a program, opening in the same manner as t he school was opened each day.

The Beginners gave pictu re s t or ies. La rge pictures wer e displa yed showing Bible char acter s and t he children ex-plained the pictures. The Junior s re-cited Bibles passages which they had memorized during the two weeks. They also showed a reel on P salm 100 with pictures explan atory to the vers -es of the Psalm. The Intermediates presented "Luke Cha pter Two" as well as a question a nd answer game of the "Life of Christ ".

The enrollment for the two weeks was 30 and of th is number 13 h ad a perfect attendance record. All child-ren r eceived cer tificates and those with a perf ect attendance r ecord r e-ceived an extra little r ewa rd.

The ins tructors wer e all very effici-ent t eacher s m ost of them being p ub-lic school te'achers. Mrs. Zimmerman and Emma Mieske handled t he Be· ginners ; Flor ence Schul tz a nd Mata Buckstein the J un niors ; and E s ther Schult z t'he Intermediates . This was our fir~t Da ily Vacation Bible School in Beaver a nd was br ought about th rough the efforts of our minis ter, the Rev. G. IC Zimmerman, a nd the cooper ation of t he parents in send ing their children.

On Sunday , July 16, t he B. Y. P. U. celebrated i ts 13th a nniversary . Among t he many things which we ac-complished was t he r a lly last summer which was perhaps the highlight of the year . The purpose of this r a lly was to create new inter est among the young people t hat they might g o home l:o their r es pective societies with a de-sire to serve Christ better. We ar e cer tain the rally did this, and in r es-ponse to ma ny requests a nother rally will be held on August 13th with P rof. 0 . E. Krueger as guest speaker.

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Under t he ins tr uction of t he Rev. Gideon Zimmerman a study cour se was t p resented on "Baptis t F a it h". N ea r ly ever yone completed t he course :incl r eceived cer tificates of a chieve-ment.

We were happy to r eceive ten new members in to our society. As they strive wi th us to carry out the pur pose of the society to develop Chris t ia n spirit, to w in souls , and to help build Lhe Kingdom of God, we know they shall be g reatly blessed, for what a ffords r icher blessings than being in l.he ser vice of the K ing !

Members of our society cont r ibuted toys for a package t o Daphne Dunger in Africa whose birthday was in June. T here is a certain amount of joy and satisfact ion in k nowing that we coukl help brighten someone's life.

Ruth Maj eske, Repor te r .

Days of Blessing at the Northern Conference Held m Edmonton, Alberta

As we look ba ck to t he da ys of t he Northern Confer ence we can " pr a ise God from whom all bless ings flow". In sp ite of the many wartime r estric-t ions and the adverse weather, over 150 delegates besides many fr iends gathered at t he Cen t r a l Baptist Church in Edmonton , Alber ta from July 5 to 9. Par ticular ly applicable for our day was the theme selected by the pr o-gram committee, "But we have t he mind of Chr ist" (I Cor . 2:16) .

W e enjoyed h aving t~vo denomi_na-tional r epresentatives wi th ~s. Editor S . Blum brought t he op~mng devo-tiona l message each m?rnmg as well as t he clos ing m essage m t he Germa n langua ge on Sunday afternoon. Evan-gelist F. W. Bai:tel e::cte_nded a s tirring challenge to a ll Christians to . become soul winners on Thursday evemng and brought t he missionary message in the Eng lish la ng uage. on Sunday morning. T he Sunday services w.er e held in two places s imul t aneously m or der t o ac-commodate all t he visitors. A hall was r ented across t~e street from t he ch ur ch :"here English ser vices wer e held while. the Germa n services wer e conducted. m the church. The mission-a ry offermg on Sunday morning to-talled nearly $1600.

At the young people's service on Saturday even_ing the young people of Centr~! B~pt1 st ably presen ted the play, Revive Us Again" written by Rev . . E . J. Baumgartner a nd dir ected by ~1ss Ag nes Buckles. At t his sa service the Rev. A. Weisser 1 d ~e prayer for the Service Men an~ t~~ Rev. E. Klatt of Grand Forks N D br ought a challeng ing messag~ t · ii young people. o a

F or the fir st time we can say t h t o.ur conference missionary contrib~t1ons exceeded our own mission n d We pra y that this missionary zeal ~a~ contmue to grow. T he L ord will· we s~ all meet with the McDer mot lng , Bapt ist Chur ch in W innipeg n:~t year , a nd until t hat time we pray th at we may be found faithful.

Rev. R. Schreiber , Reporter

September 1, 1944

B ible Conference Is Held at Valley View, Alberta in the Peace River D istrict

\ Ve certainly found reasons to rejoice as we att l n rts mnll t b e He n t to t h e

e tlltor w ithin one mont h n fter t ile o c e u rreu ce of t h e e Yent to b e elli;l-b le for 1mblle ntlo u. No n n n unl r e -1wrts o f c h urc h es or church "oeletle s w i ll b e n e ce 11te d for 1mbllentlo n tlnr -lug t h e dn rntlo u of t h e wnr .

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~p tnng message delivered by the Rev. Ph il. Daum, miss ionary secretary of our Nor thern Conferer:ce. The Rev. E. i\.I . \Vcgner brought the m essage at t he e \·en'ing ser vice.

The results of the Tri-Union elec-tions were as follows: p res ident Rev. G. Beut ler; v ice-president, Rev. H'. vVal-trrcit; secretaries, Mrs. Beutler and Mrs. vVegner ; treasurers. Mrs. i\lilbran dt and Mrs. VVa ltereit ; piacists, Mrs. W egner and 1'I iss Zimmer. The three directors for Sunday Schoof Work, Youn"" Peo-ple's \ i\iork, and i\.Iusic Departm~nt are Rev. R. Milbrandt, R ev. A . vVeisser and Rev. E . M. \.Y egner respectively. Per-haps we should also state he re that the Tri-U nion has launched a mission pro-jec t of $500 which is to be raised by the va r ious soc'.cties throughout the current yea r.

On Saturday morning Mr. Blum deliver ed a n inspiring message, " Ex-panding our Young P eople's Work," wh ich was followed by an interesting discussion. In t he evening we had a joint young peoples program. The Rev. A Weisser del ivered a challenging message on the topic of " F irst Things F ir st," and the F enwood B. Y. P. U . pr esent ed a play en titled, "The Soldier of the Cr oss."

Su nday was the crowning day of the Tri-U nion as well as of the convention. T he roomy F enwood Church was f illed t o its capacity . Miss Ruby Schindler of Yor kton , Mr. John B utz of Southey a nd Mr. Hoffer of E n-deavour spoke to the Sunday School audience. The miss ion service which followed wa s led by t he local pastor a nd t he Rev. S. Blum br ought the messag e, " We W ould See J esus." The la r ge mass choir under the direction of E . M. W egner sang two anthems, and the mission offering at t his ser vice was $472.00 At the closing service in the af ternoon the Rev. R. Milbrandt spoke on " The F our Dimepsions of God's Love." May the Lord bless our F enwood fr iends and r ewar d them for t heir splendid hospitality shown us, for it was good to be t here, indeed.

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E . M. Wegner , Reporter

OBITUARY !!nd Lt. GERAL D E. J\IOHR

of Colfn:x, "\Vos h ln gton

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Gerald E. Mohr, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugen\? Mohr of Colfax, Wash., was born on May 26, 1 922. He had fin ished Washington State College in 1 943 and thereupon en tered mllltary service as a second li eutenant of t he U. S. Army. Gifted In music he became a leader In the Instrumental and vocal art. direct· ing bands. choirs. etc. Untiringly he served his fellow men with his God-gi ven talents.

Gerald became a true Christian In 1932 and was Joi ned to our Wilcox Bap-tist Church near Colfax. On December 24 . 1943 he nu~rrl ed Miss Ruth Erlcl

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SOUND OF THE TRUMPET · (Continued from Page 9)

peaceably, happily on in. th~ pattern his parents had set for his life. After a ll, these wild nights he was prac-tising nowadays always left a bad taste in his mouth, and nobody was quite as pretty and well-bred as Lisle. Why had he ever quarreled wi th her'! Re could have been more discreet about tha t. He could have k ept his criticisms to himself , until he had her in his power. H e could have let her go to any old college she wanted, a nd trus ted to making her over to his plan after they were married. So he sat in his luxurious office and meditated. Cursed his luck. Decided that it was all Lisle Kingsley's fault. If she had just t aken h is advice and not acted so bull-headed. If she ha d changed her college and learned a few things she wouldn't have declined to marry him. She wouldn't have acted like a stiff little icicle at the party, and spoiled a ll his prospects. They would have been married by this time and every-thing going fine. All her fault!

(T o be Continued)

The World's Greatest Need (Continued from Page 5)

the Lord J es us , to his disciples. What does this mean? It means t o g ive all men an adequate opportunity to know J esus Christ .as t heir Lord and Savior and to become his r eal disciples.

The Madras Conference of the Inter-national Missionary Council of 1938 put the duty of eva ngelism squarely up to the Christian Church of today. "The Church," says its r eport, "mus t either make its impact upon the secu-lar world of today and win it for Christ, or the secular world will in-crea singly encroach upon the spiritual life of the church blunt ing its witness and dimming its vision." Can t his ever happen? Never !

One hundred years ago, a young ma n in the country of my birth stood before the mayor of the city of Ham-burg in order to a nnounce the organi-zation of the first Baptist Church of Germany with seven souls . The mayor looked angr ily at the young man and said t o him: "Mr. Oncken, as long a s I a m .able to move this li ttle finger, I will be against you!"

Johann Gerhard Oncken immediate-ly prayed for a moment. R e then gave the following answer: "Mr. Mayor, as long as I have on my side the strong arm of God, you ~n do not hing against me." qnck~n, m t he power of Christ, was v1cton ous. He alone led 10,000 souls to Chr ist, a nd he a lone sold two million Bibles. The g reatest i·evival of the l as t century in my homeland s tarted with this man of God. Oncken ha d experienced it. Spurgeon experienced it. Wesley, Whitefield and Moody learned and verified this truth.

Would it not be wonderful , if out of our schools everywhere would go out this spirit of Pentecos t, t he spirit of a God-given revival all over America, all over the world! You and I need it. America needs it. The s in-sick wor ld needs it.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Rev. J. C. Gunst of Wishek, N orth Dakota, H as Been Appointed the New Secretary of the National Young People's and Sunday School Workers' Union by Its Council and Executive Committee. This Action Has Been Ratified by the General Council of the Denomination.

He Will Begin His Ministry as Young People's Secretary on Oc-tober 1st. A More Detailed State-ment About His Appointm ent Will Appear in the Next I ssue of "The H erald."

CHRIST'S COMMISSION (Cont inued from Page 6)

to win the poor, the helpless, and the unlearned, but we do not make enough efforts to preach the gospel to the learned world. But to get into their sphere one must be a qua lifi ed tea cher. Jesus pronom1ced clearly .according to Mathew's words, "T each a ll nations, baptizing them and teaching th em to observe." J es us stressed teaching and the t eacher 's qualification.

Now how do we get to that higher grounl? By having good Christian schools and especially Chri stiani col-leges! . There s tudents r eceive the necessary training which no home and no Sunday School can give. Some try to pass t his r esponsibility onto t he shoulders of the government - (is it only to make it easy for us Chris-tians ?) - saying that t he state col-leges or universities are bet ter equipped to ~ive their s tudents the best tr aining possible because tney are supported by the government . But let us not forget that when some of our children go to colleges, they are eighteen t o twenty-two _Years of a~e. This is the t ime in which they build their cha racters . In these years th ey mus t get a good Chris tian backgr our:d, which they would not always r eceive in the state univer s ities . When a man is firm in his opinions and convictions other secular schools will not h arm him spiritually. But. in univer sit ies ?r colleges, it is certam th~t some w;ll lose t heir faith or get crippled Chn s-tia n ideas.

Ther efore, Christ ian colleges a r e the dem and of our time, Chr is t ian col-leges which belong . to . the prog~",am t ha t J esus included m his words, Go ye into all t he wor ld and preach the gospel to every cr ea t ure."

Thirdly, success in spiritual matters will be more s trongly guaranteed. E very Christia n has t o do his utmost a nd in the right way. We need more Christ ian t eachers and professors to stem t he influence of t he Christless teachers and leaders. Then we shall surely have better st udent s with s tr ong Chr is tian tendencies and a better world.

THE BAPTIST HERALD

Do You Know That ... ? Column Edited by the

REV. A. R. BERNADT

of Burlington, Iowa

:-: The population center of the Northern Baptist Convention is just east of Buffalo, N. Y., and the financial center is east of New Yor k Cit y !

A lot of pity IH wnsted on nnhnnl!