The Ohio Independent Baptist, August 1961

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Each morning :'!t ~ Dr R T l(etcham gave devo– tional mess.:ges on "1fanna from H eaYen" to hundreds of early risers. Then at ~. -15 as many as 500 would be 1n the front seats of the hcge B1 1, "'unday T2bernacle for prayer, and bv 9 10 it seemed as 1f all the • ! 9 1 ~ me5sen£ers were there. Whole ..... bus loads came in from orchern Indiana to sv,ell the evening at– tenda nce to over 5,000. Yes, and then "c had a nev.· feature ct 6: 30 P .M.-a hill- 5ide se:,·1ce before the main tabernacle ser\·ice began. and as many a t 500 gathered tor that. o, outside of the inveterate and incurable lobby loiterers ( mostly prea(hers , it is safe to say that the n1essengers took 1n the programmed serv– ices as never before. The Bible conference atmosphere was so appealing thac some v..•ondered if we could not come to Winona Lake every ye-1r. or else \"\ hether ~1e could find three P.1ore camps like it. in the east, central and .vestern portions of our territo ry, where ,ve could go in rotation. More was said about repeating You th Day for our young people. N ot only did hundreds come from the five adjacent states for J une 20th, b:1t many came f0r the v.·hole conference. • ever have ~e seen so many young peo– ple faithfully attending the services. Of cot:. rse. both ideas seem to necessitate a J·.:i ne dace; and ic ,vas decided two years .1go chat beginning next year v..•e v. ill go bacl( to che month of i\fay. Camps have no heating facilities for lvfay chills, and young people cannot get away from school in 1fay. It may be that we will again decide for a late June date so our young people can come they and mothers of chil en. We kno,v that 1n some cities '\\1 i th June sthool closings, it means Vaca– t ion Bible schools cannot be held until I 1t r if tl.e p.tst<>r is t<) attend the ,ARI~( lllcetintt~: l,ut \\( dt) l)tedict dra,t1c.1lly •cltu .. L'd attcnd.1nc.: if \\C J~(l b,,ck t<> tht s<.: l t>nd <>r t h1 rd .vcek <>f t\1,ty. Bi~J e Centered Messages l t \: )t1 id be im1)oss1ble to report all c he !~<)0<.1 tl~ings aid by tl1e speakers, so we ,, on· t ~, en try. A bout l1alf of our Ohio GOD' CHO EN FEW By Ralph T. ordlund In G1Jeon's band a chosen few, With God upon their side, Were more th~n thousands half untrue To turn the battle's tide. When Luther's call w2.s boldly nailed To W1ttenburg's cht!rch door, The m~11y blessed his s~ul, but quaile J Before the wrath 1n score. In England fair a grea ter doom Met noble Latimer; And Tyndale found a mart) 1 r's tomb, o friends to interfere. Here Roger Williams failed to find A shelter in distress, S2ve in the huts of Indians k:ind Within the ,vilderne.,s. H ow few will dare the Trutl1 de~end When Error's hosts oppose; Bu t God doth on His few depend To battle back His foes! pastors were there, and many of them have already reported some of the good things said to their congregations. The theme was taken from Ps. 119:89, "For ever, 0 Lord. thy Word.' ' All the messages st· essed the inspiration and authority of the Bible and the relevancy of its message to our day. The hillside evening mes– sages dealt with the v,ay Bible study ma– tures our Christian lives in a personal way, while the tabernacle messages v.'e: e more theological and evangelistic. All the messages were good . but the editor of the OIB can report in all honesty that the message of Pastor A. D . Moffat to the voung people Tuesday night was power– ful, as the 11 A.M. Bible messages of Pas– tor John Balyo and of Prof . Arthur Wil– liams v,ere theological masterpieces. Lest he be accused of partiality for Ohio men, he will add that he v1ould ranl( the mes– sage on the Second Coming by Pastor Clayton Gray of Butler, Penna., as equal– ly good. Then we had a sermon in song by Prof. George Zinn of Cedarville– thirty minu tes of singing gospel songs in s ·ch a way that the whole Gospel was {:'resented . H o,..; sinners can resist that p_ csentat1on is hard to understand, for the grace af'd pathos and glory of the plan of salvation 1s carried right to the heart. The only other message v,e will mention was chat missionary P2.norama st.1 ng by the Elkhart 2nd Fort Wayne choir. Some 60 , oices sang missionary songs for 45 min- August, I 961 utcs \Vith profcssic)nal ski ll an l spiritual J)O\Vcr, \.Vhilc missionary pie tu res were thrc)\Vn on a screen t>r silhouctte5 were seen tl1rough another screen. Sc>mc of the })tcturcs were of heathen cities \.Vith thousands filling the scrccts-wichout C~hrist, others v..erc of the sick and dying. ome of the s1lhouettcs outlined the shadows of many marchjng by to represent the millions that march co a Christlcss grave every day One showed Dr. and Mrs. V 1ggo Olsen standing in ded1cat1on before che1r vision of a hospital in Ease Pakistan. The sp1r1cual 1n1pact of that com– bination of song, pictures, and light- 1ng effects could be felt. If an al tar call had been made for miss1onar1es, we are sure dozens would have literally run to the front. Ohio Churches Received N ioe Ohio churches were received into the GARBC this year: First Christian Baptist, Coshocton, Harry Cole, pastor; Norton Center Baptist, Barberton, ] ack Downs, pastor; Cal– vary Baptist, Bucyrus, J. H oward Jones, pastor; Kettering Baptist, Dayton , Loren Brown, pastor; Mid– view Baptist, near Grafton, Frank Odor, pastor; Litchfield Baptist, Dar– rell Bice, pastor; Madison Mis– sionary Baptist Church near Lucas– ville, Charles R. Arthur, pastor; Eden Park Missionary Baptist Church near Portsmouth, Henry Thomp– son, pastor; and First Baptist of Ritt– man, Jay Wheeling, pastor. The first six have been in our state as– sociation for some time, the seventh has made application and will be received this October, and we are hoping tl1e other tvvo v. ill soon send in applications. A churc.h must vote and make application for fellowship in each association, for we do not have wheels within wheels as the conventions do; but as ,ve said last month, we like to see our Ohio churches fellowshipping with our national association, and we are sure they rejoice to see their Ohio churches fellov..– ship with us. We stand for the same things, so why not? 992 GARBC Churches :tv!onday night, June 19th, we were thrilled to see representatives from 66 churches come to the platform to re– ceive the right hand of fellowship. Our irrepressible secretary, Rev. Wilbur C. Rooke of Gary, Ind., with his inimitable Georgia humor, " 'as not satisfied, how– ever, even if we had equalled our previ– ous high in churches taken in, for the Con– servative Baptists had just taken in -o. They have over 1,200 churches, and are so close to us in doctrine that like two sisters, we are in friendly competition– at least i t is friendly most of the time. But by Thu rsday nig ht we had beaten them for once: seven more applications had been processed and so we took in a total of 7 3. We would have gone over the 1000 ( Continued on page 7)