The Ohio Independent Baptist, August 1961

t ),1 , < •l ' '' f' l'. ' <lit r c/o T l' n11)l Bapti t h tir h ( :allia ~ t and Wa ll r , Portsmouth , Ohio T <:' l'r\' Bon 7o , assistant editor Y<lt1t l1 l<',lc1crs. ' O t111~ 1101 'i, pa tors , ploos<> send th m n ws and id~<\! Assistant Editor Attends Buckeye Boys State And DON'T Forget It ! IF YOU remember l1ow much easi r it is to rem mber what yot1 wot1ld ra tl1er forg<.' t than rC'mcmlJ r , than to 1 c111 mb r wh a t yot1 \\,,Ot1ld ra tl1er r - in 1nber thcl11 forget , then yo t1 can' t forget h ow 1nt1ch asier it is to for– g t ,vh a t yot1 wol1l cl ra ther rememb r than forget , tha1 to forget \vhat yot1 ,vot1lcl rather forget than remc1nber. I ,, ill .11,, .1, ~ llc g1\ ltl, f t1l fo1 11,1, - i11C! llt t 11 <'l lll~l'l l .1. ,1 1 <' pr . t'11l,1ti , ·e elf tl1c J 11111tl\ <·l.1~, <l f l )clrls 111clt1 tl1 F".1st Jl ig11 ,~t l1cc>l t el l3t1cl \t' l~c>, s ,~ late\ IJ,11g11i11g, tl1c1 a t1t' t1ses .111cl c:c>11ven – ti c>11s. f t(' r tl1is ca111 tl1e lcclion ,111cl 111at1gt1ra tio1 of the go ernor ,111cl s,,. ,1ri11g of sla t officials. >f 1 l)({ l I t ,, .1~ .111 t' ,1Jc r1e 11cc tl1at n1nk ~ 111t rc·al1zc tl1.1t 111, \elf ,111cl cltl1 r l1igh ~c.,}1001 j11111c11 s ,tr r1e~1r tl1e cl,t)' , , ,}1 11 <lt11 , <) t(' ,, ill llt' c<) t111 lecl 1 ot 011,, It ,vas 1n.. pri il g t o lle ap – poi11ted " ta te Dir c tor of Ag ric t1l– t t1re. 1"'1 fo llo,\' i11g fi clay w r p nt Co1 fused? ? Help keep llS straight on the acti vi ties of your youth groups. Do1 't forget to send is your news. And p lease reme1nber to send it so it ,vill reacl1 tis h ere i11 Portsmouth by the t entl1 of the mon th, or it will be old and stale before it gets in a ]at er issue . ~ ,, il l ,, e 11,1, e tl1e 1)ri, ileg of , ·oting, l1t1t ,, t' ,, ill }1a, tl1 opportunity of llt'<'Cl111111g fl l) tlrt of ot1r l,1te go\ 1 ern- 111e11t . \\"itl1 tl1i. i11 n1i11cl . it make ti~ r alize tl1e i1111)orta11ce of the ft111c– t101 of tl1e , .(1riot1, office , from t l1e top lc, ·el po itio11 of go\·er11or to tl1e mo t i11 ignifica11t appoi11trnent a11d for e, ·er)· citize11 , l1i re po11 i– bilit)· of tipporting tho e lected. i11 oper,1tio1 of a mock state govern- 111 1 t giving 11 the opporh111ity of ,1ch1ally fe li1 g tha t \Ve \ver do i11g tl1at ,,,hich i l)eing done by ot1r state officials e \ 1 eryday. ,, 1 e all appreciated the effort of the 1neric,111 Legio11 for making it l)O ib le for u to a ttend Buckeye Boys tate, and , vould t1rge tha t all of ot1r successors avail themselves of the opportt111ity afforded them. TEEN-AGER'S Bl BLE SCHOOL A DOG is ma1's be t friend be– cat1se he wags his tail instead of h i to1 gt1e. l .,.po1 arri, ·al at Ohio l T11i, rer it y, a t • tl1e1 , ,,·e ,,·ere a ig11ed to cities and cot1ntie t)·pical of the state. \\.itl1 thi the political macl1ine start– ed to op erate . Fir t there \Va cam- ---------- - ortl1 Royalton Bap tist Church tried some thing new this year . \Vh ile the younger children h ad their vaca– ( Continued on page 9 ) A TEENAGER'S STORY- By John Whorton Prion The follo,,ing is a testimonial story of my life from childhood through my 1 th birthday, rela tive to the part crime played i11 my life, how Sa tru1 controlled my life and m,r tl1inki11g ho\v ot1r Lord Jesus Christ stretched forth hi hand and opened my eyes to the h·uth of his gloriou and e\·erla ting love for me, ru.1d how Jesus t ook my place upon the cross and paid that great price for me in t1ntold agony so that I through his precious shed blood for forgi"'eness of my sins m ight receive his wonderful free gift of salvation by accepting Jesus as my Savior and turning my life over into his h ands tha t H e may be glorified through me. \ \ 1 ords cannot express the joy and h appiness that Jesus ga\·e t o me when I came to realize that I was a smner, doomed for e ternal judgment, and Oh that won– derft1l S\\'eet place Jesu gave me when I accepted H im and recei\ 1 ecl Him into my heart. May I p ause a t this time to ay. "Thanks, Lord Je us." In my· early· ]ife my mother and father separa ted , nei– ther 011e k110,\·i11g tl1e Lo rel . f other had to \\'Ork to st1pport the home a1 d a I gre\\. older I seemecl t o always p ick the ,,rro11g friends. ~1}' desires ,~.rer e for things for this ,,·orld ancl not re,1lizing I ,,,as serving atan I p ermitted him to take charge, \\ 1 hich led me into a life of crime. I11 Ja11t1af) 1 of 19.5 , at the age of 1.5, I b ecame in– \10],,ed i11 bt1rglar 1 1 • The1 I became a truan t , skipping school as often as possible. The court tried to h elp me b) plac111g me in m 1· sister's l1ome. Then in December of 195 I became in\ ol\·ed in "assat1lt \Vith il1tent to rob ." .t\ life could ha\'e bee11 take11 \,·hile committing tl1is act , lJut thanks to our ,,,onderful Lord this ,,,as prevented . At that time the court placecl me 01 n vo years probation and placed me in my brother 's home . I did not ap– preciate the very thing the courts and the police were trying to do for me and I became de termined to b e sent to the Boys Industrial School or to the Ohio State Re– formatory so tha t I could serve time arid be able to come out i11to society and say to my friends ' 'I'm a big shot . I've served time and I 'm really a wheel now." So I decided to turn myself into the police and refuse to re turn t o my brother 's home. I was placed in custody and the court gave me an indet erminate senten ce to the Ohio State Reforma tory. It was then on January 30, 1959 that I was taken out of society and placed b ehind b ars in the Ohio State Refom1atory and in a few days I b egan to realize some– tl1i11g \Vas wrong it1 my life and tha t I needed something tha t I didn't h ave. There \Vas a boy sharing the cell next to mine who had accepted the Lord and b ecome a Christian and ,vas reading his Bible daily. On Sundays a number of the fello\v i11 the ad joining cells ,~.rere liste1 ing t o the various chtrrch services. At that time , through talking to this boy about the Lord and b egin1 ing to read the Bible \vith him, I realized ho\v m ixed up I had b een in ID)' thinking. I realized that Sat an h ad 1-uled me and directed my life and my thinking that anyone who want ed t o be a Christian v.,as a sissy and that the Christian life \vasn' t for me. Then and no,v I realize it takes a red -blooded · man to be a Clrristian and to go out into the ,vorld and live and ,,,ork for Christ and t o b e used in ,vinning souls for the Lord . - Taken from the p aper published by E1n manuel Bapti t Church , Ala·on. •