The Ohio Independent Baptist, May 1961

-11_a~_,,_1_9_6_1_______________________ ·~1~~~8~0~H~I~O~JN~~[~)E~PENDENT BAPTIST ~~~~~--------~~--~~~~~~~~P~a~ge~·l~ht~ec God used him to save England from Hitler. ~7e also realize that the majorirv of our Amerlc~n students jo not go roistering or engage 10 riots. \\ e do not ,,-anr to paint the picrure darker than it is. Yet v. e can– not blind our eyes to the immoral1t) that exists on all our university campuses the year around. nor ro tl,e increase 1n student drinking by both c;exes, nor to th<: 1ncrea<;e of srudenr ric.ts over little or noth1no • b· lvfore ser101.. s than the riots in Florida and at Bu" ling Green ha, e been the riots pJanneJ and executed b-r Communists and their sympathizers to (all for the abolition of the House Vo-American Acti,,ities Com– mjttee anct to pr~tesc all other attempts by the government to halt and punish subversion Those "'ho are not concerned about our student unrest should see the fillil, ' 'Operation Abol1t1on, "h1ch 1s a factual, government produced record of the San Francisco riots of a rear ago. That film is opposed by the ational Council 01 Churches because it 1s too factual and con\•iacing, and not because it is untrue. TheJ' oppose it because, v.,1 thot1c naming them. 1 t exposes the shallo~vness of their O\Vn obJection to the HUAC investigations. We must never under-estimate the dangers of student unrest, or fail to realize thar there 1s something about immorality and drunkedness that makes students sus· ceptible to revolutionary movements. It "·as the university students of Russia who engineered the Communist Revolution of 191 7. Castro and his gang were students and recent college graduates. The mobs that threw rocks at Vice President Nixon in Chile and Venezuela a few years ago v. 1 ere led by students. The reason China finally fell to che Communists v.as because l\!arxism infiltrated the Chinese schools, including some of those established by • • • m1ss1onar1es. Communism 1s not the of£-spring of the slums, buc the product of a m1s-gu1ded education. It 1s based upon the scientific theory of materialistic evolution, and on the theory of economJc determinism It argues its case so v.·ell chat inexperienced and idealisric students readily fall for 1t. The average American high school gradu– ate is so ignorant of our O\\. n theor) of government, and of economic principles. tl1at lie is no match for tl1e students and instruccors he meets ac college v. ho l1ave beer1 con,rerted to lvf arxian dialectics. He does nor even k110Vt.' v.•l1ac "dialecric " mean. 1-Ie soon Jear11s that the Bil)le is a n1ych, thac our moral code is l)ased on chc taboos of tl1c \ 7 ictorian Age, an<l that \Ve are J>Sycl1ologicaJ J>a,vns of environn1ental and internal scin1uJi and need feel no re– SJ ns1biJj t)' for v. l1ac ,ve do. 'fho.se rl1ingc; ha\le been taugl1c in our American schools for tl1e last fifty years, and J1a ve 1,1 e-con– ditioned us for one n1ore dete,.1ni nistic daetJ J11e - cl1at of com111unisn1. No ,vo11- der 1J11s tyr,jcal coJJe ,e resh111a n soon 1}110,,s o, erboard l1is cl11ldl1aod leachinp,s of 1noraJ1c) 1 and rel1 1 1cn and decides tl1ac 11 ducared n1n1 J rnighc as ,, ell have me an11n I ft n Jo ,, onder J1e 1 e ent tl e 1 ;\ od restraints ch t are sc1ll based J1 1 i { h1c I ed idea of r 1ght and ,, ronµ ,, on ier lie faJJ~ an e S) v1tt1n1 co a 111n1un1sc1c agitator, ,, 110 p)la) s on his } uthf uJ J re1ud1 cs and n1 kes l1J111 th1nk I e 11 s gr Jc:\ anc co J>rotest. e n J to do 11101e chan Jail { ,, r1 110 ' 1udent ~ e ne d co r , an11> 11d r r11or 11:t our du(at1onaJ S} s1en1 ANSWERING OUR iV\ISSfONARI ES 1fiss1onar1es from our approved agenc1e5 ~a) that they get an average of one 1 eolv tor e.1ch 50 letters asking for speaking en– gagemen ts that they send out. ome ha, e gi, en up "riting and no\\' do dot ble ic1n– eration - first to talk to pastors and line Ll p meetings. and second to sDe,1k. in che te,, chLrcre5 tl1at open their doors. That ~eans they sometin1es spend more in ~et– t1ng opportunities t') r-.re5ent their fields than the)· get 1n offerings. FoL, r years ago thJs n1onth v. e carrieJ an article f ron1 R. Kenneth Smelser. pro– fos1ng chat the churches write in behalf of their O'\\ n m1ss1onary members to churches. He said, "A letter coming fram one local church co another . . . \vill surely not be as quickly cast aside. . . . The local church "ill have to act upon these many letters. Their request v.1ill stimulate discussion and that v. 1 111 produce . .. action. Last January Pastor Smelser led his church at .11edina to send out such a letter to 115 churches. They had undertaken the fvll support of Rev. Davi d Toro to go under ABWE to Chile, and had given him a truck for his v. 1 ork down there. They scared that he would need about s:,,500 more for supplies and passage money for himself and his wife, and tha t they would appreciate help from their sister churches to raise this amount. After two months of patient waiting, five replies came in . "Is this fellowship? ·· he asks. "Do v.:e actually work together as churches to get the job done? H ow many churches do you suppose even heard the letter ? Can 1t be that our 'independent-minded' pastors are bottle-necking our great movement? · THE TRUTH OF IT As a former pastor, the ed1ror chinks he knows that pastors <lo not deliberately bot– tle-neck dept1tation letters; but it may be that they assume the authority to sore the cht1rch mail. Unless these requests are sent to cl1e church clerks, the pastor "111 get them and look them over. l Tsually l1e gers 6 to 12 letters e\ ery ,, eek It m.1) be that only one or t\\ o con1e fron1 a lhurch and is addressed co rhe church; l)nt in his rush co ger througl1 h 1~ n1ail, he n1ay not disr1nqu "sh All he tl11nks al1out is that he doe!)n t have a n11llion dollars l1in1- sclf co hel1), and tl1at his tl1urch ,vtll likely turn these requcsts do,, n S<, he forgets his officia l duty as a n1c.1 c r11oderacor and chrO\\ s his thurch's m.1.1 in the ,va~ce })asker. ] I 11! U Ill! urely a J)astor should shO\\' enougl1 LOUrtesy co these an1bas adors of hrist t<) · end a card and ay he is orry char tl1e hu1ch c.tnnot ~rant 1l1eir request, but cl at is nor the t..ire \\ e are 1 hi nki11g about. Neither ,, ould \\ e suggest chat these church letters be sent 10 the cl1urch lerks, proper dS 1l1at ,11,1y be fron1 the old-fa J1ioned B 1,c1sc J)OJnr of , Je,,. losr n1odern I3l1r)- 11st J)a~tor assu111e rhat they are l he sole drb1 t .. r o v. l1at th · hut ch h 11 J1e<t1 and do. 'f"hat cl11s is not the: hiscorJC l~a1lt1sc po n1on 111 .. ans noch111g the) ch1nk u 1s nd ,, 111 Met a11gry qu1cker c>, er ll} 1,.1ss i11g cJ1en1 ci1an o, r nyc}11ng el e 1 c> n11ssior1a1) or den(>1111n c1onal ,, orker ,, 111 l,e f0<)l1sJ1 enougl1 co ev, n try t(> l)y 1,ass the JYclstor ( o-nti,1ued 011 page 5) The Ohio Independent Baptist Published 1fonthly by THE OHIO ASSOCIATION OF REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCHES Publication Office 153 South Jefferson, Berne, Ind. Editor RALPH T. NORDLUND 586 1'faple treet Fostoria, Ol1io Circulation 1,fanager lvfRS. 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