The Ohio Independent Baptist, April 1962

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(CNS) - The p ·a ed una~imou ly by the Harmony cost of missionary work ha not presbytery in South Carolina and the changed since the day the Apo tle ?t~e~ two pas ed by sub tantial ma- Paul - Chri tianity' mo t famou Jonties in the Central Mi i ippi and mis ionary wrote ' 'I bear in my Eooree (South Carolina) pre by- body the mark of the Lord J esu .,, teries. ( Galatians 6: 17). Particularly i thi The la t uch effort to withdraw true in modern leprosy work in cer- the denomination from the NCC wa tain ection of Africa where mi - t•abled at the 1961 as embly by a vote sionarie tand about one chance in of 250 to 248. That vote wa on a a hundred of getting the di ease from re elution by a commis ioner ( dele- the people with whom they work,, gate) asking the denomination to thus bearing the marks of their serv- change it affiliation to another co- ice on their bodies. operative body. A recent survey of 907 Protestant missionaries in northern Nigeria di - closed that there were 12 cases of leprosy among them. This is a pre– valence rate of 13.2 per 1,000 a compared with 35 per 1,000 among the native population in the same year. Most of the e were mild form of the disease, a.ccording to the American Leprosy Mission which con– ducted the study in cooperation with two missionary doctor . In a survey of two schools for mis ionary children with 223 tudents in Northern Nigeria only one early, mild ca e was di - covered. Yet because of the highly effective missionary work among the leper in that area, the majority of Christian workers and evangelists in the strong– ly Mo lem province of Sokoto are former leprosy patient . The Sudan Interior Mission, which treat 3,000 resident patient near Sokoto and and some 20,000 out-patient in out– lying clinics and dispensarie , now has one of its former patient doing H ausa language radio broadca t for it international radio station in Mon– rovia, Liberia. Among 302 missionarie in South– ern Nigeria and rench West Africa Ylho were also surveyed, no lepro y cases were found. The doctor5 said Reaction varied WHEATON, ILL. (CN ) - A poll of repre entative evangelical ~eaders i~ this country indicate vary– ing reactions to the recently propo ed All-Evangelical World Congre s. Sev– eral responded £avorably to the idea while others questioned the nece ity for another world conference of evangelicals apart from definite ob– jective that would be of pecific value to the whole movement. The propo al for uch a congre s wa made by Mel Larson, editor of the Evangelical Beacon, official ma o- • b azine of the Evangelical Free Church , at a recent meeting of magazine editor . He aid that ince there ha been uch a great urge toward unity ,among evangelical in uch field a literature and radio he felt that uch a congress would erve a a rallying point for evangelical and m ake their witne s for Chri t more effective. To report ecumen ica l news The Rev. tuart Garver e ecutive director of hri t' Mi , ion , Inc. , of et Cliff, ew York, and editor of Chri tian Heritage MagaL.ine , h a an– nounced the opei1ing of a Rome office ro cover the Roman atholic cun1en- ical Council called by Pope John XXIII to convene in October of thi year. Chri t's Mis ion, which m a inta in a .retreat and counselling ervice for prie t who leave the Roman Catholic Church, will have it Executive Di– rector and an ex-prie t member of its taff on duty in the Rome office. Th~y w~ll i ue regular di patche which will report on the activitie of the Council, the important people who attend, and eek to interpret the council' di cu sion and conclu ion . New movement launched DENVER, COLO. (C S) - A new movement ha been launched ?ere for the expre purpo e of train– ing Christian laymen to become ef– fective in the political affair of their community tate and nation . Called "Chri tian Citizen, ' it wa tarted b)' a _Denver real e tate developer who aid he en ed that something had to be done to fill the big gap be– tween the per onal conviction of many Chri tian and their expre ion of it in public life. Gerri Von Frellick, a outhern Bapti t layman 1 and founder of the organization, ay that it i primarily an educational group which ~ ill eek t~ .~waken laymen to their re pon i– bil1ties and the ba ic me thod of ervice in politic . He empha ized that the group will not upp rt any par– ticular political part}, candidate or political philo ophy. R a ther, he aid, the empha i will be on preparing men to become active in their o,, n party and e pre their hri ·tian conviction there a individual . Tract writer and publisher dies H R. ILL. ( ) - Clyde H . Denni . founc.ler and prt: 1 clent of Go d e \\ • Pt1bJ1 ht=r~ lt)– cated in th1 ( ' h1 'ago ·ubt1rb. J1 J Pebrt1<1r\ 14 10 lo ngel~ ". tl1is was due to the geneiially lower rate of leprosy in the area and the fact that there was Iese; direct contact witl1 leprous patients than in the nor th . LOS ANGELES BAPTIST COLLEGE Ask withdrawal from council W1 • ·o - A.l.J M , . . ( S) - At lea l tl1ree overtures or pt:ti– tion a ki11g that tl1e Presb)' leri~111 l1u1 c}1 in tl1 . . ( ou the r11) John R. Dunkin, Th .D., President Three Year Bachelor of Divinity Degree in Theology Three Year Bachelor of Divinity Degree in Missions Three Year Bachelor of Divinity Degree in Jewish Missions Four Year Bachelor ol Arts Degree in Bible or Humanities A growing graduate school of Baptist p ersuasion in sunny California v. j1J1dra,v it n1e 111be1 sl1ip fro1n the ational ou11cil o l1urcl1 e ~ 1 ill Addre s all corre pondence to Lo Ange le Baptist College, Newhall , C lifornia 1, pre ent d to 1}1 den r11inatio11' er ral A~ mbl , '"'h 11 it 111e t 11 r PAGE 7 , APRll 1962