The Ohio Independent Baptist, January 1968

Sunday School Conference b ut 700 per on regi tered for the Regt1lar Bapti t Pre Sunday ch ol o,ferenee held on campu. , en1ber 13-14. The 60 work hop , e ion were centered around the theme "Training for Troubled Time ' a:1d were available in both topical and departmental form. Dr. David Allen of Hazel Park Michigan w·a the featured peaker. The co:iference Modern Morals in the U.S.A. ' 'The crook is made into a joke; tealing is funny~ wearing is enter– taining: the double meaning is the end of wit· infidelity and illicit love. the spice of life. The h ome is chains: the shop and store, drudgery. Pro– hibition is a calamity, and drunken– ness is a virtue. The preacher is a fool and the church a mystery - just a memory of the funny, bygone Sunday School days. Mother ,s no longer revered, and father is the sly old rascal. God is ·a convenient swear word, and heaven is the biggest joke of all. The sun-tanned, bare-back, cigarette - sucking, poodle - leading cocktail-drinking, homebreaking fe– male is made the queen. Love is degraded into passion; ohildren are no longer wanted; the marriage is not binding. . ." ' 'Our sculpture is junkyard. Our art is comic strip and soup can. Our music is noise. Our dances are convulsions. Our language is unprintable. Our religions are god– less. And our manners are just plain ugly." ' 'I believe in two sexes - each distinguisab]e from the other by clothing and hairdo.,, ... Selected JANUARY, 1968 PAGE 8 1· e ion were broadcast over WCD R– FM in Cedarvi lle and over WEEC– FM in pringf ield 0 . Exhibits were . po;i ored by Cedarville College, The Evangeli cal T eachers Training A s- ociation, Regular Baipt i t P res Chri stian ervice Brigade, Pio:ieer Girls, Awana Club, Shepherd' H ome, and The Fellow hip of Bapti ts for Ho·me Mis ions. Oberlin Adopts ' 'Student Drug Code' ' According to the Eveni:ig Journal, Wilmington, Delaware, in their Fri– day, December 1st issue we learned th at Oberlin College h as now adop– ted a "student drug code' ' t h at dis– tinguishes between marijua:1.a and other drugs. The article further s tates . . . ' 'The code called for possible expulsion of tudents for possession or con– su,mption of drugs other than mari– juana. The stiffest penalty for the use of marijuana is su spe:ision with an opportunity to return to school later. The code was formul ated by the student life oommittee of the f acu]ty. Students selling marijuana will be subject to su spen ion." DECATUR FOUNDRY CO. INC. Div is ion of J. L. Johnson & Sons Inc. 1700 N. Calhoun Street Decatur, Illinois Manufactures . ~ - <.·~ #' 11tf'T" Annealing Pots for Malleable Foundries Concerning Miniskirts <> fv! ,,r,· A1i11i.\Airts i11 fl ·t1tirr111 .' " at 1can 11c)licc rec ntly ba,1nc(t n1ini \Kii t fron, St. J>c tcr'\ Bt1\i li ca, th< ~1<;,linc ( 'hapc l ,tn(I the Vatican nllJ Clim . Papa l gcndar111cs p litely turne< ,lway won1c n who5c leg~ were bar too hi gh .,, We didn't think the Po pt had that n1uch courage. We thinl women otight to h ave more sensi than comi11g to church in such at tir< a5 we ll . (" hro nicle", eptember 15 1967, p. 20) . Mor1i1on College Bans Miniskirts Foll owi ng the banning by the Vati can is thi AP dispatch in the "Den ver P o t" of Sept. 5, 1967, "Ern~ I.J. Wilkinson, Brigham Young Uni ver ity President has wr~tten parent of BYU tudent banning mini skirt and warning tudenns to shun an, • semblance to beatnik or hippie--typ. att ire .' ' This is What Graham Said on Mini skirt . . . The astonishing report it the Oakland Tribune of June 16 1967 comes from a UPI dispatcJ datelined London: "American evan geli st Dir. Billy Graham said toda, • miniskirts are fine so long as the~ are merely a fashion style. 'I don' see anything wrong wiirt:h them unles they are deliberately worn to entic, men to have sensual 1thoughts,' ht said.' ' The same paper had a stor~ about a reform school banning mini kirt . Are ,the people of the worl< wi er than Christians? . . . The Blue Prin CLEVELAND HEBREW MISSION INC. Founded 1904 Witnessing to Jews in Cleveland, Ohio; Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The largest staff in the hi"5tory of the Mission a ugmented by a radio ministry at home and abroad, and a mailing ministry in · the Un ited States and abroad. Present ing Chr ist to our Lord 's brethren by visita t ion, Bible classes, correspond· e nce courses and literature . Staff members are happy to visit churches in the spirit of Acts 15:4 to prese nt the work of the Mission through inspira tiona l reports and by colored slid es. " Brethren. my (our) heart' s des ire and prayer to God fo r Israel is, ·that they might be saved." • Write for your free copy of "The Trumpeter for Israel" our quarterly mag· azine d evoted to the work of Jewish e vange lism. Gerald V Smelser, Supt. Cleveland Hebrew Mission P. 0 . Box 18056 Cleveland, Oh io 44118 THE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTISl