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     A young brother in California who wishes to help in the crusade for a brighter day among the restoration movement heirs will pay for 25 papers per month for a whole year if you will promise to distribute them to interested readers. If you wish to receive that many papers each month to share with others, please write to us immediately and we will put your name down for them. Address your correspondence to MISSION MESSENGER 2360 Gardner Drive, St. Louis 36, Missouri.... Buff Scott, Jr., P.O. Box 463, Gallipolis, Ohio, who is a graduate worker in the field of mental care, would like to make a change of location, due to climatic and health conditions. He would like to contact brethren willing to support him partially to do evangelistic work, while he continues in his other field of endeavor.... Those of you who live in the eastern part of the United States can purchase our books from Leon's Bookstore, 4835 MacCorkle Avenue S.W., South Charleston 9, West Virginia. Contact him for copies of "Thoughts on Fellowship," "Covenants of God," or "The Kingdom of the Messiah."... Fred Killebrew, James Graddy, Bernie Crum, and W. Carl Ketcherside, were speakers at the thirty-ninth annual all day service at Bonne Terre, Missouri, June 9.... Gordon and Rebecca Seeder, Burnaby, British Columbia, have a new baby boy, whom they have named Andrew.... Bernie Crum reports having performed the weddings of Donald Tucker and Anna May Rouse; Alvin Bell and Joyce Payne; and Jerry Leet and Mary Danieley. Bro. Crum conducted a meeting and vacation Bible study at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was scheduled for other such studies at Flat River, and the Bridge congregation, near Dexter, Missouri.... Since our last report we have learned of the following deaths: A. B. Case, Summersville, Missouri; Stella Hogan, Saint Louis, Missouri; Clyde Hasten, Fort Worth, Texas; Mrs. Myron Keesling, Middletown, Indiana; Mrs. Peter McKenzie, Independence, Missouri; Nathan Young, Ellington, Missouri; Eliza Smith, Summersville, Missouri; James H. King, Paragould, Arkansas; Ethel King, Fenton, Missouri. We send our very sincere sympathy to all of those whose dear ones have crossed over the river of death.... Have you ordered your copy of "Covenants of God" which contains all of the copies of MISSION MESSENGER for 1959-60? This large clothbound book of 384 pages sells for $3.50 per copy and will provide you some of the most challenging and stimulating reading you have ever seen. Order your copy today.... No doubt you read of the disaster which occurred when a Northwest Airlines plane went down off the coast of Alaska, carrying 101 servicemen and their families to death. We regret to report the loss of our young brother, Alan Townsend, 18, in the crash. His parents live at LaVerne, California.... Ellis Crum reports a good meeting at Stockton, California.... Fred Killebrew and James Graddy immersed one in their meeting at Iberia, Missouri.... The editor will address the Marion County (Illinois) Men's Fellowship meeting on August 8.... We are saddened to report the death of our aged brother, G. C. Stillinger, Ontario, California. His life has been an inspiration to many of us.... G. Stanley Smith, Assistant Professor of Animal Science at the University of Illinois, has resigned his post to devote his time to carrying the message of Christ to the students on the campus of this great university. We hail with gladness this attempt to recapture one of the "lost provinces" for the King.... The first number of Restoration Reporter has been issued by the editor, Brother J. James Albert, 4293 Crum Road, Youngstown 15, Ohio.

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We suggest that all who are interested in the current concern for restoration of the primitive order write at once for a sample copy.... William Earl and Caren Sue Black, Flat River, Missouri, have a baby boy, William Linn, born June 11.... Jack and Ruth Fleener, Decatur, Illinois, have a baby girl, Susan Elene, born June 18.... Bob Duncan conducted a series of studies on "The Holy Spirit" at Bonne Terre, Missouri, for one week.... James Mabery reports one immersed at 5906 Kenwood Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri, during a particularly interesting series of studies, which drew a large attendance.... Two have been immersed recently at Hartford, Illinois.... Hershel Ottwell directed an excellent vacation study at that place.... James Graddy directed a vacation study at Overland, Missouri, during a series of gospel meetings in which he participated with James Mabery and the editor.... Ronald Bartanen, a non-partisan brother in the Lord, has removed from Blue Island, Illinois, to Louisville, Kentucky, where he will labor with the Kentucky Avenue congregation.... We extend our sincere sympathy to Arthur Freeman, Pomona, California, upon the death of his mother at Des Moines, Iowa. We also deeply regret to chronicle the death of Brother Eugene Suddeth of Des Moines.... More than 10,000 persons registered at the North American Christian Convention at Long Beach, California.... The Gospel Advocate June 27, 1963, carried an article by C. K. Wallace, on "The Basis of Fellowship" in which opposition is taken to what our brother thinks we teach. The same issue carries "Reply to Ketcherside" by J. D. Thomas. Since we are not permitted to answer in that paper we urge you to secure a copy and read these attacks. The address is 110 Seventh Avenue, North, Nashville, Tennessee.... James Lovell, in Action for June, 1963, has a column directed against my plea for unity of all believers. Our brother wants to be free from the party spirit but finds it difficult to do that within the framework in which he finds himself. You can secure a copy of the paper by writing to P.O. Box 488, Redondo Beach, California.... Christian A. Lyles, editor of Christian Waymarks P.O. Box 25, Granite City Illinois, invited Roy H. Lanier, Sr., to write a series of articles in opposition to my position, and these have appeared in four issues of his paper, from April-July. We urge you to secure copies of these and to read them. Remember that truth-loving persons can read anything.... The discussions on unity at Dallas, Texas, brought together members of some eleven different parties within the restoration movement background. It is possible that this was one of the significant meetings of our generation, since brethren of all segments freely discussed their problems in an amicable manner.... Arrangements are being made for a series of lectures and forums dealing with fellowship and unity, to be held at Wichita, Kansas. Watch for further announcement.... We deeply regret to announce the death of our sister in the Lord, Mrs. Arthur Bullock, Stratford, Connecticut.... Darrell Bolin was with the congregation at Sun Valley, West Virginia, June 23..... Harold Shasteen began a meeting in Odessa, Texas, July 7.... Buff Scott, Jr., spoke at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, June 16; and at Sun Valley, West Virginia, July 6, 7.... Remember that you can still secure copies of the July issue at the rate of ten for one dollar.

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