Will all correspondents please take note that
our new address is 139 Signal Hill Drive, Saint Louis 63121. Make
a correction of your mailing list accordingly as the post office
will not continue to forward your bulletins and other material
interminably. Our telephone number is JAckson 2-6680.... Perhaps
you'll grow tired of us mentioning that there will only be 2000
copies of the bound volumes of our 1965 issues on "The Twisted
Scriptures." These books will be ready for delivery early in 1966
and will be billed to those who have ordered them at $2.49 per
copy. Advance orders are now being taken, and when the orders
reach the figure of 2000 they will be discontinued. There is not
another book like this available today and we urge you not to let
this one slip away. Write and tell us how many of them you'd like
to have us hold for you.... Perhaps one passage that is more
abused than most is 1 John 1:7, "But if we walk in the light, as
he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another." What is
the light? Our May issue will contain a thorough analysis of the
passage in the light of its history and context. We trust that
you'll not miss it. If your subscription will expire during 1965
why not send your renewal at once?... If you need extra copies of
certain months to complete your back files, or if you are doing
research on a thesis and require back issues of certain date for
documentation, write to C. H. Ephland, 1505 North Ash Street,
Nevada, Missouri 64772. He maintains a number of back issues
reaching back for several years, just to fill such requests as
yours. I suggest that you include mailing costs when asking for
special copies.... Roy Harris, Route 2, Cawker City, Kansas,
tells us that he will send you his three books of poems, "Silver
Shadows" Nos. 1, 2, 3, all for $1.00. Those of you who know him
will want to send for the three books if you've not done so. Roy
teaches school in Northern Kansas.... Speaking about Roy Harris,
reminds us that he conducted a study and development class for
young people the week following Christmas, at 46th and Miller
Streets, Denver, Colorado. There were approximately 50 students
at daytime sessions. This youth study will be an annual feature
under direction of Bro. Harris.... The editor immersed two into
Christ during the winter meeting conducted at Beech Grove,
Arkansas, where brethren are in the process of completely
remodeling their meetinghouse.... Brethren in the vicinity of
Grove City, Ohio, have started a little journal entitled "The
Pioneer." The first number examines the clerical system, the
corruption of speech, and extra-church agencies, and calls for
reform based upon a return to new covenant ideals. If you are
satisfied with things as they are we suggest you not read this
paper; if you "sigh for Zion" we urge you to send 15c and secure
a copy of the first number. Address Richard Sloan, 88 West Park
Street, Grove City, Ohio 43123.... Everett Allen is an elder in
Denver. For a number of years he has suffered from leukemia, and
has been able to hold on to life only through God's mercy and the
skill of modern medical techniques. He is in need of continuous
infusions of blood, but the courage of this brother is almost
without parallel among our acquaintances. A call is being issued
on a nation-wide basis to the saints who can, to help in this
dire need. If you will go to a hospital anywhere in the United
States which is a member of "National Blood Donors" you can give
blood and ask them to allow credit to the Belle Bonfils Memorial
Blood Bank, 4200 East 9th Avenue, Denver, Colorado, for the
account of Everett Allen. Will you make mention of this
emergency, and remember that when you give blood you
give life?... E. Lee Keesling was an usher at the Pre-Inaugural
Service in Washington, D. C., at which Billy Graham spoke to the
dignitaries who were present to see the President and Vice
President take their oaths of office later in the day. Lee has
also been invited to the annual President's Prayer Breakfast,
February 4, which will also be attended by James DeForest Murch.
Brother Murch has not missed one of these occasions in many years
of residence in the Washington area.... J. Miller Forcade and
wife left Long Beach, California, February 26, for Yokohama, with
the intent of beginning another work for Christ in the Tokyo
area.... We are pleased to chronicle the following new lives
brought into the world: Mr. and Mrs. Wendell E. Huddleston, Big
Springs, Texas, a son, Robert Edward, born January 8; Mr. and
Mrs. Ken Getter, Saint Louis, Missouri, a son, Kevin Douglas,
born January 11; Mn and Mrs. Donald Edmonds, Saint Louis,
Missouri, a daughter, Cherie Lee Ann, born January 23.... We are
saddened by the death of V. L. Shumate, 73, at Beckley, West
Virginia, December 29. Our brother was one of the elders at
Stover, West Virginia, where I used to hold meetings as a boy....
We are also grieved by the death of Rose Fiscus, Roubidoux,
California, who died as the result of surgery for a malignant
brain tumor while in Indiana. This gracious sister was with the
Armenian refugees who were rescued many years ago when the Turks
brutally assaulted the villages around Musa Dagh (Mount of
Moses). The providential appearance of a French warship made it
possible for the villagers to escape death. Later she was my
translator when I immersed a number of the Armenian Colony,
including her own father and mother.... Charles J. Conger reports
immersing an entire family of five on January 10, at Washington
Chapel congregation, near Des Moines, Iowa.... Bert Ellis reports
that 300-400 children gather for Bible instruction each Sunday
morning and evening at Pusan, Korea, where he is working with the
Korean Broadcasting Mission.... There was quite a family
gathering down at Flat Rock, near Summersville, Missouri, when
all 13 children of the John W. Bandy family met for a family
reunion on December 26, the first time in ten years. All of these
children attended services at Flat Rock while growing up.... Jack
Busby and Burl Price arranged a meeting for preachers on February
23, at Pana, Illinois, to discuss the question, "Has the New
Testament Church Been Restored?" In this meeting jointly arranged
by brethren of both instrumental and non-instrumental segments of
the restoration movement, it was announced that "Any proclaimer
of the gospel is welcome and may take part at the proper time, as
long as a brotherly spirit is manifested." The increasing number
of such gatherings throughout the world indicates that our
brethren are growing up. Only Satan stands to lose when men meet
together to talk about the word of God in love.... J. C. Reed,
RCDA, Fydep, Sta. Elena, Peten, Guatemala, Central America, sends
us such a glowing report of the country where he is working to
plant a pioneer colony of Christians, that it is difficult to
keep from going down. If you are interested, write him as above.
The air mail postage is 13c from the United States.... Brethren
at the little congregation at Bismarck, Missouri, having now paid
off the loan on their basement meetinghouse are asking for
assistance in supporting Wilton Painter to do evangelistic work
in the area. It is their honest conviction that God will open a
great door and effectual, and if you are willing to aid in the
support, you are asked to write at once to William Jordan, P. O.
Box 489, Bismarck, Missouri. Acknowledgement will be made of all
letters and contributions.... Could you help us by renewing in
advance of expiration?
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