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     During my stay in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, I spoke five times in the chapel at Platte Valley Bible College, conducting a question forum following each session. I also engaged in a radio interview over Station KOLT, and a television interview on KSTF-TV, as well as conducting a dialogue session at Nebraska Western College.... In the Boston area, it was my privilege to speak at Harvard Divinity School as reported elsewhere in this issue, and also to conduct house meetings in the Wellington home in Mattapan; the Edmonds home at Billerica; the VanVoorhis home at Bedford; and the Hill home in Medfield (all in Massachusetts). I also spoke to a gathering of ladies in the Kaplan home at Bedford, and closed with a rally at which I spoke in the Bedford Junior High School Auditorium. During my stay I was a guest in the hospitable home of Barry Willbanks and wife.... April 21-25 found me in a study in depth with brethren at Paoli, Indiana, where we had nine sessions of Biblical investigation. During the time I also spoke to the students and faculty at Northwood Institute, the senior citizens of French Lick; the Exchange Club at Bedford; and the high school students at Paoli, Fayetteville, Needmore, Heltonville, Oolitic, and Orleans. We were able to reach 2500 high school students in these assemblies. It was a privilege to be with Glen Liston, who accompanied me to all of these speaking engagements.... Vernon and Betty Hurst, who live at 217 South Bernard Street, Powell, Wyoming 82435, are struggling to maintain an effort in which artificial tests of fellowship will not be allowed to debar the saints. They have exhausted their financial means as have those who labor with them and they need your help. We urge you to send or to write for further information at once.... The April issue of Mission contained an interview with Elton Trueblood. You will be interested in his comments about his connections with brethren in the Churches of Christ.... One of the most outstanding juvenile crime prevention programs we have ever seen is being carried on by the Scotts Bluff County Juvenile Advisory Committee, Gering, Nebraska 69341. The president is my good friend and brother, James F. Landrum.... Helping Hands, P.O. Box 103, Farmington, New Mexico 87401, has just brought out a book of 38 new songs by Roy Harris, especially adapted for vacation studies, youth camps, etc. You can order from the address given at 75c per single copy, or four copies for $2.00.... Congratulations to Mike and Mary Wood, Mableton, Georgia, on the birth of their son, James Byron, March 6.... We also commend Bob Thompson, Erie, Illinois, who recently immersed his first convert to our Lord.... We are encouraged by the fact that several members of the faculty of New Mexico State University meet weekly for a reading of the gospel records and epistles, and that Coach Lou Henson opened the first general faculty meeting with a prayer to the Father.... The congregation at Indiana, Pennsylvania, sponsored "A Weekend For Christ" with brethren from several places speaking on topics of contemporary controversy. The meetings were held April 11-13.... You can secure a free copy of "The Heresy of Legalism" by James A. Warren, as long as the supply lasts, if you will write College Church of Christ, Post Office Box 886, Conway, Arkansas 72032. We suggest that you write for this at once.... I have just learned that Matthew Ikeda has been appointed a full time Professor of Psychology at Valparaiso University. Our brother will fill that position well indeed.... The students at Milligan College are starting a

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magazine for creative writing under the title, "Faire ie Pont," which is French for "to bridge the gap."... Gary Ray Wallace, who has been laboring effectively in El Salvador, is moving to San Angelo, Texas in July.... We know of a congregation (non-instrument) in a Missouri city, which would like to contact a preaching brother who desires to teach the saints and do personal work. If you care to write me I will forward your letter to the elders.... Dr. J. H. Jauncey, of Australia, had an interesting article on Christian education in the spring number of Christian Mission Today. Al Hammond is editor.... We'd like to mention that you can secure our books from Meigs, 35 East Washington Street, Indianapolis, Indiana; Religious Book Store, 705 East Elk Avenue, Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643; or Ozark Bible College Bookstore, Joplin, Missouri.... Rachel Howard, 3640 Main Street, Anderson, Indiana 46014, has out a beautiful new book titled "In The Hands of a Woman." It is adapted for use in classes of women and girls, and for camp studies, as well as being most interesting reading for all who are concerned about domestic responsibility. The book in cloth binding is $3.25, and in paperback $1.95 per copy. Order directly from Rachel.... The North American Christian Convention will again be held in Kiel Auditorium, Saint Louis, in 1970, July 7-10. Originally scheduled for Long Beach, California, it is being moved to St. Louis because the western facilities will not be available.... Jerry Culley has been accepted at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (Greece) and will work on his Ph.D. program, starting this fall. He is just finishing his studies in the University of North Carolina.... Did you read where the pope said, on April 2, that the existence of the Roman Catholic Church was now threatened by the "restless, critical, unruly and demolishing rebellion of priests and laymen?"... If you are seriously concerned about racial prejudice, poverty and discrimination, and you want to help overcome these blights through application of Biblical truth implemented by genuine Christian action, we urge you to write to FOCI, Box 7203, Lexington, Kentucky 40502. If you are carrying on an active program to help in this field, these brethren would like to hear from you.... Please remember that our book on apologetics, Simple Trusting Faith, is ready for immediate mailing at only $3.50 per copy. We hope you will order your copy today.... It will be my privilege to teach again this year in the Family Camp, near Outlook and Macrorie, Saskatchewan. We hope to see many of our friends in Canada.... We are greatly encouraged by a letter from our eighty-year-old brother, Joseph H. Adermann, who lives in Australia.... We think some of you would like to know that our mailing list continues to grow each month this year and the paper now is going all over the world. We have long since passed the goal that we set for 1969..... Harper and Row Publishers have just brought out a new book by Gary Freeman, entitled A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven. It is written in a satirical vein which makes "Voices of Concern" seem like a soap bubble on the ocean surface. One can almost identify characters and places in "The True Church" referred to by Cletus Kinchelow, the mythical Gospel Evangelist.... W. F. Lown was the speaker for the twelfth commencement of Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly, Missouri.... The Truth, the monthly journal edited by our brother in Christ, J. D. Phillips, is now published at Cowden, Illinois 62422. The subscription price is $2.00 per year.... Our next issue will feature an article on the proper uses for "church buildings" as well as a number of other pointed writings related to our predicament in the twentieth century world. Be sure and read it!


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