A beloved brother, Bob Haddow, Temple City,
California, who has been confined to a wheelchair for years,
suffered a slight stroke which affected his sight and speech. He
is showing some improvement. Bob has been a real source of
strength to me.... J. Ed Uland, a friend and brother, finished
third in the finals of Toastmasters International annual speech
contest in Cleveland, Ohio. Ed is executive director of the
Greater Lorain (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce.... Bob Duncan, 27
Broadway Place, Normal, Illinois 61761, has 8 volumes of The
Pulpit Commentary (New Testament) which he will sell you at a
real savings. The books are like new.... Rawlin Jernigan,
Wiesbaden, Germany, was thoughtful enough to send me a full set
of new issue German stamps. Thanks!... There's a new publication
starting, to be called New Wine. The editor will be Kyle
R. Simplot, 309 South Main, Erwin, Tennessee 37650. Kyle says
this will be "a provocative 'think' paper, theologically oriented
beyond mediocrity but just short of being esoteric." Materials
will be Bible based, Christ crowned, and people pointed. Why not
write Kyle for a sample? He will send you one.... We want to
commend Communion Quester, published in Brazil by
evangelists who have gone there to take the Message. The editor
is Glover Shipp, and associate editors are Howard Norton and
Harry Scales. This powerful journal is published at Caixa Postal
2610, Belo Horizonte, M. G., Brazil, South America. If you have
not seen it we urge you to secure a sample copy.... An attack
upon our position by our brother, Dale Smelser, appears in the
September 18 issue of the Gospel Guardian, P.O. Box 470,
Lufkin, Texas 75901. The title of the article is "Ketchersidian
Fallacies." We think it is very important that all of our readers
secure a copy and know what is being said by dissenting brethren.
Do not be one-sided in your reading but study both sides of
issues.... If you have teen-agers (13 to 16 years old) and you
will send us two dollars, we will mail you a package of eight
paperback books for the kids. This is not a religious assortment
but just good reading on their level.... Standard Publishing
announces a new weekly called Seek, which will start
January 1, and will tie in the Standard Lesson Service for
adults. The editor will be my trusted friend, John Wade, and that
is a good recommendation for the forthcoming publication.... Hoy
Ledbetter, David Elkins, Dean Thoroman, Frank Rester and John
Smith, all combined to put out a thrilling issue of the new
magazine Integrity in August. Have you written for your
sample copy yet? If not, the address is P.O. Box 1205, Flint,
Michigan 48501. Why not get with it?... We have a great letter
from Tom Fife, down in Goiana, Brazil.... It was our privilege to
meet a number of the brethren on the Committee of One Hundred who
were in Saint Louis to plan for the North American Christian
Convention to be held here next July.... Carl E. Hines is
studying Spanish at Universidad de los Andes, but will return to
Villavo, Colombia, to work with the saints in December.... Calvin
Ross has been called from Princeton, New Jersey, to lead a campus
ministry for students at Pitt and Carnegie-Mellon, in the
Pittsburgh area. Calvin received the B.D. and M.Th. degrees from
Princeton Theological Seminary.... Reuel Lemmons and James
Deforest Murch each invited fifteen men to meet at Hilton Inn,
Saint Louis, September 18-20, for discussions of the problems
relating to disunity in the ranks of the restoration heirs.
Reports from the meetings indicate a fraternal spirit. It is
expected that the brethren who were present will try to
arrange quarterly meetings for discussion. This is good!... If
you have children in your family between the ages of 6 and 12
years and you will send us $2.00 we will send them an assortment
of books worth many times that price. Tell us their ages when you
write.... We are pleased to announce a whole new series of
messages to be given in this paper during the year 1970, and to
be titled "The Living Pattern." We intend to unmask Church of
Christism and show that we have developed unwritten creeds
without a word of scriptural warrant. It will be our thesis that
we have been divided by men with a factional spirit who have
searched the Word to justify their partisan presuppositions. We
promise you that the paper will be different than anything else
you have read in the disciple brotherhood.... Our next issue will
be our last for this year. It will contain my articles on Things
to Come; The Secret Plan; The Slave Mentality; and The Priority
Value. Boyce Mouton will have one on "Abstain From all Appearance
of Evil," and James M. Swiney another on "Consecrated Diversity."
After that issue appears the papers for the entire year will be
bound into a 192-page book, cloth-bound, and bearing the title
Christian Commandoes. If you order yours before March 1,
it will be sent to you and billed for $2.49.... Bob Shaw, who
serves First Christian Church, 230 N. E. Fourth Street, Miami,
Florida, has produced a paper titled, "The Dignity of the Local
Fellowship of Jesus Christ and Christians." He is chairman of the
Education Committee of "The Fellowship for a Free and Responsible
Church," composed of men who oppose the restructure program
adopted by the Disciples of Christ.... Lee Keesling, who works on
the rehabilitation program for alcoholics and drug addicts in the
Washington (D.C.) area, was invited to speak at the Virginia
Diocese Convention of the Episcopal Church. He was with the
congregation of saints at West Islip, New York, September 29....
Training Center for Service, which is located in the heart of the
black ghetto in Saint Louis, had a most interesting and
encouraging report of activities for August. If your heart is
moved to help where the action is you can send to this work and
deduct it from your tax statement.... In the September issue of
Mission the brethren announce a program of doubling the
circulation of this very timely and provocative magazine. Roy
Bowen Ward is Editor-in-Chief, and is a great man for the post.
Ray F. Chester is Managing Editor and Thomas H. Olbricht is
Business Manager. Both of these are eminently qualified. You can
read Mission by sending $4.00 for a one year subscription
to P.O. Box 2822, Abilene, Texas 79604. If you have quit reading
all brotherhood papers because of their irrelevance, you probably
had not heard of Mission.... In conformity with our
personal non-partisan, non-factional approach to the brotherhood
of the blood-washed throng, we will continue to keep you informed
of what is happening across all of our lines and without judging
motives. We will love you if you do not agree with us.... We have
a real bargain for you. A copy of the book "Thomas Campbell--Man
of the Book" for only $2.00. It is 300 pages and cloth-bound....
Brethren have planted a congregation of saints on the campus of
Michigan State University, meeting in Alumni Memorial Chapel....
I regret to report that the wife of my brother, Paul Ketcherside,
Nowata, Oklahoma, is back in the hospital as the result of a
badly broken ankle. She will probably always have to use a
crutch. Floreine has spent many weary months in the hospital
during the last several years.... Floyd Henderson, Bryant,
Alabama, and Lee Keesling, of Arlington, Virginia, have sent me
corner blocks of new stamps. Thanks, brethren!
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