Nell wants to thank the more than 150 persons
who sent cards in remembrance of her birthday on July 25.... We
send greetings to W. L. and Clara Buttram, who celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary on June 24, at Disney, Oklahoma. Our
anniversary is the same date, but we are not at the fiftieth
mile-post yet.... Gordon Patten of the Korean Christian Mission
sends a great letter listing the books that have been printed in
the native tongue through the joint efforts of brethren in the
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ. Such tremendous
accomplishment will do more for unity than anything else of which
I know.... We are saddened by the death of two brothers in the
Lord, Lester Stevens, of Lyons, Indiana, and Vernon Lee Munyon of
Saint Louis. Our hearts reach out to their bereaved families....
Nell has mailed a copy of The Royal Priesthood to all
college students who wrote in requesting it this month. The 336th
copy went to Arthur Stroman, East Carolina University; the 335th
to A. Miler, University of California; the 334th to Cherry L.
King at Akron University in Ohio. Any college or university
student on earth can have a copy of this book free while the
supply lasts, simply by sending a request with name and mailing
address and mention of the college where enrolled. Send your card
or letter to Mission Messenger, 139 Signal Hill Drive, Saint
Louis, Missouri 63121.... After twenty years of sending out
Restoration Plea, our brother, M. S. Whitehead,
Montgomery, Alabama, is forced to suspend publication. He is 77
years of age, and suffers from diabetes, hardening of the
arteries, and almost complete blindness, but he has been a real
inspiration to me, ever since I first met him years ago in the
hospitable home of O. C. Dobbs, Sr., in Birmingham, Alabama....
We want to urge you to send for a sample copy of Koinonia,
P.O. Box 666, Concord, California 94522. It is issued about four
times per year by Hal Hougey, and only costs $1.00 for eight
issues.... If you have not yet received a copy of the attractive
quarterly called Fellowship, and edited jointly by
brethren from the ranks of Disciples of Christ, Christian
Churches/Churches of Christ, and Churches of Christ
(non-instrument) we urge you to secure a copy and read it. It is
beautiful. The mailing address is 1699 Court Street NE, Salem,
Oregon 97301. Write for it and write to it.... We remind you
again that Mission Messenger is scheduled to cease publication
with the December issue in 1975. If you will send us $2.50 we
will enroll you for the duration of the publication. If more than
that is sent we will use it to mail out books to students....
The Divine Purpose is the title of the bound volume
containing every issue of the paper in 1972. On August 7 there
were less than a hundred copies of the book remaining. If you
desire one for your library, pleased send $2.95 and order at
once. While doing so we hope you will also order your copy of
The Parable of Telstar and Other Talks, my book of sermons
which is also $2.95.... The bound volume for this year is to be
called The Question Box and we anticipate that it will be
ready for mailing in January. You should send an advance order
now, and we will bill you at the time of delivery. If you'd like
you may order the next three bound copies now and we will mail
them each year until the cessation of our publication.... I hope
to see many brethren in Ohio at the October 17-19 meeting at the
Church of Christ, 404 North Maple Avenue, Fairborn, Ohio. You can
write Ben Holtrey at that address or you may call
him at 879-1368.... I am looking forward to the November 5-7
meeting on the campus of Indiana State University, Terre Haute,
Indiana. Information can be secured from Walter Puckett, 601
North 8th Street, Terre Haute, Indiana 47807.... Be sure to
remember the Hartford Forum, December 27 and 28. This seminar,
across the Mississippi from Saint Louis, is a great occasion
which brings together free men in Christ for open discussion. A
program will be published later but you can secure information
from Berdell McCann, 127 Donna Drive, Hartford, Illinois
62048.... Let Ray Miller, 1205 Woodland, Fort Worth, Texas 76110,
take care of all your magazine subscription needs. Ray is
crippled but he is making his own way and will appreciate your
help. Remember that easy Christmas shopping is sending gift
subscriptions to anyone of any age. Ray will send a gift card
announcing your gift. He handles any and all special offers. Turn
it over to Ray and have a happy day!... Brian Altmiller is now
working with the congregation at Livingston, Montana.... Our
brother in Christ, Roy Loney, spent five weeks in the hospital
and is only slowly recovering. He underwent major surgery and was
in the intensive care section because of congestive heart
failure. Coupled with this he appears to be losing his sight.
Brother Loney lives at 927 Louisiana, Lawrence, Kansas 66044, and
we are sure that he will appreciate your help and prayers.... I'm
happy that my good friend and brother, John L. Youngblood, has
been transferred from Athens, Greece, to Bergstrom Air Force Base
in Texas.... My heart reaches out to Homer Matson,
Jeffersonville, Oregon, whose mother departed this life
recently.... Another death which touches our hearts is that of
our sister, Mrs. Harry Fox, Sr. The whole family has long been an
inspiration to me.... My dear friend and sister, Minnie Houser,
received a great tribute in the newspaper at Sullivan, Illinois,
where she resides. A direct descendant of one of the Pilgrims on
the Mayflower, she will be 94 years old in November.... Ralph
Harter who does such a good job of sounding out the message of
Christ with the printed word in India, announces as his new
address, Ekklesia Press, 2A/415, Azadnagar, Kanpur, U. P.,
208-002, India.... Pacific Christian College has acquired
beautiful new facilities adjacent to California State University
at Fullerton, and will begin fall classes there.... Final
statistics show that more than 31,000 people attended one or more
sessions of the North American Christian Convention in
Indianapolis, and the average nightly attendance was 14,750. The
next session will be held at Anaheim, California, next fuly
23-26.... Drs. Neal Clapp and Lewis Foster were the speakers at
the Science and Scripture Forum held at Ozark Bible College,
Joplin, Missouri, September 4,5,6. I cannot think of a better
team.... Wycliffe Bible Translators announce that the Ashaninca
Campa tribesmen of Peru recently received the New Testament in
their language.... The United Bible Societies shipped ten
thousand Bibles and five thousand New Testaments from Chile to
Cuba. Fidel Castro gave his consent to the shipment.... Dr. Clyde
M. Narramore spent three days with officers and cadets at West
Point recently and found sixty Bible studies being conducted
regularly at the military academy.... Moishe Rosen, leader of
Jews for Jesus, came out in opposition to Jesus Christ Superstar
because "it doesn't show Jesus Christ as the Lord of glory who
willingly died for our sins and rose again from the dead." There
are now more than four thousand Jews for Jesus, most of them
young university students. I know many of them and have
corresponded with others among the group.
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