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     This is the final year for publication of MISSION MESSENGER. On December 1 the last monthly issue will be placed in the mail. Starting the following month, January 1976, I will begin a series of articles in Restoration Review covering the story of my life. It is planned that these will appear each month for two years. I expect to cover quite thoroughly my work in Scotland, England and North Ireland, with special emphasis on how I came to make such a radical change in my view of fellowship. I suggest that you begin your subscription to Restoration Review immediately. Send $3.00 for a two-year subscription and Leroy Garrett, the editor, will start you on some good reading.... Would you like to spend the summer working in a real inner-city situation where you can help black boys and girls who live in a kind of frightening world right in the United States? If you are truly serious about it, write for an application blank to Walter Short, Training Center for Service, 1518 North Leffingwell Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri 63106. There are all kinds of things to do that truly count. If you are a college student you may be granted credit in many instances.... On January 20, Nell sent out the 850th free copy of the book Thoughts on Unity to a college student. This book is free to any student enrolled in a college or university anywhere on earth. All you need to do is to send a card or letter asking for the book, and giving your mailing address, as well as mentioning the school where you are enrolled. There are features about the book which will make it a collector's item some day. Please tell other students about this offer and urge them to write for the book.... If you want to be sure that you receive MISSION MESSENGER until the final number send in a dollar. We guarantee that if you love the Lord there will be some issues that will be worth that much to you. If you are already a subscriber and think your subscription will expire, please send in a dollar to assure its continuance. We cannot continue to send after expiration and we cannot guarantee to furnish back numbers if you miss out on them. In spite of repeated warnings there are always those who neglect until it is too late. Do not be like that, but send in your subscription now, while you are thinking about it.... We will send you free upon request Book Lists 75-A, 75-B and 75-C. These lists contain the names of interesting and instructive books which you will read with pleasure and profit.... We think that you'll really like the next issue of the paper in which the main article will be titled "The Legal Tangle." It will get to the very bottom of our whole basic . problem, the concept of righteousness by law as opposed to grace.... Last year there were 925,000 divorces in the United States, an increase of 200,000 over the previous year.... A recent BBC poll found that only 29 per cent of the British people believe in a personal God, and 39 per cent believe in life after death. Forty-two per cent never attend a religious service.... Hal and Evelyn Martin finally received visas for New Zealand where they will work with brethren in Richmond one year. They are great people!... Galilee Christian High School, in Israel, opened with 246 students. The Bible faculty was strengthened with the addition of three Arab brethren teaching Bible under direction of Lee Cooper, who resides in Nazareth. Other workers in Israel include the John Crosslin and Joseph Shulam families, Jerusalem; the Marion Aldridge family at Remallah, and Morris Gedeon, Nazareth.... Barry McCarty, a former national karate champion, has worked out a program called "The Evidence of Our Faith" for young people. You can secure details by writing him at Roanoke Bible College, Elizabeth City, North Carolina

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27909.... Would you like to read Set Our Women Free by Norman L. Parks and Hoy Ledbetter? All you need do is write to A. V. Mansur, 12650 Simmerhom Road, Gait, California 95632, and request a copy. It will be sent to you without cost.... Two thousand young people are expected to attend the Ohio Teens for Christ Convention, at the Ohio Exposition Center Fairgrounds, April 11, 12, with a great program to be presented. You can secure information by contacting Grove City Church of Christ, 555 Columbus St., Grove City, Ohio 43123.... There were 152 brothers and sisters from ten nations at the Asian Missionary Workshop held at Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.... Have you read any of the books by Watchman Nee? If you will send us $7.00 we will mail you five of them: Not I But Christ; What Shall This Man Do?; The Normal Christian Life; Love Not the World; and Changed Into His Likeness. It will be interesting for you to see the application of a Chinese mind to the sacred scriptures.... About 35 saints meet on the island of Malta. You can contact them through Jim Parker, 6 Yanlil Flats, St. Lukes Road, G'Mangia, Malta.... Mark Smith, 840 West Street, Lapeer, Michigan 48446, has two folders he would like to send you upon request. They are titled "Mormonism vs. The Bible" and "What Is a Liberal?"... I would like to mention an attractive new paper which was launched in January. It is called Unleavened Bread, and the editor is my good friend and brother, Michael Hines. I suggest that you write Mike for a sample copy. The address is 2884 Victoria Drive, Grand Junction, Colorado 81501.... Talking about papers I should like to say a good word for Gospel Tidings, edited by Baxter Loe, 2521 Walnut, Amarillo, Texas 79107. It contains some provocative and helpful articles. . . . Darrell Bolin recently analyzed my book The Royal Priesthood before a group of ministers of the Disciples of Christ.... Medford H. Jones announced that enrollment at Pacific Christian College, Fullerton, California reached 455 students.... You can purchase 90-minute cassettes containing my speeches on the following themes for $2.75 each: Does Every Child of God Have the Holy Spirit? Do Demons Inhabit the Bodies of Men Today? and What About the Resurrection? Two 60-minute tapes are available at $2.25 each on the subjects: What About Astrology and the Planets? and What Is Life All About? You may secure these by writing Vernon H. Woods, 2413 Dale Avenue, Eugene, Oregon 97401. Vernon has a list of 100 cassettes which you may obtain by sending a large self-addressed stamped envelope. These contain talks and forums from all over the United State.... There are two books by Russell Hitt which I think you ought to read for the sheer interest they contain. You may differ with the "theology" but you'll be gripped by the true stories. One is Jungle Pilot, which is the story of Nate Saint, and the other is Cannibal Valley. We will send you both of them for $3.45, and you'll want to loan them after you read them.... It was a great experience to be at Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, where John Derry is doing an excellent work, while laboring with the brethren at Vermont, Illinois. We had a good representation of saints from area congregations.... The January issue of Integrity was excellent. The journal is published at 8494 Bush Hill Court, Grand Blanc, Michigan 48439. Why not write for a sample copy of it?... Paul Benjamin and Max Hickerson will be the featured speakers at Cavalier Christian Men's Retreat, Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111, June 6 and 7.... Have you sent for Heaven Help Us, my book on the Holy Spirit? lf not, we will send you one for $2.95, and we think you will like what you read in it.

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