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The last available copy of Thoughts on Unity, the 1093rd, was mailed free to a college student on August 15. The next day we started sending a copy of my book The Parable of Telstar and Other Talks, to any college or university student in the world who requested it. This attractive 225-page volume will thrill your soul and stimulate your faith. Please tell students about it and urge them to write for it. Post it on the bulletin board! Put it in the school paper! Announce it in class! All requests must be made personally and must specify the school where enrolled.... One of the most gratifying reports in a long time is that of the brethren in New York who are working toward the planting of a Synagogue of the Messiah, to be composed of Jews who have come to recognize Jesus as the Messiah of the prophets and have been baptized into Him.... We congratulate Otis and Rosa Warren, who celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary, August 24, at Lakewood, California.... Nell and I feel a deep sense of compassion and love for our brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Reed, Flores, Peten, Guatemala, who are real pioneers for Jesus, far off the beaten track. On July 8, their daughter Jane, who was 28 years old, died and was buried by her parents the same afternoon. What faith these people have.... Our heart also goes out to the family of Melvin J. Burton, who departed this life at his home in Escondido, California. Until his retirement he was with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. His son, Curtis, is married to our daughter, Sue.... Stanley Paregien thinks that one effective way to break down barriers would be for brethren from the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ to mutually attend and participate in the North American Christian Convention (the next is at Denver, Colorado, July 6-9), and the Abilene Christian College Lectureship. I agree with that. There will be no real manifestation of unity that does not begin with association.... David Shepherd, who edits the new magazine Koinonia, has sent me a copy of the first issue. It contains articles by Meredith Thorn, Larry Napier, Noel Lemon, Peter Gillquist, Dwyatt Gantt and myself. The format and art work are superb. Why not write and ask for a sample copy? The address is 1000 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee 37212.... When you read this issue of the paper you will need to remember that MISSION MESSENGER has just two more months to go. We hope to place the final edition in the post office on December 1, and thus end 37 years of publication. If you would like to have those last two, send us a dollar and we will mail them together with any back copies we have left at the time.... I will begin writing for Restoration Review, 1201 Windsor Drive, Denton, Texas 76201, immediately after our paper ceases. The story of my life will begin in the January number and we hope that you will not miss the monthly series. You can send three dollars and receive a two-year subscription. You will be thrilled that you did.... About the first of the year we will have the bound volume for 1975 ready for mailing. It will contain every issue of the paper for the year and will be in an attractive cloth binding. The title of the book will be One in Christ, and we are taking orders now to be billed at time of delivery.... If you want to receive all of my books as they come from the press in the future, write and ask Nell to put your name on our permanent list. As soon as a book is received yours will be started on its way with invoice enclosed.... We will send you free upon request a copy of my booklet Equipping the Saints, and if you want more for distribution we will mail them
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