Tracts For Free Distribution
The Gospel Advocate has the largest circulation of any paper published by brethren. It often has carried attacks on the teachings and persons of good brethren. It has even charged brethren of deliberate perjury, that, they voluntarily lied under oath! But none of these brethren has been permitted to reply through the columns of the ADVOCATE. I have written to the editor to plead that they be granted this right to speak for themselves. I have carbon copies.
Some instances of the foregoing: Pat Hardman attacks Tant, Hailey, and Jim Cope (Sept. 4, 1958); early spring articles, 1958, "Woods-Tant Debate" (Thomas B. Warren); against William E. Wallace, by Sterl Watson (Sept. 12, 1957); against Tant by L. R. Wilson (October 30, 1958); editorial, "Another False Statement Exposed" (Dec. 19, 1957); editorial, "That Florida Christian College Advertisement" (August 24, 1958); and, worst of all, Brother Woods' unbelievably unkind article about Brethren James W. Adams, James C. Jones, and L. Wesley Jones (September 25, 1958). When I read Woods' article, I thought, "Are my trifocals aging me playing tricks on me?" Surely no Christian brother would write such a thing about any brother! Then there are attacks on many others. None of these has been permitted even a short reply in the ADVOCATE! The average reader of the ADVOCATE will not see what I am now writing. At this date Brother Adams has replied to Brother Woods' awful charge. Brother Cogdill will reply to it through the GUARDIAN. But will many readers of the ADVOCATE see these replies? Get that ADVOCATE of September 25th, and see how Brother Goodpasture "has refused to become involved in personalities with antagonists or to use the columns of the ADVOCATE for vindictive means"! But many ADVOCATE readers will never see any reply to Woods' charges that these brethren are criminals, perjurers.
I have a suggestion. Let's see to it that many who do not read the GUARDIAN will get some of "both sides." Get hundreds of tracts and persistently and liberally distribute them.
Here is a list of tracts for free distribution: "I Have Restudied Benevolence" by Farris J. Smith (very good), Berney Points Church of Christ, 720 17th Place, S. W., Birmingham, Alabama; "Some Questions to Brother Goodpasture" and "New Testament Principles of Caring for the needy" by John T. Lewis, 1604 30th St., Ensley, Birmingham 8, Alabama (the latter a review of Gus Nichols' tract); "Some Facts Concerning the Current Issues" by Foy W. Vinson, Elgin, Ill. (order from "Truth Magazine," P. O. Box 469, Aurora, Illinois); and a transcribed sermon by Harris J. Dark, entitled "Give Us a King". Address Brother Dark at 1103 Morrow Avenue, Nashville 4, Tenn.
When ordering these tracts, I usually send a check to help print more and pay postage. Please! Let's give them "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth". This is something that almost all of us can do.