The Overflow
Most Weighty Writer
We have many good writers on our staff, but undoubtedly the one who carries the most weight is C. G. Caldwell, Sr., of North Little Rock, Arkansas. He is now preparing an article on "Blood and the Remission of Sins". Watch for it in an early issue.
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Odd Names Department
One never knows what curious names people are going to get for their churches. We'd like to meet the genius who got a group of Baptists in our city (Oklahoma City) to latch on to the very curious appellative, "Latter Rain Baptist Church". Does somebody know of an "Early Rain" church somewhere? Then over near Gallatin, Tennessee, the other day we saw a sign on a country church, "Number One Church of Christ". Who thought that one up?
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Sad Story
Twenty-five years ago while preaching for the Broadway congregation in Lubbock, Texas, R. R. Brooks offered much encouragement to this writer in his very first efforts toward preaching the gospel. Today Brooks is preaching for a pitiable little group of premillennialists in Pekin, Indiana, who are not even in fellowship with their own premillennial brethren. What a tragic end for a once useful man! Let every gospel preacher be warned, and take thought to his own life and teaching.
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Nausea
Did you read that article in last week's issue by Thomas Allen Robertson about the practices of the Christian Church? The Lord told the Laodiceans that they made him want to vomit (delicately rendered "spew" by our squeamish translators). We felt precisely the same physiological sensation when reading of the antics of these modern apostates.
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No Beating Around The Bush Here!
From the lips of Athens Clay Pullias, president of David Lipscomb College, "We couldn't afford to have any member on our faculty who was opposed to the idea of churches contributing to the school". That is definite enough for anybody. And, if Pullias knows his faculty, it leaves no doubt at all as to the belief of each one of them.
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Letters:
"A friend of mine moved recently from east Texas to Houston. He went to a large church there. He was met by the preacher, who, upon learning he was a new arrival in the city, said, Place your membership here today, and you will be a member of the biggest church in Houston', Church of Christ, that is. He missed that one. My friend didn't like the ring of that invitation, somehow. He placed his membership with another congregation."
Luther Blackmon, Rusk, Texas
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"Your roster of writers is impressive. Some of them I consider to be the very best . . . Your statement, "We may deal in personalities, but not in personal reflections", pleases me greatly. I'm mailing in some names to be put on the new subscription list . . . hope to obtain more.
Lyle Bonner, Phoenix, Arizona
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"I pledge you my full support in every way possible to the end that it (The Gospel Guardian) may accomplish all the good possible. I shall encourage in every way the folk here and elsewhere in my work to subscribe for it. The paper in the past (Bible Banner) has done a most wonderful work in exposing error and upholding the truth."
M. C. Cuthbertson, Amarillo, Texas
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"So far as I am able to detect, there is a good feeling toward the Gospel Guardian here. I believe there is a great future for it under the policy set forth in the first issue. I wish you to know I am strong for the publication."
J. Herman Campbell, Los Angeles
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That "soft" Banner!
"When the Bible Banner was born I felt that it was a most timely essential in helping the brotherhood to get back to the "old land marks", but when it put on the soft-pedal, I, with' hundreds of others, was disappointed. Now, I am making another investment (enclosed find my check for $4.00 for two years' subscription to the G. G.) ... .hoping."
W. A. Cameron, St. Petersburg, Fla.
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Wow! It takes all kinds From a letter we received the other day, "Then, too, there is another matter which prevents me from joining you in the approval and support of your paper: i. e. your paper is not under the control of some congregation of the church of Christ as the church organ and work.. . human institutions and organs (papers as such like) which are not under the absolute control of some church of Christ as a work of the church are gadgets of the devil . . . " (Please note: B. C. Goodpasture, G. H. P. Showalter, Olin Hicks, et al. — you devotees of devil's gadgets!)
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The drinking man is the last man hired, and first man fired.
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See what we mean?
The silly idea that it is "wrong to call names" in the pulpit is destroying the effectiveness of many gospel preachers. When "names" are called so that people can know who is in error, there can be no valid objection. For example, E. E. Myers, preached: for the Southside church in Odessa Texas, preached a sermon recently on "Why I Left the Baptist Church". At the invitation song, five Baptist came forward to be baptized into Christ. A few services later four more Baptists obeyed the gospel largely as a result of this sermon. Now suppose Bro. Myers had beet one of those sweet-spirited boys which think it "wrong to call names".We are morally certain that he would not have converted nine Baptists to the truth by one "sweet" sermon!
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This Explains It
"No wonder there is a desire to omit the third stanza in singing some songs. One third stanza says: "Take my silver and my gold, not a mitt would I withhold."
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Not a gigantic brain In a debate with Roy E. Davis, Pentecostal Holiness, of Louisville Kentucky, in 1929, the late J. Tant became slightly vexed at pointless and senseless argument Davis was putting forth. "Roy Davis; he finally said, "if somebody should put your brains into a mustard seed they'd have as much room to play around in as a tadpole would in the Atlantic ocean."
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It may cost you a good deal to do right, but be sure it will cost you more not to do it.