Robert H. Farish, Business Manager
We are happy to announce that beginning April 1, brother Robert H. Farish of Lufkin, Texas, will be associated with the Gospel Guardian not only as an editorial staff writer, but with the added responsibility of full time business management. His work of nearly four years' duration with the Fourth and Groesbeck congregation in Lufkin will be terminated as of that date; and brother Farish will be free to devote his energies increasingly to serving a great host of friends and customers who look to the Gospel Guardian for more and more of their needs in the field of religious literature and church supplies. This is a particularly happy arrangement for us, since sister Farish for more than two full years now has done a highly efficient job as office manager. The growing load of work simply demanded more help; and brother Farish, familiar with the business, and wonderfully well versed in his knowledge of the general field of religious literature, has agreed to step under the load and accept the responsibility of full business management.
This new addition to our office personnel will mean even faster and better service for our customers, an ever expanding stock of goods, books, tracts, and general church supplies on hand, and added helpfulness to all in the matter of advice and counsel as to what books offer the most effective teaching, and most economical use of available funds — both for churches and individuals. When you trade with the Gospel Guardian we want you to feel that you are dealing with friends — those who take a personal interest in helping you get the very best available material or supplies in whatever field you need them.
Brother Farish will need no introduction to our readers. His articles have appeared for many years on the pages of this journal, even going back more than twenty years to the time when we were publishing under the name "Bible Banner." He has worked with some of the finest congregations in the land in the states of Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, California, Mississippi, and Texas. He will continue to preach as much as possible, and for the immediate future will be speaking regularly at the South Street Church in Nacogdoches. His meeting work this summer will carry him into a number of states, including Kentucky and California — with congregations where he formerly served as local preacher. In all of these places he will be meeting friends of the Gospel Guardian, for through the years he has encouraged brethren wherever he lived to subscribe for the paper. In fact, this interest on his part has been a vital factor in leaving a well informed, fervent and evangelistic spirit in the congregations with which he has labored.
This brings up another matter — the item of the loyal support and help of gospel preachers in the task of getting as many people as possible to be readers of good gospel literature. If a preacher has the right to warn against evil literature (and he has), then certainly he has an equal right to commend and encourage the right kind of literature. There are a number of congregations throughout the land which have been strengthened and helped immeasurably because some faithful gospel preacher had the wisdom and thoughtfulness to encourage great numbers of families in them to subscribe for the Gospel Guardian. There have been a fair number of such churches through the years in which every family in the church was on the mailing list of the Gospel Guardian. And we can not think of a single one of these churches which have gone off into liberalism, or, indeed, has even had any serious problems over the matter! The membership was taught and informed; they did not become victims to the propaganda and promotions of the left-wingers.... the "social gospellers." We could devoutly wish that many thousands of other congregations had been as well versed in the truth, and as strongly fortified against error! We could wish that other faithful preachers had been as concerned and as careful in the churches where they preached as brother Farish was in the churches where he labored — concerned to encourage the reading of helpful, strengthening, informative gospel literature and papers.
We have some plans in the making for the future of the Gospel Guardian — plans to improve the paper, both in appearance and in content. We are constantly striving to make a good paper even better. And with Robert H. Farish at the helm as Business Manager we face the future with confidence and high hopes. If YOU have suggestions to offer, we will welcome them, and will give them consideration. Meanwhile, your interest, your goodwill, and your loyal support are deeply appreciated. As you have helped us in the past in extending our circle of readers we solicit and desire an even greater effort in that direction in the future. For no matter how good a paper is, and no matter how much helpful material it may carry, it is effective only to the extent that it is READ! Will you help us add new subscribers to our list? We believe you will — and thank you for doing so.