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148 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
now the Baptist Brotherhood, a possible key with which to release the unused
energies of Christian men, a means of correlating the needs with the supplies.
Every notable movement passes through three stages: birth, battle, and
acceptance, and his experience included the three periods. Called to the leadership
at the beginning, he laid his hand to the plow. He was a pioneer appointed
to penetrate and to cultivate new spiritual frontiers, to bring into captivity to
Christ the Baptist man-power of the South; and, though for years he was almost
a voice crying alone in the wilderness, right valiantly he entered upon hia
assignment. From Missouri to Florida, from Maryland to Texas, he traversed
the territory of the Southern Baptist Convention in pursuit of his vision. In
season and out, in fields and churches, large or small, by line upon line and
precept upon precept, both oral and written, he summoned his fellow laymen
to a Scriptural level of life and service.
He brought the movement into organized relationship to the denomination,
into a position of high respectability and usefulness; but his greatest service
to the cause was in atmosphere created, plans formulated, and foundations laid
in which, by which, and on which may yet be built a structure commanding in
its nature and vastly fruitful in its results.
If some star were quenched on high,
For ages would its light,
Still descending from the sky,
Fall on our mortal sight.
So when a good man dies,
For years beyond our ken,
The light he leaves behind him
Falls across the paths of men.
The ideals he cherished, the spirit he manifested, and the record that h
constitute his invisible monument.
In Bristol, Virginia, where Dr. Henderson was for eleven years President
of Intermont College, a movement has been started to purchase and place in
the tower of the college building as a memorial to him a set of carillonic bells
with a range that will reach 35,000 people with the music and the Westminster
chimes that mark the passing hours. If the project materializes, it will be not
only a fitting memorial, but also a symbol of the continuing influence of John
Thompson Henderson.
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KATHLEEN MALLORY
Thirteen years ago today she was elected in our nation's capital to be
president of our Woman's Missionary Union. This week last year she answered
the call of the Master of Missions to render an account of her leadership in the
promotion of His world-wide Kingdom. Even a most casual account of her
accomplishments would show that her mind was trained and retentive, that her
heart was loving and responsive, that the scope of her vision included her home
and all beyond, that her zeal for any worthy cause sprung from study or was
intensified by it, that her knowledge of the Word of God was accurate and was
constantly being increased, that her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ was like a
child's in simplicity and like a pioneer's in the urge to Woman's Missionary
Union to share the Savior with the lost of every land, beginning at home.
These noble and ennobling characteristics were all the more attractive in
Mrs. Armstrong because they were the very warp and woof of her life. As
the daughter of a pioneer Baptist minister of northwest Missouri and as the
wife of an esteemed Baptist lawyer, she learned and applied the discipline and
opportunity of Christian womanhood, fearlessly and efficiently meeting ever
widening responsibilities. If this tribute were being paid by her family it
would tell of her devoton to her parents, to her husband during the nearly
thirty-eight years of married comradeship, to her brothers and their children;