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260 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
such as Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, by John A. Broadus, Interpretati
of the Bible, by Dr. B. H. Carroll, The Christian Religion in Its Doctrinal E
pression, by Dr. E. Y." Mullins, and many splendid works from the pens of our
outstanding. Latin-American writers.
During 1945, over and above church supplies and promotional material,
we published the following:
Sunday School and Training Union quarterlies 317,150
Pages of S. S. and B.T.U. quarterlies 12,732,800
Religious books published 15
Copies of books published 27,300
Tracts published 525,000
Total pages of Bible literature published 18,340,800
To our constituents in all parts of the Spanish-speaking world, we are
offering tracts of an evangelistic nature, free of charge and postage paid.
The response to our offer has been indeed gratifying. Orders have poured in
from Chile and Argentina to New York, and from the Azores Islands to the
Philippines. We anticipate a demand for at least a million tracts in 1946,
and to make our work more effective, we have prepared a series of illustrated
leaflets in two colors.
By May of 1946, we shall have finished the series of thirteen textbooks
for vacation Bible schools, which carry the same materials that are available
from the Sunday School Board in English. The vacation Bible school work is
becoming more and more popular and offers us a wide field for educational and
evangelistic endeavor.
Like many business enterprises in the United States, we have not had
opportunity to improve our equipment in any appreciable degree in several
years. Orders have been placed to replace obsolete equipment and to add new
and modern equipment to the extent of some $12,000. We have recently
purchased a second-hand, offset, printing press which will fill an increasing
need in our business. Six of the fifteen books which we published in 1945 were
second editions of books which we had published previously but which had
gone out of print. The offset press will enable us not only to publish second
editions at less expense, but will also free our other presses for the publication
of new works. This press likewise is fitted for producing diplomas, certificates,
record materials, and so forth.
Probably the greatest blessing which has come to the Publishing House
in 1945 has been the addition of Rev. and Mrs. J. W. McGavock to the staff.
Your other missionaries engaged in this work are Rev. and Mrs. Frank W.
Patterson. Perhaps our greatest single need at the present is a young man
who will dedicate himself to a bilingual preparation for business administration
and promotion of sales.
We, your servants, continue to covet your prayers for this ever growing
institution.
South Brazil and Peacetime Missions
WILLIAM H. BERRY
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.—Matthew 3:3
The peace which has come to the nations with the end of World War II
represents only a cessation of bombings and methodical material destruction;
the ideological struggle still goes on. Liberty and democracy have triumphed
only in the abstract. It is true that these ideals have been strengthened among
the nations by the victory of allied arms, but they have not yet been established.
The great danger in a contemporizing world is that Christianity, too, may make
concessions and adjustments which devitalize its strength and unity. The forces
organized to bring about this neutralizing process among us are agressive,
methodical, and persuasive. Christianity can best refute them through the
cultivation of these same characteristics. These, plus the work of the Holy
Spirit, are the hope of Christianity in a world which might otherwise seem
irredeemable.