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SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD 877
It is our purpose to make the Editorial Conference of interest and value to
persons interested in writing generally and more particularly a means toward
developing a more adequate and resourceful Southern Baptist authorship. It is
our judgment that one of the urgent needs in our denominational life is a larger
number of writers with convictions and insight relative to the content of the
Christian message, with comprehensive understanding of the significance of world
movements, and with talent and skill for creative and convincing expression in
presenting the Christian message through books and periodicals. We shall do
our utmost toward making the Editorial Conference serve Southern Baptists in
this vital way. We would like to invite to the conference persons who wish to
explore the facilities of Christian journalism for extending the cause of Christ
and improving the character and culture of the people in our midst.
DENOMINATIONAL CALENDAR
Through our periodicals we feature in every possible way the work of the
denomination as set forth in the Denominational Calendar. Wherever it is possible
pictorial displays are carried in the lesson quarterlies. There is a regular
emphasis on the denominational program in the Training Union lessons. In our
promotional periodicals articles and pictorial layouts feature the various phases
of our work. The effort is thus made to promote all that Southern Baptists are
doing through their boards and institutions. In this way some three to four
million people learn something of the many aspects of our program of teaching,
training, healing, evangelizing, and world missions.
COMMITTEE ON THE UNIFORM SERIES
The Sunday School Board co-operates with the representatives of the publishing
houses of a large number of denominations in the preparation of the outlines
from which are developed the Uniform Lessons. The persons representing
the Sunday School Board on this committee are: Clifton J. Allen, William J.
Fallis, Annie Ward Byrd, and Robbie Trent. The cycle for 1951-1956 was adopted
at the last meeting of the Committee. It reflects very definitely the traditional
policy of selecting portions of the Scriptures suitable for study by all groups of
people. The emphasis is Christ-centered with large opportunity for the study
of New Testament material. It is our conviction that this co-operative enterprise
has meant more to the study and teaching of the Bible throughout America
than any other means. We have, of course, developed from the outlines our own
lesson materials which interpret the doctrinal position and seek to meet the
spiritual needs of Southern Baptists.
MISSIONARY EDUCATION COUNCIL
Representatives of the Home Mission Board, the Foreign Mission Board, the
Sunday School Board, the Woman's Missionary Union, and the Baptist Brotherhood,
together with invited persons from other agencies, met in Richmond January
9-10, 1946, to consider means for co-operative planning in missionary education.
This meeting was the outgrowth of a suggestion made some months before
by Dr. M. T. Rankin in consultation with Dr. J. B. Lawrence and Dr. T. L.
Holcomb. As a result of the meeting there was formed a Missionary Education
Council. It is expected that there will be a conference early in each year when
the workers of the various boards and agencies may consider together desirable
ways of co-ordinating the emphases and improving the materials in our various
missionary education courses. We call attention to this because we believe that
it will set forward in a most significant way the training and enlistment of our
people in Christian missons.
ON DUTY FOR GOD AND COUNTRY
We have issued this periodical for distribution among the men and women in
the Armed Forces and supply regularly to them On the Wing with the Word, a
sary its publication is largely passed. It is our purpose to discontinue publication
of On Duty for God and Country with the third quarter of this year. Let
us challenge all our churches to maintain the closest contact with those still in
the Armed Forces and supply regularly to them On the Wing with the Word, a
quarterly periodical containing the Uniform Lessons and suitable for the use of
all persons in military service.