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46*J SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
oi our present roll. Certainly, with the probable doubling of our church membership
during the next 22 years, this figure is reasonably sure of realization.
Emphasizing another aspect of our future, in 1968 the Relief and Annuity
Board will be as it is in 1946. Financially, it will be as strong as Southern
Baptists are able, and as contractually dependable as Southern Baptists are
moral! The loss of confidence in the ability or the dependability of this Board
in connection with its administration of any one of its Annuity Plans would
destroy in a frightful measure the confidence now reposing in the Board on the
part of more than 13,000 ministers, missionaries, and other workers who are
sending their monthly dues to it in the belief that in their old age or earlier
incapacity for service they can look to this "Southern Baptist House of Protection"
and know that their cruse will be regularly replenished.
Now it seems appropriate in concluding this preview that we quote the
words of Longfellow r taken from his poem, "The Builders."
"Build today, then, strong and sure,
With a firm and ample base;
And ascending and secure
Shall tomorrow find its place."