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PROCEEDINGS 63
THE TASK AHEAD
Vast needs still lie ahead in the post-war emergency work, and increasing
opportunities on many, many mission fields call for a larger regular program of
Scripture distribution, especially in lands blacked-out by illiteracy, where millions
each year are now being taught to read. These multitudes with eager
minds and hungry hearts must have the Word of God!
Only one-tenth of the. world's people now possess the printed Word of God.
Eight-tenths more could have it now. The Bible—or some part of it—is published
in 1,068 languages, spoken by nine-tenths of the human race. A worldwide
missionary advance through increased Scripture distribution waits only
for needed funds.
Southern Baptists can be counted on to do their full share in giving the
Bible to all the world. Your church can help. Here are suggestions:
Every church can give at least these amounts each year:
Country and village churches $5
Churches in small cities $10 to $25
Larger churches $25 to $50
Great city churches .„ $100 to $200
Please send the contributions from your church to your Baptist State headquarters
office, marked "for the American Bible Society."
A resolution endorsing the Society, offered by W. R. White, Texas,
was on his motion referred to the Committee on Resolutions.
42. The report of the Committee on World Peace was presented
and discussed by J. M. Dawson. Two amendments oifered by O. K.
Armstrong, Missouri, were adopted, and the amended report was
adopted:
WORLD PEACE
We beg to submit herewith our report on World Peace and to recommend
that with the disposition of this report you discharge the Committee which has
now functioned for three years. It is our conviction that the particular service
which we were called upon to render during the crucial times when World Peace
was being initiated and formulated may be continued adequately by other
standing commissions or committees, such as the Social Service Commission or
your Public Relations Committee.
In thus seeking to retire we would claim the privilege of reviewing briefly
something of the extensive undertakings of the Committee and of submitting
certain considerations which we earnestly hope our people will keep before
them as essentials in the inauguration and maintenance of a peaceful world
in conformity with the divinely constituted moral order. Surely in this age of
the atomic bomb, fraught with infinite hazard, it will be conceded that the
problem in human society which looms above all others is this problem of the
world's peace set up on a basis of moral law in behalf of justice, freedom and
good will.
It will be recalled that at the outset of our labors, as early as 1943, your
Committee enunciated six principles on which we hoped to see world peace
established. They were: 1. No isolation—recognizing that all nations are
members one of another. 2. Democracy, or the right of all nations, both great
and small, to self-government. 3. International organization for peace, implemented
with necessary police power and an international court of justice.
4 The worth of every individual respected, toward the elimination of race
prejudice and hatreds which undermine respect for the individual. 5. Economic
opportunity for all peoples, toward elimination of disastrous trade barriers and
enforced poverty. 6. Religious liberty, not alone tolerated worship but the
right to conduct missions, to hold property dedicated to religious uses, to
establish schools and printing presses, and to exercise civil rights without discrimination
on grounds of religious faith.
Printed in tons of booklets we publicized these principles by freely distributing
multiplied thousands among our people, and in addition offered many