Covenanter Witness Vol. 54 - Rparchives.org

skirts"
said"
said!"
and a testimonial speech by the captain
of the 1953 Washington University bas
ketball team.
WALTON, NEW YORK
The Spring Communion of the Walton
congregation was held April 10, preced
ed by preparatory services Friday eve
ning
and Saturday afternoon. Rev. Rob
ert Tweed of the Geneva congregation,
Beaver Falls, preached four very help
ful sermons. He drove to Walton on
Thursday
and that evening showed his
pictures of the trip he took through
Europe and into the Holy Land.
Wendell Spear accompanied Mr.
Tweed to Walton April 7 and spent the
week-end with his mother, Mrs. Norman
Spear, returning
Monday.
with Mr.
Tweed on
John Russell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mil
lard Russell, accompanied the "Genev
ans"
on their tour as far west as Ster
ling, Kansas, during the Spring vaca
tion at Geneva College.
The Boyle family and Mrs. W. M.
Robb spent some time in Orlando, Flori
da, in April. While there they enjoyed
a family
reunion with Mr.
and Mrs.
Philip Robb and Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Dill.
Mr. Boyle assisted at the Communion
services April 17.
Wayne Spear spent part of his Spring
vacation at his home at Bovina Center.
Mr. Maurice Loker of Louisville, Ken
tucky, was at church April 3. He was
visiting his mother, Mrs.
and other relatives here.
Fred Loker
Mrs. A. M. Thomson, Sr. recently
visited her son Archibald, Jr. who lives
near Baltimore, Maryland.
Word has been received of the mar
riage, April 20, of Robert Elwood to a
German girl. Robert has been stationed
in Germany for some time and he ex
pects to be discharged from service in
late summer.
The annual congregational meeting
was held Saturday, April 23 at the
church. A dinner wag
served at noon.
Howard Gilchrist was chairman
Mrs.
and
Marian Spear clerk. The treas
urer's report indicated that we had paid
more to Synod's budget than was plan
ned in the local budget.
Our pastor, Rev. Joseph Hill assist
ed at Communion services for the New
York congregation April 17. He was ac
companied by his family and they visit
ed Mrs. Hill's mother, who lives in the
New York area.
BE A TRACT DISTRIBUTOR
There is hardly a family in America
today that is not in one way. or anoth
er
being bombarded with tracts in an
attempt to win the readers to the
writer's point of view^ True, all of this
printed matter is
not evangelical in
content, for the various cults spend
millions of dollars a year to promulgate
their perverted doctrines. Communism
alone has unlimited quantities of prop
aganda in the form of tracts and
pamphlets. They fully
realize this is
one of the cheapest and easiest ways to
reach people of all ages and all walks
of life.
What a challenge this presents to the
Christian church which has in its keep
ing the words of eternal life through
the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus saves!
What more wonderful way can
this
good news be spread abroad than
through leaflet evangelism
It has been reported that
Benjamin Franklin ghost-wrote and
printed the tracts of several early
American evangelists, including those of
George Whitefield.
William Penn, founder of the City
of Philadelphia, wrote a single religious
tract that freed 12,000 Quakers im
prisoned for Christ's sake.
John Wanamaker, while Postmaster
General of the United State, carefully
selected gospel tracts for distribution to
those he came in contact with.
Martin Luther wrote more than one
tract, booklet or book for every working
week of his entire life.
Whistler's Mother was called "a
preacher in
because she distri
buted tracts to the workers on the rail
road between Moscow and St. Peters
burg, Russia.
Already this year the Lord has won
drously blessed the efforts of the
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, New
York City, enabling this 130-year-old
organization to publish over 4 V2 -million
pieces of literature during the first
three months of 1955.
Among the new releases are several
which demand careful reading:
A missionary challenge to every Chris
tian, HOW SHALL THEY HEAR, by
John A. Mawhinney, Jr., asks the pro
vocative question, "If apart from Christ
there is no hope, God has given the
command to go, and the responsibility
is ours as Christians, why don't we get
at the job as we never have before"
Written specifically for use with
children, Rev. J. Charles Pelon has
authored THE GREATEST EMANCI
PATOR,
which points up the fact that
although Moses, Martin Luther and
Abraham Lincoln were all great eman
cipators, there has only been one Eman
cipator who could set the world free
from sin and its consequences
Christ.
Jesus
Edwin Raymond Anderson, in his
leaflet, GETTING THE MOST OUT OF
IT, scrutinizes the value of time, and
quotes Lord Chesterfield's advice:
"Know the value of time. No idleness,
no procrastination; never put off till
tomorrow what you can do today." As
a Scriptural application to 2 Corinthians
6:2 ("Now is the accepted time; behold,
now is the day of salvation"), Mr. An
derson pleads with the reader to wait
no longer to accept Christ.
WHO WAS HE, by Nathanael Olson,
is a good gospel tract showing, by
Scripture quotations, that Jesus Christ
was the Son of God, the Saviour of
Men, and God's Love Gift to Man.
Compiled by Priscilla Lyle during her
long illness, hoping that it might be of
solace to others, a small booklet of
Scripture portions, THE HEM OF HIS
GARMENT, contains some wonderful
verses from the Bible to lay hold on
when in pain or sorrow. They are broken
down into categories such as : Not Alone,
Comfort, Why People Suffer, Tempta
tion, Prayer, Guidance, Assurance, Love,
Etc.
Samples of any
of the above-mention
ed tracts will be sent upon request,
without cost, by writing to the Society
at 21 West 46th Street, New York 36,
N. Y.
SERMON MANUSCRIPTS INVITED
Sermon manuscripts about the Chris
tian family are being solicited for a
book to be published next year by Ab
ingdon Press.
Two typewritten copies of each manu
script should be submitted to the editor,
Rev. J. C. Wynn, 1105 Witherspoon
Building, Philadelphia 7, Pa., by the
deadline of August 10. Preachers are in
vited to enter sermons about marriage,
parental responsibility, family religion,
sex standards, etc. An honorarium of
$25.00 will be paid for each sermon se
lected for publication by
an editorial
committee from the Joint Department of
Family Life in the National Council of
Churches. Sermons sent in become the
property of the committee and will not
be returned.
"HE HATH SAID"
If we can only grasp
these words of
faith, we have an all-conquering weap
on in our hand. What doubt is there that
will not be slain by this two-edged
sword What fear is there that shall
not fall smitten with a deadly wound
before this arrow from the bow of God's
covenant "He hath
said!"
Yes; whether
for delight in our quietude, or for
strength in our conflict, "He hath
must be our daily resort. Since
hath
"He
is the source of all wisdom.
and the fountain of all comfort, let it
dwell in you richly
as a "well of water
springing up into everlasting
life."
So
shall you grow healthy, strong, and
happy in the divine life. Spurgeon. 287
May 4, 1955