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Editorial Notes
By Walter McCarroll
Synod's Budget. It was raised in full plus anoth
er $12,500. An astonishing record! For this we
should raise our song with thankful hearts. Tlie
response of local congregations and of individuals all
over the church has been most heartening. This, for
one thing, was an answer to prayer, for there were
many praying for this. For another thing it was a
human response to the challenge flung out to the
church by Mr. Boyle in his articles in the December
Missionary Number. The 2,000 members did not need
to borrow $60 each to pay more than $122,000 to
Synod's treasurer. They did it without borrowing.
This is an evidence of the working of the Holy Spirit
in the minds and hearts of His people. The Spirit
works through and uses human instruments. The
self-denying giving on the part of some stirred many
to action who had been satisfied to let their stand
ard of giving be what it had been in previous years.
Too often the members of the financial board of a
congregation feel no responsibility for challenging
the congregation to greater efforts for the support
of the different departments of the church's work.
The church needs leaders in the local congregations
who will have a sense of responsibility for the work
of the church at large.
There has been no such outpouring of money for
the different departments of the church's work since
the Great Depression which began late in 1929. Back
in the 1920's large sums of money were freely given.
In one year, perhaps it was 1926, the amount desig
nated in Synod's budget for foreign missions alone
was about $105,000. Those were days too when we
sent too much money to the fields, for the native
people came to expect every thing from the Mission.
The times of stringency in the home church did not
prove an unmixed evil, if it was evil at all. "And we
know that to them that love God all things work to
good."
gether for
Another Missionary to Japan. Synod adopted a
recommendation authorizing the Board of Foreign
Missions to appoint and send to Japan not later than
September of 1955 one more ordained minister, pro
viding that Synod's budget be oversubscribed by
$5,000. That provision has been met. We understand
that Gene Spear has received the appointment, and
that reservations for the Boyles and the Spears have
been made on a passenger ship sailing from Seattle
August 3, 1955. Thus there are two families to sail
for Japan: Mr. and Mrs. Boyle and four children,
Mr. and Mrs. Spear and two children, a party of ten.
This band of missionaries needs to be undergirded
with our prayers.
News Items from Cyprus. A committee of the
Cyprus Mission is preparing a Bible Syllabus for the
Academies . . . Mr. Christou has completed the trans
lation of one version of each of the Psalms. This
probably means versification. After being checked
this will be ready for the printer . . . The Christian
Herald Tour under the direction of Dr. and Mrs.
Daniel Poling will stop for a day at Cyprus. Plans
are afoot for a meeting with the leaders of that Tour
summer it is planned to hold the Cyprus-
Syria Missionary Conference in Syria . . . H. H.
Memour having completed his three years in the
European Bible Institute in Paris is expected back in
Cyprus to work in the school and among his own peo
ple. His article on the work of the European Bible
Institute, which appeared in the Larnaca Academy
Herald, is published on another page of this issue.
MISSIONARY FACTS from page 341
while she lingers other forces
religious and secular
engage in missionary activities that rival her own
in the quest for men's loyalties. Communism is mis
sionary from start to finish. Big business is mission
ary. Nowhere is the climate too disagreeable or are
the people too backward for the great corporations
to send their missionaries in the interest of "the
almighty dollar."
Conversions to Christianity are barely exceed
ing the increase of the pagan population. There are
thought to be about 700 million professed Christians
(Protestants, Roman Catholics, et al.) out of a world
population of 2,430,000,000. To realize that the
greater percentage of these 700 million know noth
ing of regeneration in Christ is to see more clearly
the gravity
of the picture.
The word missions stands for a global enter
prise at once home and foreign. He who would win
for Christ the people of distant lands will also be an
evangel in the community where he lives. The Chris
tian who is consecrated to the task in his immediate
surroundings is also the first to catch the vision of
carrying the gospel "to the uttermost part of the
CURRENT EVENTS .
from
page 339
destroyed. The Allies have advocated some of these ideas for
several years. However, the Reds still refuse to admit any
system of inspection and control which we would consider
adequate. They
would also put the whole plan under the
Security Council, where they have a veto. The new pro
posals probably justify more negotiation, but they do not
offer any immediate hope for atomic disarmament.
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