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Mrs. Lou Wilkey led the prayer forhome missions. Information and specificprayer requests were given by Mrs.Howard Elliott for Selma, Mrs. WalterBates for Albuquerque, Mrs. RobertMcFarland for the Indian Mission, Mrs.James Humphreys for Chester, Arkansas,Mrs. G. I. Williamson for Westminster,Colorado, Mrs. Wilbur More for ReformedPresbyterian Home, Mrs. Cloyce Beard forthe Seminary, and Mrs. Robert Cadoth forthe Lawrence congregation. Rev. MelvilleMartin gave us up-to-date information onthe Home, where the elderly go to live, notto die. Prayers, gifts, and letters are muchappreciated.MAY 26, 1971where people are LIVING the Christianlife. Books of Paul and James are in perfectharmony, for good works will naturallyfollow conversion and obedience. Pray formore courage, boldness, and moreworkers.Mrs. James Hatfield, president ofKansas WCTU, gave information on theactivities and projects available throughWCTU. Money and time are spent alertingyouth and adults of the drug dangers,especially beverage alcohol. U. S. A. willhost the WCTU World Convention inChicago, July 28-August 4. Young women— GET INVOLVED in this challengingwork to protect home life!Officers, superintendents andcommittees did good work. Theautobiography of Mrs. Jeanette Li, HisGrace Is Sufficient, the book on whicnMiss Rose Huston collaborated, will beavailable in September. Our newPresbyterial Project for 1971-72 isWestminster, Colorado. The next Conventionwill meet in Topeka in 1972.DR. E. P. CLOWNEYAT GENEVADr. Edmund P. Clowney, president ofWestminster Theological Seminary,Philadelphia, was the guest preacher, May2, at the Geneva Sabbath evening Convocation.Speaking on the subject "DoesChrist Change?", he took his text fromHebrews 13:8. From the Epistle to theHebrews he presented Christ as God's finalcoat and chopped that wood. He alsocarriedit into the kitchen. There a servantgirl recognized him, and later told hermistress of his identity.The next morning the white womanwent to Professor Washington's office andapologized, saving, "I did not know it wasyou 1 put to work.""It's entirely all right, madam," thegreat Negro replied; "I like to work, andI'm delighted to do favors for my friends."His simple act won this woman'sadmiration, and she persuaded wealthyacquaintances to give thousands of dollarsto the school.Sunshine Magazine"I'VE SEEN THE EFFECTS"When the nationally knowncolumnist Cedric Adams was writing hisregular feature, "In This Corner," for theMinneapolis Star, he interviewed Mrs.Douglas Rigg, wife of the warden of theMinnesota State Penitentiary at Stillwater.Noticing that she didn't drink at thetime of the interview, Adams asked, "Don'tyou ever touch the stuff?""No, I never have," she replied. "Inmy twenty-three years around prisons I'veseen the damaging effects of liquor, andithas become something that I don't everwant to have anything to do with. I'd guessthat 80 to 90 percent of the men who arebehind bars today could trace their beingwhere they are to the effects of liquor, inpart at least."The Kansas IssueMrs. Joe Copeland presented variousnew books available from the Blue Banner communication (Prophet), our presentBook Store, and told of interesting contactsmade there. She and her husband (King).Paul Harvey, in The King's Business:intercessor (Priest) and our ultimate power WHAT ONCE WAS WRONG STILL ISrequest prayer for success and God's glory Dr. Clowney is the originator of "Nobody disputes the fact of ourin the four weekly Bible study groups they "Eutychus." a regular satirical column in nation's moral decay, but there is muchlead with students, men, women, and Christianity Today. Among books he has dispute about what should be done aboutforeign students.published are Biblical Theology and it. Most every newspaper, broadcast,Rev. J. Paul McCracken, our keynote Preaching and Called to the Ministry. He magazine, and law enforcement bulletinspeaker, challenged us to go to the recently took part in a nation-wide seminar headlines the degeneracy of thePharaohs of our age and demand, "Let my program sponsored by the National generation.people go." We need to use action and Association of Evangelicals concerning the "Not everybody wants to call sin, sin.voice. Jesus HAS the power for us. "Relevancy of the Church for the Some callit 'mischief,' 'delinquency,' orRev. James Pennington of our Japan Twentieth Century."'rebellion.' And hardly anybody can agreeMission showed slides and told of thewhere we should draw the line.power of the Holy Spirit at work in the"Yet moral law is very specific to any"THAT ISN'T MY WORK!"Japanese homes where prayer is specificreader of God's Word. You can ignore thatand results are expected and received.Word, or deny it. You can argue it, deridePersonal witness is more important thanToo often we hear workers exclaim, "That it, poke fun at it. . . . But when you havisn't my work!" when there is somethingchurch service in reaching the lost. Adone your worst, the Word isstill there.before them that needs doing. Smartharvest is promised in the Bible — where"There is explicit Bible law whichworkers do what they can at any time andare the laborers? Mrs. Wyley Caskey ledcondemns: a child rebelling against hisin any place. By doing that, they set looseprayer for foreign missions.parents . . . students riotingto disrupt theforces that help them in their endeavorsMr. T. M. Edgar from Cyprus,work of a university ... a social agitatorand their promotion.encouraging 'civil disobedience' . . .challenged us to walk the Damascus Road,the Jerusalem Road, and the Jericho Road.Booker T. Washington, according to adopting personal dress and habits which"The just shall LIVE by faith." Have youThe Penn-Trail, shortly after he had taken are dirty, dishevelled, repulsive havingever seen a half-dead student? Unpreparedcharge of the Tuskegee Institute in a beer bust. . . having a sex orgy.~ lounging — dead — intellectually?Alabama, passed the house of a local rich "These offenses are not new; they areEveryday Christians are like that — theywhite family. The woman of the house, not specifically defined in the Bible. And thedon't grow, aren't living, are justknowing Mr. Washington by sight, called laws against them have not changed. Whatlukewarm. Repent by getting out andout to him to chop some wood.once was right still is. What once wasProfessor Washington took off his wrong still is."witnessing. There is no generation gap15