RSS Feed of newly added articles to the "Gospel Guardian" web-site. http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian en-us Copyright 2006 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:54:29 CST keyboard, mouse, xemacs, perl, and Carl and Melba Ray http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss admin@wordsfitlyspoken.org Added Article (Vol.5 No.44 Pg.2-3,14b): Why She Joined The Catholics - A Letter To And From Clare Boothe Luce - Some seven years ago, Clare Boothe Luce who was then Congresswoman from Connecticut, wrote a series of three articles for McCall's Magazine, allegedly giving the "Real Reason" why she became a convert to Roman Catholicism. At that time, this writer had a brief exchange of correspondence with Mrs. Luce on the subject of her religious beliefs. This correspondence has not been made public. However, due to the fact that Mrs. Luce is now U. S. Ambassador to Italy, and due to the fact that our own brethren and other non-Catholics have been, and are being, persecuted in Italy, I consider ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:34:01 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v5/v5n44p2-3,14b.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v5/v5n44p2-3,14b.html Added Article (Vol.5 No.44 Pg.8-9a): Reviewing The Recent Past: Centralized Control And Oversight - Spread out over this page and the next is a diagram which sets forth a true and accurate picture of the organization of the work in Germany during the years 1952-1953. There may have been some minor changes made in recent weeks; but the overall picture remains the same. This chart was prepared by one of the workers in Germany, who had been working there almost from the very start of that work, and who was in a position to have absolute knowledge concerning the workings and business arrangements of the various groups. You can rely on the ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:47:06 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v5/v5n44p8-9a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v5/v5n44p8-9a.html Added Article (Vol.5 No.49 Pg.5a): Elders And Other Christians -Those Elders Again - There is one epithet that will never be suitable for an elder's tomb. That is, "At Rest." Long after he has departed, the brethren will still be having heated discussions about him and his qualifications. At no point do I wish to be understood as minimizing the qualifications of an elder. He must be an outstanding Christian because of the responsibility which he bears, and the fact that qualifications were given means that God intends for men to respect them. However, some have magnified the qualifications to the degree that neither men nor angels can meet them. God gave us ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:11:59 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v5/v5n49p5a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v5/v5n49p5a.html Added Article (Vol.5 No.50 Pg.1,5b): The All-Sufficiency Of The Church -- No. 2 - A Demonstration of Sufficiency I believe the sufficiency of the church for doing its work today can be established by observing in the New Testament an actual demonstration of such in the first century. Yes, the church had the obligation of preaching the gospel back in the first century just like it does now. Did it do the job? Well, in Colossians 1:6, speaking of the gospel, Paul said: "Which is come unto you: even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as it doth in you also ......In verse 23 he adds: "If so ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:06:11 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v5/v5n50p1,5b.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v5/v5n50p1,5b.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.7 Pg.11a): The Church In The Baby Sitting Business - Sometime ago, I wrote an article to this paper setting forth the reasons why the church of which I am a member is not in fellowship with the Church of Christ Children's Home in Ontario, California. It has been said that we do not fellowship the home because we are opposed to the way the home is being managed. Such is not the case. The home, so far as I know, is as well managed as any in the brotherhood, and I have not heard any member of this congregation criticize the management of the home in more than eight ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:27:51 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n7p11a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n7p11a.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.8 Pg.3b): Fighting The Liquor Evil - The U. S. Brewers Foundation recently sent out to its members and constituents a booklet, "The A.B.C. of Beer Advertising," which presses home the alleged fact that beer is largely a home afair and that the mother in the home must be enlisted in the great company of those who believe that "Beer Belongs in the Home." The brewers are now spending as much as $120,000,000 a year in advertising to increase the sale and consumption of their products. Much of this advertising is focused upon the American home with a view to making beer drinkers of the mothers of ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:15:53 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n8p3b.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n8p3b.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.14 Pg.8-9): The Herald Of Truth -- No. 2 - In the early days of the Missionary Society movement, much of the opposition was directed against the waste in high overhead costs. Moses E. Lard seemed never to have gotten beyond this view. For some years Benjamin Franklin worked with the society movement. He began first to find fault with the mismanagement and waste within the organization; and this caused him to review and study the whole question, from which study he became a strong and unyielding antagonist against the very existence of the society. Cost of over-head and mismanagement did not go to the root of the issue. The ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:44:07 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n14p8-9.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n14p8-9.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.15 Pg.3b): Brother Harper's Paralogistic Paralysis - Paralogistic paralysis - a preacher's and writer's disease to be feared, a contagious thing - has set in on our Brother E. It. Harper in Abilene. The disease is characterized by reasoning contrary to good logic and has in the past been known to have centered especially among Baptists and Digressive preachers, but now shows up within us quite prominently. The only real cure I suppose, would be some lessons in parallelism, but these treatments depend upon the mental attitudes of the afflicted ones and it seems that E. R. Harper is too intent on destroying the influence of the ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:53:07 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n15p3b.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n15p3b.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.15 Pg.8-10a): The Herald Of Truth -- No. 3 - For more than fifty years we have defended the teaching of the word of the Lord to the effect that the "official authority" of the elders begins and ends with the oversight of the local congregation in which they are elders, that they have no authority at all to oversee members or work of any other congregation. The elders of Fifth and Highland Church in Abilene, however, have assumed the authority ("the power, or right, to act or command") of spending the money from more than 1,000 other congregations, and of preparing the sermons that these 1,000 congregations send out ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:22:27 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n15p8-10a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n15p8-10a.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.16 Pg.5-6a): Have I Changed? - Now it is no disgrace to change ones mind about anything. It is not the "changing of your mind" about certain things that brings about criticism. But when men who are known to keep changing their minds on subjects, and then attacking so bitterly those who continue to practice what you at that time believed and taught with just the same "viciousness" as now oppose your former practice, it, when continued in, over and over and over, creates in the minds of men a question mark as to whether or not you are truly qualified to become the "Guardians of ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:08:58 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n16p5-6a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n16p5-6a.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.17 Pg.1,10b-11): "That The Brethren May Know" - When you begin the perusal of an article by a brother in a high place, with the expectation of finding his statements accurate, wise, convincing and dependable, and then you come to a paragraph of inconsistent, incorrect and careless utterances which make the writer sound like a tyro, you feel disappointed and disillusioned and let down. I experienced such a feeling while reading a discourse by Brother H. A. Dixon, president of Freed-Hardeman College, Henderson, Tennessee, on the subject, "Overcoming Denominational Tendencies." The following is a paragraph in that article. "One church, by simply turning its funds over to another ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:10:21 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n17p1,10b-11.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n17p1,10b-11.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.17 Pg.6): Excursion In North Carolina - During the month of July the Thayer Street congregation where I labor regularly, supported me in some work in North Carolina. The church in North Carolina is growing rapidly. Behind this rapid growth is the interest and backing of many strong congregations in Alabama, Tennessee, Texas and other states. Several new buildings of fine stately construction have been erected within the last few years. Many efficient gospel preachers are devoting their best efforts to the upbuilding of the cause of Christ in this area. There are many large cities and hundreds of towns in the state that lack the New ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:11:32 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n17p6.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n17p6.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.18 Pg.1,8b-9): "That The Brethren May Know" -- No. 2 - This is the second installment in my review of a brochure entitled, "That the Brethren May Know," compiled and circulated by the elders of the Highland Church in Abilene, Texas, in defense of their radio and television projects which they have built, but are not able to support. In the expressed opinion of the Highland elders (Brochure, page 1, paragraph 2), this booklet is the best they have to offer in justification of the way they are operating a radio program which they call "Herald of Truth." Therefore, I am reviewing this pamphlet, rather than other matter which they think ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:12:30 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n18p1,8b-9.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n18p1,8b-9.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.18 Pg.11): "Hook, Line, And Sinker" - Whenever anyone is so gullible as to unreservedly accept any false teaching that comes their way, we Ozarkians usually express it . . . "They swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker." Well, that seems to be the case of many people when it comes to religion, and particularly when some false prophet deposes and swears that the end of the world is upon us. Merely because we see a thing in print does not make it the TRUTH. Merely because we hear it on the radio still does not make it the TRUTH. Only today, a radio advertising agency, operating ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:14:35 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n18p11.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n18p11.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.19 Pg.3,14): Dishonorable Ernie - Well, well, well! Do I rate? Here is poor old "Hodgepodge, Ambush, Brainstorm, Digressive, Liberal, Martyr Chameleon (Hypocrite, for that is what a Chameleon is) Incidental, EXTREMELY UNIMPORTANT, DISHONORABLE ERNIE," rating an almost entire paper of such value as the Gospel Guardian, with the three great thundering powers from her domain jumping on me at one time. Little did I realize that my unimportant articles were having such tremendous influence and making such profound impressions upon the mighty men of Lufkin as I now know they did. I am sure had they not thought it of more significance that their ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:16:20 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n19p3,14.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n19p3,14.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.19 Pg.4-5): Explanation - We publish three lengthy articles this week by Brother E. R. Harper. We have held these articles up a week or two longer than ordinarily would have been the case waiting to see whether Brother Harper had decided to deal fairly with us in the matter of confining his discussion with us to the pages of this journal. If he had sought to publish these articles in other papers it was our intention not to give space to them in the Gospel Guardian. At the time manuscript for this issue goes to the typesetter (August 31) we have not seen ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:17:44 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n19p4-5.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n19p4-5.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.19 Pg.8-10): Will You Please Explain? - This "engagement" that Brother Tant seems to think I had with the "Guardian" only, seems to be progressing rather warmly. It reminds me of the boy who came home one day from a fight. He showed signs of having been handled rather roughly. His father asked him, "Son, what is the matter?" "Dad, I have been fighting with the McCoy's." His dad was rather "riled up" and said, "They can't do this to my son!. The son calmly replied, "Don't be upset Pa; they fought me 'fair' today: I only had to fight 'six of them'." To which the father ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:20:35 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n19p8-10.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n19p8-10.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.20 Pg.5b): Brotherhood Function But Not Organization - I asked two of my preacher friends, who try to defend these brotherhood programs operating under a local eldership, "What is wrong with the Missionary Society as Campbell envisioned it?" One of them said there was nothing wrong with it. The other one said it violated the New Testament pattern of church organization because "IT IS LARGER THAN A LOCAL CONGREGATION." I asked him if he didn't think that Herald of Truth did that also, and his answer was no. When I asked him to explain how a church could spend and oversee the spending of money from a thousand ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:21:17 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n20p5b.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n20p5b.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.20 Pg.6,11a): Local Church Autonomy - In the Gospel Guardian of August 5, Brother E. R. Harper points out the fact that the churches in Galatia, Macedonia and Achaia cooperated in sending money to the churches in Judea for the relief of poor saints during famines in that area (1 Cor. 16:1-2; 2 Cor. 8 and 9), and that these contributing churches did not surrender their autonomy. Therefore, he argues that churches today do not surrender their autonomy, when they send donations to the Highland Church in Abilene, Texas, for the support of a nation-wide missionary project, as exemplified in the Herald of Truth radio program. ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:22:08 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n20p6,11a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n20p6,11a.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.20 Pg.8-9): Premillennialists To Operate College - For many years the campus of the former Kentucky Wesleyan College in Winchester has been for sale due to the decision of the Methodist Conference to move the college to Owensboro, Kentucky. Several weeks ago an announcement appeared in the local paper telling of the sale of a part of the ground and some of the buildings to the churches of Christ. This property was purchased by the premillennial faction and not by faithful brethren. The premillennialists plan to move the Kentucky Bible College to Winchester this fall. The Kentucky Bible College was organized four years ago on the site ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:22:53 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n20p8-9.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n20p8-9.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.20 Pg.14): News - Walter W. Leamons, Junction, Texas, Sept. 7: "Brother T. B. Crews, Waco, conducted a good meeting in June, here at Tenth Street Church. We have baptized four since that time. Our fall meeting will be October 3-10 with Brother Marshall Davis preaching." Thomas B. Warren, 5000 Doyle St., Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 9: "Being only slightly over one year old, the East-ridge congregation in Fort Worth recently conducted its first Vacation Bible School. The results were truly gratifying. The average attendance was 414, with the largest single attendance being 455. During the school four were baptized, a Baptist preacher and ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:24:19 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n20p14.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n20p14.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.20 Pg.15): The Overflow - In the most arrogant and highhanded interference in the affairs of another congregation we've seen in many a year, the Fourth Street Church in Portales, New Mexico, withdrew fellowship a few months ago from the University Drive Church in that city, charging among other things that University Drive's property was controlled by trustees, and that therefore elders, when and if appointed, could not have oversight of the church. Later it developed that at the very hour of the withdrawal the property of the Fourth Street Church was also controlled by men who were not elders! The Fourth Street Church with ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:25:46 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n20p15.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n20p15.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.21 Pg.1,5b): False Premises - In recent articles by brother E. R. Harper, and in earlier articles by brother G. C. Brewer and brother Batsell Baxter, all appearing in the Gospel Advocate, certain conclusions have been drawn and applications made from Acts 11:29-30, 1 Corinthians 16:1-2, and 2 Corinthians 8:16-24 which are wholly unjustified and false. I think these brethren would not have perverted these passages had they not been pressed for some way to justify certain idols they have in their hearts; but it is a tragic weakness that we sometimes find ourselves practicing something and then begin to hunt for some means of ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:26:28 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n21p1,5b.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n21p1,5b.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.21 Pg.4-5a): The Indianapolis Debate - Of considerable interest to many brethren will be the debate between Charles A. Holt of Franklin, Tennessee, and W. L. Totty of Indianapolis, Indiana, which is scheduled to take place in Indianapolis the week of October 18-22. The discussion will be conducted in the auditorium of the Garfield Heights Church of Christ in Indianapolis, the congregation for which Brother Totty labors. Propositions are as follows: Each of the above propositions is affirmed by Brother Totty and denied by Brother Holt. Their agreement declares, "The session each night shall last for two hours, with each speaker being given two thirty minute ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:28:04 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n21p4-5a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n21p4-5a.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.21 Pg.8-9): "Quoting A Roman Catholic" -- No. 3 - Throughout the centuries, a number of Roman Catholic scholars have valued the FACTS of history rather than the FABRICATIONS of history. Consequently, from time to time it is possible to present writings of Catholic historians and theologians, which agree with non-catholic historians, and which further put to lie the fabrications of the majority of Catholic writers. In the year 1870, the Vatican Council passed the dogma of Papel Infallibility. This action precipitated so much controversy and agitation within the ranks of the. Roman Church herself, that it was decided that a search of Catholic documents and articles of that era, ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:28:40 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n21p8-9.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n21p8-9.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.21 Pg.10): "Helping Orphans" - Many of us know that much has and is being written on the subject of caring for orphans. Some make themselves clear on the subject; others, to me, do not. In the Advocate, July 22, 1954 issue, there is a reprint of an article by Brother Cleon Lyles on "Helping Orphans." In paragraph 3, he says, "God lays on us the obligation of helping others, among whom are orphan children. We cannot fail to recognize the duty." Brother Lyles, says us but he does not say whether that is the church or the individual Christian; maybe he means both. But ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:29:18 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n21p10.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n21p10.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.22 Pg.13): The Overflow - Luther Blackmon writes that the way some of the brethren keep insisting they are NOT a missionary society reminds him of the story of Teddy Roosevelt's hunt in Africa. Roosevelt had his young son with him, and one day the youngster came in with a vivid description of a bird he had seen in the jungle. "No such bird," replied Teddy. Next day young Roosevelt went back where he had seen the bird and got a better view. Again he tried to convince his father that he had seen such a creature. "No such bird," snorted Roosevelt, this time a ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:31:59 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n22p13.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n22p13.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.22 Pg.14): News - W. E. (Bud) Irvine, 501 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, California, September 22: "There have been 25 responses at Central Long Beach since July - five baptisms, seven restorations and thirteen membership transfers. Brother Cuthbertson of Culver City is to begin a meeting with us September 29. We are anticipating a wonderful effort. Since the first of the year I have held meetings in Cottage Grove and Roseburg, Oregon; Beaumont and Baytown, Texas. These meetings resulted in 31 baptisms and 11 restorations. It was my second successive meeting in Roseburg and Beaumont. It was a pleasure being back in Baytown after ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:34:25 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n22p14.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n22p14.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.23 Pg.2-3a): "Full Of Dead Men's Bones" -- Matt. 23:27 - "There is scarcely a Roman Catholic Church in Europe that does not possess a Golgotha of relics - disgusting objects, mostly defeating their own claims to authenticity by their impossible pretensions and absurd traditions, the belief in which is far more diligently inculcated than in the saving doctrines of scripture. The latter would put an end to these stupid impostures, but the former exalt the reputation of the several churches, and bring much treasure into their coffers. In fact, they are ecclesiastical museums, for which heretics pay to gratify their curiosity, and the faithful to adore, and gain the promised ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:35:16 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n23p2-3a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n23p2-3a.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.23 Pg.8-9): The Significance Of Names For The People Of God - Names by which men of inspiration designate persons and things help to describe, to identify and to convey a conception of things or persons so designated. Our Lord was called by the names 'Jesus," "lamb," "lion," "Christ," because these words are descriptive of his nature and work. The name "fox," as applied to Herod by Jesus, gives an insight into Herod's nature and character that could not be obtained, if Jesus had not called him a "fox." The names "dragon," "serpent," "deceiver" and "tempter," by which the devil is called, give a better understanding of that adversary of the human ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:40:09 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n23p8-9.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n23p8-9.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.23 Pg.13): Rules For Making Delinquent Children - We hear and read much about juvenile delinquency being one of our major problems. Juvenile delinquency is only a symptom of the disease which is eating away the foundation of our country. The disease is a lack of Christ-centered homes. For the most part, delinquent parents can be said to be the cause of delinquent children. A wayward youngster and an erring parent are usually but the opposite sides of the same bad coin. The following rules on how to make a juvenile delinquent, as prepared by Juvenile Judge P. G. Gilliam, of Denver, Colorado, and Probation Director W. J. ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:42:21 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n23p13.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n23p13.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.23 Pg.14): News - W. E. Fortney, 162 Harrison, Clarksburg, West Virginia, Sept. 28: "I just closed a short meeting at Walnut Fork, near Alvy, W. Va. This-is a small congregation but they are doing good. The meeting resulted in one confession of error." Ivan R. Stewart, 5101 Indian School Road, N.E., Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sept. 29: "Last Sunday two were baptized and one restored. Two were restored and one placed membership the previous Lord's Day. Bible Study has increased from 154 to 251 for a record and 48 have responded since May 1. The congregations of Albuquerque are engaged in a city-wide training ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:43:14 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n23p14.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n23p14.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.24 Pg.1,12): Concerning Brother E. R. Harper's Article - In all the eighteen type written pages of Brother E. R. Harper's harangue under the caption, "Brother Douthitt A Man Of Honour", appearing in this issue, there is not one line that can be interpreted as an effort to prove that the present mode of operation of Herald of Truth radio program is reasonable, or right, or scriptural. The article contains no reference whatever to the New Testament. With nothing but Harper's article, no one would know what the issue is, or that there is such a volume as the New Testament. Under this topic heading Brother Harper says he ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:44:33 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n24p1,12.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n24p1,12.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.24 Pg.5a): Why Not Defend It By Scripture? - Brother E. R. Harper's fight for the Herald of Truth has been more than disappointing; it has been disgusting. He made only a very feeble attempt at any scriptural argument and even then was guilty of outright perversion. The barrage of articles he has now written have "capped the climax" for ugly personal attacks, misrepresentation, and low level innuendo. They have been a veritable sluice of slime. There is of course an answer for all that sort of thing and E. R. Harper is as vulnerable to being discredited on a personal basis as perhaps any man. In spite of ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:45:27 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n24p5a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n24p5a.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.24 Pg.8-11): Brother Douthitt A Man Of Honor - My good friend Brother Cecil Douthitt has now come to the defense of our good Brother Tant in his fight against the work of the Highland congregation in preaching the gospel of Christ to a nation. We are somewhat surprised at our good brother and hope we can help him to better understand some fundamental principles of the Bible and its teaching concerning the elders of the church. In one of his issues he spends most of his time berating the elders at Highland for using what is called by the Guardian men the old "digressive pressure" against a brother ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:54:12 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n24p8-11.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n24p8-11.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.24 Pg.14-15a): The Overflow - We are now informed that Brother James Walter Nichols is resigning from Herald of Truth to devote his full time and talents to the field of Christian journalism, specifically to the Christian Chronicle. He is seeking to borrow slightly over $100,000.00 from various brethren over the nation (friends, relatives, strangers, just anybody) to finance the new venture. He has been on the Board of Directors of Chronicle Publishing Company for the last year; has already arranged to refinance $75,000.00 on the assets of the corporation, and is seeking to raise at once an additional $29,000.00. Having led the churches out ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:56:42 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n24p14-15a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n24p14-15a.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.24 Pg.15): --News-- - Bill Cavender, Box 65, Nocona, Texas, Oct. 5: "Nine obeyed the gospel, one was restored and three placed membership in our recent meeting with Joe Malone of Fort Worth preaching. I baptized six in meetings this summer. Of this total of 15 who have become Christians, three had been Baptists and one a Methodist." J. M. Wilson, Box 253, Dexter, New Mexico, Oct. 6: "Since the last report we have had two baptisms, my son and his wife. They live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is my last child to obey the gospel. We have raised seven children and all ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:58:16 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n24p15.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n24p15.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.25 Pg.1,9b-10a): Brother Brewer And The Missionary Society - The week of February 15-19, David Lipscomb College invited Brother G. C. Brewer, an able and outstanding preacher, to come to the college for five lectures on various issues before the church today. Brother Brewer was hand-picked for the job as he would say what the College wanted said on these issues. Brother Brewer's "sentiments" on these issues have been well-known for years, and because these "sentiments" are NOW the "sentiments" of the College, he was the man for the task. The students who attend Lipscomb are indoctrinated with ONLY those matters which have administration-approval. Both "sides" or the "other ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:58:40 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n25p1,9b-10a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n25p1,9b-10a.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.25 Pg.6): What Happened At Central, July 11 - "My ... What a large building, just like the Baptists (and air conditioned too)" . . . . "What a large membership . . .. over 1,000 on the rolls, just like the Baptists" .... "What a wonderful contribution last Sunday, everybody here must tithe .... over $1,900.00 .... just like the Baptists" . . . . "Although this is my first visit to the Church of Christ, I thought they were some little sect like the Jehovah's Witnesses until I came here" .... "The Church of Christ preaches just like the Baptist Church"..... The above exclamations were made ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:21:20 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n25p6.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n25p6.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.26 Pg.12): The Overflow - "I couldn't lay it down till I had read the last word," are the words more than one will be saying when they pick up Earl West's great biography of David Lipscomb. This writer got his copy of the book late one afternoon. The last page had been read before breakfast the next morning. It is truly a fascinating story of a remarkable man come to life again... Price of the book is $4.00; we have it in stock. Brother E. R. Harper has at long last committed himself to debate the Herald of Truth in public oral discussion. He ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:04:13 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n26p12.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n26p12.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.27 Pg.3a): Religious Views In The News - "Beautiful Bible Baptism" is the appealing way the Baptists of a local group publicized their practice in a recent newspaper display advertisement. That baptism as commanded by Christ and performed by the apostles and other first century Christians was beautiful will hardly be questioned by anyone who accepts the facts and comprehends the significance regarding the doctrine as recorded in the New Testament. Symbolically Christ's supreme sacrifice on cruel Calvary and his triumph over the closely guarded tomb are more vividly portrayed than any artist could paint them or any uninspired penman could describe them. One is to be "buried ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:22:12 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p3a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p3a.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.27 Pg.4,9b): "If A Man Die ... - There comes a time in the life of every thinking man when he asks the question posed by Job so many years ago, "If a man die, shall he live again?". It is sheer tragedy that for some men the whole span of their years is a continual search for the answer. They are miserable, incomplete, dissatisfied. With an infinite longing in their hearts, they wander all over the earth in search for the answer, and never find it. There are others of us who have found the answer. We know. The darkest problem of the race has been settled ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:06:01 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p4,9b.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p4,9b.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.27 Pg.5a): The Devil's Stone - Under the heading, "Fatherless and Widows," page 16, Firm Foundation, August 17, 1954, Brother George Hickey had this to say: "Guy N. Woods has just preached in an edifying meeting here in North Carolina. He gave me several smooth stones and in the spirit of Christ, I am now throwing one at the devil." "In 1 Timothy, chapter five, God directly discusses the duty of the church to provide for worthy widows. The enrollment of more than one is mentioned. (1 Tim. 5:9.) This God-given example authorizes a home supported by the church. If one will now read James 1:27 ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:08:01 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p5a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p5a.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.27 Pg.6,9b): Preachers, Politics, And Pietism - "Polities," free from adulteration, simply expresses the science and art of government; the science dealing with the organization, regulation, and administration of a state, in both its external and internal affairs, Mr. Webster says. But, corrupted by man it now carries the primary meaning of skillfully designing and promoting plans and policies which are shrewdly contrived with regard to self interest. Therefore, "politics" has been brought into every phase of human activity by selfish interests, big and little. In this paper we use the term "pietism" in the limited sense of affectation of devotion. Since selfishness itself is far removed ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:08:15 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p6,9b.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p6,9b.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.27 Pg.10): "Remember The Sabbath" - One of the much discussed points of the religious world is the question whether Christians are to meet to worship God upon the first day of the week or upon the seventh, which is the old Jewish "sabbath." This question, as all such questions dealing with the worship of God, can be settled only by the Bible. One distinction made in the Bible, which most men fail to consider, is the distinction between the old and the new covenants, or the Old Testament and the New Testament. Concerning this distinction Paul said, "But now we are delivered from the law, ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:09:15 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p10.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p10.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.27 Pg.12-13a): "What Is Wrong With The Missionary Society?" - The question, which serves as the subject of this article, implies that there is something wrong with such organizations as the missionary societies. The view that such organizations are wrong, has been held by many, from the earliest attempts to bring them into the "brotherhood." Jacob Creath, Benjamin Franklin, David Lipscomb and a host of other sincere and faithful men of the past were relentless in their fight against the missionary societies. These men's opposition came because they considered the societies wrong. They considered that the societies were wrong in principle; that it is wrong to have an organization through ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:09:47 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p12-13a.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p12-13a.html Added Article (Vol.6 No.27 Pg.14): News - John G. Bill s, 4133 Middlesex Dr., San Diego, California, Oct. 22: "We baptized one into Christ last Sunday evening. This one is the head of a house. His wife was baptized several months before. The Linda Vista congregation is in the best condition spiritually in many months." James O. Wilburn, Box 11, Gruver, Texas, Oct. 20: "Dow Wilson closed a meeting at Gruver Sunday night. Three were baptized and one restored. One was baptized and one restored just before the meeting. Am now laboring in a meeting at Booker, Texas, to close October 31." Floyd Embree, 610 E. LeDeney ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:13:21 CST http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p14.html http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v6/v6n27p14.html