Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. [14], Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 12, 1960 Page: 2 of 8
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CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
A SPECIAL EDITORIAL . . .
VENERABLE JESSE P. SEWELL
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colored
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success
this lin
very. outstanding we were meeting
'-‘..j gospel.
. however, that the preacher’s
was tn 1900. He gives three "I here’s never been
Sonic denominations who believed then in the
. . anymore. In 1900 many per-
in
Pierce, now
former
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Alan 111
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Balrnerl
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of at ti\|
desia. I
Misalonl
titory. I
enrolled!
mission I
“chools.
repel
Hons an
1200 |)r
t’larks.
•Mitch(.||
fruitful
C M. Rhodes.
t Selma. All.
Tripoli. Libya.
of Se*
missionary
Rhodesia. Africa-
special feature on
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meet, w
about
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awayo.
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to
0
if yon
man L.
to ontabllHh another
the summer <-■
Gatewood was
man Catholics
meeting
Catholic, mother re-
Permission. Alao many
contact*’ were made and
we will be reaping
this meeting for
and even yeara to
McKinney of Swlt-
a r
Preachtng the
progress in this directum and calls the de-
of mission work
or. jp
must
if the church is to
< b
The
er because i
I o offset these
hard at its teaching
growing, Brother Sewell
is making rapid p-
velopment of Bible <
two of the brightest spots of
N
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si®
a hit-or-miss
a church send-
mihvidu.il would
go. I Ic w ould announce
papers, and churches would send him
..... dippoj t w o
support himself in
dedication, and the strides that have been made
decades arc I
studied then Bibles and did personal work wherever they
went " \ man stopping at a blacksmith
preach to the blacksmith while the horse was
a Christian woman helping a sick neighbor would try
. help the neighboi spiritually as well'as physically
“What <oz//(/ we do with what we have if we worked
the job like they did:” he asks.
OPTIMISTIC FOR CHURCH’S FUTURE
If you had 60 years of gospel preaching to your credit,
would you lean toward optimism ... or tow ard pessimism
as a new decade gets under way?
At least one such saint is definitely not a pessimist as
far as rhe church, is concerned. He is Jes’se P. Sewell, m
evangelist for 64 years.
The son of a pratchcr, Brother Sewell entered Nash-
ville Bible School in 1894. He began preaching in Texas
in 1896. baptizing 49 in his first meeting.
In the nineties, Brother Sewell' recalls, the church in
America reached a peak in apostasy. Tennessee and I exas
fared better than the other states, but they were hard hit,
too.
In Tennessee, there were no churches of Christ left
after the split in such cities as Memphis and Knoxville.
Nashville had five or six congregations, all small except
the South College church with about 250 members.
The digression had been even more complete in Texas.
Only a few faithful congregations, with six to 100 mem-
bers each, were left. Most of the churches were meeting
in school Buildings and holding meetings under brush
arbors when Brother Sewell began evangelistic work in
Texas.
"Hssionarie!
,ho»e areas,
Sentiment was against the Texas brethren, who were
sometimes called “square-bale Camphellites.'’ The square
bale of cotton had been replaced with the round bale, and
the implication was that anyone ignorant enough to op-
pose instrumental music and missionary societies was hope-
lessly out of date.
But, says Brother Sewell, the church was not weak, H1”
though small and somewhat discouraged. It had faith and decide on his own that he should
- —.........e in recent dis decision in the |
largely due to efforts made then. Members S1*’ ■> month. \ cry often, the s
"ft- 'Hid he would have to >
shop would held and neglect the work he wants to do.
being shod;
to
__January j;
Florida Cli
To Feature
Missionaria
PINELLAS PARK, FTj
among us should |now
■bout '
evangelizing ule - ’I
of the world?
SucceHHfiii
turning from
< ourse.
Peculiarly, however fw J
Part, when our miMJ
ies return hom>. We ha* J
ed to be conHcious of thea J
a while, then, gradually, "1
get all about them. ThmJ
of the most fruitful lourj
brotherhood information J
tive to world-evangellna J
gone relatively untapped 1
In a move which mayweiiJ
a pattern ior mhera to
the. elders at Pinellas (J
Church of Christ are pBtuJ
getlH^ a World Missloiu J
ic" unique for having renj
missionaries as principalssj
ers and pa md discussion m
orators
Slated for January 1’21. J
world-evangelism training J
gram is aimed at educating J
the elders, deacons. preacM
teachers,- personal worken J
successful businruymen m
hers within reach of Pi mJ
Park (i.e., Greater Tampa nd
on all phases of foreign,pj
work
Those
mbvics, travel, athletics.
a person’s time.
persecution of 60 \ears ago. o,phan homes and <
,norc incentive, had pow- settled, there wj|| be
question came
would be wrong for a preacher to locate and be
A. Sewell, became the first re
-(i locating m Corsicana in 1892.
“ 1‘oday," he
ago. orpb;tn homes and
returned misaioutd
who have agreed to particiJ
include Olis Gatewood, prd
dent, North Central Chriitd
College, iif Rochester. JDtd
who evangelized throughontM
rope including Germany ia
Russia; Ira Y Rice. Jr. of M
llld drop la?>. Tex . who has prearheii
’ difficult ! 1'* ' ountiies. establishing M
Lord's church in Singapore ui
Malaya;, lionald Earwood.MB
of the Business AdministnM
Department. Alabama CbrutB
College. Montgomery, Ala. M
tner missionary to Brussels.M
gium, Eh is Huffard,
At the turn of the century, churches of (Juist were
suspicious of the Bible school, he says. Many said it was a
denominational procedure being tied on to rhe church. It
rook much debate before it began to be looked upon as a
means of restoring New Testament (Jiristianitx at the
point of teaching.
Mission work a few decades aoo
proposition. Brother Sewell savs. Instead
a selected man to a selected field.
He
owd HARE I i
day? Wo™ ^UHt' k—'-
Kot"^underway BX
Catholics were sent to pass out Catlm fr 'that th« Homan
handbills tn front of our church ,n„o ( h,ir< h was the true
building. These handbills men- absurd ,h<* Blb'e nnd how
tloned the danger of attending use R ^7 7.“? in ^“g to
such a sect and especially one of the » be,H,le th« doctrines
ne|or the Roman Catholics.
■ -
cfforta to
best attcTf T”k We had the
held .!ttnnd,‘d ""^ing ever
in our own building with
«2 „rf.™tTr
’"vl? , MereA.,, t»„
d»r1ng the meetlng
wanted ’ L’ >’(‘ar8 of al-
"anted to be baptized, but
Mission Study Good Trend
Brother Sewell believes that the
study of the language and customs of a
list before he goes out is oopd.
Preacher's Lot Harder Today shmdi s being responsible lor sending and supporting the
s II i i i Y evangelist, he considers both “sane and sensible.”
Biotlui Sewell believes, however, that the preacher’s vi i . i i
work is harder today than it was ■n iW. He Jves three .""Trh'’"4<"n'™S Brother Sewell says;
reasons; P three Jhe.es never been a time without a controversy. I don’t
(1) Some denominations who believed then in the <'XU,C<t al><)l,r 'r I'1'1’ s,””c of the young preachers do.”
authority of the Bible don't anymore. In 1900 many per- . Hc cited thc Biblc school issue which took i long
sons wye wilhng to become New Testament Christians r° ,r°n ,nU' At ^’'.t thc same time the located preach
w ten siown by thc Bible that they were wrong. Now U up. with most brethren feeling that it
Ikv say; It doesnt make any difference. We’re all going hc " t(’'’ ■' preacher to locate and be supported
k same plate; were just traveling different roads.” * emngregatmn. Brother Sewell believes his fithcr W
Rulm I V T’n thc PC°P1C ’S han,Cr tO rodav- I ’ l,<?Can,C t,1C f'rst Pr^h<’r m Texas by
• • . nibvics, travel, athletics, etc., compete with 1<,c,tinbr 1,1 Corsicana in 1892 ■-
the preacher for a person’s time. f “ Todav" I......
t We don’t have thc persecution of 6() years ago orphan homes ind e^' C°"t,OVCrSV ccntcrs 'around
M|u..rty,lc" church, with more incentive, had p,L -cttlcU. there wj| b""others’"s " llUCS"OnS are
" '-ndted hard and heed (aithfullv. who should have heen s !"| I I"" bC '°St
cn.pl.cations the church must work church, a divine institution win 'P"C C?ntr0V‘r$ies
program .f the church is to keen R. . . • g° r'ghr along
-I says He believes that thc church make od m^r'ss'’"1'1T 'h"rCl' l’OS'tion to
"> a .hesist Lu ’e 2 returns
'»’ our faith, dedication ’and' ’y'ly" l'"'’ wil1 dcPaniJ
restoration of New let ' ",lingness to work for thc
J- X ----------—____ Nc" lament Christianity.”--!! T
A"s^ M!ehn9 Well Attended Despite Catholic
,_j recall, tt
Catholics * wh° -
Another r*01
of 1968. *h*“
with ua
did
to hinder
in •
more
- ev angc luouc-hing (it Mayfield. Ky,d||
And thc piacticc of a iwangelized <»ul of Lyo. NOT
ia, British West AJric*. M
Lake, now preaching at F1WH
ing. Mich . formerly mi»si«^
in Norway. England, Irelandaj
Scotland. <
preaches at
nierly
II E
Ark.,
Northern
As a v-.
five-day “clinic,” 0. C.
of Willfield. Ala., w*11
concerning the great Jn
Catholicism is to our rei»q
and American freedom* I
World-evangelism
be diBcusHed include
of World Evangelism. <
Ih Being Done Thr0U’!®t|tjf
World?".
al Copperation.
Church Do to rromote
courage M i s h1°n
"Preaching Christ ~~
toniR," "We’ll no Mo* #
Wo Know More.”
MiBBion Country. y
a Small Congregation j
Help?”.
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Nichols, James W. Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. [14], Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 12, 1960, newspaper, January 12, 1960; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1306897/m1/2/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.