Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1962 Page: 1 of 8
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NORTH-CENTRAL EDITION
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• 1962
Vol. XIX
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ABILENE, TEXAS, MARCH 30, 1962
Numbor 25
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value of $18,000 Great rejoic-
ing was evident with our mis-
sionaries over this turn of
events, and Christians in Amer-
ica joyously accepted the good
news as a giant step forward in
Ethiopia.
If a school for the deaf was
to be established, it was quick-
ly realized that qualified teach-
ers would be a necessity
Again, a call went forth to the
American brethren for preach-
ers of the gospel trained in deaf
education Two families heard:
Gary D. Blake of Faribault,
Minn., and Linnie L. Darden of
Berkeley, Calif They began im-
mediately to secure sponsoring
congregations and travel funds.
Th« Gary Blakfes
The Lord molds those who
submit to HiS guidance so that
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By Lan« Cubstead
Chronicle Managing Editor
Approximately 11,000 persons
braved th<\ rain and the Los
freeways Thursday
night. M.Weh 22, to give the'
West Coast its biggest count of
New Testament Christians ev-
er They assembled in the Los
Angeles Sport Arena.
The crowd bettered by more
than 4 200 persons the previous
high of approximately 6)100 set
at a similar function last March
in the Shrine Auditorium in lx>s
Angeli >
on Saturday n i g h t.
17 and lectures w e r e
18. but the full
didn't begin until i
Then a com '
- panel
were laid to estab-
...... school for deaf
|VP.,y. !le,$rmined and dedi-
> Gowen and Carl
Calif — The
would have
the progress
native land
trying cir-
Consider these
ed in the capitol city of Addis
Ababa _and has an estimated
have her very first school for
the deaf!
The government eventually
donated seven acres of land on
which to build the mission com-
pound and gave official recog-
. nition to the church in her na-
* tion. The land is ideally situat-
AMONG DEAF IN ETHIOPIA
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ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLIDE
ABILENE, TEXAS
There are\several others who
seem to be
ed" and it is
people attended the eight serv- we will also
Many churches are happily ac-
cepting all of the responsibili
ties tnat go with mission work
And this story does not have
to end in a complaint, but in
praise
The military personnel who
comprise the American church
of Christ in Yokohama have
pledged $100 a month to Tom
Marsh's support It is really an
encouragement to have these
brothers and sister* in Christ ._______
here in Japan. We have learned t
to depend on their quick re-
sponse. "A brother helped is
like * strong city.” Proverbs
18.19
I doubt that these Christians
when they return to America
Will f.rget the needs they have ____
seen here and their definite
A
and speech While at Harding,
Gary and Mary were active in
work with the deaf as mem-
bers of the Dactylology Club—
two years of which Gary was
its president — preaching and
teaching in the deaf program in
Little Rock, Arkansas and as
organizers and first director of, out your own
the first summer ramn for tho I r ««.t in
deaf
Providentially,
allied to attenjL
lege in Washing
(Jhmti'an
The International Weekly Newspaper
Major speakers this year in-
cluded Ira North W a r r e n
Jones. Frank Cope. Carl Spain.
George Bailey. Paul Harper.
Howard White, and John A
Si-ott
This year 's lectureship series
began on Saturday
M arch
1 held on March
lax's events
Monday, the l.»'h
! pl--’e round of . la-><•-
dihners and other activities
The Tom Marsh Family
. . . $100 Saved the Day
'Yokohama Military Church
Backs New Worker With $100
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By Bob JolliH
TOKYO, Japan CNS-The
. | Tom Marsh Family arrived in
j Japan in November He hall
/ I received promise of $300 a'
_________ _j iHjnUi frrn churches and indi '
iks has become the custom in j vidual Christians in America.!
these brotherhocHi college lec- During the first two months he!
received slightly more than half
the p.omised amount.
The promised amount in the
i first place was, at the «nosl.
lhe bare minimum needed
Now. he found himself confront- .
ed with a real financial prob
lem which made it impossible
Tor him to attend Japanese
language school. Tom Marsh is
not easily discouraged He be-
gan ’o write letters to people '
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February Vienna Meeting
Shows High Attendance
By Bob Hare of our members Finally,
VIENNA, Austria 'CNS* ,—
Ludwig lloepfl from Munich,
Germany was here in a gospel
meeting from February 19-25.
In spur of very unfavorable
weather and deep snow, a new
record was set A total of 803
ices for
over Uhi
95 During the meeting we had
45 new and 72 old contacts to
attend one or more of the serv-
ices Even though several of
our niruilx-rs were sick. 8»> of
them tbo attended the meet-
ing
Thu* far fne souls have been
buried with their Lord in bap-
tism l ho first two, were the
parents of the young medical
doc lor, who was baptized in
November. Next, was a young
Iwy of 21, the daughter of one
CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE <CNS
on mternotionol nowt-gothermf tyslom
By L. H. Row
El SEGUNDO,
•thiopi.m eunuch
proud of
•thieved in his
dl'r'ng W,1 under
cumstames. Cv,>.-.:
acconq>|ishments:
L The church
Ethiopia.
Ethiopian government
church official recog-
night of the annual Pcpperdine as
College Bible lAJCtureslup Of- orotherhixxl
ficiaLs had promoted the meet
ing for weeks as a celebration
of the 100’h anniversary of
Restoration preaching in
California It was hoped that
Hie crowd might reach lf>,00h—
lhe capacity of the huge arena
in which the recent Democratic
National Convention was held
The rain <
blamed for the crowd being no
larger, but 11.000 persons is no
Jonipson dCpa^tcnd ^mii gotUfi!wsawith the Ethiopian of- His will and purpose will be
of the Lord. Working with the
deaf, teaching them how to
understand and giving them di-
vine understanding is their call-
ing
Gary is a 1959 graduate of
Harding College in Searcy, Ar-
kansas with a degree in Bible
2 Families Set For Unique Mission
ligious organization was n o t
easily obtained.
Although not adverse to re-
ligious organizations entering
her country. Ethiopia does have
a law on her, statutes which
forbids such organizations re-
maining in her country unless
they engage in some addition-
al activity to raise the stand-
ards of her people.
An opportunity was given
brethren Gowen and Thompson
to initiate and operate a school
for the deaf The government
itself suggested this activity
and promised that compliance
to their suggestion would be re-
warded with land on which to
build a mission compound A
series of communications fol-
lowed with sponsoring congre-
gations. and long hours of ne-
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Kel of ^‘ir?nrie8m°Xe
thei?e<fU;,t^.,ivin« quarters for
f*nd ,nJ” uS were difficu,‘ to
*y hik’h n When found> extreme-
sag L’? ces were a«ked. VI-
year K.fe for almost a
Wlicial fr°re 8r®”*ed and
^cognition as a re-
he was en
Gallaudet Col-
_ bn. D. C. Gal-
aludet is the only college in the
world specifically for the deaf.
Through its training program
Gary received his Master's De-
gree in Deaf Education
Following his graduation from
Gallaudet he accepted a teach-
ing position with the Minnesota
State School for the Deaf in
Faribault, Minn. He has re-
cently given the school notice
of- his resignation so that he
might enter the Ethiopian proj-
ect.
Gary may be contacted by
writing to Gary D. Blake, 820
N W. Second Avenue, Faribault,
Minn.
The Linnie L. Dardens
Linnie L, Darden, Jr., has
answered the plea from Ethio _____
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Land was given for mis-
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Ethiopian was con-
Fhrist in modern
who had promised but were not
! sending their part.
When 1 learned of this it
brought back bitter memoriei
! of my first tour in Japan I
I was then receiving slightly less
I than the Tom Marsh s $300, bu>
■ 1 watched it dwindle away t>
lets than $200 a month before
II went home.
Why is it that the finest peo-
ple on earth (and I say that
sincerely) are so forgetful and
undependable? Do they not rea-
lize it would be better not to
promts? at all than to cause
someone to be thousands of
miles from home and in need
because they momentarily had
good intentions?
Yes it was partly our fault
Tom does not and I did not
have a "sponsoring" church —
a church that felt responsible
for seeing that we were pro
vided for consistently and to
whom we felt a responsibility
Thanks to the Northside church
.n Santa Anna, California, tn/
formei error wap corrected. It
is not enough to get a church
to give you a letter of guar-
antee just to fulfill the gov-
ernment's requirement. '
Here again I am surprised at
ciders who will sign such a writ
ten promise without any hesi-
i at ion. but expect you to worn
* ; -----1 financial problem
camp for the 1 ,f you get in need.
I know that I should not lie
; bitter at the church as a whole
concerns the W e sT^Coast
And Ira N o r t h.
evangelist from Madison, Tenn.,
did his job well m keynoting
the meeting with a lecture en-
titled. "Victory over Material
ism M Norx el Young. Presi-
[dent of Pepperdlne College, al-
io deliverer! a lecture based on
the history of the restoration
movement in California and
could be partially how the church is growing
I Bus loads of Christians came
-r» - - ■ ” • ry ” *-• * * • . v w jjxv * I "T7
The event marked the last'figure to be disappointed with to ’he meeting from throughout j
--, the great metropolitan area of ' |
[ Los Angeles and from miles be-
yond it Turnstiles counted 8.688 |
and several thousand more en
' tered the auditorium through
'other ent rances
__ — ------------- . ______,., two ■
elderly ladies were immersed
An elderly man a former for !
est ranger, is to be baptized!
next Thupiday night
.......:.j
"almost persuad !
our prayer that [
j will also be able to winl
‘Jiem for Christ.
One of the brightest spots in
our work is the young people.
In a recent meeting we had
22 present Several of the young I
men are being trained to preach
the gospel and several of the
young ladies are being trained
to teach children's classes. Our
next gospel meeting with Klaus'
Goebbels of Frankfurt had to be
moved up in order to let him
hold a meeting for the new-
work in the Ruhr Valley of Ger
many He will be with us from
April 2-8
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Nichols, James W. & Warren, Will Ed. Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1962, newspaper, March 30, 1962; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1320640/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.