THE WORD AND

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WORD AND WORK

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE SET TO DECLARE THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD

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J. R. CLARK, Publisher

VOL. LIV

No. 8

AUGUST, 1960

In This Issue

Poem: Ru les .For Ha ily Li(c

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We Were Luth crans-or W ere We? -E. L. J.

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T R U'J111 ;\O VANCE SECTION-Qu estions Asked of Us-S.C. :!0~

L:1boring in Wor!l and Teach ing -j. R. C.

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SEED THOUGHTS -J. L. Addams, Sr.

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l'll ECIOIIS R El'lliN TS - ls Satan ,\ ga inst Baptism? -ll.H .H. 208

M:ll'lin Lu ther on Uaptism

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r?artucrship Sta tement

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Sell ersbu rg C hildren's Home -Howard T. Marsh

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The C:r:H:;c or C: i,?i u!' -;\I rs. Pa ul J. Knecht

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,\ re We Preaching Th e Gospel? - K. C. Moser (Repri nt)

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"Th e RrotlH:rhoocl" -W. Carl Ketcherside (Re print)

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THE WORD AND WORK

VOLU:\I E LIV, AUGUST, l!l(iO

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Rules For Daily Life

nEGI. T i lE D AY '\'\/!TIT GOD: Kneel d own to Him in prayer:

Lift up th y hean to His nbodc And seek His lo ve to share.

O PEN T HE BOO K OF GOD. And read a p ortio n there;

Thnt it may hallow all thy tho ughts, And sweeten all thy care.

GO THROU GH THEDAY WI TH COD. WIHil ever thy wo rk may be;

\ Vhcre'er th ou art-at home, abroad, He Hi ll ill near to thee.

CONCLUDE THE DAY WITH GOD, T hy spirit heavenward ra ise :

Acknowledge every good bestowed , !\nd offer grateful praise.

CON VERSE IN MI N D W ITH GOD, T hy sins to Him con fess;

Trust in th e Lo rd's a to ning b lood. A ncl p lead H is righteousness.

T.IE DOWN AT NIGHT WITH GOD ' ?Vho g ives His serv:1nt s s.fcep;

And when tho u u?ead 'st th e vale of dea th. I Ie wiII th ee guard and keep .

-Sclee ted from (; /i ris!in11 llt'll f'lll l .

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The Story of T publish ed by Editor

he Hymna l, written Ramsey in the Jul y

isb~yueotohferEsx, lwarntde1~crrwac~tisounsolyt

their attempt at a biog raph y; nor is the article that follows here an

autobiography. It is, however, a first-person narrative (in part)

of the wonderful way by wh ich the Lord led us into "the way of

God more acwrately"' (Ans 18:26) - the g racious step-by-step o ut-

working of the eternal purpose by wh ich one family came imo th;lt

freedon t wherewith Christ hath made us rree (Gal. 5: L).

We had for a subject in a recent prayer meeting : "Why I

Am A Christian ." Fine topic. fine talks. The men gave impressive reasons and convincing a rg uments for becoming a Christian and

fot living the Christian li fe. 1L was good for all who heard, a nd I agreed with them wholehearted ly. I would be bi~ger foo l than the man who says in hi ~ heart "There is no Cod" to dtsagree.

HUT WHY?

Stil l, frankly, I do not know exactly why I am a Christian, just how it carne about. that is. I know that I am. and l know a tltonsand reasons for bc in ~ o ne; but how, in God's '"mysterious?? moventcnts ami foreseeing providences, the factors shaped up that led me to know Him, or rather to be known of Him (G" a mi c:a ll himself o nly

Christian ; lor the b clo\'ed Luther h ad o pen ed Ius eye~ to sec It i11 th e w ord! And h e never forgot.

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Suppose that such a man, under JJOwerfuJ argumentation for

Bible baptism and the Bible name, ha in all good faith espoused

the "Christian Only" stand-only to find later that he had un-

wittingly joined himself to a factious, loveless sect! A sect, albeit

it went by a Uible name, and preached much truth. \-\'hat could be

11adder or more tragic than that? To pull sincere people out of

one sect only to enslave them in another-has it not been often done?

All too easily we could fall into such error ourselves. For what is

a "church" (no matter how "sound" in its skeleton of doctrine) but

a sect or modern Pharisees, yea, of the strictest sort-if they have

lost that first and chie{est qualit)' of discipleship, "love for one.

another" (John 13:35) i' \Ve may still go on to "establish our own

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righteousness" (Rom. 10:3): to prove how right we are and how

wrong all others arc; to win the argument while we lose the soul;

but \Vithout the love that "doth not behave itself unseemly" (I Cor.

13), we have no right to wear the badge that Christ alone can pin

on people, to claim the name "Christian," or the collective appella?

tion, "Church of Christ." Beware, beware-we sound the warning

once again-lest men "blaspheme the honorable name by which ye

are called!" (Jas. 2:7). There is that preaching, that debating,

that writing, which only sounds the brass and clangs the cymbals!

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It has its reward-but not of God!

l\IARRYING IN THE LORD

\'\'hen the Communists overran China they had special vengeance

against property owners. They were accused of having appropriated

the property of the poor and therefore of being enemies of the people.

Hasty accusations, trials, forced confessions and executions were the

order of the day, usually the family being required to witness the

execution. But this horror was not the end. \.Yhen the landlord

had "met justice" the accusers turned on the family with new accu?

sations and began demanding that they confess their crimes. Con-

fessions led to hasty execution of the "people's justice"-but refusal

to confess invited Communist persuasion. One of their methods of

persuasion was to bind the accused to the corpse of the loved one

just executed-feet to feet, hands to hands, face to face-and leave

him thus bound until he confessed as they wished....

A Christian has life; the person of the world is dead. A marriage

of the two is just as surely a binding together of the living and the

dead as the Communists' practice-and can it be less abhorrent in

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God's sight? -Betty Allen.

LET US GO FORWARI>

On the walls of a large university is written: "On the plains or hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions, who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to rest, and resting, died!"

Isn't that quite often the story of men and women who begin their Christian life with all their sins forgiven and victory in sightthey sit down to rest, and resting, die? In the Christian life there is never time to rest on past attainments. Let us go onward!

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Stanford Chambers

QUESTIONS ASKED OF US

What doc~ th e Church of Christ teac:h conc:enung the H oly Spirit? It is being charged that it ?lcnics the personali ty of the Spiri t.

What the church of Chri t teaches o n any subject is to be found iP the New Tc~talllent. ''\That some congregation calling itself a church of Christ may teach on any given subject depends on the stage of growth reached in grace and the knowledge o( th e truth, panicularly its lead ers. T he so-called "Church o[ Christ, Sciemist" doc1. d eny 1hc personality of the Holy Spirit. A free church o( Christ, u:1dcr no ccclesia~tira l control, com mitted as it is to the Scriptures as its authority in all mauers is in line to know and receive all that the Scriptures set forth . Each congregation of Christ is a "temple of the Holy Spirit ( l Cor. 3: 16) , and as the whole body of Christ i~ "a habiwrion of God iu th e Spu?it" (.Eph. 2:2 1, 22). And "know yc not th ................
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