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Foreign Mission Board Rooms
February 8, 1951
The Foreign Mission Board met in regular monthly session at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 8, 1951 with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present: L. Howard Jenkins, Rush Loving, Elmer West, Emmett Y.
Robertson, R. 0. McDanel, E. P. Buxton, Garis T. Long, Reuben E.
Alley, H. P. Thomas, Mrs. Tom Smith, T. Rupert Coleman, Hundley
Wiley, Oscar L. Hite, M. T. Rankin, G. tf. Sadler, Everett Gill, Jr.,
Frank K. Means, E. L. Deane, L. P. Seay, S. E. Maddox, Fon H.
Scofield, lone Gray, Genevieve Greer.
Dr. Alley led in prayer.
Dr. Rankin gave the following report:
The activities and attention of the Executive Secretary since the
January meeting of the Foreign Mission Board have been confined to
more or less routine engagements and routine duties in the office at
the headquarters. A week was spent in .Vest Palm Beach, Florida with
the ostensible purpose of speaking in the church of Dr. R. Kelly White,
a member of our Board, from Sunday through Friday on world missions
and with the secondary but none the less important and enjoyable
objective of enjoying a week of recreation in the warm and salubrious
climate of Florida.
This was followed by an engagement to sneak on the Missionary Day Program
in the Seminary at Louisville. Other engagements took me to Dr. H. W.
Tiffany's church in Norfolk and to the Ri Vermont Church in Lynchburg.
I am leaving tonight for a week's engagement with Dr.
С.
E. Hereford,
another member of our Board, in Corpus qhristi, Texas. I shall be
speaking to the churches of the entire association of that section on
world missions in a combined program to be held in the First Baptist
Church of Corpus Cjiristi.
I shall return by way of Dallas and Fort Worth to speak to the South¬
western Theological Seminary both to the volunteer group and at chapel
to the student body.
In the absence of Dr. Cauthen in Hong Kong, a very considerable load
of correspondence from the Orient necessarily comes to the desk of the
Executive Secretary. With conditions as they are today, the volume of
correspondence with Dr. Cauthen alone is large. Dr. Cauthen is cariying
a tremendously heavy and critical responsibility in the midst of most
confusing and disturbed conditions. How fortunate this Board and our
missionaries are in naving a man of his judgment and Christian devotion
to carry such a responsibility at this time. It is difficult even for
those of us who are closely related to him to comprenend the amount of
resourcefulness and the capacity for good Judgment that are called for
constantly in his duties.
Horae correspondence from all quarters leads me to report with consider¬
able assurance tnat the Foreign Mission Board has a high degree of support
and confidence from our entire constituency in our program.
Dr. Sadler gave the following report:
A most interesting report has come from Dr. John Allen Moore who, with
his wife, visited Yugoslavia during the Christmas holidays. For obvious
reasons, it would not be advisable to publicize Dr. Moore’s findings.
The following paragraph speaks volumes:
"As we expected, the attitude toward Americans is some better but the
fears and suspicions in general on the part of the authorities seem
to be greater than two years ago. He were questioned several times by
secret police and other officials. All this is, of course, understandable
in view of Yugoslavia's position in Eastern Europe. The deterioration
in material equipment continues, and most consumers' goods are still
unavailable for the individual non-communist Yugoslav. Almost every¬
thing the people wear anu use has come in packages principally from
America, and the need continues."
A letter written on January 26 and signed by three of our prominent
Yugoslav pastors contains this paragraph:
"We want to tell you, that our churches are always oleased, when we
can welcome our dear guests from abroad, especially our brothers of
