October 10, 1961
The Foreign Mission Board met in annual session with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present: State Members: G. W. Riddle, Ala.; James E. Davidson, Ala.;
W. 0. Vaught, Jr., Ark.,; George Wilson, Ariz.; Robert D. Hughes, Calif.;
S. Lewis Morgan, D. C.; Dick H. Hall, Ga.; Otho Williams, Ill.; Forrest
H. Siler, Kansas; Fred T. Moffatt, Ky.; Carroll Hubbard, Ky.; J. Norris
Palmer, La.; Leslie M. Bowling, Md.; Sterling Price, Mo.; E. Norfleet
Gardner, N. C.; R. Knolan Benfield, N. C.; Willard Dobbs, Ohio; Anson
Justice, Okla. Thomas Neely, S. C.; James A. Canaday, Tenn.; Mrs.
Herschel Emery, Tenn.; M. B. Carroll, Tex.; W. H. Crook, Tex.; T. A.
Patterson, Tex.; Mrs. R. L. Mathi3, Tex.; Phillip Brown, Tex.; C.
Bailey Jones, Va.
Local Members: T. F. Adams, Joseph P. Edmondson, J. Levering Evans,
Horace Ford, Oscar L. Hite, Josiah Hoover, Mrs. Clyde V. Hickerson,
L. Howard Jenkins, W. Rush Loving, J. Walter Martin, Ryland 0. Reamy,
Meredith Roberson, Emmett Y. Robertson, Herman P. Thomas, James Todd,
Mrs. John C. Tyree, P. Earle Wood.
Staff: Baker J. Cauthen, Rogers Smith, Frank K. Means, Winston Crawley,
E. L. Deane, Ralph Magee, E. L. Wright, Elmer West, Edna Frances Dawkins,
Bill Cody, Luke Smith, Jesse Fletcher, Eugene Hill, Fon Scofield, lone
Gray, Floyd North, Genevieve Greer, Franklin Fowler, Joseph Underwood,
Mary E. Fuqua.
Guests: Alma Hunt, Gainer Bryan, Walton Connelly, Ralph Davis, Kermit
King, Edward Laux, James P. Morgan, Bluford M. Sloan, C. J. Srayly,
James Whaley, Harvey Gibson, Raymond Rigdon, Philip Harris,
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Warren, Hugo Culpepper, George Carver, Emily Lansdell, Malcolm Tolbert,
Luther Copeland, Ruth Ford, Rev. and Mrs. Emit Ray, W. R. Jackson, J. G.
Loving, Dr. Lucius Polhill, Rev. Paul Crandall, Dr. H. H. Hobbs.
The first session was held at the First Baptist Church on Tuesday,
October 10, at 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Anson Justice led the devotional period.
Dr. Cauthen gave the report of the Executive Secretary as follows:
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
We have met together tonight for the purpose of appointing missionaries.
Each occasion of this nature makes us marvel at the grace of God which
is here exhibited. Only our Lord’s work in the hearts of His people
can bring about the thing we witness with such admiration and joy.
Some may inquire what the missionary enterprise really means, much as
in an earlier day the people of Israel asked, "What mean these stones?"
and were told that they had been brought up out of the Jordan River when
the people of Israel crossed on dry land.
What does it mean that men and women shall turn aside from valuable
positions of service at the home base to cross the world to distant
lands as messengers of Christ? What does it mean that tomorrow this
Board will be called upon to consider a budget of more than $13,000,000
to provide for the current expenses of a world encircling labor?
What does it mean that in addition to this very large budget more
than $5,000,000 will be used in 1962 for the construction of buildings
in many lands? Is all this mere expenditure of life and effort
without basis and genuine purpose? Or does it have a meaning
vital to the discharge of our Christian function in the world
of our day.
Thoughtful Christians perceive that this enterprise is inherent in
the very nature of the gospel we believe. That gospel is summarized
by the Apostle Paul as he said, "I delivered unto you first of all
that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins accord¬
ing to the scriptures; and that he was buried; and that he hath
