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October IS, 1953
r J r . issior. -owd met Mi . tai-ahnaal gessiefi or: Tuesday, October 13,
1953, at 7:30 p.;.'. with Hr. Jenkins
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Present at. eloper the Tuesday ever.!:.- or hednceday sessions :
St- j . c. hers : -J hr. . Buohnxv , Air V.ay or. C. tte.ese, Ala.; Lloyd Soarknan,
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Staples., Aria.; J. Ray Garrett,, D. C, j R. G. lif. •
J. idmunds,
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la.; Searc" Garrison, £&■*•$ ' cnro* - . Swill , Ga.; Russell
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ar, . ; . . ; • . Edwin Hewlett* ' o.; Charles . Ashcraft
. - Mhisenhunt, N. C.; R, KnoTan -enfielt., S. C.; J. . ■ v. . ' - i,
Grady Cothen, Okie.; Russell ‘-rad ley Jones, To- ... Fred Kendall,
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L. Travis, Tex.; -eal
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ro : -r- . I . , J. Boy It : , Mrs. Kenneth Burke,
. ickerson, Oscar L. ; its, L. owan Jr, kins-., • . 1 La. c ue, Rush living
... C. MoLanel, T . Shad Hedlin, Perry Mitchell, bt Y. Robertson, i rs . -. 7. .
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ith, Herman P. Thomas, H. 1. Tillman, L. J. Mosley, J. Hundley Riley.
Staff: -George Vi. Sadler, Ever'- ' ill, Jr., .faker J. Cauthen, Frank K. ans,
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r .... V.1. - , i’or. . Scofiul' , Evi rett L. Leans, Libert -right, L, ; . Seay.
lt. V.. Clyde Atkins of M’nryla d led the devotional period .
br. Sadler gave tins f- llov.i:. re ort of the Inter in Executive Secretary.-:
REPORT Cl - . — I -XL C il'.L SECRETARY
After the First. '«or Id Kar the so-called mandatory system came into being.
Palestine, for exannle, became a mandate of Greet Britain as did Tanganyika
and a part of the Carneroons . It v/as understood that the supervising govern -
men , technically known as the mandatory, she Id order its affairs in a
manner that wo- Id rake or she -rote ct ion and progress of the leople for
wk -!i it assumed responsibility. As evidence that the terms of tie mandate
were teeing carried out, it was sti ulated that each mandatary must re ort
anr.uall- to the Lsa~ue of M.tions.
-y thesis is that Southern Baptis- . edate- . ore than ne hundred
and forty years ago as Yi'iHicm Corey sat at his cobbler's bench, he had a
r p of the world before him. At ti- es, as he poinv.ed to parts of the v.crld
to V. hi h the - ospel had not one, ho. was heard to exclaim: "And these
pagans, pagans." cobblers of William
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mental and
s -iri- al report ions . owevor, -..here are enenrst us sensitive souls who
carry on their hearts the world's burden of paganism. Some of t'-ese oersons
of ins' ,t 1. ve seen paganism. in the raw. Others have seen it clothed in
its of sacerdotalism. Still others have observed it
noradir.f >. the garb of ' :a .is. .. --e endless of his trappings, or the lack
, or the environ-n r.t in Which he moves, the pagan is Without God and
.it.h-iut hope. If he liver in :iv regions beyond, he is the responsibility
of this foreign Mission Board. His odle:. s and hopeless estate constitutes
a landate to this dr anization. Dr. Gill and Dr. Cauthen will inform a
challenge you with -hair reports. Dr. Means will quicken your consciences
P thinking as he indie an ake our cut-
reach more effective . Mr, Wes • biy tell you that he and Miss
Davkins h ve rec .ntly invervi ; ved n two se: inary campuses hundreds of youne
ive seen a vision and heard a Lee.
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of these will soon
be saying to us: "here am. I, send ne." I shall attempt to broaden your
horizon ar.d deeoen your devotion as I deal with situations with which 1 a
familiar.
Consider Africa:
Those of us who were present at i- id ge crest last su.
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. xample, Dr. W. C. Gaventa told the
