Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 1945 Page: 4 of 8
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THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
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The "LAve” G- I. work is hous-
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them. The American Bible Society
became Interested in the Lawrence
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The great shortage of chaplains
has been reflected in the corres-
pondence, and the school has sou-
ght to make it possible for many
of its students to become leaders
in .holding religious services aboard
ships and in outlying army posts.
In some places Bible classes have
been organized, using the lessons
prepared by the school.
reference study. Both Kinj
James and American Stand
Thanks to all of you
who have so generously
helped us in recent weeks
in covering the news of'
the Brotherhood. Your co-
operation has been reflect-
ed in th? paper, and many
cards. and letters com-
mending our work have
been received. Much of the
credit goes to those who
have kept the news flow-
ing to us.
We take th's means of
urging all who know of
news worth telling about
io report it to us at once.
Let us know the details of
”11 newsworthy happen-
ings and events as soon as
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head the work. The mass of paper-
grading. letter writing and other
work Is done by teams
of the proposed magazine that the
funds on hand be given to a church
which would use the money to
. forward the Interest of religion a-
] mong service men. LAve’s proposal
! to expand its program wlt-h a cor-
resjwndence Bible course open to
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‘'I the brown manila envelope of a
public document, was a bound
volume containing the prayers of-
fered by the House chaplain, 1041-
45, supplied by Congressman Percy
Priest to be sent to a soldier who
had written he had been asked to
participate in public worship but
did not know how to word a pray-
er?
The outgoing mail table one dav
contained the following: a num-
ber of Bibles, several packages of
wafers and wine being sent to
who had requested
the Pacific told of the
receiving news ’ of the divorce
his father and mother.
‘stand the Japs and the mud,”
Mississippi soldier wrote, “but J
this Ls too much.” Turner wrote
the parents and persuaded them
I to reconsider the divorce.
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concern for things spiritual.
Turner Is a verstile and dynamic
man. Former superintendent of
'chools of Maury County, he tau-
ght manual training for
While principal of a West
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Lawrence Avenue Church, Nashville,
Continues G. I. Bible Training Work
To Thousands In World-Wide Program
BY J, N. LEXINGTON
(for the Nashville Tennesseean)
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BOX 1158 ABILENE, TEXA
I all men Irrespective of religious
' affiliation was accepted, and $2,-
church to help
The story of how “LAve,” known
to few people outside Nashville
before Pearl Harbor, became
"friendly little church” to thous-
ands of service men and
is really a story of the
-ouest of uprooted young America
in uniform, according
being
er changed. He is still "staying on sei vicemen who had
regular ,lie elements of the Lord’s Supper.
' a nf nradfifl nnnnra Knin<r
bought
Into offices and
work rooms. Several full-time sec-
"LAve” has offered special pray- rotaries, Turner and Mrs. Turner
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Bl.
Much of the correspondence the
school receives deals with per-
plexity of mind or the distress of
personal problems. One letter from
writer’s
of
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"Many of our young men
women in the settled routine
civilian life discover little or no
need for the church,” Turner ob-
served In accounting for the grow-
th of his congregation’s Bible-by-
mall program. "Others take their
rellgioA for granted. They hold on- .
ly the vaguest sort of notions a- '
bout their faith. When they enter >
the armed forces they find thftm- ----------------
volunteered | j-eive., in a new world, old attach- a.-
distribution | inpnLs and patterns broken, and) •
costs, which was a help when some their life in a sense rootless. Then PEOPLE’S
Bib- many of them begin to cast a- .. .
as bout for something solid.” NEXX TESTAMENT XVITII
much as $15. Two soldiers request- *
ed Methodist Disciplines, another .
a history of the Catholic Church,
another a work on the theory of
evolution.
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convictions
bravado and
in the armed forces three apparent .desire for self-sufifciency
year# ago would mushroom Into is a sincere, though often
a global correspondence
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the Bible. Its students
followers of Catholic and
faiths and scores of
bodies. Borne of the students
have no church affiliation, and
at least two of them profess athe-
ism.
000 was sent the
launch the enterprise.
Turner, revealing the story
this service, looked up over
littered desk. From the room ad-
clack of type-
sounds of wrapping
of a
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This school operates
tuition, fees or postal
from its students. On request
has supplied books and
materials without cost for
Just when the Idea of a Bible [
i course for service meh started at .
i "LAve" is uncertain. The congre-
<znH«n war wag caJ._
program of
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years, rence Avenue is doing its bit not
Ten- 'only promote a wider under-
one course it offers—an objective,' nessee school he took a whirl at standing of the Bible but to lessen
non » sectarian course covering politics by running for the con- race tensions aggravated by the
the origin, history and text of rressional seat vacated by George war-
the Bible. Its students Include Browning. While assistant ,state ; — , . . ...... . 1
Jewish director of N. Y. A . he agreed to
Protestant1 fill In as supply minister at Law-
renefe Avenue. That was 10 years
ago. Officially his status has nev-
the latter all G. I.’s.
The center of the lAwrence
Avenue O. I. program is q corres-
pondence school, which offers a
year’s course in the Bible, with
written assignments, examinations
and a certificate of completion.
V-J Day has not thus far sldw-
ed the mounting enrollment, the
mailing list having passed the
8,000 mark.
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Joining came the
writers, the
packages, and the clicking
mimeograph.
"We are Just a little congrega-
tion on a back street trying to do
| what we think God would have us
I do. This program could be re-
of churches
responsibility were felt
keenly enough.”
«rs, dedicated songs, written let-
r— lh* nation’s “biggest little church” ■ ters to parents and wives, patch-
ed up broken homes, sought to
persuade wives to postpone di-
vorce actions until their husbands
could retunf and they could con-
sider the matter together.
The church has sent many hund-
reds of packages containing things
such as candy and toothpaste. Not
the least among its services has
been the preparation of worship
programs and the supplying of
songbooks and the elements of the
Lord’s Supper for groups in far-
! flung places.
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Foster, with four well-
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Stemler, Lohman, Rolfscrt
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O BOOK 1—Front Bethlehem's Manger to Calling the Twelve.
Iles one of the unusual stories of
the war. The church, located a*p-
propriately in the heart and capi-
tal of the Bible Belt, is the Law-
rence Avenue Church of Christ at
945 Lawrence Avenue. It has 600
resideqt members, more than 106
others in the armed forces, and
thousands of "foster members”,
Probably not since the New Testament
Itself was written has the Christian
world had so primitively pure a pre-
sentation of the teachings of Jesus as
given In THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.
This old classic, In a new dress, ought
to be in every interested worker’s
library, its availability once again
means that It also ought to be placed
on the "must" list of every younu
preacher in the land.
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In addition to providing the free
Bible course, the church (called
"L Ave” for short by its members)
has undertaken to answer any G
I. question and grant any G. I. re-
quest which has involved it in
many unusual services.
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Bu le references . . . introduc-
tion to each book . . . map:
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pages . . . cloth binding.
! A v’ry popular seller.
Not even brisk, fluent Gordon in uniform, according to Turner
T. Turner, the minister, dreamed But that is only a part of the plc-
prayer-meetlng-by-mall etur—the other part Ls the minis-
progr&m which his church began ter himself and his
to provide for its score of mem- that behind youth's
bers in the armed forces t’---- . . . .
j a mass of graded papers being re-
turned to their owners, a score of
and ,1 letters in response to inquiries,
of and many letters of “just corres-
pondence” to lonely G. I.’s. There
was a miscellany of books—a Bible
encyclopedia, an inspirational work
| titled “God Amid the Shadows,"
| Good speed's “How Came the Bib-
■ le,” and two others containing
..,1. au ■ . -sermon outlines. Still another, in
bout their faith. When they enter t
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An cr nm il A-alynij cf the Book of
Convert ns by the Author of "Thcf"
Glorious Gr.spnl” and "At the Feet of
P.i- I." He h.'s produced in this an-bi
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other homilitical work of real value tota
th* gospel preacher. Acts, always rich, J
in sermonic material, yields new treas L.
uras as a result of these etudiea. 261 J
Price S2.00. M
604 Pages — $1.00
This edition is pages larger thin the
14th edition. The added pages consist
c>f additional'notes on Acte, the Epis-
tles, and How We'Got the Bible., Oth-
erwise it is the same as the 14th edi-
tion.
An Abbreviated B,ble Commentary
Amaaing Archaeological Discoverlee
„ An Epitome of Church History .
A Handy-Condensed Compendium
Pf Biblical Fpcte
. With 160 Photographs and Maps
There is nothing published, of Its else,
that has anvthmg like as much Bible
in crniatlon - p
What more appropriate gift could a
Church make to its Sunday Behoof
teachers» Or. a teacher to Kia clesaT
Why not include In your Sunday School
SOCKET BIBLE HAND.
k m •••*' t««ohorf Many
churches pro doing it.
Treat
(Continued from page 1)
Literature for Mexico, $10.00.
Receipts for regular fund for
October.
College Church, $40.
Pomona church, DickAon, Tenn
$5.00.
Colorado City. Tex., church, $10.
Dickerson Rd. church, Nash-
ville;. $8.35.
Northside, Abilene, $5.00.
Winters, Tex., church, $10.00.
Highland Ave., Abilene, $25.00.
Troy, Tex., church, $15.00.
Sweeny, Tex., church, $10.00.
Total, $128.35.
With true appreciation for your
help, Yours in Christ Jesus,
College Church of Christ.
By J. W. Treat, Treas.
Mrs. J. B. Shacklett supervises
the paper grading, and every pa-
per is
and with some personal comment j
the grader The school has husbands
~ Jo. 1 .TImmtr T
charge of the. work feel that Law- religious monthly, found
paper restrictions would not
mit the launching of a
he had
of mem-
bers. The work goes on seven days ■
gatlon early in the
rylng on an elaborate
service for its members in
returned carefully marked armed forces and 200 others
the circle as sons, brothers
from the grader The school has husbands of members. In
many Negro students, and those in ; Jimmy Lovell, editor of a small
that
per-
youth j prated in hundreds
magazine he had projected. He if . the
recommended to the underwriters
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Hicks, Olan L. Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 1945, newspaper, November 7, 1945; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1305883/m1/4/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.