M. F. Cottrell has published in mimeograph form the Minutes of the Redstone Baptist Association, which tell part of the important story of Alexander Campbell’s Brush Run Church and the Baptist association that finally expelled them for heresy.

In his Foreword Cottrell says: “In reading these stained pages for the first time, the publisher was constantly reminded that as a whole the heirs of the Restoration Movement haven’t dealt with their brethren any differently than the way we feel the Baptists dealt with Campbell. Orthodoxy remains the same in every generation: bigoted, rigid, unbending, unreasonable and intolerant.

Not only can one read about the exclusion of the Brush Run Church, the first church of the Restoration Movement under the Campbells, which dates back to 1824, but there are also interesting references to other Baptists who added drama to the Movement. These include Mathias Luse, who immersed the Campbells, and S. M. Noel, who led the attack against Racoon Smith and Alexander Campbell among the Kentucky Baptists. Noel has a speech in the Minutes against those who are busy opposing creeds. It is unfortunate that some of this material is hardly readable, there is enough to it to justify the expenditure if one has any interest at all in the early history of our Movement.

You may order this material from us. The price is $2.00.

Helmut Thielicke is a German theologian who was forbidden to speak publicly during the Hitler regime because of his anti-Nazi sermons, but he continued to oppose Hitler through underground activity. He is presently at the university at Hamburg and is recognized as a leading conservative theologian. If you would like to be introduced to his thinking, we suggest a little book entitled Out of the Depths, which has a lot to say about death, along with several other subjects. The cost is only $2.50.

Ideal for reading to young children is Egermeier’s Bible Story Book. There are 640 pages covering hundreds of short stories from both Testaments, richly illustrated. We are presently reading these to our own children, ages 4, 7 and 9, and find them highly satisfactory. We can give you a special price of $3.95 for this fine book, including postage. We have a few copies of Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible that we’ll offer for the same price, which is below list price.

If you want to flex your intellectual muscles, let us send you The Faith of a Heretic by Walter Kaufmann. He deals with such questions as What can I believe?, How should I live?, What do I hope? You’ll not likely agree with the heretical Jew, but his is the kind of book we all ought to read. Newsweek said: “The case against organized religion has seldom been so cogently put.” The paper edition is $1.60, including postage.

 

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