OFFICE NOTES

 

A lawyer in East Tennessee called me long distance to tell me of a book that is really something else. I have been reading it, and I think you should, every husband that is, and you might want to pass it along to those you know who are not exactly picnics as husbands, or those that are! For only 2.50 we’ll send you Do Yourself A Favor: Love Your Wife. It will make you think, that’s for sure.

Speaking of lawyers, we would like to recommend Norman Anderson’s A Lawyer Among the Theologians for only 3.95. He reaches beyond sterile theological double-talk to discuss the resurrection, sin, forgiveness, judgement, and what it means to be a Christian in our time.

Ouida and I have now been sending out a paper to our friends for 22 years, and we are now beginning to presume that there are far more years behinq us than before us. Perhaps we have entered into the beginning of the end. The Lord has blessed us with warm and intelligent readers all these years, and we are thankful most of all for those friendships that have been formed through this publication, many of them being people that we have not yet met. We prize your letters. Some of our tenderest moments are those morsels of information about you and your concerns that we share together in our garage-made-into-an-office. And we find ourselves talking about you, one here another there, as we fold and tie your copy for mailing. So, this is to assure you that your letters are cordially received and even pampered, whether we always get them answered or not. Be certain that every issue of Restoration Review that goes forth from this office is our way of saying we love you. Just as our hands touch every copy that goes forth, as if to bless it as well as address it, so our hearts ride with every word from our house to yours.

We have a new supply of The Baptism Fullness of the Holy Spirit for only .95 cents, which everyone interested in the baptism of the Holy Spirit should read. John R. W. Stott is something else as a writer. If you missed his Christ the Controversialist, you are the loser, but that can be corrected by an outlay of only 2.50.

The labor that goes into Restoration Review seems more appropriate with a growing readership. In this regard you are our epistles, for we have no other way of getting the word around. You can send this paper to five of your friends for an entire year for only 5.00. We are always hearing from people who are pleased that someone was so thoughtful as to send them the paper. Why not try it; but, please, don’t include the names of people that you know to be antagonistic toward what we are trying to do. Ideas that challenge established systems must move naturally and easily among concerned people. We are getting too old for hate mail. But we always send love letters to such dissenters, and I always include such a line as “the one who sent you the paper must love you.” But there is really no point in wasting time, money, and effort in sending a paper like this one to people who have no interest at all in a new thought. If you are not sure of their openness, I say send it to them.

The 9th Annual Unity Forum is to be on campus of Scarritt College, July 4-6, in Nashville. Those already confirmed as participants are Bob Fife, Milligan College; Perry Gresham, Bethany College; Thomas Langford, Texas Tech; Frank Allen Dennis, Delta State College (Miss.); Edward Fudge, Gospel Guardian; Dr. Max Foster, Arkansas City, KS. The participation of several others pending, including several from the Nashville area. Stanley Hime is chairman and you should write him for advance registration form and program, especially if you want to stay in campus facilities. Address him at 1225 Lone Oak Rd., Nashville 37215 or call him at 615-297-5043.