OFFICE NOTES

 

A brother in Colorado wants to contact a brother who is in the cross-country trucking business, who owns his own rig. He is interested in getting into business and wants to talk to someone he can trust. For now he wants to keep his plans confidential, so if you’ll contact us, we’ll send the communication on to him.

A retired chaplain in the Air Force is rendering an exciting service by providing church record supplies, which helps busy pastors and secretaries to keep up with the flock. He has some good stuff, and he’ll send you descriptions if you are interested. Address: Basic Church-Record Supplies, Box 866, Lawndale, Cal. 90260.

As our masthead indicates, this paper is not published in July and August. So this September issue is No. 7 for the year, following June, No. 6. Each issue is 20 pages, making a 200-page volume by year’s end. The volume for 1973 will be combined with the one for 1974 into a 400-page book, entitled The Church of Christ: Then and Now, with preface and table of contents, and pictorial dust jacket. After a few years, these will not likely be available, so you should place your order now, but you need send no money. Back volumes are still available at $3.50 (single volumes 1966-1970) and $4.50 (double volume 1971-72).

Heaven Help Us is a work on the Holy Spirit in your life, written by Carl Ketcherside and published by Christian Standard. It is only $2.95, which should be the bargain of the year, for what subject could mean more to you, and who is likely to write about it with more grace and clarity? If you haven’t Carl’s last bound volume (1973), The Question Box, which answers a lot of questions about baptism, we’ll include one of those for only $3.00.

If you have even passing interest in the Restoration Movement (and unless you are a cut flower, it should be more than that), then The Declaration and Address is a must. This is the magna charter of our Movement, written by Thomas Campbell, and probably never appreciated by anyone as much as by his own son, Alexander. But a lot of us are close seconds. You be another. It is almost a sin not to own, study, and cherish this sturdy and beautiful volume at only $1.50. It also contains the Last Will and Testament by Barton Stone.

A number of our readers are satisfied owners of Stan Paregien’s Thoughts on Unity, which is a compilation of articles by 19 different representatives of the Restoration Movement, with a picture and short biography of each. It makes a good book to hand to one concerned over our divisions. $3.95 in hard cover.

How about counseling yourself and others under the direction of the Holy Spirit? Maybe that is not as wild as you think, especially after you read [,0 ve Therapy, by Paul D. Morris, who happens to believe that love is the one thing lacking in modern psychiatry, which has only partial success at best. The author was born in poverty, soon orphaned, with his mother spending her life in a mental institution. Affected by all this, he has come to the place in his study of counseling that he is convinced that the Word of God is the great medicine chest for mental illnesses. He tells you how to write prescriptions for yourself from the Bible! Only $2.95 in paperback.

God’s Strategy in Human History, by a team of British authors (foreword by F. F. Bruce), is a treatment of the eternal conflict between good and evil that deals with the battlefield, opponents, weapons. It theorizes about God’s dealings with Israel and the future of the church. Professor Bruce says the authors have made a real effort to determine what the scriptures really say. Only $3.95 in paper.